Kids in college/university
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Some TUCS courses take place in the Summer term, and there are a few that begin in August.
The UC has an orientation (this year it's called Cultivate 2017) that starts in early September (this year on September 2).
ChemGal
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I was supposed to have a block week course, it was a requirement for the bio department. We were warned that we couldn't get an exception for it to take holidays or something like that. Lots of threats - no course, no degree and attendance would be taken. The year I would have taken it, the prof had a funeral to attend in I think it was Africa. We were all excused from the course. Must have been really important 
Greywolf336
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Tomorrow is our last day with our summer students as they head back to school. We had a really good group this year and it will be very quiet without them.
Good luck to Little M! 10 years ago this coming Sunday I moved into residence and it still feels like it was yesterday. Though we all live in different cities now, the girls I met in first year are my closest friends. I hope Little M has no problems meeting new people and getting into the university grove, fun and work included!
Good luck to Little M! 10 years ago this coming Sunday I moved into residence and it still feels like it was yesterday. Though we all live in different cities now, the girls I met in first year are my closest friends. I hope Little M has no problems meeting new people and getting into the university grove, fun and work included!
Mendalla
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Getting ready to see him in person for the first time in over a month in a couple weeks. He and Mrs. M both have a "Reading Week" the same week so we will pop up to Ottawa to take some stuff that there wasn't room for when he moved (e.g. his skiis and related gear), then do a short family vacation before coming back here so he can have a few days at home. We Skype a couple times a week (biggest change from when I left home is easy, cheap/free telecommunications courtesy of the Internet). He seems to be adjusting well and doing well in school so far. His oldest friend (who is at U of T) is going up to Ottawa for Thanksgiving. He's been doing some sightseeing (e.g. went hiking in the Gatineau Hills last weekend) and posting pictures to us on a Skype group that the three of us share.
At home, we keep noticing the little changes. Takes longer to fill the dishwasher, shrinking grocery bills, more time in the morning now that I don't have to get him to school, and that sort of thing. We've been able to go back to eating mostly my wife's Chinese cooking again (he has never been crazy about the "real" stuff), too. Much quieter
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At home, we keep noticing the little changes. Takes longer to fill the dishwasher, shrinking grocery bills, more time in the morning now that I don't have to get him to school, and that sort of thing. We've been able to go back to eating mostly my wife's Chinese cooking again (he has never been crazy about the "real" stuff), too. Much quieter
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revjohn
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We will have both daughters and their families with us beginning December 14 for two weeks. This along with our Brazilian student means a full house over Christmas.
I was out on the property yesterday scouting for my grandson's first Christmas tree. Figured it was smarter to locate it and mark it now rather than wait until December when who knows how much snow we might have on the ground.
We won't take it down until Qball arrives.
Only the middle child is still in school, she will be finishing her Master's thesis shortly and both she and her fiancee need to be considering where they will do their doctoral studies. We think we might be able to sweeten the pot on a MUN consideration.
I was out on the property yesterday scouting for my grandson's first Christmas tree. Figured it was smarter to locate it and mark it now rather than wait until December when who knows how much snow we might have on the ground.
We won't take it down until Qball arrives.
Only the middle child is still in school, she will be finishing her Master's thesis shortly and both she and her fiancee need to be considering where they will do their doctoral studies. We think we might be able to sweeten the pot on a MUN consideration.
BetteTheRed
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My poor daughter, all excited about her first semester back to school at the local Community College, has been affected by the Faculty strike. I am very torn; I'm an old union supporter, and a lot of the faculty are my friends, and they have a good case. However, Erin is losing her nerve, her momentum, AND her hard-earned money.
The students can't get their money back? Wow, I didn't know that. That seems pretty unfair.
Thankfully, I'm a student of a private postsecondary institution and thus unaffected by the strike.
crazyheart
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I thought you weren't going to college any more.
Who, me? Did I ever say that? I graduated with my BRE and am currently working on my MDiv. I thought that was well-known here.
Mendalla
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Even the public universities aren't affected. University faculty associations are independent of one another so you'd never have them all out at the same time like we're seeing with community colleges.
And while we are on the labour front, the part time profs at U Ottawa did come close to striking this week but settled with the administration on Sunday night. Little M would have had his course load reduced from 5 to 1 since a significant percentage of first year courses are being taught by part timers.
Mendalla
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Apparently, here in London, the businesses around Fanshawe are starting to hurt, as well as the students. I know the pizza place I sometimes use that's located right by the college gates gets a lot of student business.
BetteTheRed
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I suspect that a few local businesses are hurting in a similar way, including my friend Fil, who has an independent eatery near the college.
revjohn
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Eldest Daughter recently presented her first paper. Which is a huge accomplishment for her.
Last time she was asked to make a presentation she needed to be brought home in the back of a police cruiser.
Which was the least traumatic part of the story and is a constant source of bemusement to the family.
Last time she was asked to make a presentation she needed to be brought home in the back of a police cruiser.
Which was the least traumatic part of the story and is a constant source of bemusement to the family.
Wild and odd or just owed to bemuse those allowing the pain of raising her to that stage? Cultivating juveniles is a chore ...
revjohn
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Luce NDs said:
Grace has always been a tremendously talented writer. She has never been a willing public speaker.
These two facts collided when she wrote a very powerful essay for the D.A.R.E program at her school in grade six (I think it was grade 6). The police officer responsible for the program was blown away by the essay and very much wanted Grace to read it to the class. Which resulted in Grace declining and eventually collapsing into tears as both the officer and her teacher exhorted her to rise to the occasion. So distraught was she that she missed her bus home and became more distressed.
The poor police officer was so overwhelmed by it all that she offered Grace a ride home in the back of her cruiser.
That should have been the end of itl
But it wasn't.
I was home when there was a knock at the front door. I went to it and noticed the police officer standing there. I am no stranger to having the police on my doorstep for one reason or another. Robert's Bi-Polar facilitated quite a few meet and greets with local constabulary and at the moment Robert was in his room and quite calm so I had no clue why I was getting a visit on this day.
I opened the door and the officer begins to explain. Mid-way through the explanation I asked if there was a reason that Grace was still locked in the back of the cruiser. At that point all of the colour drained out of her face and she realized that this was more distress for my daughter to deal with. She very quickly went and let Grace out and was profusely apologetic to both of us.
I was torn between parental concern for my daughter and laughing at the officer's expense who by now is probably wondering how the Community Safety role could be so emotionally strenuous. I don't laugh at her directly but I do start to chuckle. I let her know that all is understood and all will be forgiven then I take a couple of moments to comfort my daughter who has the good grace to see the humour in what she put the officer through.
And, we knew that moving forward there was probably little chance that anybody was going to try and get her to speak publicly again.
Working on a Master's Degree in Critical Sociology doesn't care and part of the process is publicly presenting papers you have written and responding to questions about the material presented.
This was her first conference presenting and it was in TO without knowing and supporting family around to step in should things go off the rails.
When she dropped the bombshell on us we all thought about the police escort home. I was the only one who said anything about it publicly (not a surprise in our family context). She shared on social media that she had made the presentation without crying claiming that was an improvement. I pointed out that she didn't get returned home in the back of a police cruiser, another improvement. I'm pretty sure non family friends with no awareness of the event failed to comprehend the significance of either comment.
I know that sense of confinement ... whether a legal thing or not .. it is distressing ... but even more for being told you're going to hell for something you are innocent of ... Ah John the stories we could tell but I don't dare here because of authorities that hate the whining and hooting about the trees in the background ... Jesus worked there in metaphor .. as a carpenter ... but one has to look at this concept from the other direction ... and the stressed out institutions begin to look humorous in the full 9 yod's ... a bit of Celtic humour and fabrication about essence ... that much of the host do not wish to know ... thus the bread of the unconscious miracle spoken of by Scott Peck.
Can you image a science (vision) of psyche (sol) when so many physicians state that there is no such thing as the spirit of soul? Does this leave a great abstract view of odd, peculiar, funny hue that is related to black ... a' theory of absence? Thus something is missing ... and perhaps something should be put there in essence of a care (that's AN, anis, Annie or even Hannah as an old anagram). Few know the back and forth roué 's of anagrams ... as if it were ABBA'd thing about mother hooding of the mere factor! Picture the M 'ere partner of Robbin attributes of wisdom from foul deeds of authority!
This could be classified as kohl and kahn 'd an inn in the journey of Levity ... nothing better for the soul ... a hoot of proper dimension?
How's the settlement coming along ...
revjohn
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Luce NDs said:
Lived with an early onset of Bi-Polar Disorder in my son with every single physician on the Island saying that since he wasn't 17 it had to be something else.
Turns out they were wrong.
Nothing so dangerous as persons who refuse to accept that they can be mistaken even if it is only rarely.
Luce NDs said:
My Criminal Record Screening Certificate arrived in the mail today and along with it my National Criminal Records Repository statement clearly stating that my fingerprints could not be associated with any existing criminal record or item of evidence.
I add my signature to the Call form tomorrow and then it will be up to East District Sub-executive to sign off on paperwork and establish a date for the covenanting service. Once District officials view the Criminal Record documents I should be good to start work in my new charge.