University

[superboots]

awww

i'm sort of scared of little babies because i'm afraid i will break them or something

thinking about this is making me realize that i don't want to quit school.

[dream in japanese]

ECE is usually a 2 year college program, most universities in canada don't even offer it.
It's 5 or 6 years in the states wow, i couldn't even imagine having to go through it for that long.

yes if you want to be a preschool-3rd grade teacher here you have to go to school for 4 years to get your bachelors', then an extra year to get your ZA endorsement, then after like 5 years or so you have to go back to get your masters...so 6 years

I know this because my mom is a preschool teacher

yeah that's sort of the same here. I was talking just about the bachelors, that's only 4 years. Then teachers college and with that (5 years) you can teach grades k-6.
but you don't only have to go into teaching, there's so many other careers you do with ECE.
I was thinking of going into special needs or being a special needs teacher. I'm still not sure.

[superboots]

that would be awesome

if i went into teaching i would definitely go into special education...most likely an autistic intervention program

[Joey]

I wanted to go on to Uni to become a child life specialist but then I realized I'd never be able to handle that emotionally

[superboots]

yeah i don't know if i will be able to handle emotionally what i want to do...

but i really want to work with kids and i love psychology

you just have to learn how to distance yourself from the situation. My mom was telling me about this. She works with at-risk preschool kids (kids that are marked as at risk for school failure) and she used to get really worked up about their situations, but she realized that she can only do the best she can and she can't get attached to them

[Joey]

Yeah I already know I can't do that .. not getting attached is impossible for me. I looked into play therapy for a bit too and may still pursue that. My dream job was always a pediatric nurse, dealing with the new babies but I'm not smart enough in math or science to ever do that

I know for a fact I wouldn't be able to distance myself from children in hospitals which is why I dropped the child life specialist idea. I tried to get a placement in a hospital too but didn't get it because only 1 student was offered it and she kissed ass to get it I took that as a sign though ..

bah .. i'm so undecided about where I want to go and what I want to focus on .. so i've been wasting the last 2 years working at a dead end job I don't even like and which has nothing to do with anything I want to pursue

[superboots]

play therapy is also very awesome

we have this play therapy program led by this doctor at from my school and it is for kids with autism and it works remarkably well...some of the kids become normal or very high functioning.

It is very expensive though and very intense for a little kid...

it's so sad that good special needs programs cost a fortune

[dream in japanese]

it's really hard to not get emotionally attached. I worked at a daycare in regent park (which is the probably the worst part of Toronto) and all the children there were underprivileged. Their mothers were either recovering drug addicts or students, so these children really didn't have a stable home life. And there isn’t much you can do other then being there for them at the daycare. You really wish there were more you could.

My cousin is a special needs teacher at a school and she works with 2 autistic children. I volunteer with her all the time and it’s really challenging, but so rewarding, it’s really something I would love to do.

Next year we specialize in special education so I’ll get a placement working with special needs children, I’m really looking forward to that. but even if i don't end up doing that I just want to work with children. Most of my family are all teachers so it's something I've been doing my whole life and i really couldn't imagine doing anything else.

[superboots]

that is so awesome

yeah i worked one on one with an autistic girl two summers ago...it was so frustrating yet so rewarding at the same time. I loved it

[Joey]

I was offered a job working one on one with autistic children in Hamilton .. but the idea was to drive to their homes and work with the children in their home environment .. it was such an awesome job .. unfortunately I didn't drive at the time and didn't have access to a car so I had to turn it down

[Henrietta]

yeah i don't know if i will be able to handle emotionally what i want to do...

Hahaha, I don't know if I'll be able to make it through this YEAR emotionally!

I'm not a big fan of children, I have three siblings all younger than me so I don't need that. And I can't handle special needs because both my aunt and uncle (both in their 40's) and my Grandma were crippled and I just get too attached.

I am currently at Weber State University on a full tuition scholarship. I will have my associate degree after this semester, and then I really want to transfer to Univeristy of Utah. But I don't know...I hate the situation I'm in but I have to give up my scholarship to go there. I have this idea in my head that my life will get better if I do that, and I'm not sure that will be the case. I will probably just transfer though, it's 20 minutes further away.

[Dr. Hobo]

i goto the university of saskatchewan doing a major in anatomy and cell biology.

[Henrietta]

OH yeah, I forgot to say that I will most likely be majoring in Communications Technology or IST.

[sandsleeper]

McGill
and i absolutely love it.

for right now i'm just an "arts" student but i'm looking towards a possible english lit major.

[superrgirll]

Other choices include Toronto, McMaster, and possibly York.

york is 15 minutes away from my house. it was my safety school. my friend is also going there for computer science.

[superrgirll]

So it'll be a while before I'm in Uni, but I want to go into Forensic science.. So.. I'm wondering, where are the best places in Canada (preferrably Ontario) to take it?

the only places in ontario that offer it at the moment are u of t mississauga and university of windsor. i am not too sure how old you are, but i am guessing by the time you graduate, there will be a couple more schools offering it due to the increasing popularity of forensics (damn csi )

i'm taking an intro to forensic science class and it's awesome. it's all guest lecturers and it's really interesting. last week, a forensic entomologist came in and brought all this gorey pictures. there was this one picture where the guy shot himself in the head in a car and he was literally covered from the waist up in maggots.

[Dabekk]

for those of you interested, I go to the University of Alberta, I'm an English major with a Classics minor, but I'm probably going to switch those two.

[Axtech]

So it'll be a while before I'm in Uni, but I want to go into Forensic science.. So.. I'm wondering, where are the best places in Canada (preferrably Ontario) to take it?

the only places in ontario that offer it at the moment are u of t mississauga and university of windsor. i am not too sure how old you are, but i am guessing by the time you graduate, there will be a couple more schools offering it due to the increasing popularity of forensics (damn csi )

Trent also offers it now.

http://www.trentu.ca/academic/forensicscience/

[Long Jonny]

i would love to go to u of t for either criminology, poly sci, or business

i'll probably just end up going to windsor tho

ultimately, i think i'd like to be a lawyer.

[.:x:Marissa:x:.]

I would really like to go to Western for medicine or law