Nipissing

[lolamatopoeia]

I woke up this morning to find an Offer of Admission to the BEd program at Nipissing University in my inbox. Uh oh. This is where things get complicated.

I am fully aware that Teacher Education programs in Ontario are ridiculously competitive and notoriously difficult to get into and so to anyone else this would be fantastic news and I don't want to take that for granted - but then I've got New Zealand and the University of Canterbury's Offer dangling in front of me. FUCK. I want to go the NZ for what I see as the experience of a lifetime and take a chance, my one last shot at a dream, but at the same time this is my education we're talking about and I've got to consider if I should go to a school that is known for a quality program or for one that let me in likely partially because I'm an international student (and is thus usually a last resort for wannabe teachers in Ontario who otherwise could not get in here). But I've never even been on a plane before! If I chose to stay that's like choosing to be stuck here in Ontario forever! FUCK fuck fuckity FUCK fuck FUCK FUCK.

Edit: The deadline to accept their Offer is April 17th.

FUCK.

Comments

[albatrossky.livejournal.com]

Hi! Well, I know nothing about your situation and am not exactly the best person to give advice - but if it were me, I'd go overseas. Just because it meant I got to go overseas.

Hmm, yeah, maybe put some thought into it! Good luck!

[lolamatopoeia.livejournal.com]

Thanks :). Yeah, I've got only 13 days left to think on it. Lately, I've been leaning most toward the Nipissing offer, even though it's not going to be as life changing and fun as NZ in the short term, in the long term it will mean that I will have more opportunity to travel since the Nipissing degree is recognized in more places and the debt I'll incur with it will be significantly more manageable (Nipissing = $15-18000 total, maximum, for the year, and New Zealand = $35-39000 total debt for the year ... at a time when Teaching jobs are so competitive that I'll likely be waiting at least 2 years or more before I get any sort of full time work). At the same time, *sigh* I need to travel like, now.