Hi, everyone, my name is Amanda and welcome back to one more episode of Experiencing Conestoga!
So, today, I'm here to tell you three things that you should be ready for before coming to Conestoga College.
So, let's go!
So, the first thing, you guys should be ready for is be ready to use your computer.
When I first got here, I already imagined that we would use your computer a lot,
but not as much as we actually do. So, we have a whole bunch of like different portals and
different websites that we have to access almost every single day, just to keep up
to date with what the professors are telling us, with all the subjects that we
have to study and with all like our email and communication with our
classmates for like group projects and stuff. So, yeah, there are three main
websites they're going to be using here Conestoga College, the first one is
eConestoga, I think that's the one you're going to use the most. The second one is
called myConestoga which is like the website you go to find all the other
websites that we need to find, if we need anything, and the third one is the
student portal you guys are probably already familiar with that.
But all these websites at first seem a little bit complicated to actually know how to use them,
but we have a series of videos here on our YouTube channel that I think you
guys might want to check out first before coming to Conestoga College that
is just explaining how these websites work.
The second thing you should be ready for is be ready to have fun! You have to keep in mind that it's actually fun to be here!
I actually enjoy it a lot and we have a lot of stuff that happens
here on campus and like events for international students that make the
whole experience much more fun and less stressful
than it seems to be. So, for example, we have a trip that happens for international students
every semester so he had one last semester which was a trip to
Niagara Falls and that was actually like already included in our tuition.
This semester people went to a Maple Syrup Festival that happened
around, it's like close to Waterloo Region. There's also a restaurant/bar
on campus that is called the venue and they have like live music, they have some
events going on sometimes, they have great deals every day. So, yeah, you might
want to check that out once you get here. There's also like just events that
happen just around campus that is not necessarily just for international students
but just there are events. So, even like every semester at the beginning of
the semester they have a concert that tends to be really fun. So, I went to one
of them, there was Alessia Cara that was playing and she was amazing and
the whole concert was actually really fun. There's also like every day like there
almost every day, there's something going on on campus that we can go to and just
you know have fun and not be stressed about how many assignments we have to complete.
Yeah, so the third thing you have to be ready for is
be ready to have all the support you actually need. So, the International Office, the Welcome Center
is always here. They're always here for us, so, if you have any problems of any kind
you can just come here, they're all going I explained to you
what's going on and what you need to know to solve your problem
and honestly, don't be scared, don't be shy, you just have to ask for help
and we are here to actually help you.
And just one last thing, be ready to meet so many people from so many different countries that are here
that actually know what you are going through with like missing home and
missing your family and missing your friends. So, yeah, you just come here and
you're gonna meet a whole bunch of cool people.
So I hope this video helped you guys somehow. Please feel free to check out our YouTube channel,
we have a whole bunch of Pre-arrival tips and tricks for you guys that are coming up every like week.
So, I think you guys are going enjoy those videos and I'll see you soon!
bye bye, thank you for watching me!