what is it that you're looking to upgrade i'm looking to upgrade my biology
and my english so i can go into nursing
abe is a place for all students to come to begin this journey whether you're just coming out of
high school or whether you've been away for 20 years from education like i was it's a place
where you can come back in and learn how to learn again i wanted to become a teacher and i wanted to
get a career rather than a job and i needed to get my math 11 to get into the program
i want to become a psychologist to do that i need to upgrade both my math and my english
i'm here mostly so i can upgrade my courses so i can go into higher level courses either going into
resource management or into biology depends on how far i can you know go but so far it's going really
well so i'm hopeful i tried college when i was 18 and i tried it again at 22 and then i tried
it again at 25 and the only thing that changed between you know the first couple attempts and
this attempts was i had a good foundation i came here and i had amazing instructors and small
classes and all the extra help you could ask for and i ended up learning it gave me a solid base to
go into university classes i had to do i'm doing a science major so i had to do calculus i had to
do physics i had to do chemistry those are not classes you can walk into without a really good
solid foundation so i actually did both grade 11 and grade 12 upgrading for both chemistry and
physics and actually math as well before starting my degree so i was able to obtain my grade 11 math
i worked hard throughout the terms and i was able to get accepted into the bachelor of education so
i'm loving it it's been such a great experience and i'm happy and proud to be
a student at viu and i'm so happy to be in this program coming back to the the upgrading
program here at vancouver island university did a number of things for me that i wasn't expecting
first of all it re-engaged me as a learner i had forgotten how much i loved learning
it gave me connection my instructors made me feel like i was valued and that my journey was valued
and that it was important not only to myself but to them and they really inspired me to think about
what i wanted from this journey the teachers are truly invested in you succeeding they're
really trying to make sure you do succeed with each course whenever i do something wrong or
the teacher notices something instead of just you know marking it as wrong she goes to me like hey
what what happened there like here here's how we can fix it you know it's not a right or
wrong thing it's hey we're gonna get better they're just teaching you in a way that you
want to learn instead of you have to learn i don't think you can be out of school for an
extended period of time and drop into the workload that's required at university i think coming here
they ease you into learning how to do homework and learning how to separate
your time frames and actually get things done again i would say just sign up and do
it because it's never too late to go back to school it's never too late to change a career
it's never too late to get educated i believe education is the key for the future
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