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Originally Posted by freeweed
Interesting - I always thought "mature student" meant your grades could be shit... didn't realize you could get in with no grade 12 at all (or equiv).
Totally OT, but I don't care. It's cool to see something rational but unexpected in the educational system.
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I barely had grade 11. I went all 3 years, but failed/dropped so many classes I had less than half the number of credits needed. I was going to go back for a 4th year, but I whilst tripping balls on shrooms, I had an epiphany.
I basically charted my life for the next 4 years. The rough outline was to move out, continue to work a bunch of dead end jobs and party my face off for a few years. Then once I had the partying out of my system, return as a mature student and take computers. I pretty much followed it to a T. I think I moved out within a week. Never really did get the partying out of my system though.
I was accepted to NAIT for 2 reasons, I initially enrolled in a 4 month upgrading course called pre-technology and I submitted a kick ass letter with my application. I passed pre-tard with honours and applied for Computer Systems Technology. My grade advisor tried to talk me out of it, as they had never had a pre-tard student graduate from CST. At the time, CST had an unbelievable fail rate. Less than 50% would graduate in the required 2 years.
I didn't care, as I knew it was my last chance and wasn't going to fuck it up. It was the hardest thing I ever did, but I graduated in 2 years and came very close to honours. I guess all those comments about me "having the aptitude but not the atitude" on my high school report card had some truth to them.
Sorry for rambling on, but thinking about that time really brought back some memories.