It was twenty five years ago today!

[jeffreyab]

Well more or less, that I graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Arts degree specializing in the study of history.

I would have to say applying to and then going to the University of Toronto was the biggest risk and best decision that I have ever made in my life.

I received a degree from one of the best universities in Canada and one that did not expel me unlike some of the other schools I could have gone to.

Going there exposed me to ways of thinking and knowledge I continue to use and put me in touch with the science fiction community that continues to form the bulk of my none work life.

Comments

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

Why would you have been expelled?

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

Low marks, I had marks low enough to have been expelled from the University of Western Ontario, the University of Toronto was much nicer back then and by fourth year I was doing well enough to get into library school at Western.

I had friends from high school who went to Western and Guelph my third choice who were expelled for low marks, oddly they had higher averages than me in high school.

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

Been there too - I was on academic probation my second year at my university, barely avoided that in the first year. Like you and your friends, I did really well in high school, but the problem was that I had never learned how to study or work in a sustained way - no discipline or good habits required when basic smarts or displaying a modicum of interest was enough to get you through high school. It helped that I was doing pre-engineering at the time too, something for which I was absolutely not fitted.

[reddherring1955.livejournal.com]

Good for you for sticking to it. The world is a better place for your contributions. Happy 20th anniversary!

[bloomdesigner.livejournal.com]

Twenty five years? Wow. It's been twentyfive years for me as well. Now I'm feeling old.