Oh my GOD!
Yesterday, I found out I’m going back to college!
For the two or three of you who have been following my saga, I moved from San Francisco to Toronto on the promise of a teaching job which never materialized, so for the last year have been a substitute teacher, and **totally **miserable… I had decided that maybe this was a good time to go back to college to change careers.
I actually applied to go into Human Resources in January, and got accepted for this fall, but the closer it got to the day when I HAD to accept the offer, the worse I felt. I kept getting together with close friends, and each time, was told that they couldn’t imagine me in Human Resources, and I didn’t seem too excited at the prospect. A few weeks ago, a friend sat me down and told me maybe I should do some soul searching to find out what I would really love to do…
I spent weeks wandering around being miserable, whining that I had moved to Canada and now had no job, and then suddenly it hit me - I realized what I would love to do - Television Broadcasting. Not the on-air stuff - I would love to be producing, directing television or making documentaries.
I had been thinking about things for weeks… and the more I thought about my life, the more I realized that I had always wanted to be a filmmaker… For instance - I have at least 24 books on how to make films/be a filmmaker/direct movies/etc…
So, three weeks ago I applied to a 2 year Television Broadcasting course, which is known for its state of the art facilities, connections with Broadcasters, and includes a 3 month internship. I was in heaven! I had it all planned out… Then I decided I’d give the Program Director a call.
He took the time to go over my background and my reasons for wanting to apply, and basically let me down gently… He told me that the course was full - there were 2,000 applications for 60 places in the course… and they had been filled in about January… But they would be accepting applications for next year in May if I was interested…
So, I applied for May 2008, and got a letter telling me to come in to take a school-wide basic literacy test… I also had to type up and hand in responses to a questionnaire on my experience with media and why I wanted to study broadcasting.
I took the test on Thursday and then I decided to go and talk with the Admissions officer at the college just to make sure the test results *would *be acceptable for next year, and to give her my questionnaire.
She was very nice, but told me that next May’s course would only be accepting 20 students, and there had already been 800 applications, but mine was one of them… I thanked her, and we chit-chatted for a couple of minutes about the course… and I handed her my questionnaire as I left.
I drove home TOTALLY depressed… I was trying to tell myself waiting for another year would be fine, and maybe I’d have a good chance then… but it was a hard sell…
Yesterday morning the phone rang - it was the Admissions Officer - she told me that she had been so impressed with me that she had had a long discussion with the Program Co-ordinator - turns out he remembered me from our phone conversation, and they were **both **impressed with me, and had decided to accept me into the program for THIS FALL!!!
Thank God the woman couldn’t see me! I had tears **pouring **down my face… I thanked her profusely, and she told me I’ll receive all the paperwork early in the week.
This is SO cool! 
