This has been a very stressful time for me, as I know it has been for a great many others, but many of us can have a great sigh of relief now that the month-long faculty strike is over. I was recently accepted into UBC's 12-month secondary education program, to begin in September, but my acceptance is conditional upon my graduating with my degree from VIU. If it had not been possible to salvage this semester I would have had to stay another full year at VIU to finish, and re-apply to UBC later.
As a student it's very difficult to chose a side when you are put in the middle of a labour dispute. We hear the most from our professors because they have the soapbox. Although the administration got better at communicating with students, their emails began very cryptically, and my professors claimed that the information they were giving us was false or out-dated.
It seems to me impossible for students to get a completely unbiased explanation of what has been going on over the last month, nay, further back a year or more. I'm ready to get back to work, and try to put all of this mess behind me. I hope our professors are ready to do the same.
Monday, April 11, 2011
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