I GOT ACCEPTED!

Hello guys! It has been barely a week of school and I have so much stuff to do...my first quiz already starts next week. :(

Obviously, that is why I haven't been able to do anything much outside of school and occasionally lurking on my usual social media.

Anyways, I wanted to make a blog post today because...I HAVE GREAT NEWS!

I GOT ACCEPTED INTO THE SUBJECT POST THAT I WAS APPLYING FOR! That subject post happens to be the psychology major and psychology minor. :)

So, I basically went onto acorn (my school's website where you enrol for classes, and manage finances, programs, EVERYTHING).

I was checking this site nearly every few hours because I am currently on waitlist for this course called PSY220: Social Psychology with Professor Plaks. I've been #1 on waitlist since forever (since yesterday), and I just need one or two more people to drop this class so I can take it. I need it for my major and for my third year class that I want to take.

SO, acorn has the "enrol" tab, and when you click on it, it shows you two sub tabs: courses and programs.

I planned to click on courses to check if someone dropped the course..but I accidentally clicked on the programs tab. Before I click out of the tab, I see something orange at the bottom of my vision, and go to see what it is. All I saw was a mini sentence. It took me a few seconds to actually take in what it said.

This was what it said:

Normally, it would be under the "requested" subtitle and nothing else...

I freaked TF OUT.

I was surprised because I actually made it into the psychology major subject post! With my mark, I knew for sure I would get into the minor subject post, but it was still very iffy when it came to the major subject post.

So now here is the story as to why I actually applied to the psychology subject post.

Throwback to a year ago, I entered University of Toronto with hopes of graduating as a math and physics double major. LOL. However, I decided to drop my first year physics courses for other courses, but I still kept with math (because that was what brought me here to this school...I stayed back an entire year for highschool to explore this field and see if I was interested in it...and also bc I didnt apply to any schools near my home in my first year of grade 12). Lot of stuff happened >_> in short, I wanted to study far far far away from Canada, and it didn't work out in the end bc $$$$ and parents were against it. So yeah, I found a mutual ground that we both agreed on, and it was to go back to my highschool for another year and actually apply to UofT (back then I hated to go here with all my life but now look at me).

Anyways, throughout first year of university, I struggled in math (needed to work harder than other people because I lacked in the fundamentals of calculus...I blame my grade 12 teacher bc she crafted gr 12 calc to be really easy, and no one in the class was going to major in math anyways).

Overall, it was a rough year. Math was the very subject that made me lose all self confidence and interest in learning. Going to school was not an enjoyable experience, and it didn't help that I didn't make much friends (the classes were so big and was filled with international chinese students that only talked to other international chinese students).

Though, I still aspired to be a math major at the end of my first year. I needed another major (or double minor) to fufill the degree requirements for UofT, so I chose to do a statistics major along with it (even though I never had any experience with statistics outside of Data and Management back in my victory lap of highschool).

I planned to do summer courses, since I only took 4 courses per term in first year (low stress tolerance, low confidence, kinda sad and crying everyday). So I took one course per term in the summer (I was not confident in taking 2 because I never took a summer course before...not even in highschool).

So in my first term, I chose to take this course called "PSY100: Intro to Psychological Science", and for the second term, I took the other half of my calculus course w/ my friend. Friends suffer together LOL I joke...calc is brutal though.

First day of class arrives and I am terrified because 1) I haven't took a reading class in years and 2) I didn't enjoy psychology when I took it because in grade 11 through the STEPS program with Mr. Carey (awesome teacher who introduced me to UofT STEPS).

The class was actually...interesting. I looked forward to coming to class. I actually looked forward to do readings and notes. I had fun learning the material and studying it. THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN BEFORE IN FIRST YEAR (outside of astronomy).

The professor was so nice and easily accessible outside of class, despite his busy work schedule (he was managing basically 2 jobs outside of his teaching positions at UofT). His name is Paul Whissell and I think he is doing his PhD atm...but if you ever have him, he is the best!! He was so different from the usual profs that I encountered back in first year. The ones I usually know tend to emit this "know it all" aura, and they always make you feel dumb for not getting some concept that THEY consider to be "easy" or "straight forward". It isn't. Don't trust a math person.

Overall, I loved it so much that I was so thankful for even meeting the professor and taking this course.

So I planned to apply into the area after the course was done. I did actually pretty well (one of my highest marks) so I took the chance...

My plan at that time was (ranked from most wanted to least wanted):

1) psy major + math&stats minor

2) stats major + math&psy minor

3) math major + stats major

In my heart, I had a feeling that the overall outcome would lead to me going with option 2...but TODAY PROVED MY HEART WRONG. I GOT TO GO WITH MY NUMBER 1 CHOICE!!

Overall, I'm hoping that this isn't a mistake (since according to the calendar, you're supposed to check results on saturday), and ...I just can't believe it.

I'm going to wait another few hours and check back on it to see if it was real or not because EVEN THOUGH I'M CALMED DOWN NOW, I'm still surprised. Kind of proud of myself too. >_< This definitely lifted up my confidence a bit.

Anyways, I hope that my friend gets her results for her post subject soon! Really wishing that she gets in the post she wants. >_< fingers crossed!

Thanks for reading all of this!

Until then! ♥

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