Choosing a University

By Peter Mahaffy

Choose a place for your university studies where you know you will nurtured and cared for as a person and not just a number. Seek out an institutional setting where faculty care about teaching and involve and mentor undergraduate students in research projects. Make time during your university study to be involved in your own academic community as a peer tutor and in your larger community as a volunteer. If at all possible, try to carry out a summer undergraduate research project, where you can work one-on-one with a faculty member. If you keep track of these experiences, you can create a portfolio that will serve you well in applying for jobs or admission to professional or graduate programs, and the faculty members you’ve gotten to know well and worked with will be great references to help open doors into your future for you.

Peter Mahaffy, Department of Chemistry, The King's University College, Edmonton, and award-winning 3M National Teaching Fellow.

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jjjamming wrote:	what are the differences between Ottawa university and cartleton university - social sciences -political science Posted on Feb 24, 2013 at 02:07

Goodluckcharlie wrote:	She became a teacher and by making her own money she went to art school know she is a teacher and artist and sometimes both so she ended up happy and so did her parents. Posted on Jan 05, 2012 at 01:02

Goodluckcharlie wrote:	my friend went through that dilemma she wanted to be an artist but her parents wanted her to be a teacher saying she wouldn't make enough money and would only make it once she was dead. They tried to talk her out of it so she pretended to go along Posted on Jan 05, 2012 at 01:01

isaacf wrote:	Follow what you dream of doing, you dont want to spend your entire life doing something that you dont like doing just because your parents want you to. Posted on Mar 06, 2011 at 07:44

jennypenny wrote:	I want to be an animator one day but my parents say that I should go to famous universities that are ranked well. I really want to go to an art school though... Which should I choose? Posted on Feb 28, 2011 at 05:05

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