3 things I never thought I would do

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Live in my parent’s house
Become an Agro
Go to St. Peters College in Münster, SK

Background:

I have always had a bed waiting for me at my parents place but I haven’t really lived there since grade 10 (2002).

I went straight into Engineering at the U of S after high school. There is a 100 year old rivalry between the colleges of Engineering and Agriculture. I dropped out after 3 semesters, but then got a Forestry diploma from SK Polytechnic.

St. Peters College is about half an hour drive from my home town and where you go if you want to play racquet ball. It is quite small and while it was founded and ran by the Benedictine monks of St. Peter’s Abbey focuses mostly on agriculture and agribusiness. All classes are in a single building. The population of the entire town of Münster would not fill a lecture hall at the U of S.

Now:

I had applied for admissions at U of S back in April as a bit of a lark, I didn’t really think I would follow through with it but it seemed like a good window to keep open as I was running out of working vacations I could take in the off season and it was starting to feel like I should stick around for a snowy season or two.

We had an absolutely ridiculous fire season and near the end of it going back to school didn’t seem like such a bad idea. Long story short due to a minor error and no follow up before classes started I was not able to join the program in Saskatoon for this semester. The solution: take a couple of the classes I need at St. Petes, and a few online classes.

So here I sit, in my parents basement, enrolled at St. Petes, working towards an Ag-Bio degree in Renewable Resource Management.

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Good luck, Eric. It took me 16 years to get a BSEE and 5 years to get a masters degree. The only weird thing was how young the students looked. You’re never too old, my friend.

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Thanks Greg.

The students do look young. A couple of the students in my Econ group are actually still in highschool.

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3 things I never thought I would do:

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  • Change diapers on a dog
  • Help my dad move out of his house and across the country in less than two weeks
  • Ride 800km around Nova Scotia against a guy called Saskatchewanian :) [/LIST] I think the longer we live, the more stuff we do that we never thought we would do.
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    I thought I was a selfish, individualistic and destructive personality.
    My home is now a shelter for abused animals.

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    Good luck, Saskatchewanian! Sometimes we don’t know why we take a certain path in life, but in the end it often turns out to make perfect sense.