Orientation

Yesterday I went to my orientation.  Wasn't so bad.  The class was bigger than I'd thought it would be. There was like, 100 people, in comparison to Social Service Worker's 30 or so placements.  One of the professors said that usually a class in Human Services Foundation is 99 out of 100 people aiming for SSW, but this year is the biggest exception to the rule.  There's a lot of people aiming for pre-service firefighter, rec & leisure, and early childhood education.  There's even a bunch of people doing HSF because they want to go into something in that field, but aren't sure which one.

There were students who had already done HSF talking to us about it.  Every one of them was someone who'd gone into it hoping to go into SSW but had changed over to rec & leisure.  Apparently, even though usually everyone is aiming at SSW, there are always some converts into other streams by the end of the year.

They said that almost everyone who aims for SSW on graduation of HSF gets in, but there's always a few that don't.

There were like, seven other male students.  That fits the "One guy for every ten women" ratio that I'd heard about.  I thought I'd stick out like a sore thumb, but I don't really feel like I did.  Integration moved pretty smoothly.