It can, but if you go that route (in nursing) you still have to do 3 years university, after 18 months in college.
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@littlelee Totally understandable, thanks for explaining the situation further. I know at my school, you have to apply to get into the nursing school itself(which is hard enough) and its a five year program.
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That is how it is hereā¦so hard to get in t nursing (which is fucked given how many nurses are needed). If my daughter gets in, I really want her to go!
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Have you check if it is a bit cheaper in Qc? It use ti be cheaper for some province to come here, back then. And we have some english university
I am not sure. I donāt want her to go all the way to Quebec! I donāt want her to go at all (like move out of the house). I love this kid, she is cool to have around, and man am I gonna miss her when she goes! There is a huge part of me that just wants her to go local so I can have her around longer.
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Just go make you guys and Gals at bit jealous.
Here in DK Primary school, College, Gymnasium, University, all kinds of education is paid by the state.
Oh did I mention as long as you study youāll get a financial support from the state. If you live at home itās not that much, but if you donāt live fancy you wonāt have to work 
about 400 us dollar it is. And you donāt have to pay it back. If you live the high live the state can lend you money on fine terms.
Come to the land of opportunity guys.
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I did that to my parent, choose a school a solid 6 hrs away. I did came back after the 3 years of CEGEP. And back then there was no cell phone or e-mail and even less skype.
It was harder for me then my parents. The first year, I went to a place for students and we did not have a phone. I had to find a phone booth.
But in the end it is the one who pay who has the final word.
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This is true for my family. I ask my kids about school and gradesā¦ they look at me, smile, and say āyou paying for it?ā
Me: ānope!ā
Them: āThen donāt worry about it. My grades are good.ā
That usually ends the conversation about school. 
Little independent piss ants.
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@mortdk - You live in the most wonderful place, I am soooo jealous. Is it your country that reduced the working day as well? Honestly, Canada is progressive in some ways, otherways not so much!
@donnerschweer - Can I ask why you moved so far from home? I get my daughter wants to test her independence, but it almost feels like she wants to get away from us (though she says that is not the case). I guess its true about who pays, but I would like her to have the university experience all the same.
@losthog - lolā¦tit for tat
This university discussion has me thinking. I want my daughter to focus on school, not worry about money, working etcā¦and maybe people think this denies her learning responsibility for her education/reaching her goals, but this is why.
I started off at University. I had just started a duel degree program in Social Work and English when I became pregnant. So, I stayed home with my daughter, and went to school every night for three years to complete my degrees. Man, was that hard.
I made the decision to stay at home full time with both my kids, and I was lucky enough to stay home full time until they were both in school full time. I loved staying home, and have never regretted not going out to work but being home with them. Beng a stay at home mom is my best and favorite achievement.
When they were both in school, I went back to school for nursing. I was at school full time, but still managing the house etcā¦
Both times I was in school I had a lot of outside responsibilities, and my focus was always split, and it was hard. Plus I financially paid for school, and worked part time as well.
I do not want eithier of my girls to have to do this. If they wanna work part time for cash etcā¦that is great for them. I just want it to be as easy as possible (time management, financially) for them to get through school!!! I know what the opposie is all about!
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I went away because I really wanted to go into equine studies at the time option were La Pocatiere (past Quebec city) or Gulph (other side of To).
I was not ready at that age to get serious, I had very good grades, I could have went to vet tech easily but my brain was not. My luck was that money was not a problem for my parents.
When I went back to school, 5 years after finishing the CEGEP, close to home was a big deal for me. (payed that one in most) I went to McGill (Mac Donald campus) all of 15 minutes door to door.
Then life made it that I could not find a job in my Bsc field so I worked in a related field but in an office setting. As soon as I got the chance to open my own stable, I jumped on it. Finally now at 40+ I am ready to have a normal job but office work is not for me.
So in CEGEP (College) I was spending no time going out, I hike, bike and hang in the gym. Bars have never been fun to me. It was a nice place to play outside but the winters were brutal (-60C is no fun) I biked to school or skied.
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Hey I transferred from a 2-year community college to a top 5 university in the US for chemical engineering. Feel free to ask me questions. Community colleges get bad rep, but it is actually a legit option for people who want to save money.
I teach HS on Long Island and we have a local CC, Nassau. Some kids call it Thirteenth Grade, others Super High School, because for a lot of kids, itās an opportunity to improve a lackluster academic resumeā.
However, there are quite a few kids that are accepted in to great universities, including the Ivies, that do their two years at Nassau and then transfer to their final destination, including Harvard and Columbia.
Itās a legit option.
I wouldnāt call community colleges an extension of high school. They do have remedial courses like pre-calculus and stuff, but so do most universities out there. But I agree with your point that if you canāt get into your dream universities, you can spend first two years or so in community colleges then transfer to universities that you wouldnāt be able to get in straight out of high school, as a 2nd year or a 3rd year student (depending on how many coursework transferred).
Reason that many CC students never end up transferring anywhere is that they arenāt willing to put in work and that they think they can work less compared to when they were in high school. Big no no. Community college is harder than high school. Top engineering school is even harder, my GPA dropped after I transferred to the university, competition is much fiercer, if you arenāt blossoming in CC like at least have 3.5/4.0 GPA, you are not transferring anywhere decent. It is just the way it is.
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I appreciate everyones feedback on college vs University, but itās a mute point nowā¦
My daughter got accepted into University
Woohoo!!! We will do whatever it takes to make sure she can go!
In Other News: I am working 76 hours in 9 days, I am 24 hours inā¦
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where is she going? and congrats!
Well she got accepted into her first school, letās say. She is waiting to hear from 5 other schools before she chooses. Itās such a competitive program, I suppose I should have waited to worry until she started getting accepted (like now). She has a 90% average, so I havenāt doubted that she would get in.
Now we wait and see!
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Glad to hear your daughter got into Uni.
If reduced is 37 hours a week, then yes.
Ohh we do only have 6 weeks of vacation a year.
You got yourself a goddamn long week of work in front of you.
Iām all in to giving your kids the best opportunities in life. As long as you and you hubby are happy with it.
We are doing it for our kids, and are fine with that, but Iāve realized no matter what you do and how much you try to do the right thing, itās all down to them, they owe you nothing and you canāt tell them that youāve put all the best years in it for them and now they have to pay back. It doesnāt work like that.
Suddenly they are adult and do what they choose to do. And we as parents are left at the side line.
I get it. I know they will leave and no matter our best intentions, well they are gonna live their own lives. That is both scary and liberating for me.
I just wanna help them as much as I can right now. Send them out in the world with their best foot forward and all that. If they havenāt already shown me that they are willing to work hard on their own for what they want, well then our help would not be there in the same way.
36 hours to go! I am soooooo tired.
I hope to squeeze a workout in tomorrow.
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If you can teach them how to handle money then it will almost guarantee them a good life. Americans think money is meant to be spent first, earned second.
On the other hand, if you budget, save, and only spend what you have then life can be relatively stress free. It changed our lives once we stopped acting like normal Americans.
Last month the dryer started acting up. The washer has been annoying forever. It would shake the whole house on the spin cycle and we used the slowest and most delicate setting. Needing a new washer and dryer might cause some folks some stress. Not us. We were able to spend $1300 and still put a couple hundred bucks in the savings account at the end of the month.
Iāll say it again; being able to manage money can be life changing. If youāre going to give her the blessing of starting out debt free then make sure she keeps it that way! 
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