I’ve never been as nervous waiting for a decision as I was the weeks before I got the acceptance to UBC. I wanted to go to Canada so badly and spending a year in Vancouver as an exchange student was a great opportunity. Ever since I got hooked on skiing getting to Canada and ski the BC mountains has been a dream.
After three years of engineering studies in Uppsala I felt pretty tired of school and that a break would be suitable. Therefor I applied for the exchange programme at the university. It was perfect since it opens up to get abroad and I can take any courses of my choice. When I discovered that they had some spots to apply for in Vancouver I decided to go for it. I put a lot of effort into the application and ended up quite happy with the result before I submitted it. A couple of weeks before the notification date I recieved an e-mail which stated that there was a new record in number of applicants to North America and UBC was particularly popular. That news lowered my expectations but I still had my hopes up.
The day of announcement was a pretty good day, I didn’t only got accepted for a year in Canada, I also got the results of past exam with a score of 42/40 (two bonus points were given for completing additional tasks during the course). That night I slept pretty good, dreaming…
