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The university that I will be attending starting September has a co-operative education program, whereby students in certain programs find employment through the school in industry or within the universiry in related fields, and go on work/study rotations during their studies in university. I applied to the co-op program thinking that it's easier to opt out of co-op after you've already been accepted than try to get in during your studies.
Now's the time to start to seriously consider my options. There are pros and cons to both sides.
If I choose to forget the idea and go the traditional route, I'll be graduating in just less than 4 years (it takes 4 years and 8 months to finish your average Honours degree in the co-op streams), will have free summers, and my studies will be more continuous (since I won't be gone for extended periods of time). I won't have to be moving around every 4 months, and in addition I'll have the option of studying over the summer (since the school is centred around the co-op system, the school functions all year round) so that I can graduate even faster.
On the other hand, if I decide to follow through with the program, I could potentially get valuable work experience (either in industry or research), and help pay for my education as I go along.
If it helps, I'm going into a mathematics program, and I found a list of what kind of jobs students in the past have found through the program here: "here"[/URL]
Now's the time to start to seriously consider my options. There are pros and cons to both sides.
If I choose to forget the idea and go the traditional route, I'll be graduating in just less than 4 years (it takes 4 years and 8 months to finish your average Honours degree in the co-op streams), will have free summers, and my studies will be more continuous (since I won't be gone for extended periods of time). I won't have to be moving around every 4 months, and in addition I'll have the option of studying over the summer (since the school is centred around the co-op system, the school functions all year round) so that I can graduate even faster.
On the other hand, if I decide to follow through with the program, I could potentially get valuable work experience (either in industry or research), and help pay for my education as I go along.
If it helps, I'm going into a mathematics program, and I found a list of what kind of jobs students in the past have found through the program here: "here"[/URL]
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