Braving the new world of campus: How to navigate the exciting and scary transition to university
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This story is part of Amy Bell's Parental Guidance column, which airs on CBC Radio One's The Early Edition.
It was hard enough for me to send my children off to preschool down the block, so I can't imagine bidding them goodbye at some university dorm room in the not too distant future.
But that has been the reality for many parents this past month — and it's heartbreaking, exhilarating, scary and stressful for everyone.
Post-secondary life is when we kind of let go of our "kids" and watch them wander off into adulthood.
For new university students the "newness" of it all can be overwhelming.
Finding housing, finding classes, finding friends, all while settling in to a new level of independence, is a lot. And since post-secondary classes were, for the most part, online last year thanks to the pandemic, there are entire campuses filled with students of all ages trying to get used to a new routine.
I touched base again with Jessica Baldwin — who I spoke with earlier this year when she was about to graduate from high school — as she navigates being a first-year student at the University of Victoria.
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