Thank you! ?
Honestly, my stats are very very low compared to everyone else on here, due to my first year. (This is totally off topic, but basically I suffered severe mental illness episodes and had no idea. Additionally, I wasn’t given the option to drop courses I was already failing.) This is one of the many reasons I want to go into Public Health, for Mental Health and Health Promotion of students because we are treated very poorly. I think my cGPA is maybe a 72 or so now, but my sGPA is around an 78, again this is very low, but I stay in high spirits!
However, I have experience volunteering at a health unit doing health promotion jobs, with hockey and skating clubs, I considered PT/OT at one point so I volunteered alongside them. I actually got to lead an exercise group for a few months for LTC patients. I currently am a peer/student mentor and I also volunteer alongside children that have learning disabilities. As for work, I have had a few jobs but the one that stands out the most is my job at my local hospital. I worked in the health records department and as an administrative assistant, where I dealt with patient files and health policy, etc. I’ve seen up close the daily job of someone who does Health Policy & Procedure and it’s honestly very interesting to me.
Should I not get into the Master’s of Public Health at Guelph, I am still looking into the MSc in Population Med (Public Health) as another option (I had no idea it existed until I found this forum the other day I was caught off guard!!) And should that not work out, I’ll do my Kinesiology exam and become a Registered Kinesiologist and try again next year.
