大女儿今年高中毕业升入大学。在加拿大上大学，无需“千军万马过独木桥”地经历高考的洗礼，但是，为了上大学，孩子们并不轻松。
早在就读八年级时，因为面临小学毕业升高中，学校老师在一开学就通知家长和学生要开始为升入高中做准备，学校安排参观本地高中校园，介绍高中教学与小学教学的异同，还特别提醒大家，要尽早选定将来报读的大学和专业，以便安排好高中阶段所选学的相应课程。从此，家长和学生便开始时刻关注并准备升大学这件人生大事。
在安省，4年高中，需要完成30个学分，其中包括18门必修课和12门选修课，还要完成40个小时的义工工作，并通过10年级英语读写测验，方可达到高中毕业要求。
报读大学时，需要6门12年级课程的平均分数，其中英语成绩是各个专业都需要的，其它5门课程则根据所报读专业不同而有不同要求，除此之外，就是选择分数最高的科目成绩。学科成绩的分数并不是以一两次考试成绩得出的，学生平时的学习表现，比如大小测验、作业、专题研习、以及课堂参与程度等等，占很大比例。所以，学生一时一刻都不能放松自己的学习。而要了解不同大学不同专业的入学要求，除了上网查看，还有每年9月下旬在多伦多会议中心的Ontario Universities’ Fair，学生家长可以前去面对面地与多间大学的招生老师和学生代表交谈，了解专业设置、课余活动和校园生活等等。
大女儿11年级和12年级时，我们都去了这个资讯展。也还和她一起亲自去过几所大学参观，事先在网上预订时间，届时有专门老师和学生带领并讲解。这样的参观，还让我们得知各个学校对6门平均分数在85或者90分以上的学生授予1000-2000元不等的奖学金。而且，入学以后，如果每年学习成绩都达到一定分数，仍然享受相应的奖学金。这让孩子们十分惊讶：原来好分数不仅能让我们上大学，还能挣钱！尤其对当时正在上7年级的小女儿是个极大激励，姑且算是意外收获吧！此外，安省有个Ontario Student Assistance Program（简称OSAP），学生需自行上网注册，然后，根据家庭收入申请减免30%学费或无息贷款。
大女儿因喜好音乐，最初想报读音乐教育专业。查看几所大学的入学要求，除了英语成绩以外，还要求乐器达到皇家音乐学院（RCM）的第8或者第9第10级，而她早已超过这个标准，9年级时即通过最高级表演级并获取毕业证书，当时正在学的小提琴也已经通过第10级开始了表演级的学习，再加上她多年参与乐队、合唱团，还在小学校做过半年音乐老师实习和夏令营音乐老师助理工作。所以，每个学期选课时，她都不必为自己将来报读大学专业而特别选学什么科目，而是凭自己兴趣而定。
学教育做老师是个很不错的选择，也是尊重孩子的兴趣爱好。但是，我个人总是希望她还能在音乐之外的学科有更广泛的了解和深入的学习。因为她的记忆力很好，她曾采纳我的建议，选学过一学期的法律课，结果，她兴趣不大，学了一个学期就不再选这门课了。她的数学一直不错，我们提醒她将来无论做什么工作，学好数学都会能帮助一个人成为做事清晰有条理的人。所以，她在高中的4年里，我们建议她每年都选学数学，甚至还利用11年级暑假把12年级安排不下的一门数学课学完。
12年级那年的11月中旬，每个报读大学的学生从学校那里得到各自的网上申请大学的密码。12月初，大女儿在网上申报了4所大学的一共7个专业，前面3个专业不用付费，从第4个开始，每报一个专业都需要付费60元。除了报她一直中意的音乐教育，还在我们的引导下报了计算机专业，希望学些目前信息时代各行各业都需要的技术。这样，将来无论做什么都会得心应手。而选择12月初申请，是考虑到通常学校在收到申请后，约用两周时间考察学习成绩等等，然后回复申请人，问一些相关的问题，希望对申请人了解更多。
这时，除了学习成绩之外，学生所参加的各项活动，特别是能力的培养，就显出其重要性了。因为在相同学习分数的情况下，一个以百分之百的时间和精力学习的人，和拿出一部分时间和精力，服务他人奉献社会和锻炼自己各方面能力的人是不同的。显而易见，后者把自己所学技能服务社会，也更具备组织工作能力，而更容易被大学录取。这样的全面介绍自己的写作，对于正在读高中12年级的学生来说，放在圣诞假期里做比较更有时间和精力，因为此时没有学校课业和其它活动。
1月份，新年过后不久，除了滑铁卢大学的计算机专业外，其它包括多伦多大学的计算机专业6个的专业都陆续来了录取通知，音乐教育专业也通知去面试乐器。大女儿一边等着滑铁卢大学的消息，一边考虑着自己到底是选读音乐教育还是计算机专业。她在我们的开导下，很快就想清楚：还是选择一门以前自己没接触过的学科，来丰富自己的人生。
从毕业后的就业角度考虑，滑铁卢的计算机专业有Co-Op课程，众所周知，这无疑会为学生毕业后的工作打下很好基础。大学专业的确定最后截止日期是6月2日。一直到5月中旬，滑铁卢大学来了通知，但是，录取的专业不是她所报的计算机专业，而是环境系的Geomatics专业，信中说明今年报读滑铁卢大学计算机专业的学生多达3400多人，而这个Geomatics专业是目前发展较快的一个比较新的一个学科，并不为很多人所熟知。
这是一门什么专业呢？上网查看得知：中文直译为“测绘，也被称为地理空间技术和地理信息工程，或地球数学工程。”再查看英文关于这个专业和所从事的的工作解释：主要学习数学、地理和电脑知识，将来的工作主要有城市规划、卫星导航定位、天气预报、以及能源资源分布分配等等。
滑铁卢大学的网站上还有一段一位这个专业的女学生的视频，她在入读大学时，也是从她所报的专业转到这个专业来的，几年读下来，逐渐喜欢了这个学科。尤其是实习（Co-Op），让她有机会实际接触这个专业所从事的工作。我们在多大和滑铁卢之间反复对比权衡，大女儿最终决定接受滑铁卢的录取，认为这个专业要比单纯的计算机专业更实际更实用。
除此之外，学校的邮件和通过网络的线上直播，给学生详细讲解说明新生如何报到注册以及每个学期的选课，还有大学具体的学习和生活等等。突然有一天接到来自滑铁卢大学环境系的一份信，全面考察过新生的学习和社会活动之后，决定授予两位同学每人一笔奖学金，大女儿就是其中之一。加上之前学校授予的90分以上的奖学金，让我们再一次体会到“好分数不仅可以当钱使，而且，自己的任何努力都会有回报的。”
写这篇文章的时候，大学已经开学一个多月了，大女儿很快就适应了新的学习和生活，这当然得益于过去几年在家时的熏陶。她对所学课程也是充满信心，并在几次测验中取得满意的成绩。滑铁卢大学距离我家开车将近两个小时，比多伦多大学的半个多小时车程远了很多。不少人为此疑惑：为什么不选多大而去那么远？
但是，从我们的经历来说，从孩子的成长来看，大学是人生的一个新的里程碑，这期间离开家一段时间，自己去安排学习和生活，可以更好地锻炼独立生活的能力，孩子有了自己成长的空间，也就增加了自己的责任感和信心，这是十分必要的。
大女儿最终选择就读的专业虽不是她喜爱和擅长的音乐，但她积极报考并顺利进入了学校的乐队，每周都有排练，也在老校友返校与新生聚会时登台演奏，把音乐作为自己课余生活的一部分，并继续用自己学到的知识和技能服务他人奉献社会。
虽然在加拿大上大学和中国上大学在形式上不尽相同，但是，整个准备过程都是对自己能力的锻炼，同时也要具备相当的知识水平。（多伦多加华月子中心为您转载）
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</a> EBay Inc reported solid second-quarter results on Wednesday but Chief Executive John Donahoe warned of "headwinds" in the second half of the year, sending shares of the e-commerce company down more than 5 percent in after-hours action.
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</a> David Neal Shepard, 52, was sentenced during a brief hearing in Lubbock, where the slaying happened. He pleaded guilty last month to capital murder in the July 2012 fatal shooting of Dr. Joseph Sonnier III. As part of his plea deal, prosecutors agreed to not seek the death penalty.
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</a> The United States blames Assad’s military for an Aug. 21 poison gas attack in Damascus suburbs that it says killed more than 1,400 people. Syria maintains the attack was a "provocation" by rebels intended to persuade the international community to intervene in the 2-1/2-year-old war.
</a> Examining Magistrate Luis Alaez formally charged Garzon with "79 counts of homicide and numerous offences of bodily harm, all of them committed through professional recklessness," the court said in a statement.
</a> The researchers also observe that Dropbox's two-factor authentication, used for accessing its Website, is not supported in the client software. âThis implies that it is sufï¬cient to have only the host_id value to gain access to the targetâs data stored in Dropbox.â
</a> By the way, the KGB agent Quislings that controlled the Russian Orthodox Church before the âcollapseâ of the USSR are to this day still in control! They were never identified and thrown out of that institution after the âcollapseâ of the USSR! The same is true for the other 14 republics of the USSR, including East Bloc nations. That means Soviet era KGB agent Quislings are still holding the Holy Eucharist and hearing confessions! Now you have proof that the “collapse” of the USSR in December 1991 was a disinformation operation, and you also know how the Vatican can still be controlled by the Kremlin.
</a> A sharp drop in Apple's China revenue in the second quarter underscores the challenges it faces as cheaper local rivals close the technology gap, threatening demand in the company's second-largest market.
</a> I n the matter of the (Washington) Redskins. I donât like being lectured by sportscasters about ethnic sensitivity. Or advised by the President of the United States about changing team names. Or blackmailed by tribal leaders playing the race card.
</a> Both Fingerprint Cards, which develops and makes fingerprint scanners used to access computers and mobile phones, and South Korea's Samsung said the press release was a fake and denied they had been in talks.
</a> Rose Will Monroe was one of the 40,000 who toiled at the 332-acre Ford Motor Co. facility that churned out nearly 9,000 B-24 Liberator bombers during the war. Monroe, who moved from to Michigan from her native Kentucky during the war, starred as herself in the film, and the Rosie character became one of the best-known figures of the era as well as an enduring symbol of female empowerment.
</a> When the researchers tested the coated material they found that it had chemically stabilized the silicon surface. When they used it to make supercapacitors, they found that the graphene coating improved energy densities by over two orders of magnitude compared to those made from uncoated porous silicon and significantly better than commercial supercapacitors.
</a> That is totally not true, Iv’e worked on and have several publications on pre-Cambrian aged (2.5 billion y.a ) rocks and CO2 levels were much higher then and there are 60,000 feet of carbonate deposits in the rocky mtns to prove it. What is your back ground?
</a> Morgan was a student at Virginia Tech in 2007 when Cho went on the deadliest shooting by a lone gunman in U.S. history. Cho, a senior at the school, killed himself following the April massacre. He was a high school student when his mom was working at the Pentagon on 9/11.
</a> "The vast majority of states have pursued reforms lowering benefits for future hires, which are much easier to enact, although the beneficial impact of such reforms will only manifest itself in pension metrics over decades," it added.
</a> Along the way, the Zetas authored some of the worst atrocities of Mexico's drug war, leaving hundreds of bodies beheaded on roadsides or hanging from bridges, earning a reputation as perhaps the most terrifying of the country's numerous ruthless cartels.
</a> This week Ms Taittinger, 51, will officially open her own winery in Sillery, just six miles from Taittinger’s cellars in Reims, the result of five years of preparation. The building, which she describes as being “not a glamour place, but a very modern technical centre”, will process the grapes and store the bottled product, all in her own cellars. Previously she had to rely on other winemakers to produce on her behalf.
</a> "People won't leave. They will be there with their children, their girls, sisters, mothers, fathers. All families are there," Mohammed Attiya, an English teacher who splits his time between work and a sit-in outside Rabaa Al-Adawiya mosque, said Sunday evening. "Even if they know they will die, they insist to be there."
</a> In Piniellaâs opinion, the new system will definitely put more pressure on managers insofar as when to challenge, how much time they have to challenge and how to differentiate from running out onto the field to protect their player from being thrown out of a game for protesting a call on the bases and actually arguing with the umpire, which is prohibited under the guidelines.
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</a> Borgata, one of the 12 hotel-casinos in New Jersey'sAtlantic City, said it had worked closely with the divisionthroughout the process. A spokeswoman for the division confirmedit was the first Internet gaming permit to be issued by thestate.
</a> "I see a risk in the overall public debt because the next government will take over when the public debt will be around 48 percent of GDP, only 12 percentage points short of the maximum set by the Maastricht Treaty."
</a> The disenchanted give multiple reasons, citing previousmisleading statements about domestic surveillance, thegovernment's efforts to force companies to decrypt usercommunications, and the harm to U.S. businesses overseas.
</a> From the hard facts category, it’s also been announced that a further 100,000 lapsed players have also reactivated their account since the relaunch. Along with the engine upgrades, the browser MMO’s third version also began the “Battle of Lumbridge” event, which aimed to give players some control over the fate of the world. “With the Battle of Lumbridge we were looking to give the players a new way to interact with RuneScape and place their mark on the world,” said RuneScape executive producer Phil Mansell.
</a> Parcels from the likes of Amazon and Marks and Spencer delivered through Royal Mail's universal service and itsexpress arm Parcelforce make up almost half of the group's 9.15billion pounds of revenue.
</a> The Duke of Cambridge’s polo plans have fueled speculation that the baby won’t arrive until next week, but that hasn’t stopped people from placing their bets on the baby’s birth date and name at William Hill, a prominent British betting establishment.
</a> Hasan, who attends court in a wheelchair, is acting as his own lawyer, though he has rarely cross-examined witnesses or mounted objections. On Friday, he rested his head in his right hand and rubbed his temple, appearing pale and wan in his camouflage military uniform with an American flag patch affixed to his shoulder.
</a> For cable companies such as Comcast Corp and Time Warner Cable Inc, home security is another revenue stream to rebuild margins whittled away by rising programming costs and declining video subscriber numbers. It is also a way to put to work the billions of dollars that cable companies have invested to create high-speed video and data services over the years.
</a> Used in cold juices, it is refreshing, spicy and peppery. Dried and powdered, ginger loses some of its qualities but it is used in many preparations. It also marries sweet and salty well, and has anti-inflammatory benefits.
</a> He remains unpredictable in the roles he chooses, and – with the possible exception of the thrillers Salt and 2012 – out of the mainstream. He is currently working on the screenplay for a film adaptation of a memoir by William Kamkwamba, a man from an impoverished farming family in Malawi who, aged 14, provided his family with electricity by building his own windmill from instructions he found in a library book. This Ejiofor will direct, but not perform in.
</a> When you hear someone say “al quaeda linked militants” it means they are not al quaeda. There is no al quaeda. These people are an independent group who want to make an Islamic state over there. Think of them as an armed political group. But there is no alqaeda. Al quaeda is a made up group.
</a> Speculation that the Nets might sign Andrei Kirilenko â despite being able to offer only a three-year, $10 million deal âwas untrue, according to a source. Kirilenko just opted out of a one-year, $10 million contract to become a free agent. Thereâs not much left out there for the Nets, which might be why King was discussing it on Wednesday.
</a> âI ran out of gas,â Wright said. âThe thing Iâll take away from this is just the atmosphere, the crowd, the ovation I got. That was really, really, really cool. That just gets me even more excited about (the All-Star Game) tomorrow. It even gets me more excited about when we become that playoff contender. ... Itâs exceeded my expectations so far. Itâs been a lot of fun.â
</a> That means getting over the hump of a record six second-place finishes at a U.S. Open the way he finally conquered his sketchy history with links golf. But we know this. At 43, Mickelson is playing the best golf of his career. At 37, Woods is not, at least when it comes to the big events.
</a> In the past, Republicans have insisted on spending cuts asthe price for budget deals or lifting of the government debtlimit. Their current stand is aimed at derailing Obamacare,which will expand insurance to millions without coverage.
</a> Biden arrived in Mexico late Thursday night and is due to meet with President Enrique Peña Nieto, and kick off the U.S.-Mexico High Level Economic Dialogue (HLED). There were plenty of reasons for the vice president to stay home — including the brewing budget battle, and the shootings in Washington’s Navy Yard — in addition to Syria. So it is worth asking why he didn’t.
</a> Ultimately nervous climate change observers hope debates about sensitivity and short-term warming trends do not distract from the main points of the report or will be used by some governments to reduce their ambition to cut emissions.
</a> “Nobody’s perfect,” Lohan added. “I love my parents. And I’m not going to say that certain situation, I would have preferred to have been handled differently. Certain things I would have preferred to have been kept within my family, in private. But that’s in the past.”
</a> If he were a Republican, the Dems would be screaming for his head. But because he is a Democrat and closely associated with the unimpeachable Barack Obama, he escapes the moral and ethical outrage that should rightly fall upon him. Thanks Felix for keeping this story alive. Let’s hope justice is served.
</a> The pay cuts by the owners came only weeks after a turbulent bus strike that left parents of more than 100,000 public school children â many of them with special needs â scrambling for a month to get their kids to class.
</a> Bacteria in the human body often thrive within structured 3D communities that contain multiple bacterial species. Recent studies have found that relationships between structure and function in these microbial ecosystems can affect human health, such as the virulence of infections in chronic wounds.
</a> They told a sentencing hearing the brutality of the crime had shocked the "collective conscience". The judge, who also heard arguments from the defence, will announce the sentences on Friday.
</a> "While it is a deeply personal and private event, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge realise this is a time of national celebration and that there will be vast interest in the baby," a spokesman told the publication back in June, adding: "They realise many people will want to share in their happiness."
</a> Asda, a subsidiary of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT), saw its market share fall to 17.3%, from 17.6%, according to Kantar, which monitors the household grocery purchasing habits of 25,000 demographically representative households in the U.K.
</a> For starters, it looks set to be the Sebastian Vettel of tablet typing. It's thinner and lighter than its predecessor â a sliver at 2.75mm and weighing just 185g â and now boasts 1092 touch sensors inside compared to the original Touch Cover's 80 (one under each key). And that means the Touch Cover 2 is cleverer than you. When you rest your hands on the pressure sensitive keyboard between words or your finger bounces off a key after you press it, Microsoft's new genius keyboard knows that you're not pressing hard or long enough to strike a key. Microsoft say the tactile feedback in our fingers isn't fast enough to tell we're even grazing a key but the Touch Cover 2 knows.
</a> USAA strives to do the right thing for its members, especially following major catastrophes like Hurricane Sandy. We processed more than 4,000 total loss vehicles in the aftermath of Sandy with the goal of expedient claims resolutions for our members. In this particular case, the title was lost after the member sent it. Rather than go back to the member and request a duplicate title during that difficult time, we opted to proceed with a parts-only sale. Consistent with our process, we notified the Insurance Services Office that the vehicle was a total loss.
</a> Asked by PBS’ Gwen Ifill whether he had any conversations with Putin about a plan to allow Syria to put its chemical weapons under international control, Obama said, “I did have those conversations. And this is a continuation of conversations I’ve had with President Putin for quite some time.”
</a> Severe early morning frosts on July 24 and 25 in three of Brazil's top sugar-cane states devastated large areas, Datagro President Plinio Nastari told Reuters. The cold blight comes at the peak the crushing season when more than half of Brazil's expected record 590-million-tonne crop remains unharvested.
</a> Despite lackluster sales, HTC devices usually receive rave reviews, and it has in recent months expanded its range to include smaller and larger models of the One phone and hinted at further products, including a tablet and a wearable device.
</a> U.S. shares surged to record highs on Wednesday, the lastday of the reporting period, after the Fed said it wouldmaintain the pace of its $85 billion in monthly bond purchasesand await more evidence of solid economic growth.
</a> "My role now is to act as a pressure group by observing the political transition and be ready to interfere if things go in the wrong direction," said Badr, who cut his political teeth in the 2011 uprising.
</a> Instead, stress should be put on the "importance of making gradual, long-term changes to their eating habits and physical activity and how much weight they might realistically expect to lose in total and on a weekly basis if they adhere to the programme".
</a> "MoveOn members, like the majority of Americans, oppose military intervention in Syria and want Congress to reject the Authorization for Use of Military Force resolution," said Anna Galland, executive director of MoveOn.org Civic Action, in an email to reporters. "Following MoveOn members' overwhelming 73 percent vote to oppose the war, we are launching a major effort calling on Congress to vote 'no' on the president's request" for authorization to use force.
</a> On the other side of the political divide, millions ofEgyptians were happy to see the back of a leader they believedwas orchestrating a creeping Islamist takeover of the state - acharge the Brotherhood has vehemently denied.
</a> NHTSA gave the Model S its top five-star rating for each safety category -- front-end crash, side crash and rollover crash. NHTSA had not previously tested the Model S, which came out last year, or Tesla's other model, the Tesla Roadster.
</a> Lanza used one. James Holmes used one in Aurora, Colo. Aaron Alexis was found dead with one on Monday. Sometimes tactical use can mean movie theaters, elementary schools and, it appears, the famous Washington Naval Yard.
</a> The recently approved Shanghai FTZ is slated to be a testbed for convertibility of China's yuan currency and furtherliberalisation of interest rates, as well as reforms of foreigndirect investment and taxation, the State Council, or cabinet,has said. The zone will be formally launched on Sept. 29, theSecurities Times reported earlier this month.
</a> “Stocks in the aerospace and defence sectors obtain a large proportion of their revenues overseas, particularly in the US, despite being listed on the UK stock market,” he said. “BAE Systems, for instance, derives 40pc of its turnover in the US. Among smaller stocks, specialist defence firm Ultra Electronics has also done well out of the currency moves, given that almost half its turnover is generated in the US.”
</a> And then Obama and the Democrats are faced with blocking the funding of the vast majority of the government - and individual Democratic Senators up for reelection next year will be accused of shutting down popular programs like Veterans Affairs, National Parks, Welfare, etc. just to force acceptance of the unpopular Obamacare program.
</a> The Dow Jones industrial average was down 85.16points, or 0.56 percent, at 15,243.14. The Standard & Poor's 500Index was down 8.58 points, or 0.51 percent, at 1,690.09.The Nasdaq Composite Index was down 9.48 points, or 0.25percent, at 3,777.95.
</a> Mayweather's speed was the difference all night as he was able to land straight rights and left jabs, then get out of the way before Alvarez was able to respond. But while Mayweather used great defense, he wasn't afraid to attack often and at different angles, finding Alvarez with punches he couldn't anticipate.
</a> Piraeus has done all the preparation for a bond issue andwill borrow "opportunistically" when pricing becomes attractive,said Anthimos Thomopoulos, the bank's deputy chief executive.The bank "can launch at any time", he added.
</a> Mr Moscovici said yesterday that France’s 2013 public deficit would now come in at 4.1pc percent of GDP - higher than the 3.9pc agreed with the European Union. He said that France was on track to post a deficit of 3.6pc in 2014, and push it back under the EU ceiling of 3pc of GDP in 2015, in line with a two-year extension granted by Brussels in May.
</a> "You always try to be good but then you are trying to get your average game level as high as you can," he said, "that the gap between a good game and a bad game wouldn't be so big. I think I managed to do that this year, and it motivates me for the next year to keep that level and keep getting better."