Whether your family is the poorest of the poor in the Philippines, parents must worked hard enough to send their sons and daughters to College. Give them the proper education to succeed and have jobs so that they can get out of poverty even if that leads them to apply for bank loans or sell their house and lot or any property worth selling to send them to University or College. Being educated is the only way to get the job. Unless otherwise if the rich parents has a business of their own and they can employ their kids in their family business without College diploma.
In Canada and the US the way to send children to College is through scholarship grant (being top of the Class in High School, being topnotch athlete in the chosen field of Sports, financial security in the form of bank savings and bank loans, other forms of getting in to University is having rich, influential parents or connections).
College/University life is exhausting here in Canada & the US. It can leave parents high and dry. COSTLY! You are looking at $50,000 to $100,000/year to keep one student alive to survive to educate that person in prestigious university such as in Harvard, Yale, Oxford, UVic, BCIT and you might as well tell your kids to do it on their own. So what happened after that? Since the most studious are foreign students with steady supply of College funds from their millionaire parents from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Europe, America and other parts of the world where millionaires live most Canadian students are helpless. If that's the case of funding students nowadays, better just to use that amount of money for down payment for a house and start the business of leasing apartments/houses to foreign students. Sounds too good to be true?
Well, it's only Thursday, what happened to your strength? The 3rd day of back to school is making it a day to day "feeling at home" to a strange place called second home. Be a keen observant. If you are experiencing anxiety and obstacles in your own land then how much more those foreign students must have felt in a strange land.
The only relax mode for students is being confident in their chosen Diploma Course. Students who excelled in Mathematics and Science may feel so secured and confident. Students who are so smart and popular and social skills soaring high undeniably the students' best qualifications may find it easy and convenient to roam around the campus and find friends who are in the same criteria of credibility and being likeable.
Whatever! Just study, learn, explore, inspire and don't forget to laugh and smile. Be friendly but not too friendly and avoid bad vices such as smoking and binge drinking. Most of all avoid promiscuous behaviour. Keep yourself in good health. Avoid all troubles as might as possible. Eat the right kind of food. Proper grooming is good. Keep your secrets to yourself because they probably have Dove, Speed and Old Spice, not to forget better use Colgate.
REMEMBER: You have a family, you have parents who are helping you succeed. They are your close friends, they are your best friends. They are the ones truly the ones who can understand you and whatever needs and guidelines and decision to make, they are parents, your family is the first and foremost to be asked for advice.
