Since I grew up in MI, my initial thought was to attend college at the University of MI in Ann Arbor. My family raised me in a small town outside of Ann Arbor and we drove by the campus correctly whenever we’d drive into town to shop at a mall or a big box store. It wasn’t a matter of getting accepted that made it impossible to attend that university. In fact, I was accepted right away after I sent paperwork in. However, the in-state tuition was still too high for me to afford, even with the scholarships that I secured. I am an education major and had numerous scholarships from competitions that I had won during my teen years. Since there was a special needs program at the St. George campus of the University of Toronto, I also applied there. When I was accepted, I wasn’t expecting an offer that would reduce my tuition by roughly 50% if I decided to be a student of the University of Toronto. I accepted their offer and began preparing to be a Canadian citizen for the first time, which involved getting a passport and a university license. Walking around Toronto with my parents for the first time was a fun experience. We got to see the CN Tower, and of course the gorgeous Queen’s Park right outside the University of Toronto college campus. While I was a student, I spent several days meandering around Queen’s Park with a lit sploof, which is a cigarette with cannabis and tobacco mixed. Back then you had to buy all of your campus off the black market, however nowadays Toronto has over 200 legal cannabis dispensaries to shop at.