Paying my tuition
Another important step on the road to success: I’ve paid the first instalment of my tuition at the Université de Montréal.
This process turned out to be much more difficult than I expected. When paying through the banking application, the addressee was so unobvious that doubts about the correctness of the actions accompanied me until the very moment when the amount due for payment appeared in my personal account: $0.
In one of the previous posts, I already told you that hidden payments were “built into” the main account - various fees, insurance and contributions. At first glance, they seemed insignificant, because in the total they are only a small part of the total cost of training. However, I decided to get rid of these fees because it seemed counterintuitive to pay for services I don't use. In the end, I was able to eliminate health insurance that was not available at my clinic, library fees, and several other fees totaling about $350 CAD. A small thing, but nice!
However, not all payments were able to be “deleted” - some required going through complex procedures: going to third-party sites, registering, waiting for confirmation for several days. Not everyone is ready to do this: it requires patience and careful reading of all conditions and documents. In the end, I decided to leave several small payments ($2-5 each) since the time and effort spent on canceling them would cost more. Judging by the university Facebook group, some first paid for tuition, and then were horrified to discover that they could not get a refund for unnecessary services. It's a shame! But this is apparently the calculation - that no one will read it into account, but will simply pay.
A month has already passed since the start of my studies, and I have only just completed the payment - this is a common practice at the University of Montreal. Until mid-October, you have the opportunity to refuse some courses and take them in the next trimesters if you understand that you can’t handle it.
At the moment I think I'm coping. Yes, sometimes the amount of work makes me a little dizzy, but I have already found a way to organize everything: I have allocated time for reading, repetition and preparation.
This week and next week I have two exams awaiting me in subjects that, thank God, are interesting to me. Therefore, I “derive” the volume from them.
But what I definitely understood is that studying in Montreal requires not only the desire to learn as such, but also self-organization skills, financial literacy and the ability to work with information. We can say that after payment the baptism of fire has been completed. Let's continue.
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