July 3, 2009
Dear Accepted and Prospective MFS students,
Greeting! Hope you are having a great summer so far. The weather is Vancouver is gorgeous and I wish you are here!
In this e-mail, you will find information on:
*** MFS Summer Orientation for International Students ***
*** MFS Orientation for ALL Students ***
*** Housing Information ***
*** FRE Courses ***
*** MFS Summer Orientation for International Students, August 4 to 28 ***
It is a program highly recommended for students from non-English speaking universities. Please let me know if you intent to come. I need to confirm final number.
If you are coming to the Orientation and if you like to take advantage of the guarantee housing, please contact me so I can make special arrangement with UBC Housing Department.
*** MFS Orientation for ALL Students ***
All students are invited to attend three days of Orientation on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, September 2 to 4. More details to follow.
*** Housing Information ***
Students attending the International Student Orientation in August AND plan to stay on-campus throughout the year are offered guaranteed housing on-campus. Please let me know if you like to take advantage of this.
All other students, please make housing arrangement before you arrive Vancouver. The rental market in Vancouver is competitive. It will be hard with all 35,000 UBC students returning in September. The fact that the 2010 Winter Olympic Games will be hosted in Vancouver is making house hunting harder for everyone.
A couple useful links:
http://www.grad.ubc.ca/apply/housing/index.asp?menu=000,000,000,000
http://www.housing.ubc.ca/other_housing/housing_links.htm
*** FRE Courses ***
Many of you experienced difficulties in registering FRE courses. It is best (and more efficient) to contact the instructor on your own, stating that you are in the MFS program and you have taken some basic economic courses in your university. The instructors may not get back to you until late-August, early-September, but it is wise to send a request to them now.
Any other questions? Let me know.
Judy
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Judy C. K. Chan, PhD
Academic Advisor
Master of Food Science Program
The University of British Columbia
217-2205 East Mall
Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z4
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