Meet Jason, from UTM

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Hi. How's it going? My name's Jason Jason and added, I'm a first year's master student in the masters of Urban innovation program at the University of Toronto, Mississauga in the Institute of Management and Innovation on This is gonna be short video telling you about myself and kind of my journey. So I was born in this saga but moved to Grant, and I've lived here for most of my life. I've always had an interest in cities, people, politics, transformation, economic development. This sort of thing on this led me to pursue a bachelor's in urban and regional planning at Ryerson University on Gwen's graduating. You know, I worked for a bit, but I felt like I wanted to learn more, more so that economic development side of things that I've always longed for. Um, and I kind of stumbled upon this program, heard a little bit about it during the last year of my undergrad and more research on it. Everything I wanted to do was here, so I applied on. I'll get into that a bit later, how that process went. I've only spent a few times or a few moments at university itself. From my short brief visits there, I really enjoyed it. Um, it was stark contrast from Ryerson received, which is surrounded by the hustle bustle downtown but the Mississauga campus. It was very peaceful, if that's the way, there's a lot of trees on a lot of geese. Obviously, Pandemic kind of prevents us from meeting there, but I look forward to the day where I can really enjoy everything. So this program is for you if you are interested in urban issues and economic development. If you're passionate about transforming cities in the way cities operates, how they dress urban ish issues, how they interact with different levels of government, the private sector and the everyday citizen in order to make the city more inclusive, livable, resilient, vibrant. If you're passionate about that, um, then definitely considered applying for this program. I applied for this program after completing my bachelor and urban regional planning because I understood the complexity of cities and I felt that I needed to learn a lot more about economic development and not just have so much of the planning lens when I'm looking at the city, Um, but what really drew me to this program was that it was interdisciplinary. So in the program, there's a lot of different students from a lot of different backgrounds, which helps us learn from each other but also the content in the class. It's bulletproof, different the fields, which really enriches the learning environments. That's what really drew me of this program. I'm sure you're wondering what the process is like to get into the program s o. The program has a two step application process. You're going to be spending documents, everything from your transcript to resume references. You also have to submit a letter speaking why you would like to be part of the program. You could take any tactic you want with that letter. Whatever you're trying to get across, whether you're trying to highlight your accomplishments on experiences, um, kind of like a cover letter, or you could take a more personal route. I took a more personal out speaking to my aspirations, my concerns for the city. You know what? I really want to get out of this. Um, yeah, Um, in the second step, um, it's an interview with the director of the program and important coordinate. So if you think you did a bad job, you probably did it because I felt like I did a bad job, but I still got in, so don't worry about it too much. Once you're in the program, first of all, be excited. Um, but while it is ah, large work load, the support is great. Support from your classmates on during the professors there really understanding, really intelligent on. So that really helps when you know it's a long day. A grueling task ahead. Um, you have to work from all angles, all sides. It's great if this is what you wanna do? You will benefit greatly from it. Look out for the next video, I guess until next time.