Tory Carter:  

Life I have been with my fiance since January 30, 2003. We enjoy our pub's weekly trivia, golfing, walking through conservation areas, and I occasionally get him to sit through a movie with me. We enjoy a lot of the same things, but we also differ on enough to keep things our own. I'm still close with my mom, sister and brother-in-law, but my brother is MIA in the Guelph area - I miss him. I've kept music in my life - I play 3rd clarinet in a community orchestra. I still play guitar, piano and sing on my own, and with my sister (when we can get together). College I stayed in high school for an extra year because I didn't see the point in taking things like French, music, computers and accounting to the grade 12 level, and not get the OAC. The extra year was necessary since I also needed OACs in 3 maths, physics, chemistry and English to get into engineering at McMaster University. I wanted to become a math teacher. At McMaster, you can switch from engineering to math without having to completely redo first year - not vice versa. I enjoyed engineering so I stayed in the program, opting for the business minor (the 5-year Engineering and Management programme) to better prepare myself for the business world. My academic performance was poor for my first few years, climaxing in a bout of Labyrinthitis that cost me 2 courses in first term, and all of second term in my third year. I withdrew in seco...Expand for more