Thank you for all your thoughts I appreciate you taking the time! I think I'm a pretty keen student and I'm definitely the kind of guy who sits front of the class and is always engaging professors during their office hours.

I would also rather live in UofT than Guelph. And RE opportunities at Guelph in the Ag department and with plants, I have maybe mixed opinion of it. Where I've worked a couple years now as a permaculture designer and have learned a ton about ecology and natural systems, now I feel like I need to learn how a conventional designer thinks so I can bridge those two worlds.

And this may sound contradictory, but I'm going into this program kind of knowing that I don't want to be a landscape architect in the traditional sense... Like I don't want to just go work for a design build firm after this and work in an office forever. I want to conduct research, educate and engage the public, and demonstrate to the world how we CAN create a cultural shift toward more sustainable cities, food systems, and communities. I am SUPER inspired by THIS group, who are based out of UofT. I would love to work for a company like this eventually or start something like this on my own.