Pre-Apprenticeship Training Institute (Toronto) P.A.T. Institute Paid $7500 to have my dreams destroyed Toronto Ontario

Since I was a little boy, I was fascinated with lights, switches, outlets, and electricity in general. I dreamed of one day becoming an electrician. I was looking into the trade, I had no idea what to do, or how to get in. I stumbled upon PAT Institute, and it looked like a legitimate business.

I took the Construction and Maintenance Electrician program.

I went to the open house, and was immediately impressed with the place. Here was a place with small class sizes, where I can learn the trade I always wanted, and then I could be on the way to starting my apprenticeship after I completed this program. Seems like a perfect opportunity, right? WRONG!

This place was torture from day one! They promised 4 hours of practical, and 1 hour of theory each day. However, that was not the case. Sometimes the theory component, which wasn't as important as the practical, would take up 2-3 hours, and we would have to rush our practical assignments. Everything was a frantic rush!

RUSH! RUSH! RUSH! HURRY! HURRY! HURRY!

They would forcefeed an unreasonable amount of information, while rushing us in the practical component. Every day at that place was full of stress and misery. It was almost as if they wanted to break you physically, and psychologically. Just when I thought I couldn't keep up, the pace of the course kept getting faster, and faster, and faster, to the point where it just became impossible to keep up (without prior knowledge of the trade)!

Each day became about survival, rather than learning. The pace was too fast to really learn, appreciate, and absorb the material.

In fact, the cirriculum became so difficult, that I got extremely sick from stress. I was a healthy 140 lbs at the beginning of the program, and had dropped down to 110 lbs towards the end. I looked like a cancer patient. I was so angry all the time, I could feel exhaustion in my heart muscle from all the stress, anger, and temper tantrums, which were a daily occurrence. I couldn't eat, I couldn't sleep, and I was an irritable wreck the entire time I was in that program, and I still am to this day. I'm an otherwise healthy 26 years old male.

I hated every minute of this horrible experience, and I curse that horrible PAT insititute! 

Throughout the course, I had four colds, back to back. By the end of it, I developed pink eye in both eyes, I had severe pain and swelling in my intestines, severe diarrhoea, I had developed a very high fever, which didn't go away, until I decided to drop out of the course with only two weeks left to go. I was so sick by that point, I couldn't even get out of bed, or off the toilet. 

Of course my sickness cleared up - on its own - two days after I dropped the course. The experience was so awful, I couldn't even make it through the last two weeks of a three month program. 

To the dismay of my parents and girlfriend, I dropped the course. I had my health to think about. I was dying mentally, physically, and spiritually.

I developed severe insomnia after I left this god-awful place. I hated it so much. I dropped out at the beginning of November 2013, and I am still haunted the anger I feel towards this place, and the sadistic people who run it, and finance it, and encourage brute slavery, combined with a cult mentality.

That school turned me into a bitter person. It destroyed a friendship, and almost ruined my relationship with my girlfriend of 4 years. My girlfriend's family, as well as my own, lost all respect for me. My girlfriend and I were going to get married, once I got a good job, and got on my feet, and was independent. 

That dream was shattered.

I feel traumatized by my experience there. Having ones dream shattered is devastating. That's what they do at P.A.T. Institute - they take your money and destroy your dream. They leave you feeling empty and worthless.

Because of them, I am afraid to try any new courses of study. I haven't been able to work either. This place destroyed my life, torutured me for the two and half months I was in it, and has tortured me to this day.

I get flashbacks of my experience at PAT Institute, and I am filled with rage!

DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY AT THIS GOD FORSAKEN HELLHOLE, RUN BY SOCIOPATHIC SLAVE DRIVERS!!