if i plan on getting my fourth credit at the end of the summer session, do i get to sign up for my second year courses in june, or do i have to wait until july? thanks.

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hey there,

i’m not sure when you plan on starting your second year courses – summer or september – so i’m just going to say it like this:

whatever courses you plan on taking in the summer, you should sign up for them all right away. as long as you’ve completed the prereqs for a course by the time you actually start taking the course, you’re fine.

you should also plan on enrolling in all your courses for fall/winter 2015-2016 as soon as your start date/time hits in august. again, as long as your prereqs are done by the time classes actually start, you should be okay.

cheers,

aska

Hi,

I was wondering when exactly is an evening course? I’m assuming 6-8 or 6-9, but i’m not 100% sure. I’ve looked online but can’t seem to find anything.

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hey there,

it could be either one of those. a class that starts at 6pm is an evening class, whether it’s one, two or three hours long. the unifying factor, of course, is that they all suck equally.

alas, i digress. point is: if you’re looking on a timetable and it says ‘evening,’ that’s not referring to one, specific time frame. you’ll have to take a look and see what exact time the course is being offered.

cheers,

aska

Hey! First, I love your blog, it’s a great help to me! Second, I want to take a summer course but it says to have either a credit in an English course or any 4.0 FCE…I’m just wondering if FCE means just any 4 credits, like any courses I’ve done?

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hey there,

joke’s on you: we don’t write askastudent to be helpful. we write it because we are BITTER and WIZENED old students who only derive pleasure from being annoying know-it-alls online. ha.

‘FCE’ stands for ‘full credit equivalent’ and is basically synonymous with the word credit. so one FCE, or 1.0 credits, is either one year-long course or two half-year courses.

meaning that if you have 4.0 credits, you have 4.0 FCEs.

cheers,

aska

Hi askastudent!

So it is my fault that I have not been keeping up with all of the dates and deadlines but it’s approximately 3 and a half weeks after January 18th, the last day to add courses on ROSI. I’ve never heard of students at UofT being allowed to add a course after the add deadline. I know its possible for other schools with the permission of professors to let students into a course after the deadline. Is this available at here at UofT???

Thanks!

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hey there,

well…it’s definitely too late to add courses now. i wonder if it worked out.

just for future reference: the deadline to add courses is pretty much a hard and fast deadline. SOMETIMES the department can get you in, like, the day after the deadline, if you’re lucky – but it all depends on the course, and the department.

the only other possibility is the dean’s promise, but that’s pretty limiting. it only applies if you’re graduating this year, and if the course you’re trying to get into is the only course you can take to fill a certain POSt requirement.

cheers,

aska

Hi. I don’t know whether I should drop calculus and then retake it next year. Should I select it as no credit? Is 3 courses too few? I don’t think I have a hope of passing the course (I failed both the first two midterms). I can’t afford another F on my transcript, (I already got one from first-year physics which I should have dropped when I had the chance). How does not taking the required courses for your program affect the future? What should I do about this besides cry in fetal position?

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hey there,

firstly: don’t cry in the foetal position. not only will it not make you feel any better (if anything, it will put even more stress on your body that is trying to cry and breathe while having its lungs all crumpled), but there is absolutely no practical place at uoft to go into the foetal position. we don’t even have spots to nap in (not officially), let alone spots to settle down on the ground.

just so you know, the deadline to make a Y course credit/no-credit is february 16th. that is also the deadline to drop a Y course from your academic record and GPA. SO don’t panic – you’ve still got some time to sort all this out.

if you do drop it, make sure to do it before the deadline. and it’s better to drop it and take it again than to fail and take it again.

HOWEVER, it is important to keep in mind that if you don’t get the credit and it’s a requirement for a program you’re interested in, you will not get into the program. you just won’t. it’s called a requirement for a reason.

so if you DON’T get the credit, you can do one of two things: take the course again in the summer, and hopefully not get too behind on getting into your program of choice, OR:

look into a different program. if you had your heart dead-set on a specialist in mathematics and it turns out that you hate calculus – maybe math isn’t right for you. (BUT make sure you don’t let your grades make this decision for you. disliking something and struggling with it are two different things. if you are still really passionate about whatever it was you need calculus for, there are ways to get there).

if you need some help figuring out your next step, i would recommend making an appointment with the registrar’s office. as AMAZING and HELPFUL as askastudent undoubtedly is, your registrar has a bit more context about who you are and your specific situation.

to me, you’re just a couple of paragraphs on a screen. some cute, paragraphs, for sure. very charming. but a bit limiting in terms of information.

good luck with your journey, my friend,

aska

hi aska, i’m a second yr student at uoft st george and i’m currently enrolled in a course for next semester called uni250 , which is health research methods.how ever i just looked at the course calendar and realized that uni250 is a corequisite for a course i have to take next yr for my major. do i have to drop uni250 or can i take it and still take the other course next semester, or will i be kicked out?

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hey there,

it depends. best thing to do is to e-mail the department that that offers the course that uni250 is a corequisite for*, and ask if they HAVE to be taken together, or if it would be okay if you took them sequentially.

the departments are ultimately the people who will drop you like a hot potato from any course you don’t meet the requirements for, so they’re the people you should ask about it.

just make sure you e-mail instead of call them , because if you get their permission, you’ll want that in writing. you don’t want to get permission from one person, get dropped from the course by another person, and then have NO PROOF that you got permission in the first place. so get it in writing, always. that’s just good life advice, actually.

cheers,

aska

* that is the most hellish sentence structure i’ve ever seen or written, but it actually makes sense. i think.

Im currently at utsc and got into computer science from high school. I have changed my mind and have decided to go towards a life science related degree. I have taken all the required courses except for BIOA01 and BIOA02 since they are restricted and I get this, http://i.imgur.com/PJ2UgGX.jpg . I would like to take the equivalent courses at utsg during the summer.
My questions are:1. Is this possible 2. What courses are equivalent? 3. What process do I have to go through (i.e is there anything I have to fill in/ do specifically)?
Thanks for the help.

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hey there,

1) it is possible for a utsc student to take utsg courses, summer or not. however, you’ll have to enrol a little bit later than the utsg students, so it’s not totally guaranteed that you’ll get a spot, even if you meet prereqs, pay your fees on time, etc. it’s an EXCITING GAMBLE you play when you try to enrol in courses on other campuses.

also, just a note: enrolment controls might get in the way of your enrolment in UTSG bio courses as well, so i would read up on them before enrolment time comes.

make sure you don’t have any exclusions for the courses you want, that you’re eligible to take them, etc. etc. if you run into a problem, talk to your registrar’s office about it now, before the absolute mania of summer happens.

2) according to transfer explorer, your BIOAO1 is our BIO130, and your BIOaO2 is our BIO120.

(p.s. y’all should really use transfer explorer more, like half the questions i get about transfer credit stuff can be answered with transfer explorer. jsyk).

3) no process. just enrol in the courses you want when the time comes.

cheers,

aska

Hey aska!
I have a question that has been eating brain for a couple of days now: are the tests and exams of different lecture sections taught by different professors the same? For next semester (first year at UTSG) I’m thinking of attending lecture sections that I’m not officially enrolled in (BIO130 and CHM139), but the sections are taught by different professors – so do you know if the material covered and the tests will be the same, or do they differ? Does it even matter if I attend different sections (no attendance right?) or should I ‘sign up’ on the waiting list?
Thanks!

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hey there,

the tests will probably differ. it’s a pretty big risk to attend a lecture taught by a different prof, because while they’ll teach the same stuff, they might emphasize different things.

also, if you want to write the tests, you will have to write them in the lecture section that you’ve signed up for. so if you’re going to lectures by a prof different from the prof who’s writing your tests and exams, that could be a problem.

at the end of the day, no one’s gonna stop you from going to whichever lecture section you want. you’re all grown up now; you can do what you want. but there is a risk involved, so just be careful.

cheers,

aska

I ACCIDENTALLY DROPPED A COURSE I NEED ON ROSI..HELP I AM FREAKING OUT…HOW DO I READD IT??????

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hey there,

oooh, that sucks…

if it’s a Y course, talk to your registrar’s office about it, and they may be able to re-add you.

if it’s an S course…add yourself to the wait list asap.

sorry about that,

aska