i have a couple of back to back classes and im kind of in the scared first year mode rn, is there any space between classes like 10 mins in which i can sneakily sneak in?
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hey there,
rest easy, my friend: i’m about to tell you about something that will change your life. it’s a little thing we here on the St. George campus like to call ‘uoft time.’
this is a special method of timekeeping that takes place in a tiny, tiny timezone hemmed in by Bay and Spadina to the east and west, and Bloor and College to the north and south. a micro-timezone, if you will.
in ‘uoft time,’ everything starts ten minutes after the advertised time. if you’re looking at the timetable and it says a class starts at ten, the class will actually start at ten past ten. it’ll finish right on the hour, though, so if you then have?another class that is advertised as starting at eleven, that one will actually start at ten past eleven.
what that means is that even if you have back to back classes, you will always have ten minutes to get between one and the other. that usually guarantees enough time to get between your classes, no matter how far apart they may be.
if you find that it takes you a bit longer than ten minutes – like twelve or thirteen, maybe – because you have not yet assumed the GRUMPY SPEEDWALK that is the preferred walk of veteran Torontonians, you can usually sneak out of your first class a couple of minutes early to give yourself a head start. most profs won’t mind, as long as you sit at the back of the class and leave very quietly.
cheers,
aska