Hey there..
Ok so, I’m going to be visiting Toronto sometime soon.. And I live at like the other end of the world, so it’s not like I’m gonna be making this trip again before august or September or whenever term starts.. (I’ve been admitted into arts and science, first year).. So heres my question… It says t-cards will be made available from June 1st.. But i’m going to be out of toronto by June 1st… So is there anyway I can request to get it made earlier? Cuz I’m guessing without a t-card I can’t get a utoronto email address… And then I have no way to act cooler than the other people stuck in this hell hole by joining the University of Toronto network on facebook!..
Also while I’m visiting what all should I be picking up and getting done? (For example I’m gonna check out my residence and pick up a calender, so whats the other stuff I can finish off?)
Hi. Great questions. I actually laughed out loud at one point. Okay, get over yourself.
It breaks my heart (…and I swear I have one) that this reply is arriving too late for you. At least it’ll be relevant for other newbies.
You can’t get your TCard printed before June 1st, you will have to wait until you move to Toronto in the fall, when you can contend with a million other people lined up to get theirs. Irritating, I know. Unless everyone ELSE reads this and picks theirs up in advance. Potentially you will be the only one then. This will be little a test of Aska’s power.
It’s true that you need your TCard to be issued your UTORid, which is necessary to create your email account… which is necessary to join the Facebook network… which is necessary to make your friends feel uncool. However, you certainly don’t need your TCard to make your friends feel less cool. Take my word for it. There are tonnes of strategies to elevate yourself above the clique.
-join the Toronto network
-change your education information
-take photos of the campus and post them in an album (toss in a photo of the ROM… that’ll get ’em)
If you really wanna be Toronto-cool, you might as well start selling out to the latest non-conformist trend (note the rich oxymoronic-ness). Think sickly thin boys with scarves and sloppy-haired girls in men’s dress shirts.
Come to think of it, you don’t have to elevate your own coolness to gain advantage over your friends.’ Why not knock them down a few pegs? That’s my modus operandi, and look where it got me – getting paid to make fun of people.
But seriously, if you are a new student visiting campus in the summer, do these things:
a) visit your rez (check out this link: http://www.housing.utoronto.ca/residence/ToursMay-Aug2009.pdf)
b) visit your college Registrar’s Office
-pick up the Calendar & Timetable
-check, in advance, if they are conducting any summer orientation sessions for new students
-make an appointment, in advance, with an academic advisor (super useful)
c) visit the undergraduate coordinator from the Department of any prospective Programs of Study
d) partake in a “walking” campus tour:
-until you are enrolled in your courses (27 July), you won’t really know where your classes will be held – so identifying specific buildings will be less useful in June, but the walking tour will introduce you to buildings that are more universally relevant to students
e) eat something awesome:
-Future Bakery & Caf (Bloor & Brunswick)
-Daddy O’s (Sussex & Spadina)
-Harbord Bakery (Harbord & Major)
f) go up the CN Tower:
-just kidding
Is that enough for you? Good luck.