{"id":10053,"date":"2014-07-22T10:00:49","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T15:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=10053"},"modified":"2019-08-08T22:59:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T02:59:44","slug":"taking-a-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=10053","title":{"rendered":"taking a break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>hey,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m supposed to be entering my second year in September. But what if I decided to take a year off for personal reason\/financial reasons, would I have to fill out a form or do something specific. Basically if I don&#8217;t come back this September will I be able to enrol in further semesters such as September 2015 fall\/winter or will UTM just assume I&#8217;ve given up on university (doubt the latter is the case).<br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/>Thank you in advance<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>hey there,<\/p>\n<p>for some reason, all three campuses are REALLY SILENT on this issue. i trawled the UTM FAQ database for like half an hour and the only link i&#8217;ve been able to come up with is <a href=\"https:\/\/tartarus.utm.utoronto.ca\/faq\/index.php?action=artikel&amp;cat=6&amp;id=546&amp;artlang=en&amp;highlight=break\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>seems like you can take a break whenever you like, but if you take 12 months off, you&#8217;ll have to pay 25 bucks to reactivate your account when you come back. but, you know, you won&#8217;t have to pay full-time tuition for the year you&#8217;re off, so hopefully that counts for something.<\/p>\n<p>double-check with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utm.utoronto.ca\/registrar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UTM&#8217;s registrar<\/a> to make sure, but i think you should just be able to <a href=\"http:\/\/38.media.tumblr.com\/03fbaa8b770351f5c6af1dabfaafafdf\/tumblr_n4o8jdpsjx1s2yegdo1_400.gif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pack up and go<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>cheers,<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>hey, I&#8217;m supposed to be entering my second year in September. But what if I decided to take a year off for personal reason\/financial reasons, would I have to fill out a form or do something specific. Basically if I don&#8217;t come back this September will I be able to enrol in further semesters such as September 2015 fall\/winter or will UTM just assume I&#8217;ve given up on university (doubt the latter is the case).Thank you in advance \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hey there, for some reason, all three campuses are REALLY SILENT on this issue. i trawled the UTM FAQ database for like half an hour and the only link i&#8217;ve been able to come up with is this one. seems like you can take a break whenever you like, but if you take 12 months off, you&#8217;ll have to pay 25 bucks to reactivate your account when you come back. but, you know, you won&#8217;t have to pay full-time tuition for the year you&#8217;re off, so hopefully that counts for something. double-check with UTM&#8217;s registrar to make sure, but i think you should just be able to pack up and go. cheers, aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-utm"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}