{"id":1085,"date":"2008-08-12T15:30:02","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T20:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=1085"},"modified":"2014-05-28T13:25:19","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T18:25:19","slug":"ill-take-boring-for-2000-alex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=1085","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ll take Boring for 2000, Alex."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><em>I&#8217;ve decided to take a stab at completing a course at U of T.? I am planning to come in to pay the re-registration fee and get all set up to begin.? Since I&#8217;ve attended the University before, I have a general idea of what to expect, but I&#8217;ve been a little overwhelmed with the amount of information I need to know before I even attend my first day of class!!<\/em><em><\/p>\n<p><em>I will choose a course that I don&#8217;t think will be overly impossible and one which I am interested in: MAT135Y1Y.? I know calculus might not be the first choice on everyone&#8217;s list, but I&#8217;d put some thought into it, and I&#8217;ve decided this will be the course I&#8217;m willing to start with.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>If I am only taking one course, which things will not be available to me as a part time student that I should know about?? (For example, it&#8217;s good to know that as a part time student, my OSAP payments will still have to be made and I will still accrue interest, as opposed to if I were a full time student &#8212; I know that is a financial aid question which is not dealt with by you so much, but I think you understand what I mean by part time vs. full time now.)? Another example:? full time students have free access to the athletic centre with their T-card.? Will I get free access as a part time student?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I&#8217;ve been told to get a move-on in registering since courses are filling up fast. I&#8217;d like to take an evening section.? I&#8217;d like to get an email response from you, at least, before I jump into this again.? I&#8217;d like to be at least a little reassured or prepared.? Do evening sections fill up within a day&#8217;s difference?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>What&#8217;s the &#8216;catch&#8217; with taking a first year seminar &#8212; I remember there being one. Is it that it doesn&#8217;t count toward my GPA, or is it that it doesn&#8217;t count toward my distribution to complete the BSc degree?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It doesn&#8217;t cost anything to register as a visitor, right? As a visitor, I won&#8217;t have to pay, and I won&#8217;t get a credit, but what WILL I have access to?? ROSI? SWS? Tutorial sections? Free tutoring?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\"><font style=\"font-size: small;\" size=\"3\">Thanks for your life story. What&#8217;s with the lesson on OSAP interest? This ain&#8217;t Jeopardy <a href=\"http:\/\/weed2pointo.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/06\/trebek.jpg\">Trebek<\/a>, I do the answering?(&#8230;for the record you were quite right about that).<\/p>\n<p>As a part-time student you will still be paying the incidental fees. This qualifies you for Athletics &amp; Recreation, Hart House, Health Services and most other student services. You really shouldn&#8217;t run into any problems accessing programs and facilities. *Note: no student is getting &#8220;free&#8221; access to anything&#8230; we&#8217;re paying for it sweetheart. So take advantage.<\/p>\n<p>I actually started to research the history and politics of the incidental fees for you. Then I found myself looking up all of the Olympic building venues. Next thing I know, I&#8217;m neck-deep in dictionary.com tracing the etymology of the word &#8220;jeopardy&#8221; (&#8230;joke-party&#8230; whaa?). About an hour later I came back to your case, and stumbled across the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apus.utoronto.ca\/\">Association of Part-time Undergraduate Students<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Watch out. This band of renegades is stirring up $h!t all over-campus (and with reason). Who knew, right? I hadn&#8217;t witnessed something so unexpected since I learned about the threats of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/europe\/belgium-a-nation-divided-765752.html\">separatism in Belgium<\/a> (!!!).<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s my point? I forgot. At least you know that as a part-time student you will have an active support network.??<\/p>\n<p>There still is space in 3 of the 4 evening meeting sections for MAT135Y (L5102\/3\/4), but you might as well enrol in it ASAP.???<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsci.utoronto.ca\/current\/undergraduate\/course\/fyh-1\/sci199y1courses\">First-Year Seminars<\/a> count toward your 20.0 credits, CGPA, and distribution requirements. The <em><a href=\"http:\/\/media.canada.com\/553f4206-4dd2-4460-b754-377bcd92779f\/fish.jpg\">catch<\/a><\/em> you speak of is that they can NOT fulfill program requirements. For example, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsci.utoronto.ca\/current\/undergraduate\/course\/fyh-1\/sci199y1courses#L0363\">SCI199Y L0363: &#8220;Time&#8221;<\/a> would not count toward your program of study in psych\/physics\/being stoned\/etc. Likewise, they do not serve as prerequisites for any upper-year courses in that discipline.???<\/p>\n<p>I really don&#8217;t know what you mean by <em>registering as a visitor<\/em>? As far as I can tell this term is an oxymoron. Maybe you are talking about &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.governingcouncil.utoronto.ca\/policies\/auditcor.htm\">auditing<\/a>&#8221; a course. This is when you attend a course, do not participate in any evaluations, and can request a Certificate of Attendance from the Prof. If you are a registered student (ie. you&#8217;ve paid incidental fees and tuition for at least one course) and you just wanna hang out in a course for the stimulation, then auditing is free. If you are a registered student who wants the Certificate, or you are a rando off the streets, you pay at least 40% of the tuition fee. Now, there are a million ways in which you would be disallowed from auditing. So, talk to the sponsoring department ahead of time. Here are the basics answers to your questions though:<\/p>\n<p>-As an auditor you will not use ROSI (which is the same thing as the SWS).<\/p>\n<p>-Whether or not you can attend tutorial sections is at the discretion of the Prof\/Department. I really doubt you can though.?<\/p>\n<p>-I have no idea what you mean by <em>free tutoring<\/em>. Math\/Stats and Writing Centres are available to registered students, as are any Department-based services. Once again, nothing here is free, but if you can swindle someone to tutor you, be my guest cherie.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/span><font face=\"Arial\">?<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve decided to take a stab at completing a course at U of T.? I am planning to come in to pay the re-registration fee and get all set up to begin.? Since I&#8217;ve attended the University before, I have a general idea of what to expect, but I&#8217;ve been a little overwhelmed with the amount of information I need to know before I even attend my first day of class!! I will choose a course that I don&#8217;t think will be overly impossible and one which I am interested in: MAT135Y1Y.? I know calculus might not be the first choice on everyone&#8217;s list, but I&#8217;d put some thought into it, and I&#8217;ve decided this will be the course I&#8217;m willing to start with. If I am only taking one course, which things will not be available to me as a part time student that I should know about?? (For example, it&#8217;s good to know that as a part time student, my OSAP payments will still have to be made and I will still accrue interest, as opposed to if I were a full time student &#8212; I know that is a financial aid question which is not dealt with by you so much, but I think you understand what I mean by part time vs. full time now.)? Another example:? full time students have free access to the athletic centre with their T-card.? Will I get free access as a part time student? I&#8217;ve been told to get a move-on in registering since courses are filling up fast. I&#8217;d like to take an evening section.? I&#8217;d like to get an email response from you, at least, before I jump into this again.? I&#8217;d like to be at least a little reassured or prepared.? Do evening sections fill up within a day&#8217;s difference? What&#8217;s the &#8216;catch&#8217; with taking a first year seminar &#8212; I remember there being one. Is it that it doesn&#8217;t count toward my GPA, or is it that it doesn&#8217;t count toward my distribution to complete the BSc degree? It doesn&#8217;t cost anything to register as a visitor, right? As a visitor, I won&#8217;t have to pay, and I won&#8217;t get a credit, but what WILL I have access to?? ROSI? SWS? Tutorial sections? 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