I’ve been seeing all these posts about the Dean’s list, but what is it for exactly? I mean, there’s no monetary compensation, I don’t get anything cool out of it except for a piece of (useless) paper, and I can’t really do anything with it.<\/p>\n
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hey there,<\/p>\n
well now, the dean’s list<\/a> is not completely<\/em> useless. it can be used as scrap paper. it can be used to make a paper airplane. if you get a lot of them, you could make a whole fleet<\/a>.<\/p>\n for some people, it also has less physically practical uses like improving their self-worth, making them feel proud of their (often very difficult to achieve) accomplishments, and motivating them to continue working hard on their academics. after all, not everyone gets on the dean’s list, and it’s nice to feel that the university appreciates your hard work. plus, it’s great to put on your resume.<\/p>\n but, you know, what’s that compared to a real-life, well-constructed paper airplane made from sturdy card paper fresh from the university? not much, without monetary compensation. not much.<\/p>\n aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been seeing all these posts about the Dean’s list, but what is it for exactly? I mean, there’s no monetary compensation, I don’t get anything cool out of it except for a piece of (useless) paper, and I can’t really do anything with it. \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hey there, well now, the dean’s list is not completely useless. it can be used as scrap paper. it can be used to make a paper airplane. if you get a lot of them, you could make a whole fleet. for some people, it also has less physically practical uses like improving their self-worth, making them feel proud of their (often very difficult to achieve) accomplishments, and motivating them to continue working hard on their academics. after all, not everyone gets on the dean’s list, and it’s nice to feel that the university appreciates your hard work. plus, it’s great to put on your resume. but, you know, what’s that compared to a real-life, well-constructed paper airplane made from sturdy card paper fresh from the university? not much, without monetary compensation. not much. 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":[193],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deans-list"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11281","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=11281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}