{"id":11714,"date":"2014-09-05T10:52:14","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T14:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=11714"},"modified":"2019-08-05T00:28:51","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T04:28:51","slug":"dont-carry-your-textbooks-to-class-for-the-love-of-backs-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=11714","title":{"rendered":"don&#8217;t carry your textbooks to class for the love of backs everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For two courses, I have the tutorials scheduled before the lectures. Do I have to attend the tutorials during the first week of classes, even though I haven&#8217;t attended the first lecture yet? Also, do I need to bring my textbooks to classes or are they mostly for studying? Thanks!<\/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>i have never heard of a tutorial that starts before a lecture. i think it&#8217;s safe to say all your tutorials will be starting during the second week. (if this is not the case, they may make a note of it in the timetable, as they did for a few <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca\/ofr\/timetable\/winter\/mat.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first-year mathematics courses, for example<\/a>, so it might be worth double-checking your courses on the timetable, just in case).<\/p>\n<p>secondly, please don&#8217;t bring your textbooks to lecture.<\/p>\n<p>if you need to bring any course readings to class (likely to a tutorial rather than any lecture), your prof\/TA will tell you. 90% of the time though, nothing is needed besides a notebook or a laptop, and it&#8217;s really not worth the backache.<\/p>\n<p>cheers,<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For two courses, I have the tutorials scheduled before the lectures. Do I have to attend the tutorials during the first week of classes, even though I haven&#8217;t attended the first lecture yet? Also, do I need to bring my textbooks to classes or are they mostly for studying? Thanks! \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hey there, i have never heard of a tutorial that starts before a lecture. i think it&#8217;s safe to say all your tutorials will be starting during the second week. (if this is not the case, they may make a note of it in the timetable, as they did for a few first-year mathematics courses, for example, so it might be worth double-checking your courses on the timetable, just in case). secondly, please don&#8217;t bring your textbooks to lecture. if you need to bring any course readings to class (likely to a tutorial rather than any lecture), your prof\/TA will tell you. 90% of the time though, nothing is needed besides a notebook or a laptop, and it&#8217;s really not worth the backache. 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":[42,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-textbooks","category-tutorials"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11714","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=11714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}