{"id":1200,"date":"2002-08-09T16:15:42","date_gmt":"2002-08-09T21:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=1200"},"modified":"2016-07-07T10:50:32","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T14:50:32","slug":"wait-for-it-wait-for-it-textbooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=1200","title":{"rendered":"wait for it, wait for it: textbooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">The u of t bookstore site has listings for classes for which text books are required but there are not any for first year courses. When and how will i find out what books i need?And when should i start worrying about getting them? <\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong><!--more--><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">that&#8217;s because you are given a slate and a piece of chalk that are expected to last for the whole academic year and for which you will be penalized with a curt slap on the wrists should they break. or it could be that <a href=\"http:\/\/uoftbookstore.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">booklists<\/a> are listed online at <a href=\"http:\/\/uoftbookstore.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">the uoft bookstore<\/a> since that is where the majority of the students are forced to go to pay too much for too few books. some of them aren&#8217;t listed yet not because they don&#8217;t exist but simply because they haven&#8217;t been confirmed or the books are available elsewhere. you will receive course syllabi with a complete list of all needed texts in class so teachers will eventually come through where the internet fails. (isn&#8217;t that always the case?)<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">note that some of the first-year texts are already up, so froshies go forth and purchase!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">in any case, don&#8217;t worry until september about books though, since enough are ordered to service everyone. the mounting evidence for the existence of alien life-forms, however, should definitely give you the shakes at night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">cheers,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">askastudent<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The u of t bookstore site has listings for classes for which text books are required but there are not any for first year courses. When and how will i find out what books i need?And when should i start worrying about getting them?<\/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,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-textbooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200","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=1200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}