{"id":13749,"date":"2015-04-14T11:28:26","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T15:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=13749"},"modified":"2019-08-04T17:55:19","modified_gmt":"2019-08-04T21:55:19","slug":"york-student-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=13749","title":{"rendered":"york student struggles&#8230;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, I know you probably get emails like this constantly. As you probably know how overwhelming university can be 1st year, well i realized that after a month. I basically worked for the whole year before i started uni, and i cant stop now. it gets quite overwhelming, especially not realizing how competitive criminology is.<\/p>\n<p>I almost lost my mind because thanks to my friend i took almost all 2nd year courses not realizing i did until later. So I messed up my first year pretty bad. my question is what happens next? If i failed all 3 courses that i took including my major what happens?<\/p>\n<p>thank you ????<\/p>\n<p>???????????????<\/p>\n<p>hey there,<\/p>\n<p>ok, i&#8217;m <a href=\"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/confused.gif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not sure what&#8217;s happening here<\/a> (standard procedure here on askastudent). two things are confusing me:<\/p>\n<p>1) i don&#8217;t understand what the phrase &#8220;all 3 courses including my major&#8221; means, for a couple of reasons. the first is that at uoft, you need to take four courses <em>at least<\/em> in your first year to even?<em>enter<\/em> a major, and the second is that majors aren&#8217;t courses, they&#8217;re programs. you can&#8217;t fail them.<\/p>\n<p>2) you titled your e-mail?&#8221;york student struggles,&#8221; which is either a <a href=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/5d1103c3d66c3c2df7c333d8fec344bd\/tumblr_inline_neyeciGm581t41pr0.gif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">really mean-spirited joke<\/a> about how york students always fail stuff, or you&#8217;re actually just from york university and you&#8217;ve gotten very lost on the internet.<\/p>\n<p>if it&#8217;s the latter case, then <a href=\"https:\/\/ciaohi.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/ranjeet-wave1.gif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hello, nice to meet you<\/a> &#8211; i&#8217;m aska. this website has a .utoronto.ca URL, which might clue you in to the fact that i only answer questions about the university of toronto. if you&#8217;d like to ask questions about york university, may i direct you to <a href=\"http:\/\/yorkulife.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this very excellent tumblr blog<\/a> that does just that.<\/p>\n<p>if you&#8217;re a uoft student, then the next step after failing the majority of your courses is, likely, that you&#8217;ll go on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca\/ofr\/calendar\/Rules_&amp;_Regulations.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">academic probation<\/a>?for the next semester that you&#8217;re in school. you will have that one semester?to get your CGPA above a 1.50. i&#8217;d recommend you make an appointment with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsci.utoronto.ca\/newstudents\/nextsteps\/contact\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">your college registrar&#8217;s office<\/a> to come up with strategies about how best to do that.<\/p>\n<p>cheers,<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, I know you probably get emails like this constantly. As you probably know how overwhelming university can be 1st year, well i realized that after a month. I basically worked for the whole year before i started uni, and i cant stop now. it gets quite overwhelming, especially not realizing how competitive criminology is. I almost lost my mind because thanks to my friend i took almost all 2nd year courses not realizing i did until later. So I messed up my first year pretty bad. my question is what happens next? If i failed all 3 courses that i took including my major what happens? thank you ???? ??????????????? hey there, ok, i&#8217;m not sure what&#8217;s happening here (standard procedure here on askastudent). two things are confusing me: 1) i don&#8217;t understand what the phrase &#8220;all 3 courses including my major&#8221; means, for a couple of reasons. the first is that at uoft, you need to take four courses at least in your first year to even?enter a major, and the second is that majors aren&#8217;t courses, they&#8217;re programs. you can&#8217;t fail them. 2) you titled your e-mail?&#8221;york student struggles,&#8221; which is either a really mean-spirited joke about how york students always fail stuff, or you&#8217;re actually just from york university and you&#8217;ve gotten very lost on the internet. if it&#8217;s the latter case, then hello, nice to meet you &#8211; i&#8217;m aska. this website has a .utoronto.ca URL, which might clue you in to the fact that i only answer questions about the university of toronto. if you&#8217;d like to ask questions about york university, may i direct you to this very excellent tumblr blog that does just that. if you&#8217;re a uoft student, then the next step after failing the majority of your courses is, likely, that you&#8217;ll go on academic probation?for the next semester that you&#8217;re in school. you will have that one semester?to get your CGPA above a 1.50. i&#8217;d recommend you make an appointment with your college registrar&#8217;s office to come up with strategies about how best to do that. 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":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-year"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.9 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Hey, I know you probably get emails like this constantly. 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