{"id":15839,"date":"2015-09-10T16:37:41","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T20:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=15839"},"modified":"2019-07-21T12:59:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T16:59:48","slug":"just-do-the-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=15839","title":{"rendered":"just do the thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey!<br \/>\nIm going into first year the coming September and I am in Woodsworth college which was my second choice. I wanted to goto UC frosh, and am planning on buying it on the 7th in person. However now, I&#8217;m slightly paranoid as to if I&#8217;m even allowed to goto a frosh that&#8217;s not my own? Thanks so much, all the best.<\/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>orientation works on an opt-in basis, which means that if you wanted to participate in frosh at another college, you would have had to opt out of woodsworth orientation and then register and pay with UC. i&#8217;m not sure if that&#8217;s allowed, but if it is, it would likely have to be a pretty exceptional circumstance, given how complicated the process would be.<\/p>\n<p>honestly? i would just go to woodsworth&#8217;s frosh. i understand that UC is your first choice, but the fact is, orientation week is only one week. if you&#8217;re still really keen on UC after having spent a couple of months at the university, then by all means, go ahead and request a transfer at that point.<\/p>\n<p>frosh is great, but it&#8217;s not the be-all and end-all of the university experience. you may find woodsworth actually better suits your needs once the year starts.<\/p>\n<p>anyway. it&#8217;s halfway through frosh week, so i&#8217;m curious if you actually went through with attending UC&#8217;s frosh. what happened? did you have fun? let us know.<\/p>\n<p>peace,<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n<p>P.S. a lot of orientation activities will be uoft-wide anyway, so you&#8217;ll still have some experiences common with other uoft students. it&#8217;s not gonna be all woodsworth, 24\/7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey! Im going into first year the coming September and I am in Woodsworth college which was my second choice. I wanted to goto UC frosh, and am planning on buying it on the 7th in person. However now, I&#8217;m slightly paranoid as to if I&#8217;m even allowed to goto a frosh that&#8217;s not my own? Thanks so much, all the best. \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hey there, orientation works on an opt-in basis, which means that if you wanted to participate in frosh at another college, you would have had to opt out of woodsworth orientation and then register and pay with UC. i&#8217;m not sure if that&#8217;s allowed, but if it is, it would likely have to be a pretty exceptional circumstance, given how complicated the process would be. honestly? i would just go to woodsworth&#8217;s frosh. i understand that UC is your first choice, but the fact is, orientation week is only one week. if you&#8217;re still really keen on UC after having spent a couple of months at the university, then by all means, go ahead and request a transfer at that point. frosh is great, but it&#8217;s not the be-all and end-all of the university experience. you may find woodsworth actually better suits your needs once the year starts. anyway. it&#8217;s halfway through frosh week, so i&#8217;m curious if you actually went through with attending UC&#8217;s frosh. what happened? did you have fun? let us know. peace, aska P.S. a lot of orientation activities will be uoft-wide anyway, so you&#8217;ll still have some experiences common with other uoft students. it&#8217;s not gonna be all woodsworth, 24\/7.<\/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":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frosh"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15839","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=15839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}