{"id":19134,"date":"2016-07-11T11:28:44","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T15:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=19134"},"modified":"2019-07-20T16:23:21","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T20:23:21","slug":"trinternational-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=19134","title":{"rendered":"trinternational relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello aska,<br \/>\nSo i&#8217;m going into my first year at Uoft (Studies in Humanities) and hoping to major in IR (International Relations). In high school, I was that kid who didn&#8217;t know what I wanted to do so i kinda freaked out and applied to like 10 different programs (including the life sciences and engineering) at a bunch of other universities. My first choice at that point was not UofT and so on the OUAC application&#8230;.I kind of ranked my college preferences randomly and without any real consideration (really stupid, i know, please bear with me).<br \/>\nAfter a lot of guidance appointments, career aptitude tests, and tears later, I finally decided that I really wanted to go the IR\/Law route- and so I ended up choosing UofT. I happened to rank New College as my first college, and so that&#8217;s what I got into. I have since, however, learnt that Trinity College is the hub of IR. Now i&#8217;m a little terrified that because I&#8217;m not part of Trinity, I&#8217;m going to miss out on all the IR-related networking opportunities and clubs that Trinity offers. I have also heard that Trinity does not take any switches after first year, and does not take anyone who doesn&#8217;t rank it as their #1 preference when first applying.<br \/>\nHave I massively screwed up, and is there any way at all to switch into Trinity??? I&#8217;d very much appreciate a reply.<br \/>\nThank you very much!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>hey!<\/p>\n<p>trinity college may be the &#8220;hub&#8221; of IR, but realistically, you can find out about these networking opportunities and clubs through connections and knowing where to look.<\/p>\n<p>you&#8217;ll see here in the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.trinity.utoronto.ca\/current\/programs-courses\/international-relations\/faq.html\">IR FAQ<\/a>\u00a0that you don&#8217;t have to be a trinity college student to get involved. the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irsociety.ca\/\">international relations society<\/a> (a.k.a. the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Internal_Revenue_Service\">IRS<\/a> lol) is a good place to start. the website is active during the school year and has a great deal of events listed that you can attend.<\/p>\n<p>you could also join\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/209398585826702\/\">U of T IR groups on facebook<\/a> and subscribe to notifications. remember that you&#8217;ll need to use your U of T email address to join!<\/p>\n<p>if i haven&#8217;t been reassuring enough and you really want to switch to trin, you can try contacting their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinity.utoronto.ca\/student-services\/offices\/registrars-office.html\">registrar&#8217;s office<\/a> to apply for a transfer in second year.<\/p>\n<p>don&#8217;t panic, you haven&#8217;t massively screwed up! if you don&#8217;t want to take my advice, at least take wise dolphin&#8217;s advice.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-19135\" src=\"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/tumblr_lrq5cuZZ4D1qkh3iho1_500.gif\" alt=\"tumblr_lrq5cuZZ4D1qkh3iho1_500\" width=\"356\" height=\"220\" \/><\/p>\n<p>cheers,<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello aska, So i&#8217;m going into my first year at Uoft (Studies in Humanities) and hoping to major in IR (International Relations). In high school, I was that kid who didn&#8217;t know what I wanted to do so i kinda freaked out and applied to like 10 different programs (including the life sciences and engineering) at a bunch of other universities. My first choice at that point was not UofT and so on the OUAC application&#8230;.I kind of ranked my college preferences randomly and without any real consideration (really stupid, i know, please bear with me). After a lot of guidance appointments, career aptitude tests, and tears later, I finally decided that I really wanted to go the IR\/Law route- and so I ended up choosing UofT. I happened to rank New College as my first college, and so that&#8217;s what I got into. I have since, however, learnt that Trinity College is the hub of IR. Now i&#8217;m a little terrified that because I&#8217;m not part of Trinity, I&#8217;m going to miss out on all the IR-related networking opportunities and clubs that Trinity offers. I have also heard that Trinity does not take any switches after first year, and does not take anyone who doesn&#8217;t rank it as their #1 preference when first applying. Have I massively screwed up, and is there any way at all to switch into Trinity??? I&#8217;d very much appreciate a reply. Thank you very much! \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hey! trinity college may be the &#8220;hub&#8221; of IR, but realistically, you can find out about these networking opportunities and clubs through connections and knowing where to look. you&#8217;ll see here in the IR FAQ\u00a0that you don&#8217;t have to be a trinity college student to get involved. the international relations society (a.k.a. the IRS lol) is a good place to start. the website is active during the school year and has a great deal of events listed that you can attend. you could also join\u00a0U of T IR groups on facebook and subscribe to notifications. remember that you&#8217;ll need to use your U of T email address to join! if i haven&#8217;t been reassuring enough and you really want to switch to trin, you can try contacting their registrar&#8217;s office to apply for a transfer in second year. don&#8217;t panic, you haven&#8217;t massively screwed up! if you don&#8217;t want to take my advice, at least take wise dolphin&#8217;s advice. 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":[99,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-relations","category-trinity"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19134","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=19134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}