{"id":20095,"date":"2016-11-22T17:03:28","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T22:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=20095"},"modified":"2019-07-20T15:56:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T19:56:49","slug":"york-needs-an-aska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=20095","title":{"rendered":"york needs an aska"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heya!<\/p>\n

So I’m a York student (you may get your fork jokes out) and I’m in a bit of
\na situation.
\nIn 2014 I had a family situation that mighhttt have caused me to get really
\nsub-par grades in a couple of courses. I already retook the courses and
\neverything, and fixed up the grades.
\nFinally, in 2016 and with part-time student status, I got the time to
\npetition the initial attempts at those courses. Unfortunately, the
\ncommittee refuses to look at it since it’s a request past the deadline,
\nregardless of my reason to petition them.
\nI’ve already made one appeal that I did not have easy access to the
\ndocuments throughout the 2 years (seeing as the court case pertaining this
\nevent is still ongoing, and it’s more important my family deal with that
\nthan some Uni petition). They rejected the appeal, again on grounds that I
\nstill don’t say why I decided to petition so late.
\nI have one last chance to appeal, and I was wondering if you had any advice
\non how to do so successfully? This was a really bad time for my family with
\nseveral economic and medical issues, in addition, it’s really important for
\nme for post-grad opportunities, so it would be ideal if the courses got
\nremoved.<\/p>\n

Any advice is greatly appreciated!
\nThank you.<\/p>\n

\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n

hello,<\/p>\n

**disclaimer, this post is filled with tons of shade. opt for another one of our lovely posts if you can’t handle the shade.**<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

so i’m a u of t student (you can get your #uoftears\u00a0jokes out of the way) and i’m in a bit of a situation.<\/p>\n

so in 1999, one of my predecessors launched a site called askastudent.utoronto.ca, intending it to be a website which answered the many questions of stressed out U of T students. since then, a significant number of york students have decided that utoronto stands for any flippin’ university in toronto and not JUST the university OF toronto.<\/p>\n

\"d6f\"<\/p>\n

so my question is this. why doesn’t york have a blog like this?<\/p>\n

askastudent.yorku.ca sounds pretty good to me, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n

sincerely,<\/p>\n

askastudentUOFTANDNOTYORK<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

okay. all jokes aside, it seems like you’re in a really tough situation.\u00a0while we do have a reputation of being really tough on our students, i don’t want to start a stereotype of us being terrible people, so i will say this. i REALLY wish i could help but since you don’t go to U of T, i’m not familiar with how petitions work at york. i’ve never even set foot on your campus… like, how do i even get there? we may be all-knowing on all things U of T related, but we definitely know as much nothing as jon snow<\/a>\u00a0when it comes to york.<\/p>\n

the best thing for you to do would be to keep talking to your registrar’s office. at u of t, registrars are the ones that help you with the petition process.<\/p>\n

i’m sorry that you guys don’t have this kind of ‘ask a fellow student’ resource at your school, but hey, maybe this would be a good time to start one? we could even entertain a healthy aska rivalry! let us know if\u00a0you start one!<\/p>\n

good luck with your situation, again, i really wish i could help.<\/p>\n

peace, love, and solidarity,<\/p>\n

aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Heya! So I’m a York student (you may get your fork jokes out) and I’m in a bit of a situation. In 2014 I had a family situation that mighhttt have caused me to get really sub-par grades in a couple of courses. I already retook the courses and everything, and fixed up the grades. Finally, in 2016 and with part-time student status, I got the time to petition the initial attempts at those courses. Unfortunately, the committee refuses to look at it since it’s a request past the deadline, regardless of my reason to petition them. I’ve already made one appeal that I did not have easy access to the documents throughout the 2 years (seeing as the court case pertaining this event is still ongoing, and it’s more important my family deal with that than some Uni petition). They rejected the appeal, again on grounds that I still don’t say why I decided to petition so late. I have one last chance to appeal, and I was wondering if you had any advice on how to do so successfully? This was a really bad time for my family with several economic and medical issues, in addition, it’s really important for me for post-grad opportunities, so it would be ideal if the courses got removed. Any advice is greatly appreciated! Thank you. \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hello, **disclaimer, this post is filled with tons of shade. opt for another one of our lovely posts if you can’t handle the shade.** so i’m a u of t student (you can get your #uoftears\u00a0jokes out of the way) and i’m in a bit of a situation. so in 1999, one of my predecessors launched a site called askastudent.utoronto.ca, intending it to be a website which answered the many questions of stressed out U of T students. since then, a significant number of york students have decided that utoronto stands for any flippin’ university in toronto and not JUST the university OF toronto. so my question is this. why doesn’t york have a blog like this? askastudent.yorku.ca sounds pretty good to me, doesn’t it? sincerely, askastudentUOFTANDNOTYORK * * * * okay. all jokes aside, it seems like you’re in a really tough situation.\u00a0while we do have a reputation of being really tough on our students, i don’t want to start a stereotype of us being terrible people, so i will say this. i REALLY wish i could help but since you don’t go to U of T, i’m not familiar with how petitions work at york. i’ve never even set foot on your campus… like, how do i even get there? we may be all-knowing on all things U of T related, but we definitely know as much nothing as jon snow\u00a0when it comes to york. the best thing for you to do would be to keep talking to your registrar’s office. at u of t, registrars are the ones that help you with the petition process. i’m sorry that you guys don’t have this kind of ‘ask a fellow student’ resource at your school, but hey, maybe this would be a good time to start one? we could even entertain a healthy aska rivalry! let us know if\u00a0you start one! good luck with your situation, again, i really wish i could help. peace, love, and solidarity, 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":[65,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-schools-boo","category-explosivo"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20095","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=20095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}