{"id":20910,"date":"2017-06-12T12:28:42","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T16:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=20910"},"modified":"2019-07-19T23:01:56","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T03:01:56","slug":"no-thank-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=20910","title":{"rendered":"no, thank YOU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m writing to express my gratitude for the post about my 2010 UTM school situation. Long story short, I got suspended for 1 whole calendar year + 3.5 years for a plagiarism allegation since 2014. From the 2014-2016, I experienced post-traumatic stress disorder, clinical depression, generalized anxiety &amp; later on had lymphoma cancer. LOL. Long story short, I crawled out of the shit hole, alive and well.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just thankful that I can still return to UTM and hopefully, finish my useless Bachelor of Arts before I turn 30. xD! I am very happy, knowing that both Tesla and Martha Stewart succeeded much later on in life, and knowing that I actually pulled through cancer treatments.<\/p>\n<p>&lt;3 from western Canada where I am from.<\/p>\n<p>U of T does have a lot of sympathy and empathy &#8211; that I completely agree with.<\/p>\n<p>Kids, just look at the bigger picture, okay?<\/p>\n<p>AH<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>hey AH!<\/p>\n<p>wow. i&#8217;ll be honest with you, your message\u00a0melted my cold, steely, unfeeling heart.<\/p>\n<p>as much as i and the other askas (past and present) would like to be able to claim responsibility for your successes, you&#8217;re the one who did all the work! as you said, you crawled out of that sh*thole alive and well, and i&#8217;m so glad you did.<\/p>\n<p>congrats on everything you&#8217;ve accomplished so far, even if it seems small or insignificant or &#8220;useless&#8221;. i am so <em>so\u00a0<\/em>proud.\u00a0and even though you sent this email to thank us, i want to thank you for\u00a0sharing your story and reminding us that it does #getbetter (even if it sounds sappy af).<\/p>\n<p>good luck on all your future endeavours. you&#8217;re gonna absolutely slay.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20911\" src=\"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/giphy-8-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"149\" \/><\/p>\n<p>xoxo,<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, I&#8217;m writing to express my gratitude for the post about my 2010 UTM school situation. Long story short, I got suspended for 1 whole calendar year + 3.5 years for a plagiarism allegation since 2014. From the 2014-2016, I experienced post-traumatic stress disorder, clinical depression, generalized anxiety &amp; later on had lymphoma cancer. LOL. Long story short, I crawled out of the shit hole, alive and well. I&#8217;m just thankful that I can still return to UTM and hopefully, finish my useless Bachelor of Arts before I turn 30. xD! I am very happy, knowing that both Tesla and Martha Stewart succeeded much later on in life, and knowing that I actually pulled through cancer treatments. &lt;3 from western Canada where I am from. U of T does have a lot of sympathy and empathy &#8211; that I completely agree with. Kids, just look at the bigger picture, okay? AH \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hey AH! wow. i&#8217;ll be honest with you, your message\u00a0melted my cold, steely, unfeeling heart. as much as i and the other askas (past and present) would like to be able to claim responsibility for your successes, you&#8217;re the one who did all the work! as you said, you crawled out of that sh*thole alive and well, and i&#8217;m so glad you did. congrats on everything you&#8217;ve accomplished so far, even if it seems small or insignificant or &#8220;useless&#8221;. i am so so\u00a0proud.\u00a0and even though you sent this email to thank us, i want to thank you for\u00a0sharing your story and reminding us that it does #getbetter (even if it sounds sappy af). good luck on all your future endeavours. you&#8217;re gonna absolutely slay. xoxo, 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,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20910","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=20910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}