{"id":23003,"date":"2019-07-09T23:39:03","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T03:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=23003"},"modified":"2019-07-09T23:39:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T03:39:03","slug":"speeeedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=23003","title":{"rendered":"speeeedy"},"content":{"rendered":"

i’m a first year, and i’m super stressed about picking courses. how likely is it that i won’t get into the ones i want? (social sciences and humanities mostly.) what do i do if i can’t get in? also, how fast do you have to do your course selection before time runs out?<\/span><\/p>\n

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hello friend,<\/span><\/p>\n

it\u2019s natural to be stressed your first time, but there\u2019s less to worry about than you might think! it is true that first years get to pick their courses last of the bunch<\/a>, but first year courses also tend to be on the larger side. so it kinda balances out. chances are your schedule will be full of those larger con hall shenanigans, where it doesn\u2019t really matter if you\u2019re the 15th or 959th person in. if you\u2019re shooting for first year seminars and application-free ones<\/a>, you might find you have a little bit of trouble, but those also don\u2019t always fill up all the way. it\u2019s hard to say how likely it is you won\u2019t get your first picks without knowing the popularity of your courses or your start time, but speaking as someone who\u2019s done course reg before, i think you\u2019re gonna be okay.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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if you\u2019re worried about not making it in, you can put together as many backup timetables<\/a> as you want. i think i had\u2026 three different versions, my first time doing course reg? and i ended up getting my top timetable. it\u2019s kind of funny because this year, i\u2019ve spent waaaay more time answering yalls\u2019 questions about course planning than actually paying attention to my own. which is unfortunate cause my start time is (was? will be? nah. not gonna drop you any clues about my year) much, much sooner than yours. maybe it\u2019s the sense of total nihilism that starts to accumulate when you\u2019ve spent one too many months sleep-deprived and hyped up on coffee to get through the day. or maybe i\u2019m mellowing out. we don\u2019t know. hopefully the second one.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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when your start time comes up, i would just recommend being ready– have your enrolment cart on ACORN<\/a> preloaded with the courses you want, so all you have to do is click a few buttons a few times. there\u2019s no \u201chow fast\u201d– just how prepared. make sure your internet connection is speeeedy. set several alarms if you\u2019re in a different time zone and your start time is smack dab in the wee hours of the night.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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aaaanyway. take a deep breath. another one. there you go. you\u2019re gonna be just fine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

be Boundless,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

aska\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

i’m a first year, and i’m super stressed about picking courses. how likely is it that i won’t get into the ones i want? (social sciences and humanities mostly.) what do i do if i can’t get in? also, how fast do you have to do your course selection before time runs out? \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hello friend, it\u2019s natural to be stressed your first time, but there\u2019s less to worry about than you might think! it is true that first years get to pick their courses last of the bunch, but first year courses also tend to be on the larger side. so it kinda balances out. chances are your schedule will be full of those larger con hall shenanigans, where it doesn\u2019t really matter if you\u2019re the 15th or 959th person in. if you\u2019re shooting for first year seminars and application-free ones, you might find you have a little bit of trouble, but those also don\u2019t always fill up all the way. it\u2019s hard to say how likely it is you won\u2019t get your first picks without knowing the popularity of your courses or your start time, but speaking as someone who\u2019s done course reg before, i think you\u2019re gonna be okay.\u00a0 if you\u2019re worried about not making it in, you can put together as many backup timetables as you want. i think i had\u2026 three different versions, my first time doing course reg? and i ended up getting my top timetable. it\u2019s kind of funny because this year, i\u2019ve spent waaaay more time answering yalls\u2019 questions about course planning than actually paying attention to my own. which is unfortunate cause my start time is (was? will be? nah. not gonna drop you any clues about my year) much, much sooner than yours. maybe it\u2019s the sense of total nihilism that starts to accumulate when you\u2019ve spent one too many months sleep-deprived and hyped up on coffee to get through the day. or maybe i\u2019m mellowing out. we don\u2019t know. hopefully the second one.\u00a0 when your start time comes up, i would just recommend being ready– have your enrolment cart on ACORN preloaded with the courses you want, so all you have to do is click a few buttons a few times. there\u2019s no \u201chow fast\u201d– just how prepared. make sure your internet connection is speeeedy. set several alarms if you\u2019re in a different time zone and your start time is smack dab in the wee hours of the night.\u00a0 aaaanyway. take a deep breath. another one. there you go. you\u2019re gonna be just fine.\u00a0 be Boundless,\u00a0 aska\u00a0<\/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":[56,263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enrollment","category-enrolment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23003","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=23003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}