{"id":25984,"date":"2020-08-09T18:57:35","date_gmt":"2020-08-09T22:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=25984"},"modified":"2020-08-09T18:57:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T22:57:35","slug":"sometimes-i-have-more-questions-than-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=25984","title":{"rendered":"sometimes i have more questions than answers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Aska, I have a question. Is &#8220;ITA103: Made in Italy: Italian Fashion from the Theatre to the Runway&#8221;, an easy course\/bird course? Thank you in advance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>hey there,<\/p>\n<p>i would love to be able to tell you that it is, but i can&#8217;t actually lay claim to having taken every single course this esteemed institution offers. i can also see that nothing turns up when i plug the course code into reddit, so there&#8217;s no use directing you to that.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/3jN3GziOKUEmI\/giphy.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>wait, hang on. does this course exist?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/zkSFsZpQMZuG4\/giphy.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>nothing comes up for it in the<a href=\"https:\/\/timetable.iit.artsci.utoronto.ca\/\"> timetable,<\/a> and it&#8217;s not included under the <a href=\"https:\/\/fas.calendar.utoronto.ca\/section\/Italian\">italian calendar listing.<\/a> so i actually&#8230; don&#8217;t really know what to tell you. i actually have more questions for you than answers. why do you know about this course? where are you getting your course listings? is there something you know that i don&#8217;t, like a starbucks secret menu, but make it u of t?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/xT0xeuOy2Fcl9vDGiA\/giphy.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>in terms of bird courses in general, though, i always tell people that it&#8217;s more important to choose courses that play to your strengths and interests. an &#8216;easy&#8217; course is super subjective, so even if i had a personal assessment to toss your way, i don&#8217;t know that it would be worth very much. plus, if you&#8217;re paying tuition, you get more of your money&#8217;s worth by investing in courses that make you actually want to engage with the material. a class on italian fashion does sound pretty interesting to me, so if that&#8217;s why you&#8217;re drawn to it, then by all means\u2014 enrol.<\/p>\n<p>just, maybe, wait for a year in which it&#8217;s offered?<\/p>\n<p>be Boundless,<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Aska, I have a question. Is &#8220;ITA103: Made in Italy: Italian Fashion from the Theatre to the Runway&#8221;, an easy course\/bird course? Thank you in advance. \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hey there, i would love to be able to tell you that it is, but i can&#8217;t actually lay claim to having taken every single course this esteemed institution offers. i can also see that nothing turns up when i plug the course code into reddit, so there&#8217;s no use directing you to that. wait, hang on. does this course exist? nothing comes up for it in the timetable, and it&#8217;s not included under the italian calendar listing. so i actually&#8230; don&#8217;t really know what to tell you. i actually have more questions for you than answers. why do you know about this course? where are you getting your course listings? is there something you know that i don&#8217;t, like a starbucks secret menu, but make it u of t? in terms of bird courses in general, though, i always tell people that it&#8217;s more important to choose courses that play to your strengths and interests. an &#8216;easy&#8217; course is super subjective, so even if i had a personal assessment to toss your way, i don&#8217;t know that it would be worth very much. plus, if you&#8217;re paying tuition, you get more of your money&#8217;s worth by investing in courses that make you actually want to engage with the material. a class on italian fashion does sound pretty interesting to me, so if that&#8217;s why you&#8217;re drawn to it, then by all means\u2014 enrol. just, maybe, wait for a year in which it&#8217;s offered? be Boundless, aska &nbsp;<\/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":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-courses"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25984","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=25984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}