{"id":2614,"date":"2010-10-25T09:35:12","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T14:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=2614"},"modified":"2010-10-26T17:42:32","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T22:42:32","slug":"i-want-to-be-a-philosophical-musician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=2614","title":{"rendered":"I want to be a Philosophical Musician"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a music student about to do an internal transfer into a BA @ StG (will be completing my BMus this year, and transferring &#8220;retained&#8221; credits into the BA), and I was wondering if a 5.5 credits\/year was too much of an academic load. The BA I&#8217;ve charted out for myself is a double major in Trin&#8217;s ESL program and Philosophy and it ends up working out to 5.5 credits per year. I&#8217;m not too concerned because some of the course content will overlap (especially concerning ethics, morales, politics, etc). I was wondering if I&#8217;m just crazy, or if this is doable? I&#8217;m especially concerned about the later years, as by that time, I won&#8217;t be doing hunky dory 100-level courses, which I&#8217;m able to manage this year.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<br \/>\nhalp<\/p>\n<p>???????????????<\/p>\n<p>Yo Yo Mr\/Mrs\/Miss\/Ms Musician<\/p>\n<p>Technically you can take up to 6 credits worth, but after that you will have to seek permission from the school.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to judge as I don&#8217;t know your work ethics and what kind of grades you&#8217;re hoping to obtain. Generally speaking I would say to just throw a couple of those courses into summer school.That way you&#8217;ll be able to focus on getting better grades in the courses you&#8217;re taking, not stress as much and potentially still have a shred of a social life<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re dead set on taking 5.5 credits, I would suggest looking into the courses that you are taking and pair up some of the less intense ones in the semester you&#8217;re taking an extra class. The <a href=\"http:\/\/assu.ca\/anti-calendar\/\" target=\"_blank\">anti-calendars<\/a>&#8216; an awesome resource that allows you to see other student&#8217;s opinions. If some of the easier courses aren&#8217;t prereqs for your other courses, take them later when the courses start to get really hard and not &#8216;honky dory&#8217; as you said.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck, ambitious one!<br \/>\nLove,<br \/>\nAska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there, I&#8217;m a music student about to do an internal transfer into a BA @ StG (will be completing my BMus this year, and transferring &#8220;retained&#8221; credits into the BA), and I was wondering if a 5.5 credits\/year was too much of an academic load. The BA I&#8217;ve charted out for myself is a double major in Trin&#8217;s ESL program and Philosophy and it ends up working out to 5.5 credits per year. I&#8217;m not too concerned because some of the course content will overlap (especially concerning ethics, morales, politics, etc). I was wondering if I&#8217;m just crazy, or if this is doable? I&#8217;m especially concerned about the later years, as by that time, I won&#8217;t be doing hunky dory 100-level courses, which I&#8217;m able to manage this year. Cheers, halp ??????????????? Yo Yo Mr\/Mrs\/Miss\/Ms Musician Technically you can take up to 6 credits worth, but after that you will have to seek permission from the school. It&#8217;s hard to judge as I don&#8217;t know your work ethics and what kind of grades you&#8217;re hoping to obtain. Generally speaking I would say to just throw a couple of those courses into summer school.That way you&#8217;ll be able to focus on getting better grades in the courses you&#8217;re taking, not stress as much and potentially still have a shred of a social life If you&#8217;re dead set on taking 5.5 credits, I would suggest looking into the courses that you are taking and pair up some of the less intense ones in the semester you&#8217;re taking an extra class. The anti-calendars&#8216; an awesome resource that allows you to see other student&#8217;s opinions. If some of the easier courses aren&#8217;t prereqs for your other courses, take them later when the courses start to get really hard and not &#8216;honky dory&#8217; as you said. Good luck, ambitious one! Love, 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":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enrollment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614","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=2614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}