{"id":3807,"date":"2012-06-07T09:30:24","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T14:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=3807"},"modified":"2014-07-07T11:22:17","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T16:22:17","slug":"disappearing-grades-patent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=3807","title":{"rendered":"disappearing grades patent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey there<\/p>\n<p>So i am first year student in uoft, I was taking 3.5 credit courses and now i have failed 1.5 and others marks are too handy-dandy as well. I am worried about how this might affect my gpa and i feel like crap thinking about all this. Do you have any suggestion to make somehow dissappear?? also should i consider taking it again?? they were not really the courses that interested me so yeah m not kin on taking it again&#8230; please help!!!!<br \/>\nstressed head<\/p>\n<p>??????????????????????-<\/p>\n<p>Hey stressed head!<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, no <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AAtkoje4-eM\" target=\"_blank\">disappearing acts<\/a> here. If you figure out one, I suggest to patent that shiz and sell it for a high price to desperate students.<br \/>\nThere is nothing you can do about those grades now, so there is no point thinking about them constantly. Many &#8230; many &#8230; maaany first years have terrible marks. You still have 3-4 more years to make up your CGPA.<\/p>\n<p>Now about repeating those courses! If you got hit by a car and hated it, would you step in front of another one to see if the second time was better. If you said yes, stop reading &#8230; and maybe go seek alternative help. If those courses are not a requirement for your prospective?field?of study?and you did not enjoy them, then don&#8217;t take the course?again.?If they are required courses and you?have to take?them again, take it with a different professor.<\/p>\n<p>Im a huge fan?of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ratemyprofessors.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ratemyprofessors.com <\/a>?to find out what other students thought of the profs and the <a href=\"http:\/\/assu.ca\/anti-calendar\" target=\"_blank\">anti-calendar?<\/a>can tell you what students thought of the course. Trust me &#8230; a little research can make or?break the courses that you choose.<\/p>\n<p>The school has multiple resources to help you through the first year &#8230; because if they didn&#8217;t they would lose a lot of tuition money if everyone dropped out of school &#8230; academic advisors, career center, writing center, alcohol (I&#8217;m?joshin&#8217; you?about one of these, you choose which).<br \/>\nAnd if worst comes to worse start a band because Stressed Head seems like an awesome band name to me.<\/p>\n<p>forever and always babe,<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey there So i am first year student in uoft, I was taking 3.5 credit courses and now i have failed 1.5 and others marks are too handy-dandy as well. I am worried about how this might affect my gpa and i feel like crap thinking about all this. Do you have any suggestion to make somehow dissappear?? also should i consider taking it again?? they were not really the courses that interested me so yeah m not kin on taking it again&#8230; please help!!!! stressed head ??????????????????????- Hey stressed head! Sorry, no disappearing acts here. If you figure out one, I suggest to patent that shiz and sell it for a high price to desperate students. There is nothing you can do about those grades now, so there is no point thinking about them constantly. Many &#8230; many &#8230; maaany first years have terrible marks. You still have 3-4 more years to make up your CGPA. Now about repeating those courses! If you got hit by a car and hated it, would you step in front of another one to see if the second time was better. If you said yes, stop reading &#8230; and maybe go seek alternative help. If those courses are not a requirement for your prospective?field?of study?and you did not enjoy them, then don&#8217;t take the course?again.?If they are required courses and you?have to take?them again, take it with a different professor. Im a huge fan?of ratemyprofessors.com ?to find out what other students thought of the profs and the anti-calendar?can tell you what students thought of the course. Trust me &#8230; a little research can make or?break the courses that you choose. The school has multiple resources to help you through the first year &#8230; because if they didn&#8217;t they would lose a lot of tuition money if everyone dropped out of school &#8230; academic advisors, career center, writing center, alcohol (I&#8217;m?joshin&#8217; you?about one of these, you choose which). And if worst comes to worse start a band because Stressed Head seems like an awesome band name to me. forever and always babe, 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":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-failing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3807","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=3807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}