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\nI’ve got some shocking news: askastudent is not the only person on campus with useful information and awesome opinions. I know, it sounds crazy, but sometimes it’s good to hear what other people have to say. aska top 5’s is a regular feature that lets a diverse lineup of interesting UofT folk share some of their tips, which might range from incredibly practical to incredibly disturbing. this time on aska: Josef Szende.<\/p>\n
1. Read the anti-Calendar to find out which courses are the best.
\nDon’t do courses because you have to do them, do them because you want
\nto do them. Pick courses first subject POSts second. Make your subject
\nPOSts fit what you want to do, not the other way around.<\/p>\n
2. Stay in residence and join course unions – the first and second
\nbest ways to make friends. If you have friends and are looking for
\nthings to do, check out NOW and Eye free newspapers that tell you
\neverything going on in Toronto. Also, the Thursday Toronto Star has
\nthe “What’s On” section and The Globe and Mail (available at Rotman
\nfor free) has a good movie guide.<\/p>\n
3. Don’t get a job while studying full time – life will be hell, marks
\nwill suffer, and happiness will be non-existant. Obviously, work if
\nyou must, but if that’s the case, strongly consider taking a smaller
\ncourse load. Or try and work at well-paying job in the summer to carry
\nyou through the year.<\/p>\n
4. Find a scholarship to win and go get it; at the beginning of the
\nyear pick a scholarship that you think you would be eligible for and
\ndo some stuff to qualify yourself for it. This is a much more fun way
\nto earn 1,000 to 5,000 dollars than a job, plus it looks good on your
\nresume. To do this you’ll need to get involved in something. There are
\nmany, many opportunities to get involved in student politics: your
\ncollege, faculty, SAC, governing council. There are also dozens of
\ncharitable, development oriented societies and student publications.
\nNotably, Hart House is a world of student involvement unto itself. If
\nonly you had the time, you could live very well off the Hart House
\nbounty.<\/p>\n
5. Do the reading. At UK universities, people don’t ask you what you
\nstudy, they say, “what do you read?” Your university education is
\nbasically the combination of many years reading, especially if you are
\nan arts student (and thanks to distribution credits, we all take at
\nleast 1 credit out of 20 in humanities!) If you don’t like reading,
\nlearn to like it because that’s what university is all about! If you
\ndon’t like reading in your room (I never did), explore the St. George
\ncampus’ 26 libraries.<\/p>\n
here’s why you should listen to Josef Szende: in addition to being able to row long distances, eat food in shockingly large amounts, and sleep anywhere at any time, the different countries he’s visited outnumber bad Nicholas Cage and Sylvester Stallone films combined<\/em>. and there’s also the high marks. if any of you ever bump into this character (currently in Europe), treat him well: he could very well be a future president of UofT, in which case i want my transcipt changed, y’hear? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve got some shocking news: askastudent is not the only person on campus with useful information and awesome opinions. I know, it sounds crazy, but sometimes it’s good to hear what other people have to say. aska top 5’s is a regular feature that lets a diverse lineup of interesting UofT folk share some of their tips, which might range from incredibly practical to incredibly disturbing. this time on aska: Josef Szende.<\/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":[146,44,147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-keeners","category-osap"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","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=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}