{"id":650,"date":"2008-02-27T16:04:26","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T21:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=650"},"modified":"2008-02-27T16:04:27","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T21:04:27","slug":"cut-a-path-and-beat-the-devil-around-the-stump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=650","title":{"rendered":"Cut a Path and Beat the Devil Around the Stump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is taking 6yrs to complete an undergrad too long? and what does this say about<br \/>\nme? will I have to tell an employer that?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;As?I write this post, the old scratch and win Bingo commercial jingle plays through my head.? That&#8217;s because you have as much time as you need to complete your degree.?<\/p>\n<p>What does this say about you, as a person?? Gosh.? It could mean anything, really.? You could be really lazy and awful &#8211; but that would show up in your resume anyway.? It could also mean that you&#8217;re ambitious and need the six years in order to do everything that it takes to actually complete your degree, which would show up positively on your resume too.? If your future employer makes a big stink about it, and you took your time for valid reasons (e.g. travel, having to wait for courses, doing 2 specialists&#8230;), just knee him\/her in the groin and walk out.? Or, explain yourself and they&#8217;ll think your super cool!<\/p>\n<p>?Recently, I heard this urban legend about how your first year credits start to become obsolete after your seventh year.? I looked into this, and found out that there&#8217;s actually a student regestered here from the 70&#8217;s finishing up her degree now.? Which is super cool, in my opinion.? Look out, Van Wilder!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is taking 6yrs to complete an undergrad too long? and what does this say about me? will I have to tell an employer that?<\/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":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hart-house"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650","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=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}