{"id":9296,"date":"2014-06-17T09:41:30","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T14:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=9296"},"modified":"2019-08-12T22:11:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T02:11:30","slug":"stealing-from-aska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=9296","title":{"rendered":"origin stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How did you manage to procure this job? And should I be interested once I actually join U of T, is there a chance I could take your job? (Not by force of course, but you would step down and I would step up.)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>hey there,<\/p>\n<p>well, lemme tell you how it all went down. my family was spending the summer at this random lighthouse, which is really far away on this teeny little island off the coast of England. i live with my aunt and uncle and their son. i&#8217;m not super close with them, but, i dunno, i was kind of excited to be spending the summer away, y&#8217;know?<\/p>\n<p>there weren&#8217;t enough bedrooms for us all in the lighthouse &#8211; i mean it was this rickety old thing, my uncle even bought a gun in case we were attacked &#8211; so i had to sleep on the bottom floor. i remember i was just about to turn eleven years old. i wasn&#8217;t able to sleep because i was too excited about my birthday. i lay there, on the sandy floor, counting down the seconds to midnight.<\/p>\n<p>then, when the clock struck twelve, there was this crazy loud knocking sound at the door. i jumped up and stood there, petrified, as the knock continued. then the door actually\u00a0<em>completely broke down<\/em> and there was &#8211; no lie &#8211; a GIANT at the door.<\/p>\n<p>he walked in and eyeballed me. then he said, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/imawhat.bmp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">yer an aska, harry!<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>but it doesn&#8217;t happen that way for everyone. some askas back in the 1400s pulled swords out of stones (weird, right? why would you put a sword in a stone? you keeping it warm, or something?), some had to complete <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Labours_of_Hercules\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">12 tasks<\/a> (to see whether the aska was a well-rounded student, i guess), one aska blinded a cyclops, and one aska killed Ned Stark. recently, all the applicants had to battle to the death during this really intense game in an alternate reality where jennifer lawrence is a brunette.<\/p>\n<p>and some askas just apply to the job on <a href=\"https:\/\/cln.utoronto.ca\/home.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CLN<\/a>, &#8216;cuz it&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.careers.utoronto.ca\/content\/work-campus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">work-study position<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did you manage to procure this job? And should I be interested once I actually join U of T, is there a chance I could take your job? (Not by force of course, but you would step down and I would step up.) \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hey there, well, lemme tell you how it all went down. my family was spending the summer at this random lighthouse, which is really far away on this teeny little island off the coast of England. i live with my aunt and uncle and their son. i&#8217;m not super close with them, but, i dunno, i was kind of excited to be spending the summer away, y&#8217;know? there weren&#8217;t enough bedrooms for us all in the lighthouse &#8211; i mean it was this rickety old thing, my uncle even bought a gun in case we were attacked &#8211; so i had to sleep on the bottom floor. i remember i was just about to turn eleven years old. i wasn&#8217;t able to sleep because i was too excited about my birthday. i lay there, on the sandy floor, counting down the seconds to midnight. then, when the clock struck twelve, there was this crazy loud knocking sound at the door. i jumped up and stood there, petrified, as the knock continued. then the door actually\u00a0completely broke down and there was &#8211; no lie &#8211; a GIANT at the door. he walked in and eyeballed me. then he said, &#8220;yer an aska, harry!&#8221; but it doesn&#8217;t happen that way for everyone. some askas back in the 1400s pulled swords out of stones (weird, right? why would you put a sword in a stone? you keeping it warm, or something?), some had to complete 12 tasks (to see whether the aska was a well-rounded student, i guess), one aska blinded a cyclops, and one aska killed Ned Stark. recently, all the applicants had to battle to the death during this really intense game in an alternate reality where jennifer lawrence is a brunette. and some askas just apply to the job on CLN, &#8216;cuz it&#8217;s a work-study position.<\/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":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carwax"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.8 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"How did you manage to procure this job? 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