{"id":23564,"date":"2015-03-09T09:14:03","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T13:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/?p=23564"},"modified":"2015-03-09T09:14:03","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T13:14:03","slug":"history-course-drop-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2015\/03\/09\/history-course-drop-out\/","title":{"rendered":"History Course Drop-Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

*while reading this post, please feel free to play the song \u201cBeauty School Dropout<\/a>\u201d from the Grease soundtrack\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\r\n

If you had asked me 12 months ago, I could never have predicted that I would have dropped two courses and credit-no-credited one, all in my second year at U of T.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n

In first year I was resilient. I studied course material that I hated, wrote tests I was vastly unprepared for, and was ultimately of the mindset that this is what University is<\/em>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Look at how much fun I thought I was having!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n

Being in my second year, I\u2019ve had a massive perspective change.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

While I know that University is still a lot of hard work, and there will always be courses you take because you have to - not because you want to, you shouldn\u2019t be suffering through something just because you don\u2019t want to be seen as a quitter<\/strong>.<\/p>\r\n

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In first semester, I wrote for the blog about how I decided to credit-no-credit an elective <\/a>course. CNCR-ing a course was still one of the best decisions I\u2019ve ever made, as it allowed me to take a step back from the pressure of getting a good mark, and actually focus on the course material\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But what happens when you\u2019re not enjoying the course material? When you\u2019re taking a course because you thought you wanted to, but turns out - you don\u2019t.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n

\"Photo<\/a>
If you're looking like this every day of the semester, it might be time to change something up!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n

Thats what happened to me this semester, not once, but twice.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n

For some reason that I cannot recall, I thought it would be brilliant to take 6 courses this semester. Three weeks into the semester I was already overwhelmed.<\/p>\r\n

I found that I was taking time allocated to my actual degree-requirement courses, to study for classes that were just electives. My grades and my stress levels were suffering.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n

\"My<\/a>
My roommate and I both dropped courses on the same day, so obviously we had to take a celebratory photo in the snow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n

So I dropped my first course by mid-January. I felt an immediate relief, and used that two hour class block I now had free, to head to the library. Everything was going great with my now 5-course semester load, until midterms hit.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In an anxiety-induced \u201cI hate school\u201d coma, I dropped another course at midnight the night before my midterm.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n

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The fact that I spent the rest of the night ordering dominos cheesy bread and taking selfies, probably should have been my first hint that I had dropped the course for the wrong reason....<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n

I\u2019m now 0.5 credits behind where I should be, and have a serious wealth of free time on my hands. While I feel less stressed and have more time to do readings for the classes I require, I wish that I hadn\u2019t used the drop course option so liberally.<\/strong> I should have taken the time to go and talk to an academic advisor<\/a>, or someone at the registrar\u2019s office<\/a>, before I made such a rash decision.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

So overall, my transcript looks a lot different now than I expected it to when I chose my courses this summer<\/a>.\u00a0 While some of that is for a good reason, others I wish I had thought about a little more.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But how about you U of T? I\u2019d love to hear your stories, or advice, on dropping courses. Do you have any suggestions on how to get through a course that you hate? Leave them in the comments down below, or share them with me on twitter at @Rachael_UofT<\/a>!<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\n*while reading this post, please feel free to play the song \u201cBeauty School Dropout\u201d from the Grease soundtrack\u00a0 If you had asked me 12 months ago, I could never have predicted that I would have dropped two courses and credit-no-credited…\n<\/div>
Continue reading “History Course Drop-Out”<\/span>…<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>
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