After five years of enduring the bell curve, suffering through tutorials, and picking classes with the most inaccurate descriptions on the course calendar I can honestly say I\u2019ve learned a few hundred tricks for surviving UofT. University is a game, learn to play it and you\u2019ll survive. I wish I had a fifth year to tell me to chill the eff out when I was a newbie!\u00a0So in a university full of bullies, insane teachers, and gross school lunches, me and my friends are all trying to do the impossible. Here\u2019s a guide that will help you survive school. This is: Daniela\u2019s Declassified School Survival Guide. Keep reading for 11 tips for UofT first years!<\/p>\n
AKA: bullshit them essays!<\/p>\n
Meet with the prof directly on your own time, email them weekly asking literally any question about the readings. Basically make yourself known outside of lecture!<\/p>\n
I survived mine by taking one with a professor who already knew my work ethic. They\u2019ll know your strengths on paper and consider this when you attempt to speak out in class but end up looking dumb af (me in every seminar class).<\/p>\n
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Most of the time they overlap and you waste time studying the same information with a different ugly ribbon tied around it.<\/p>\n
If they want a 45 page paper, do it. If they want you to do long division with just your mind, do it. JUST SUCK IT UP AND DO IT!<\/p>\n
Five years gave me tons of time to explore different libraries, but I\u2019ve always gone back to my roots \u2013 Robarts and Kelly. Familiar places relax you and this is a good tip for studying during stressful exam szn.<\/p>\n
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When you dress better, you feel better. Only in my last year did I pull out the track pants, but I do feel it affecting my studying habits. So yes, dress for academic success!<\/p>\n
It took me timeeee to realize that my brain cannot hold the entire material of a stats textbook. If you know main concepts of your course, you can pretty much bullshit your way through. Profs want to see that you get the general idea of what they\u2019re teaching.<\/p>\n
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Meet with them; ask them for career advice too! If I didn\u2019t learn this back in second year I would still be a ball of nerves sitting in the back of a psychology class wondering why life was so cruel! English and media suit me MUCH better. Shout out to Professor Peterson for giving me his raw career advice way back!<\/p>\n
This should be standard for UofT first years. This way you\u2019ll never miss when your prof decides to change the readings last minute, or cancel class an hour before. And yes you can send those broadcast emails directly to junk \u2013 because really who reads them? Being in the know is a major key.<\/p>\n
Only UofT students know the struggle of being a UofT student, especially UofT first years. If you\u2019re feeling the stress of that calculus course, chances are the kid beside you is also breaking a sweat. We\u2019re all trying to navigate through to graduation\u2026 we need to grow a pair at some point if we\u2019re going to walk in front of all of Conn Hall to get that degree!<\/p>\n
These off-the-record, maybe slightly too real-to-hear, tips are guaranteed to help you survive UofT!\u00a0I know education is important and I do take it seriously, but university has its own set of rules and you MUST learn to play by them if you\u2019re going to make it to the end.<\/p>\n
PS: If you caught the \u201cNed\u2019s Classified School Survival Guide\u201d reference in the beginning, you\u2019ve got my official blessing that you\u2019ll do just fine at UofT!<\/p>\n
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After five years of enduring the bell curve, suffering through tutorials, and picking classes with the most inaccurate descriptions on the course calendar I can honestly say I\u2019ve learned a few hundred tricks for surviving UofT. University is a game, learn to play it and you\u2019ll survive. I wish I had a fifth year to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19248,"featured_media":116482,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[6226],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-94744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-u-toronto-tips-advice"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n