{"id":730,"date":"2004-09-16T12:52:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-16T16:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/730"},"modified":"2004-09-16T12:52:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-16T16:52:00","slug":"to-prove-to-dad-that-im-not-a-fool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/730","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;To Prove to Dad That I&#8217;m Not a Fool&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hmm. Back to school? What an interesting idea.<\/p>\n<p>Here are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utoronto.ca\/english\/graduate\/courses.htm\">UofT&#8217;s graduate English offerings for the winter semester<\/a>. I just received the fax copy of my doctor&#8217;s letter yesterday, and although it is the vaguest piece of medical documentation of all time, it might just do the trick. I&#8217;m going to attempt to hunt down the letter that my father&#8217;s doctor wrote us quite a while ago describing the stage of my Dad&#8217;s condition during the 2001-2002 academic year as well, just to see if that helps. Although Jill Northgrave, the Graduate Counsellor &#038; Program Administrator assured me that I could re-enter the program for this year, I&#8217;m still nervous that my delay in application might not permit me to sign up. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sgs.utoronto.ca\/current\/register\/index.asp#deadline\">Deadlines posted on the SGS main site<\/a> say that October 1st is the deadline to add full courses (Y) and half-courses (H), and also myseriously has January 21 as the deadline to add *Winter* Session full courses (Y) and half-courses (H). All I&#8217;m certain of is that the clock is ticking for me to make my mind up about all this. Alternately, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utoronto.ca\/english\/graduate\/sum05\/sum05.htm\"> there&#8217;s always the Summer session<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utoronto.ca\/english\/graduate\/courses04\/2004des.htm#1001hf\">to look at the calendar<\/a> and see what might possibly fit my schedule. With 17 second semester courses to choose from, and enrollment already having been underway for a few weeks, the pickin&#8217;s might be slim. It&#8217;s possible I would have to take what I get. But if selection were possible, there are some tasty morsels:<br \/>\n1047HS Doomsday, Damnation, and The Devil: Antichrist in Anglo-Saxon England<br \/>\n2003HS Eros and Anatomy in Early Modern Culture<br \/>\n2583HS Popular Legend in the Plays of Shakespeare and Contemporaries<br \/>\n3253HS Travel and Travellers in Literature and Culture, 1660-1830<br \/>\n4197HS Romanticism and Rise of Consumerism<br \/>\n5047HS Class in American Literature<br \/>\n5253HS Observant Allegorists: Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh<br \/>\n5707HS Canadian Literature and the Canon <\/p>\n<p>Three options present themselves:<br \/>\n1) Get new 9-5 job, take the two 7-9pm night courses on Victorian Poetry and Greene\/Waugh, and ask to be let out an hour early on Wednesdays to attend the 4-6pm Old English level 2 that I dread but require as a mandatory field course.<br \/>\n2) Go back to old 6:30am-3pm job and take my pick of the many 4-6pm courses, broadening my selection.<br \/>\n3) Screw work, take leave of absence until April, work front cash or warehouse at the Silver Snail, relish my freedom, read like a fiend, and take whatever courses my little heart desires in the second semester. <\/p>\n<p>This will require some thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmm. Back to school? What an interesting idea. Here are UofT&#8217;s graduate English offerings for the winter semester. I just received the fax copy of my doctor&#8217;s letter yesterday, and although it is the vaguest piece of medical documentation of all time, it might just do the trick. I&#8217;m going to attempt to hunt down <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/730\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}