If I would like to take a semester off learning to focus on other things who should I contact? Is there a deadline for reporting this situation?

Go talk to an academic advisor for your faculty (likely at the associate dean's office).

in general can we dip for an extended period of time. then go back to solar and just resign back up whenever?

I think so.

Remember, the school doesn't really care when or if you finish your degree. Part-time students often take terms and sometimes years off in between their classes. However, I don't know if they have to be re-instated or not.

As mentioned, go to an academic advisor in your faculty.

i'm 99% sure you can do whatever you want for 5 years...after that you have to get reinstated. i took all last year off and i'm taking first semster of next year off, and i never had to tell anyone

Originally Posted by melchizedek

i'm 99% sure you can do whatever you want for 5 years...after that you have to get reinstated. i took all last year off and i'm taking first semster of next year off, and i never had to tell anyone

So you just didn't enroll in your next year courses when solar opened up, and then the year after that you could still access solar and enrol?

yep...as of april 2008, i didn't even look at a mcmaster webpage until june 2009 and everything worked out fine. the only thing that i had to do in september was update my macid.