{"id":249,"date":"2010-11-30T10:50:28","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T15:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/aaron\/?p=249"},"modified":"2010-12-01T16:09:19","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T21:09:19","slug":"iowa-fields-of-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/aaron\/2010\/11\/iowa-fields-of-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa: Fields of Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you consider Iowa, whether prospective student, visitor, family or friend, I know you may be asking yourself (or others may be asking YOU), &#8220;What is there to do in Iowa?!&#8221; \u00a0I, much like my Iowa Admissions\u00a0colleague,\u00a0Tom, have heard many perceptions of Iowa. \u00a0Tom wrote a great blog post in response to the ever-popular question, &#8220;What is there to do in Iowa.&#8221; \u00a0To read his post, and find what there is to do in Iowa, check out his blog at:\u00a0<a title=\"Tom &gt;&gt; What can you do in Iowa?\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/tom\/2010\/11\/what-can-you-do-at-iowa\/\" target=\"_blank\">What can you do in Iowa?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To compliment what Tom said in his blog about activities, I&#8217;d simply state, Iowa City is an oasis of fun. \u00a0In addition to the fun things you&#8217;re already doing (video games, pick-up basketball at the rec, ultimate frisbee in Hubbard Park, board games at Java House, people watching on the Pentacrest, socializing on your dorm floor) you&#8217;ll find plenty of free or discounted events, activities, and performances happening\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">all the time<\/span>.. \u00a0You&#8217;ll see these events\/activities advertised all around campus, but there are a few places you can always look to see what&#8217;s happening. \u00a0I recommend the following:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Office of Student Life website &#8211; <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/imu.uiowa.edu\/students\/\">http:\/\/imu.uiowa.edu\/students\/<\/a> Highlight:\u00a0(<a title=\"The Switch - CAB MOVIE\" href=\"http:\/\/imu.uiowa.edu\/cab-weekend-movie-the-switch\/\" target=\"_blank\">CAB Weekend Movie: The Switch<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Iowa Memorial Union&#8217;s (IMU) website: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/imu.uiowa.edu\/now\/\">http:\/\/imu.uiowa.edu\/now\/<\/a> Highlight:\u00a0Campus Activities Board (CAB): Comedian: Chris Strait &#8211; December 2nd @10pm IMU Black Box Theater<\/p>\n<p><strong>The University of Iowa Events Page: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uiowa.edu\/~events\/index.html\">http:\/\/www.uiowa.edu\/~events\/index.html<\/a> Highlight: Fiddler on the Roof <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uiowa.edu\/~events\/11-29-10-hancher.html\">http:\/\/www.uiowa.edu\/~events\/11-29-10-hancher.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Today&#8217;s Events&#8221; section of the The Daily Iowan newspaper:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyiowan.com\/\">http:\/\/www.dailyiowan.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Facebook &#8211; Like\/Join different facebook pages to receive updates about what&#8217;s happening around campus:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CAB &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Iowa-City-IA\/Campus-Activities-Board\/31817664925\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Iowa-City-IA\/Campus-Activities-Board\/31817664925<\/a><\/p>\n<p>HawksNest &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/iowahawksnest\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/iowahawksnest<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Office of Student Life &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Iowa-City-IA\/Office-of-Student-Life-University-of-Iowa\/70121038019\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Iowa-City-IA\/Office-of-Student-Life-University-of-Iowa\/70121038019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recreational Services: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Iowa-City-IA\/University-of-Iowa-Recreational-Services\/9934057525\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Iowa-City-IA\/University-of-Iowa-Recreational-Services\/9934057525<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All this said, we do have lots of corn, and also some of the best sweet corn in the country. \u00a0Therefore come to Iowa for the corn rather than letting it\u00a0deter\u00a0you! I challenge you; Come to Iowa City. \u00a0I bet you leave wanting more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you consider Iowa, whether prospective student, visitor, family or friend, I know you may be asking yourself (or others may be asking YOU), &#8220;What is there to do in Iowa?!&#8221; \u00a0I, much like my Iowa Admissions\u00a0colleague,\u00a0Tom, have heard many perceptions of Iowa. \u00a0Tom wrote a great blog post in response to the ever-popular question, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/aaron\/2010\/11\/iowa-fields-of-opportunity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Iowa: Fields of Opportunity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campuslife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/aaron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/aaron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/aaron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/aaron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/aaron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/aaron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/aaron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/aaron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/aaron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/aaron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}