{"id":262,"date":"2010-12-09T10:42:53","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T15:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/aaron\/?p=262"},"modified":"2010-12-09T10:42:53","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T15:42:53","slug":"tis-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/aaron\/2010\/12\/tis-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Tis The Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tis the season… to celebrate finals week! \u00a0I don’t know that students would call it celebrating, but if you think about it, it IS much like other holiday celebrations – a culmination of something in one great event. \u00a0This finals season is a culmination of a full semester of work into one thing; the final. \u00a0 A test of study habits, time management, the immune system, and most importantly, knowledge.<\/p>\n

Finals week next week, is a “holiday” in itself. \u00a0During many holidays we look forward to eating a lot and following it with a good, long nap (which I call a food coma). \u00a0During this celebration students look forward to (insert laugh) lots of\u00a0caffeine followed by anything but a nap. \u00a0While we may clean and decorate for any other holiday, during this upcoming week, students do the opposite. \u00a0They neglect cleaning and “decorate” their room with piles of laundry. \u00a0While we may listen to spirited holiday music, students will often listen to the music that puts them “in the zone” to study. \u00a0At the end of it all though, we do one thing that’s consistent with the holidays; we celebrate with family and friends.<\/p>\n

As I look forward to celebrating Christmas with my family, I thought, ” why not get into the holiday mood!?” \u00a0So, I’ve been wearing lots of sweaters, drinking lots of holiday themed coffee, and listening to lots of Christmas music. \u00a0Most exciting however, might be these three guys:<\/p>\n

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Carpet of Snow, Grass "Chia," and the holiday SPRUCE!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I found these “grow kits” at Target for only a dollar a piece. \u00a0*in a boxer’s announcing voice* \u00a0On the left we have a “Carpet of Snow.” \u00a0In the Santa-themed pot, we have “rye grass” which hopes to grow up to be Santa’s hair\/hat, and on the right is my “Christmas Tree Grow Kit.” I planted these gems on Sunday as a test of my green thumb. \u00a0So far, you might be able to see, the carpet of snow and Santa’s hair have started to grow, but we’re still waiting on the Christmas tree.<\/p>\n

Other than these three exciting “experiments” as we’ll call them, our work is shifting here in the office. \u00a0All of us counselors are off the road for the most part, done with the great fall travel season. \u00a0While we’re still hosting visitors on campus and encouraging seniors to apply, many students are now focused on housing and financial aid. \u00a0This means we’re taking a number of phone calls from students asking how to apply to scholarships and how to fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). \u00a0For those high\u00a0achieving\u00a0seniors – the Presidential Scholarship\u00a0application\u00a0is DUE TOMORROW! \u00a0As a counseling staff we’re balancing these tasks amongst our other projects and responsibilities, all while looking at where we’ll be traveling this spring.<\/p>\n

Tis the season – \u00a0Travel safely, and have a very warm and happy holiday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tis the season… to celebrate finals week! \u00a0I don’t know that students would call it celebrating, but if you think about it, it IS much like other holiday celebrations – a culmination of something in one great event. \u00a0This finals season is a culmination of a full semester of work into one thing; the final. … Continue reading Tis The Season<\/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":[7,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-campuslife","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/aaron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","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=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/aaron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/aaron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/aaron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/aaron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/aaron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}