{"id":267,"date":"2013-06-11T16:25:12","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T21:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/adam\/?p=267"},"modified":"2013-06-11T16:25:12","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T21:25:12","slug":"so-hows-your-summer-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/adam\/2013\/06\/so-hows-your-summer-going\/","title":{"rendered":"So&#8230;How&#8217;s Your Summer Going?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you accomplishing everything you had planned for this summer? Are you exercising regularly? Learning a programming language? Publishing regular blog posts (*cough*)? Summer&#8217;s definitely the time to get things done&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Wrong! Ha! Very funny. Wonderful joke. If anything, summer&#8217;s a 3-month\u00a0justification that, unless you&#8217;re an exceptionally motivated individual (or on some sort of energy enhancing drug), you&#8217;d default to a lazy state of mind at any possible chance.\u00a0 Despite what hardware store commercials tell us, summer ends up being a time of <em>l<\/em><em>ess <\/em>saving and <em>less <\/em>doing.<\/p>\n<p>Many students at the University are actually\u00a0doing\u00a0exciting and meaningful\u00a0things over break. Internships. Study abroad. Volunteering. I applaud them for accomplishing stuff. They&#8217;ve made the effort to continue their exploration of the world into the warm summer days. Me? Well&#8230;actually&#8230;that&#8217;s a really funny story&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>OK, so I <em>am<\/em> working at a summer internship, but the only reason I&#8217;m succeeding at it is because it&#8217;s structured. I have rules. Someone tells me what to do. It&#8217;s the lack of these regulations that makes accomplishing anything else during the summer an elusive goal for anyone who&#8217;s fortunate enough to get a break (i.e. students). What I have done has been to collect a list of things I wish I had accomplished by now.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Learn a programming language (there&#8217;s a couple of quarter-read books on my shelf).<\/li>\n<li>Read more in general (I don&#8217;t read enough anyway, so summer should be a good excuse to start, right?).<\/li>\n<li>Learn an instrument (Luckily, to date, I&#8217;ve only pointlessly purchased a guitar).<\/li>\n<li>Write a book (To be fair, it is a lofty goal. Writing <em>something <\/em>couldn&#8217;t hurt though&#8230;).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There&#8217;s probably some deep psychological reason why I fail to accomplish things I plan to do over break. Maybe I&#8217;m actually burnt out after the school year (ha). Perhaps my brain has been wired to avoid creation and only consume products thanks to commercials (that must be it&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>I have bothered to\u00a0worry about it though. That is something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you accomplishing everything you had planned for this summer? Are you exercising regularly? Learning a programming language? Publishing regular blog posts (*cough*)? Summer&#8217;s definitely the time to get things done&#8230; Wrong! Ha! Very funny. Wonderful joke. If anything, summer&#8217;s a 3-month\u00a0justification that, unless you&#8217;re an exceptionally motivated individual (or on some sort of energy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[71,70,69,72],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-lazy","tag-summer","tag-summer-break","tag-summer-goals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}