{"id":13,"date":"2010-08-24T16:56:41","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T21:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/amanda\/?p=13"},"modified":"2010-08-24T16:56:41","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T21:56:41","slug":"lecture-hallburge-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/amanda\/2010\/08\/lecture-hallburge-lunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture Hall\/Burge Lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First I want to welcome everybody to my official University of Iowa blog page.\u00a0 At this point I have no idea if anyone will read this, but if you do I will try to be as honest as I can about the University of Iowa, good and bad, and hopefully give you a better insight on how the University operates and my personal experiences as a first-year transfer student.<\/p>\n<p>So today was my first day in a big lecture hall.\u00a0 I would say there were about 250 students in the class.\u00a0 I wasn&#8217;t sure what to expect.\u00a0 When I walked in the professor was playing music from the &#8217;80s.\u00a0 In my opinion that&#8217;s always a good sign.\u00a0 When the class started, she lowered one of the largest screens I have ever seen.\u00a0 I know after a few times that it won&#8217;t be as interesting, but today it was pretty cool.<!--more-->So we went through and talked about some key topics of the class.\u00a0 We were also introduced to our TAs.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve never had a TA before so I will let you know how that goes on Friday after our discussion class.\u00a0 All in all I didn&#8217;t mind having such a large class.\u00a0 The professor didn&#8217;t make it feel like it was a class of over 250 students.\u00a0 I mean obviously she probably won&#8217;t know my name by the end of the semester.\u00a0 I enjoyed it and I think it will make me work really hard.\u00a0 Who knows, maybe the professors remember people who are doing well in the class.<\/p>\n<p>So after my lecture I headed to Burge for lunch for the first time today.\u00a0 Since I live so far from central campus, I don&#8217;t normally eat in Burge or Hillcrest.\u00a0 I ended up getting there around 11:30.\u00a0 When I get there the line to get in was pretty long, but the cashiers moved pretty quickly, just have your Hawk ID ready.\u00a0 Also I suggest bringing a backpack especially for the lunch portion of the day because trying to balance books and a tray of food can end up looking like a balancing act, I know this from experience.\u00a0 One other thing, before going to the food area look at the map of all your choices and where they are located.\u00a0 College students are hungry and you need to grab your food quickly and find a seat.\u00a0 There are plenty of options to choose from, and the food I had today was very good.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not high school food, I promise.\u00a0 This is edible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First I want to welcome everybody to my official University of Iowa blog page.\u00a0 At this point I have no idea if anyone will read this, but if you do I will try to be as honest as I can about the University of Iowa, good and bad, and hopefully give you a better insight &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/amanda\/2010\/08\/lecture-hallburge-lunch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lecture Hall\/Burge Lunch<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/amanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/amanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/amanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/amanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/amanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/amanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/amanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/amanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/amanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/amanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}