{"id":31,"date":"2011-08-23T10:56:02","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T15:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/andi\/?p=31"},"modified":"2011-08-23T10:56:02","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T15:56:02","slug":"alone-in-the-imu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/andi\/2011\/08\/alone-in-the-imu\/","title":{"rendered":"Alone in the IMU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having an hour between classes may be convenient, but its not enough time to go back to my dorm. So you may ask, &#8220;then where do you go?&#8221; I head to the Iowa Memorial Union aka IMU. I&#8217;ll admit, on my first day of classes sitting alone was very intimidating, and a little awkward to say the least. But I find it has more benefits than downfalls.<\/p>\n<p>Sitting or eating alone may feel weird the first time, but after awhile its almost a little refreshing. My first day I was a assigned a paper that would be due in 2 weeks. I had almost 2 hours until my next class so I went in the IMU, and found a place to sit. I wasn&#8217;t sure what to do with myself, but then I realized I did have a paper to do. Within and hour I had finished that very same paper that won&#8217;t be due for a very long time. I even started my online@iowa course which will teach me how to use some of the websites Iowa utilizes. After that I just sat back, relaxed, and played some games on my computer.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously there is a downside, which is obviously that I&#8217;m alone. It can be a little tedious at times, but you get past it. I just pull out my computer and right there I can find almost an infinite amount of things to do. Homework, class, games, social networking, its easy to keep myself busy for an hour, sometimes more. I&#8217;m sitting in the union now typing this post up. It&#8217;s as simple as that!<\/p>\n<p>So here are some things to do and some TIPS if you find yourself sitting\/eating alone:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bring a laptop (if you have one) FREE WI-FI!!!<\/li>\n<li>If you don&#8217;t have a laptop there are also ITC&#8217;s all around campus with computers for you to use!<\/li>\n<li>Get some homework done<\/li>\n<li>Find a comfy couch and take a nap<\/li>\n<li>Have a snack<\/li>\n<li>Read a book<\/li>\n<li>Explore a building you haven&#8217;t been in or even downtown Iowa City!<\/li>\n<li>Introduce yourself to someone you see is also sitting alone<\/li>\n<li>Also don&#8217;t put yourself in a corner, it might make you seem unapproachable.<\/li>\n<li>Play games, you can get them on the computer, or a deck of cards works too!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are so many ways to occupy yourself, especially on such a huge campus like Iowa. Don&#8217;t be afraid to sit alone either, you don&#8217;t always have to sit with friends, and it gives you an opportunity to make new friends! There&#8217;s something for everyone on campus, you just have to put in the effort to find, or do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having an hour between classes may be convenient, but its not enough time to go back to my dorm. So you may ask, &#8220;then where do you go?&#8221; I head to the Iowa Memorial Union aka IMU. I&#8217;ll admit, on my first day of classes sitting alone was very intimidating, and a little awkward to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/andi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/andi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/andi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/andi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/andi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/andi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/andi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/andi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/andi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/andi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}