{"id":375,"date":"2013-09-25T13:25:36","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T18:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/andi\/?p=375"},"modified":"2013-09-25T13:25:36","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T18:25:36","slug":"making-adjustments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/andi\/2013\/09\/making-adjustments\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Adjustments."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Change is hard. It&#8217;s something many people tend to put off. Myself included. I know what I&#8217;m comfortable with, and what I like. So frankly, I&#8217;d like to stick to that!<\/p>\n<p>Right now I don&#8217;t have any major changes, but I do have a lot of small adjustments that need to be made. I struggle with having personal and family problems get in the way of my school work. I get in a fight with a family member, I feel too down to even think about homework. I get distracted by roommates issues, my project gets put off another. The biggest change I need to make right now is separating school and personal life. Sure, I&#8217;m in college, and much of my social life is dictated by college aspects, but that doesn&#8217;t mean I should let it overtake the most important aspect. The schoolwork itself.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m naturally a very busy person. I go to school, I&#8217;m in a sorority, a member of the Hawkeye Marching Band, and I have an on-campus job. So needless to say, I need to have some serious time management. So when I have a personal problem, it can really get the best of me. I&#8217;m still struggling to not let these things effect me so harshly, but it&#8217;s definitely hard.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all about making the necessary adjustments. Something I&#8217;ve been working on since my first year at Iowa, and still am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Change is hard. It&#8217;s something many people tend to put off. Myself included. I know what I&#8217;m comfortable with, and what I like. So frankly, I&#8217;d like to stick to that! Right now I don&#8217;t have any major changes, but I do have a lot of small adjustments that need to be made. I struggle [&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-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/andi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","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=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/andi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/andi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/andi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/andi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/andi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}