{"id":24,"date":"2019-09-03T07:57:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T12:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/chloe\/?p=24"},"modified":"2019-09-03T07:57:49","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T12:57:49","slug":"my-first-week-as-a-hawkeye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/chloe\/2019\/09\/my-first-week-as-a-hawkeye\/","title":{"rendered":"My First Week As A Hawkeye!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey Hawkeyes! I\u2019m\u00a0<\/span>really excited<\/span>\u00a0to have this opportunity to tell you all about my experiences throughout my first year at Iowa! There was a lot going on here in Iowa City the first week, but I\u2019ll tell you about my favorites:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Honors Primetime<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

Primetime is a three-and-a-half-day workshop for honors students to introduce them to the honors program and faculty around campus. There were a bunch of primetime workshops that went on and something for everyone: from Creative Writing to How Birds Work. My primetime workshop was Democratic Play: How Game Design Can Address Wicked Problems, where we put a spin on or made completely new games to make it more bearable to talk about controversial or political topics in a civil manner. As someone who is interested in politics, policy, and government, I thought it was super interesting to be able to design a game to play that incorporated fun into political discussions! We ended Primetime with a symposium, and every group got to present what they learned or what they had done over the past three days.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Bingo!<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

As part of On\u00a0<\/span>Iowa!\u00a0<\/span>the university hosted a bingo night in the Iowa Memorial Union. Being from Wisconsin, I really was not expecting the absolute hype Iowans have for Bingo. The screams when someone won a bingo or even got a\u00a0<\/span>number<\/span>\u00a0they wanted reminded me of the cheers when my high school football team won the state championship. Yeah, that loud. I also learned that there is a specific thing to mark your bingo card (a nice dab of ink), and I won a lamp! I already had a lamp, but the more the merrier, right?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Passport to Iowa<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

Passport to Iowa was a showcase of clubs and groups around campus, including a Chinese rap group, the dance club, acapella groups, and the men\u2019s gymnastics team. It was fascinating to see all the groups perform, and to see what Iowa<\/span>\u00a0has to offer. Before the showcase happened, there was also a mini student involvement fair, and through that I was able to join Dance Marathon and the Daily Iowan TV!<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Kickoff at Kinnick<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

Finally, there is Kickoff at Kinnick. All freshmen either walked or rode a (very) crowded bus to Kinnick Stadium to be a part of the iconic Block I picture on the field. While there, we learned the Iowa Fight Song (Fight! Fight! Fight! For Iowa!) and did our first ever Hawkeye Wave to the kids in the Stead Family Children’s Hospital.\u00a0<\/span>Not\u00a0<\/span>gonna<\/span>\u00a0lie, it\u2019s a tearjerker. Especially when the kids had lights to wave back to us out the window!\u00a0<\/span>The Wave is one of my favorite things about Iowa Football, and I\u2019m so excited that I<\/span>\u00a0get to do it for the next four years.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

These were only a few of the things that went on during On\u00a0<\/span>Iowa!<\/span>:<\/span>\u00a0there were SO many other things to do as well. I feel that with classes starting, most weeks aren\u2019t going to be as exciting as this one, but my first week was one for the books, and it\u2019s already starting to feel like home.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Talk soon,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Chloe \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey Hawkeyes! I\u2019m\u00a0really excited\u00a0to have this opportunity to tell you all about my experiences throughout my first year at Iowa! There was a lot going on here in Iowa City the first week, but I\u2019ll tell you about my favorites:\u00a0\u00a0 Honors Primetime\u00a0 Primetime is a three-and-a-half-day workshop for honors students to introduce them to the … Continue reading My First Week As A Hawkeye!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/chloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/chloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/chloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/chloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/chloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/chloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/chloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/chloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/chloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/chloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}