{"id":31,"date":"2019-09-10T09:25:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T14:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/chloe\/?p=31"},"modified":"2019-09-10T09:34:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T14:34:14","slug":"a-weekend-in-iowa-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/chloe\/2019\/09\/a-weekend-in-iowa-city\/","title":{"rendered":"A Weekend In Iowa City"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple weeks have gone by since I\u2019ve moved here to Iowa City, and I finally feel like I know where I\u2019m going on a daily basis (I did get lost a couple days ago in Burge, but in my defense, I don\u2019t live there, and it\u2019s a big place). This past weekend was full of new and fun experiences, and I wanted to share my favorite aspects!<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Friday<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

Friday was a pretty chill day; after classes, my roommate and I went to Bread Garden for the first time since our dorm snacks ran out. Bread Garden is a small grocery store really close to campus on the Ped Mall, and it\u2019s the go-to for everyone who doesn\u2019t have a car to get to Hy-Vee or Target, or even for people who do and don\u2019t want to take the time to get out there! Bread Garden may sound like a <\/span>boujee<\/span>\u00a0name for a grocery store, but it\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>actually super<\/span>\u00a0affordable for college students. It also doubles as a restaurant, with a salad bar and hot bar and a lot of seating inside and out! Go get your groceries, get a meal, two birds with one stone.<\/span> \"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday<\/span><\/h3>\n

Game Day! I went to my first football game of the season out in the afternoon sun for the first Big Ten game of the season against Rutgers. We soundly took down the Knights with a 30-0 shutout win. I had a ton of fun at the game, and found out about a bunch of traditions that happen in the student section: jingling keys at kickoff, and the giant Fight For Iowa flag that gets unraveled in the end-zone part of the student section <\/span>after every time we score. I was in the part of the section that was under it when we scored, and I was SO confused the first time, but I caught the gist after that. Overall, I had a great time and can\u2019t wait to go to the rest of the games this season! Note to self though: don\u2019t forget sunglasses on sunny day games. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Later that n<\/span>ight, we a<\/span>lso went to the volleyball game against Washington at Carver Hawkeye Arena. I used to play volleyball (for a year) in high school, and I still enjoy watching the game. Students get in free to volleyball games, so why not go? It was\u00a0<\/span>really warm<\/span> in the arena, but not terribly hot. The Hawkeyes fought hard in four sets, even going to 32 points in the first set, but they did lose 3-1. Despite the loss, I had fun watching volleyball, and all the interactive events they had with the fans between <\/span>sets, including Guess the Song and Guess the Price! I\u2019m <\/span>definitely planning<\/span> on going to more volleyball games this season when I can.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sunday<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

Sunday came around like the usual college kid\u00a0<\/span>Sunday:<\/span> slept in until about 10, and then started on the pile of homework I had refused to do earlier in the weekend, mostly for my Rhetoric class. A fair warning: Rhetoric is a class that the vast majority of freshman need to take, and it\u2019s a lot of work. It’s not terribly difficult work, there\u2019s just a lot of it! In my two weeks of experience with this class, it seems easier to do the homework one assignment at a time over a couple of days instead of all of them the day before, just to spread things out and not be overwhelmed with the amount of work that needs to get done. Granted, sometimes that doesn\u2019t happen for me, since I\u2019m either busy with something else or frankly just don\u2019t want to do it on a Friday or Saturday, but it really is easier to <\/span>spread<\/span>\u00a0out the assignments.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I finished with my homework a lot faster than I thought I was going to, and then I went to my weekly Daily Iowan TV meeting. To those thinking about getting into TV news or journalism, DITV is a great place to get experience! I was hired with literally no experience in TV or news, and now I produce the sports section of the newscast once a week.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The last interesting thing I did on Sunday was going to the rally on the Pentacrest to see Bernie Sanders speak. I\u2019d never been to a presidential rally event before, and it was exciting to see one of the candidate hopefuls in person! Presidential candidates frequent Iowa and Iowa City a lot, so I\u2019m looking forward to more of them coming in the next year.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Other (slightly)\u00a0<\/span>less<\/span>\u00a0interesting things I did this weekend include: watching baseball (Go Brewers!), The West Wing, and doing laundry \u2013 life hack: if you do it at midnight, there\u2019s no one there!\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s all for this post. I hope you\u2019re having a great first few weeks of\u00a0school, and\u00a0living your best life!<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Chloe<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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