{"id":155,"date":"2017-08-22T16:32:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T21:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/?p=155"},"modified":"2017-08-22T16:32:25","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T21:32:25","slug":"here-we-are-for-another-semester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/2017\/08\/here-we-are-for-another-semester\/","title":{"rendered":"Here we are for another semester!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello and welcome back to the first post of Sigma Nu Zeta Omicron for the 2017\u2019s fall semester. I hope you all had a great summer and just like me are excited with the beginning of classes.<\/p>\n<p>Well, starting with the summer, I went back home and saw my family and friends. I also volunteered on a school that helps people with mental disorders, traveled a little bit, and drove my siblings to their school. I enjoyed driving again, since I still haven\u2019t got my American driver\u2019s license, I will try to get this done this semester. Overall, my summer was really funny and I had plenty of time to relax.<\/p>\n<p>I already feel a little bit strange coming back, because now I\u2019m a sophomore. Just like my age, it took a little time for me to realize it. The other day I thought I was 18 instead of 19. Hopefully it won\u2019t be long till I can stop telling people I\u2019m a freshman and then correct myself. Another major change was at my work, I\u2019ve been promoted to Student Lead, which is kind of a sub-manager position on the dining halls.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m pretty happy with all of my classes. I mean, we have just gone through the syllabus, but I really liked the descriptions my professors gave me and what we are expected to learn. Coincidently, I noticed that most of my classes, that is: Introduction to microeconomics, Interpretation of literature and introduction to philosophy; have pretty similar themes and I think I will be able to apply things I will learn on one class to another. I think it is a great experience when you can connect the subjects you are learning, because it gives you a feeling that what you are learning is going to be useful throughout your life. My only real worry is the amount of homework and readings that I expect I will have, but I guess this is all part of the college experience right?<\/p>\n<p>Well, I know it is too soon to be thinking about the end of the semester, but I\u2019ve already made a list of things I want to accomplish by the end of it. What I want, as follows, is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To be ready to run a half marathon with my father and sister in the beginning of the next year. (For that I will wake up early and go to the gym every Monday, Wednesday and Friday before classes).<\/li>\n<li>To keep my grades as good as last semester. (So I will have to keep the hard work, or work harder. Either way, I know it\u2019s not going to be easy.)<\/li>\n<li>Get my driver\u2019s license. (This one is pretty straightforward).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I will probably add more to the list as time goes by, if anything changes I will let you know.<\/p>\n<p>This first week I also had the chance to see the solar eclipse! I admit that I wasn\u2019t that excited at first but when my Calculus professor canceled our lecture so just we could see the eclipse. At its finest moment I started to realize that something amazing was going to happen. It was a little bit cloudy so sometimes you couldn\u2019t really see that much. Some students started to distribute dark glasses so we all could see it, and it really was beautiful. I could put the glass on my phone and take a decent picture, which I will try to post.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that\u2019s all I had for today, see you next week!<\/p>\n<p>I will try my best to post on a weekly basis, either Tuesdays or Fridays. See you soon!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-156\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/files\/2017\/08\/IMG_3333-169x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/files\/2017\/08\/IMG_3333-169x300.png 169w, https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/files\/2017\/08\/IMG_3333.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello and welcome back to the first post of Sigma Nu Zeta Omicron for the 2017\u2019s fall semester. I hope you all had a great summer and just like me are excited with the beginning of classes. Well, starting with the summer, I went back home and saw my family and friends. I also volunteered &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/2017\/08\/here-we-are-for-another-semester\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Here we are for another semester!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-campuslife","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}