{"id":204,"date":"2018-02-04T11:44:48","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T16:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/?p=204"},"modified":"2018-02-04T11:48:20","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T16:48:20","slug":"adapting-to-a-new-semester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/2018\/02\/adapting-to-a-new-semester\/","title":{"rendered":"Adapting to a new semester."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Hello! And Welcome back to Sigma Nu Zeta Omicron! I hope you are all having a great beginning this semester!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The start of the semester is always a surprise. It may be very calm, a desirable \u201csyllabus week\u201d or it may come at full speed with all it\u2019s got. Now that I\u2019m not a freshman anymore the semesters seem very busy at first.<\/p>\n<p>It took me a while to adjust to this semester and, in the meantime, I had a lot of homework and even my first midterm. But I think everything should go steady now. \u00a0Overall I\u2019m enjoying my classes more, now that I have a clearer notion of how they are and what to expect for the future. Sometimes I get stuck with a new subject being taught, but luckily I have places I can go to help me. I\u2019ve already been to my professor\u2019s office hours and to tutoring centers more times than I have all previous semesters put together. I really like to sit down, open the book and try to figure out all by myself. But sometimes, there\u2019s nothing like having someone pointing out what you are doing wrong or showing how to solve a problem by a new point of view.<\/p>\n<p>Although I\u2019m adapting pretty well to this semester, there are still things that you can never be ready or adapt for. In my case, that\u2019s the winter. Sure it\u2019s always cold, but even winter has its warm days. Those are the days when the Sun decides to show its face to us and the wind is tired from running around the city. Still, some days are so cold that I really can\u2019t take it. However, that doesn\u2019t mean all hope is lost, there\u2019s always something new to learn. This week a friend showed me this amazing underground pathway that connects The Blank Honors Center and the Pomerantz Center. Most people are better than me at facing the cold weather, so they don\u2019t really need this shortcut. But I really appreciate I can walk some warm meters. So, if you are bothered by the cold the same way I am, know that there are always new paths you can learn to get to classes warm.<\/p>\n<p>I just remembered that the Bijou after hours restart this weekend. Which means me and my friends are going to keep our tradition of going to film scene every Saturday night. I just feel bad because Bijou gave this tradition to us and I\u2019ve never done anything to give them in return. I don\u2019t think I would do well being part of their club, but I sure am looking for an interesting student org to join. I\u2019ve tried some in the past, like the EPX studio, but they weren\u2019t exactly what I was looking for. But there\u2019s so much I can still look into. For example, I\u2019ve heard of this org named Eats and Treats, which gathers their members weekly to cook meals. Since I\u2019ve been learning and cooking more the past few years, that\u2019s a club I could enjoy going to. Still, this week I learned that U of I has a fencing club and that\u2019s just incredible! I have always wanted to practice fencing, but never had the chance to. Unfortunately that\u2019s not something I can do this semester, since I have class conflicts with their meetings. But I will for sure be aware of their meeting times for next semester, so I can plan in advance.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that\u2019s all I had for today, see you next week!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! And Welcome back to Sigma Nu Zeta Omicron! I hope you are all having a great beginning this semester! The start of the semester is always a surprise. It may be very calm, a desirable \u201csyllabus week\u201d or it may come at full speed with all it\u2019s got. Now that I\u2019m not a freshman &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/2018\/02\/adapting-to-a-new-semester\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Adapting to a new 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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-campuslife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","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=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}