{"id":98,"date":"2017-02-13T09:20:26","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T14:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/?p=98"},"modified":"2017-02-13T09:20:26","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T14:20:26","slug":"changes-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/2017\/02\/changes-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes II"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hello and welcome back to the late Sigma Nu Zeta\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Omicron<\/span><\/span>. I’m mostly sorry for my delay, but this time I had not only a lot of homework but I also had to study for a chemistry exam I had on\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Thursday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>night<\/span><\/span>. I finally found some time to write and so here I am.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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To start today<\/span><\/span>\u00a0I would like to give you some advice. Taking 12\u00a0<\/span><\/span>semester<\/span><\/span>\u00a0hours is ok, 15 is nice, but 18 is for hard working people. So keep that in mind when you decide the amount of classes you are going to take. I think 18 credits worth of classes would be ok for me, since I’m not the lazy type and am used to working hard, but\u00a0<\/span><\/span>along<\/span><\/span>side<\/span><\/span>\u00a0with my classes I’m working for 15 weekly hours, so it kind of became a considerable amount of things to do, which\u00a0<\/span><\/span>is keeping me busy and a little tired most of the time. Because of that I don’t think I will be able to write my blog on the same day of the week as I was originally doing. But I promise I will try to keep it weekly.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Some people say that “there are no limits for men”.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0Well I guess they should correct the phrase for “Men know no limits”. It is obvious that everyone have their own limits, but being the wise decision maker I am,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>I decided to join two clubs. Yes I know, now I have even m<\/span><\/span>ore<\/span><\/span>\u00a0things to do, but here goes some more advice: everybody needs a break, so try to find a club or a\u00a0<\/span><\/span>hobby<\/span><\/span>\u00a0so you can relax and express <\/span><\/span>your<\/span><\/span>self. You should\u00a0<\/span><\/span>always give yourself a safe amount of rest.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Well let’s talk about the two clubs I’m on. The first is the ESL RPG club, which I was\u00a0<\/span><\/span>already on last semester, but we are still\u00a0<\/span><\/span>playing<\/span><\/span>\u00a0the same\u00a0<\/span><\/span>g<\/span><\/span>ame<\/span><\/span>\u00a0and there will be new\u00a0<\/span><\/span>players<\/span><\/span>\u00a0so I am excited for that. The Other is the EPX Studio, a club to meet people that are\u00a0<\/span><\/span>creating<\/span><\/span>\u00a0either a video game or\u00a0<\/span><\/span>an<\/span><\/span>\u00a0animation. They are cool and they also have\u00a0<\/span><\/span>pizza<\/span><\/span>\u00a0and soda very meeting. Still,<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>I really don’t know anything about programming a game, so I went there expecting to learn more about it. However, everyone was\u00a0<\/span><\/span>already<\/span><\/span>\u00a0on a project and\u00a0<\/span><\/span>trying<\/span><\/span>\u00a0to make some progress on their work. I’m not sure anybody will be able to teach me, so I might give up on this club.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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That’s kind of hard for me to do, because I hardly give up on things, I always stay until the very end of it.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0I think I’m changing and learning to do some concessions. Another thing that I think I will change is my job. I’m currently working at Hillcrest marketplace. I like there and other workers there are very cool. But my friend gave me this great idea of becoming a tutor. That Idea struck me because I noticed that a lot of students search for math and chemistry\u00a0<\/span><\/span>tut<\/span><\/span>ors, and I have the requirements to become one,( a grade greater than B on the class you want to tutor and a GPA of 3.8 or more). So I decided that next semester, if I do well in my chemistry class, I will leave my current job and apply to become a chemistry<\/span><\/span>\u00a0tutor.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Now that we are talking about changes I want to say something I noticed. In my first semester, I changed as a student. You see, I never gave that much importance to my grades in school, I always learned only enough to pass. If the minimum GPA of my\u00a0<\/span><\/span>school<\/span><\/span>\u00a0was 2.4, I would get 2.5. Not that I was a bad student or something like that, I just wasn’t interested in what I was learning at all. But here this changed, maybe because the structure is\u00a0<\/span><\/span>very<\/span><\/span>\u00a0different. Back in my high school you never decided what course you wanted to do. All years were the same courses: Math,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Portuguese<\/span><\/span>, Geography, History, Literature, Chemistry, Biology, Physics, E<\/span><\/span>nglish, Sociology. But here I really got to choose what I wanted, that made my interest grow, and I became a better\u00a0<\/span><\/span>student<\/span><\/span>. I was very happy with my grades and I have the feeling that I actually learned a lot in my classes. I still don’t know if this\u00a0<\/span><\/span>second<\/span><\/span>\u00a0semester is going to change me. Until now I can only predict I will get more responsible because of all the classes and work I have\u00a0<\/span><\/span>to manage. But only time will tell what it will be.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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That’s all I had for today folks. I hope you are all doing great and see you next week.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A<\/span><\/span>s Yusuke\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Urameshi<\/span><\/span>, a character from a anime I would watch always said: “I did not met the other world for nothing”.<\/span><\/span>
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Hello and welcome back to the late Sigma Nu Zeta\u00a0Omicron. I’m mostly sorry for my delay, but this time I had not only a lot of homework but I also had to study for a chemistry exam I had on\u00a0Thursday\u00a0night. I finally found some time to write and so here I am.\u00a0 To start today\u00a0I … Continue reading Changes II<\/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":[5,1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campuslife","category-general","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","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=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}