{"id":70,"date":"2011-04-25T11:35:12","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T16:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jade\/?p=70"},"modified":"2011-04-25T11:35:12","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T16:35:12","slug":"sad-endings-exciting-new-beginnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jade\/2011\/04\/sad-endings-exciting-new-beginnings\/","title":{"rendered":"Sad Endings&#8230;Exciting New Beginnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well folks, I am sad to announce that I will be leaving the Office of Admissions.\u00a0 It has been almost 2 years since I started this amazing journey in the admissions realm.\u00a0 I have enjoyed being an admission counselor more than I had imagined and feel absolutely fortunate to have had this opportunity in my life.\u00a0 I have met some pretty amazing students that have inspired me to keep on in the higher education field.\u00a0 For this reason, I am still staying at The University of Iowa but will now be working in the Center for Diversity &amp; Enrichment as a Multicultural Coordinator!<\/p>\n<p>I am excited to begin my new journey working with current undergraduate students.\u00a0 However, I am sad to be leaving my co-workers. \ud83d\ude41\u00a0 But, they better be sure to schedule lunch dates with me and still invite me to fun events!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>This is my last blog&#8230;it has been fun giving you a small piece about the admissions realm and hope that you all have enjoyed my posts!<\/p>\n<p>I will leave you with some fun things to do when you get to campus, because for you this would be YOUR new beginnings!<\/p>\n<p>Things you must do on campus (according to me)<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Attend a football game (I never did as an undergraduate &amp; missed out on student ticket pricing!)<\/li>\n<li>Go to the homecoming parade<\/li>\n<li>Join a sorority or fraternity (I joined mine and have never regretted it)<\/li>\n<li>Visit the cultural houses<\/li>\n<li>Eat at Z&#8217;Mariks in downtown Iowa City (my favorite noodle cafe)<\/li>\n<li>Get a hot chocolate at the Jave House and study there<\/li>\n<li>Attend a Broadway play or musical<\/li>\n<li>Join Dance Marathon<\/li>\n<li>Study Abroad at some point in your college years<\/li>\n<li>Stay in Iowa City for a summer<\/li>\n<li>Actually learn the fight song (I didn&#8217;t learn it until I started working here&#8230;oooopppsssiiii)<\/li>\n<li>Eat lunch on the pentacrest lawn<\/li>\n<li>Find the underground tunnel that connects Burge &amp; Daum<\/li>\n<li>Attend a comedian act put on by CAB<\/li>\n<li>Apply to be an RA, Orientation Advisor, Tutor or On Iowa! peer leader<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well folks, I am sad to announce that I will be leaving the Office of Admissions.\u00a0 It has been almost 2 years since I started this amazing journey in the admissions realm.\u00a0 I have enjoyed being an admission counselor more than I had imagined and feel absolutely fortunate to have had this opportunity in my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jade\/2011\/04\/sad-endings-exciting-new-beginnings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sad Endings&#8230;Exciting New Beginnings<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}