{"id":389,"date":"2019-08-30T07:44:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T12:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kamryn\/?p=389"},"modified":"2019-08-30T07:44:10","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T12:44:10","slug":"back-in-black-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kamryn\/2019\/08\/back-in-black-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Back in Black &#038; Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, Hawkeyes!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m feeling a little emotional because I started my senior year at the University of Iowa this week, but I wanted to start off on the right foot with blogging this year.\u00a0 For those who haven&#8217;t been following along, I really slacked off when it came to being consistent with posting last year. My first post didn&#8217;t come until <em>almost October.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s way too long.<\/p>\n<p>And while this post isn&#8217;t going to be glamorous by any means, it is important. I&#8217;m going to talk about where I am in life right now, as well as where I want to be by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of going home over the summer, I stayed in Iowa City and worked in the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kamryn\/2017\/09\/the-unsung-heroes-of-college-football\/\">football video office<\/a> and at a daycare. During my free time, I worked on getting my life together (<em>does that ever actually happen?<\/em>), and putting together application materials since I knew I would start applying for post-grad jobs in August. It&#8217;s a really stressful process that I&#8217;ll definitely make a post about in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>Now that school has started, I&#8217;m feeling overwhelmed. I touched on what <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kamryn\/2019\/05\/countdown-to-senior-year\/\">senior year is going to be like<\/a> towards the end of last semester, but I might as well give a short overview again.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m taking six classes (18 s.h.) for the fourth semester in a row, working two jobs and one internship, and trying to figure out a job or internship for after graduation.<\/p>\n<p>My goal is to try to post at least twice a month, but I&#8217;m hoping I can actually post more often than that. I have a lot I want to talk about. For example, you can expect posts about the classes I&#8217;m taking, my majors, my current job and internship, managing time, applying for jobs, study spots on campus, roommates, and more.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s going to be a crazy year, but I&#8217;m looking forward to it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u22ef\u22ef\u22ef\u22ef<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Thank you for reading! Be sure to keep an eye out for my next post. If you want to see more of my daily life as a Hawkeye, feel free to follow me on social media. Go Hawks!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Instagram \u00b7\u00a0Twitter<\/strong><br \/>\n@kam_smithy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, Hawkeyes! I&#8217;m feeling a little emotional because I started my senior year at the University of Iowa this week, but I wanted to start off on the right foot with blogging this year.\u00a0 For those who haven&#8217;t been following along, I really slacked off when it came to being consistent with posting last year. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kamryn\/2019\/08\/back-in-black-gold\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Back in Black &#038; Gold<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kamryn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kamryn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kamryn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kamryn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kamryn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kamryn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kamryn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kamryn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kamryn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kamryn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}