{"id":158,"date":"2026-05-04T13:16:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T13:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kiah\/?p=158"},"modified":"2026-05-04T13:16:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T13:16:59","slug":"farewell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kiah\/2026\/05\/04\/farewell\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Hey guys. <br \/><br \/>I will not be returning as a student blogger next year. <br \/><br \/>This is it. <br \/><br \/>Goodbye. <br \/><br \/>I\u2019m joking, of course. It\u2019s true, I won\u2019t be returning next year, but I hope that I will in my junior year! Next year will just be so busy, and unfortunately, this blog has had a tendency to fall to the wayside already, so I know I will not be able to keep up with the <strong>very high demand<\/strong> of my <strong>extremely large readership<\/strong> next year. I may start something independent, though, so be on the lookout for that! I\u2019ll let you know on my Instagram (@schuessical). <br \/><br \/>Even though the University of Iowa was not my first choice\u2014it was barely on my radar until my aunt, an MS and PhD graduate of UIowa, suggested it\u2014I could not be happier that I am here. It hasn\u2019t been all good; I\u2019ve shared that! Living on your own is hard, having a roommate is hard, and college classes are hard. But I\u2019ve had a most wonderful year, and I hope I was able to capture some of the magic I\u2019ve experienced.<br \/><br \/>The key to survival is a support system. It\u2019s not always easy or straightforward; friends come and go, with conflict or without, throughout the year. The people I am ending with, I did not necessarily start with. As I gushed about in my last blog, though, I think I\u2019ve found the exact right people for me. <br \/><br \/>I wish I had more thoughts for you all, but it\u2019s an overwhelming time of year\u2014school is ending, summer is beginning; friends are leaving and graduating, and I\u2019m going back home. Time is rushing forward, but I feel suspended in time, soaking it in. I can\u2019t put everything I\u2019ve experienced into words; I guess you just had to be there.\u00a0<br \/><br \/>So&#8230; goodbye.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>But don&#8217;t be a stranger \ud83d\ude42\u00a0<br \/><br \/>Kiah&lt;3<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey guys. I will not be returning as a student blogger next year. This is it. Goodbye. I\u2019m joking, of course. It\u2019s true, I won\u2019t be returning next year, but I hope that I will in my junior year! Next year will just be so busy, and unfortunately, this blog has had a tendency to fall to the wayside already, so I know I will not be able to keep up with the very high &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kiah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kiah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kiah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kiah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kiah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kiah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kiah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kiah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kiah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kiah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}