{"id":335,"date":"2019-03-26T08:34:41","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T13:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/lizbeth\/?p=335"},"modified":"2019-03-26T08:34:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T13:34:41","slug":"a-second-semester-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/lizbeth\/2019\/03\/a-second-semester-update\/","title":{"rendered":"A second semester update!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300\">Hi guys!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300\">It\u2019s been a LONG time since I\u2019ve written &#8211; both on here and my personal blog. \ud83d\ude41 (Which I hope to launch soon! I\u2019ll try adding the link here in a later blog if you want to check that out too.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300\">Life gets crazy, and boy have I been busy! <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300\">I haven\u2019t forgotten you guys though. I\u2019m still here and will continue to be and hopefully my experiences can help you out too &#8211; just the way others\u2019 Experience Iowa blogs have helped me (and still do, haha).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300\">Since last writing, A LOT has changed. I feel like a new human!<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 300\"><strong>CommUnity certified Crisis Line volunteer<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300\">Last semester I was accepted into a volunteer program that I am super passionate about! Through CommUnity, I was able to become a certified suicide prevention counselor. The training was long but every moment was more impactful than the last, &amp; it was one of the most eye-opening things I\u2019d ever completed. I was able to become ASIST certified and can now communicate with individuals all over the United States and help them through a crisis. It is such an amazing program, and if you\u2019re at all interested you can do some research on it because the demand of volunteers is growing! I promise, it is a volunteer program you will not regret committing to.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/spcch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/AS_colour_solid_highres-1024x274.png\" alt=\"Related image\" width=\"369\" height=\"99\" data-iml=\"1553549366464\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 300\"><strong>UI Pen Pal program<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300\">Iowa City is my second home and I felt a desire to connect with my community more, so I applied for a super neat program called the UI Pen Pal program. You first fill out a mini survey about yourself, and the people in the Center for Diversity and Enrichment match you with a young kid in middle school that\u2019s similar to you. Basically, I get to communicate with my \u201cbuddy\u201d through letters, then get to spend a whole day with her sometime in April! You\u2019re not only being a friend, but a role model as well. This isn&#8217;t just a <em>fun<\/em> program to be a part of, but it looks amazing on resumes &amp; you really do learn a bit about yourself through the process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-336 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/lizbeth\/files\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-25-at-4.32.53-PM-300x182.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/lizbeth\/files\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-25-at-4.32.53-PM-300x182.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/lizbeth\/files\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-25-at-4.32.53-PM-768x467.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/lizbeth\/files\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-25-at-4.32.53-PM.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 300\"><strong>Women\u2019s Wellness and Counseling Clinic internship <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300\">The thing I love the most about Iowa is that the people here will always encourage you to keep learning &#8211; there really is no limit to that. Through the Psychiatry unit at the hospital I have been able to make so many connections and receive various opportunities because once the doctors I work for have taught me and showed me everything they possibly can, they introduce me to new people. The professors and staff at Iowa never want to hold you back, they\u2019ll always want you to keep moving forward. I have been crazy blessed and am now the first undergrad to work for the WWC since opening up in 2010. Since they know I want to focus on counseling psychology, they have taken me under their wing and have been teaching me the field. I am so excited to officially start in the fall of 2019!<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 300\"><span style=\"font-weight: 300\">American Association of Suicidology conference<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300\">Another opportunity I was grateful enough to receive was an invitation to the AAS conference in Denver, Colorado! Through CommUnity and the connections I have made at the hospital, I am able to attend such a neat conference to become a better equiped counselor for the CommUnity center and hopefully one day my career! It\u2019s pending because as neat as this opportunity is, it is not connected to the U of Iowa so I have to get approved by all professors before missing four days of classes. However, I say take in every opportunity you can, and if it ends up not working out then you will always know in the back of your head that there was the possibility of it. Most of the time, the professors will encourage opportunities such as this one. So, go for it! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/servingtogetherproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/0db4b0d88db6f2461dc63ab3c2c4bf0d.png\" alt=\"Image result for Suicidology\" width=\"252\" height=\"167\" data-iml=\"1553549932445\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 300\"><span style=\"font-weight: 300\">BEST test scores (thus far)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300\">Based off of personal decisions, I set out a majority of my \u201cfree time\u201d in the library. I knew what type of student I had the potential of being, and knew I hadn&#8217;t been giving it my ALL this past semester. Although I was still getting good grades, I knew that I could push myself even further. This semester I wanted to take initiative of that so I set high goals in academics and it led me to the best semester I&#8217;ve had my entire time at Iowa. The feeling is unbeatable. I can assure you once you see such high grades you won&#8217;t want to go back and studying just becomes a habit &#8211; a \u201croutine&#8221; that you actually don&#8217;t mind doing because of the end results.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The University of Iowa is a never-ending place of opportunities. They&#8217;re all around us, in every corner! Take initiative of what you want to become a part of because the opportunities are here, you just have to snatch them.<\/p>\n<p>Xoxo,<\/p>\n<p>Lizbeth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi guys! It\u2019s been a LONG time since I\u2019ve written &#8211; both on here and my personal blog. \ud83d\ude41 (Which I hope to launch soon! I\u2019ll try adding the link here in a later blog if you want to check that out too.) Life gets crazy, and boy have I been busy! I haven\u2019t forgotten &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/lizbeth\/2019\/03\/a-second-semester-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A second semester update!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/lizbeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/lizbeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/lizbeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/lizbeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/lizbeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/lizbeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/lizbeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/lizbeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/lizbeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/lizbeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}