{"id":183,"date":"2019-11-11T14:38:21","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T19:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/mariana\/?p=183"},"modified":"2019-11-11T14:38:21","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T19:38:21","slug":"my-favorite-class-this-semester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/mariana\/2019\/11\/my-favorite-class-this-semester\/","title":{"rendered":"My Favorite Class This Semester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This semester I&#8217;m enrolled in a class called, &#8220;Introduction to Media Production.&#8221; The class is long, from 5pm to 7:30pm. Yet, the time somehow seems to fly by. Most likely because I love the class.<\/p>\n<p>Each week we delve into a new production learning experience. One week we learn about a newscast, the next how to produce a music video, then how to use Premiere Pro. All of which are things that interest me.<\/p>\n<p>It feels good to have found something that truly interests me and makes me excited to go to class.<\/p>\n<p>Since the class is only once a week and almost three hours long, everyone in the class is very close to one another and it takes me back to high school.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite classes in college so far have been the longer ones that occur only once or twice a week, like the rhetoric class I took or the two-and-a-half-hour art class I&#8217;m currently enrolled in along with this media production class.<\/p>\n<p>After all, it&#8217;s nice to make this huge college feel small by taking classes where you have time to learn everyone&#8217;s name and connect with them one on one.<\/p>\n<p>Sign-ups for classes are coming next week and my advice for everyone is to sign up for the classes that take a big chunk of time. Those are the classes where you are bound to make friends and form connections.<\/p>\n<p>I feel that the 50-minute discussion classes are not long enough to make strong connections and friendships. That&#8217;s why I recommend you sign up for the long classes. Plus, the upside is that they occur less frequently in the week.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck getting the schedule you want!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_184\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-184\" style=\"width: 169px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-184\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/mariana\/files\/2019\/11\/E72AD0B7-A0D9-4365-AFE5-6489E176C704-169x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/mariana\/files\/2019\/11\/E72AD0B7-A0D9-4365-AFE5-6489E176C704-169x300.jpeg 169w, https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/mariana\/files\/2019\/11\/E72AD0B7-A0D9-4365-AFE5-6489E176C704.jpeg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-184\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our music video class where the professor brought in guitars and drums!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This semester I&#8217;m enrolled in a class called, &#8220;Introduction to Media Production.&#8221; The class is long, from 5pm to 7:30pm. Yet, the time somehow seems to fly by. Most likely because I love the class. Each week we delve into a new production learning experience. One week we learn about a newscast, the next how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/mariana\/2019\/11\/my-favorite-class-this-semester\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Favorite Class This Semester<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-general","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/mariana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/mariana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/mariana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/mariana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/mariana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/mariana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/mariana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/mariana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/mariana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/mariana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}