{"id":28,"date":"2019-08-30T20:37:12","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T01:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/maya\/?p=28"},"modified":"2019-09-06T08:06:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T13:06:17","slug":"college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/maya\/2019\/08\/college\/","title":{"rendered":"College"},"content":{"rendered":"

That\u2019s it. That\u2019s the title.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Let me elaborate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been at Iowa since Sunday, August 18th. It\u2019s been overwhelming. It\u2019s been exciting. It\u2019s been different, uncomfortable, and new.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Let me elaborate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

My entire life I\u2019ve been surrounded with familiarity. Nothing has ever been \u201cnew\u201d to me. I attended a small Catholic school in the same town and went to the same school for 11 years– three year old preschool to eighth grade. The only thing that\u2019s been \u201cdifferent\u201d to me was transitioning to a small Catholic high school.\u00a0 Sure, that was crazy, and being a freshman just kind of sucks because nobody likes you. It\u2019s a common theme everywhere.<\/span><\/p>\n

Familiarity has been very nice. In no way am I complaining. We all love knowing everything about everything. It gives us a secure feeling, in a way that gives us really nothing to worry about. We don\u2019t realize we\u2019ve been surrounded with that until we aren\u2019t.\u00a0 That familiarity, albeit safe, is also what inspired me to go somewhere new. And, yes, that feeling of not knowing anything, which has given me an overwhelming amount of different emotions, is what I have felt since moving four hours away from Missouri to Iowa for college.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So for most people, that\u2019s what college is. We go from knowing everything and everyone, to a place we aren\u2019t familiar with. We ask ourselves if it\u2019s socially acceptable to wear a Velcro towel after we shower in a non gender specific hall\u2026 We question if an underground tunnel connecting dorms was a scene from a horror film\u2026 We find ourselves stuck on the Cambus for 30 minutes–no explanation needed. Suddenly we\u2019re \u201cbroke college students.\u201d The student loans, the academically challenging classes, the culture shock (how does one Cambus?), the whole shabang.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But I\u2019m glad that everything is new and difficult, because \u201clife begins at the end of your comfort zone.\u201d I don\u2019t know who said that, but they were right. Iowa is my new life. I chose it because of that reason. I didn\u2019t want to go to Mizzou with the people I\u2019ve known my entire life at a place only 30 minutes away from home. It is a challenge that builds character and gives you new experiences. It forces you to make new friends and become accustomed to your surroundings. I have so much to learn.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A change has been long overdue in my life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m so ready for it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That\u2019s it. That\u2019s the title.\u00a0 Let me elaborate.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been at Iowa since Sunday, August 18th. It\u2019s been overwhelming. It\u2019s been exciting. It\u2019s been different, uncomfortable, and new.\u00a0 Let me elaborate.\u00a0 My entire life I\u2019ve been surrounded with familiarity. Nothing has ever been \u201cnew\u201d to me. I attended a small Catholic school in the same … Continue reading College<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/maya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/maya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/maya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/maya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/maya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/maya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/maya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/maya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/maya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/maya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}