{"id":217,"date":"2016-11-17T12:32:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T17:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rachel\/?p=217"},"modified":"2016-11-17T12:32:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T17:32:01","slug":"views-1111","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rachel\/2016\/11\/views-1111\/","title":{"rendered":"Views: 11\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These last few weeks have been a little hectic for me. From being able to participate in my first presidential election to signing a lease for an apartment, getting a job, and balancing school work, I&#8217;m ready to just slow down and have Thanksgiving break.<\/p>\n<p>This week, I thought I&#8217;d share some of the things I&#8217;ve seen around campus post-election and during my usual Friday activities.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-221 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rachel\/files\/2016\/11\/pics2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rachel\/files\/2016\/11\/pics2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rachel\/files\/2016\/11\/pics2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rachel\/files\/2016\/11\/pics2.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nFor lunch, I decided to try out the River Room Cafe on the main floor of the IMU. It&#8217;s right past the Memorial Union Hotel and kinda tucked away in the back of the building. My friend, Liz, told me about it and said that they have a pasta bar and stir-fry bar available for Flex Meals. I was intrigued. I had a really long period of time between my two classes of the day and figured, why not try something new?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-222\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rachel\/files\/2016\/11\/pics-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rachel\/files\/2016\/11\/pics-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rachel\/files\/2016\/11\/pics-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rachel\/files\/2016\/11\/pics-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rachel\/files\/2016\/11\/pics.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-223\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rachel\/files\/2016\/11\/pics3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rachel\/files\/2016\/11\/pics3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rachel\/files\/2016\/11\/pics3.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Instead of taking the easy way back to my room, I chose to walk past the Pentacrest and Old Capitol building since it was so beautiful outside. I started to look around and just take the beauty of the day in when I noticed something beneath my feet. I usually see chalk written on the sidewalk promoting events or student organizations. But with it being only two days after the election, these little markings appeared.<\/p>\n<p>I will say that I&#8217;m not very happy with the results and quite honestly don&#8217;t wish to talk about it. I&#8217;m just glad that these people are bringing awareness to important ideologies as the people of our nation, and Iowa City, try to cope with the results. There was also a peaceful protest that occurred Friday evening where students and Iowa City residents marched the streets to the interstate. I would&#8217;ve probably participated if I knew the event was happening. Whether I participated in these events or not, I&#8217;m just glad people are standing up for themselves and what they believe in.<\/p>\n<p>Now, \u00a0I know this post has been delayed and it&#8217;s cause things are just a little too hectic for me right now. I&#8217;ve been trying to finish two major papers and a 40-minute presentation these past two weeks and it&#8217;s been a struggle to come up with anything creative to write or even have the time to do it. I love blogging and can&#8217;t wait to get back to a regular schedule of writing fun things for you guys to read but I really want to be comfortable with my time management, first.<\/p>\n<p>So again, sorry for the delay but I hope you all have had a fantastic last few weeks and have a happy Thanksgiving break \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/freshhawk.wordpress.com\">Personal Blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These last few weeks have been a little hectic for me. From being able to participate in my first presidential election to signing a lease for an apartment, getting a job, and balancing school work, I&#8217;m ready to just slow down and have Thanksgiving break. This week, I thought I&#8217;d share some of the things &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rachel\/2016\/11\/views-1111\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Views: 11\/11<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":9,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rachel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rachel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rachel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rachel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rachel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rachel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rachel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rachel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rachel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rachel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rachel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}