{"id":463,"date":"2026-01-05T18:46:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/?p=463"},"modified":"2026-01-05T18:46:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:46:42","slug":"finals-week-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/2026\/01\/05\/finals-week-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Finals Week Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone!<\/p>\n<p>It is currently the middle of finals week, and I thought you&#8217;d like a peek at what it is like.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Matcha at Midnight Coffee &#8211; they have a new holiday cranberry flavor<\/li>\n<li>Finish my Literary Editing final portfolio<\/li>\n<li>Start my Norse Literature final paper<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Monday:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Work at Admissions and give a tour!<\/li>\n<li>Go shopping with my friend Camden<\/li>\n<li>Holiday party + Secret Santa with my friend group!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-464\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/files\/2025\/12\/IMG_0098-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/files\/2025\/12\/IMG_0098-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/files\/2025\/12\/IMG_0098-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/files\/2025\/12\/IMG_0098-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/files\/2025\/12\/IMG_0098.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Work again!<\/li>\n<li>Turn in Norse paper<\/li>\n<li>Work on internship applications<\/li>\n<li>Interview!<\/li>\n<li>Watch Noelle on Disney+<\/li>\n<li>Read <em>Fall I Want<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Wednesday:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cookies\/movie night with friends<\/li>\n<li>Lock in at Green House coffeeshop<\/li>\n<li>Dinner at Cactus with my friend Kailyn<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Thursday<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Play piano at Voxman and work in the Music Library<\/li>\n<li>Tour guiding!<\/li>\n<li>Dinner and gift swap with friends at Stuffed Olive<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Friday\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Clean my room and pack to go home!<\/li>\n<li>Work at Admissions<\/li>\n<li>Movie night with the other RAs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Saturday:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Go on a run<\/li>\n<li>Close down Burge<\/li>\n<li>Prep to fly home on Sunday!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As you can see, I am lucky and did not have much to do academically, and instead worked and finished some personal projects. Happy holidays, everyone!<\/p>\n<p>-Solenn<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone! It is currently the middle of finals week, and I thought you&#8217;d like a peek at what it is like. Sunday: Matcha at Midnight Coffee &#8211; they have a new holiday cranberry flavor Finish my Literary Editing final portfolio Start my Norse Literature final paper Monday:\u00a0 Work at Admissions and give a tour! Go shopping with my friend Camden Holiday party + Secret Santa with my friend group! Tuesday:\u00a0 Work again! Turn in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions\/466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}