{"id":26,"date":"2025-09-03T16:35:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T16:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sophia\/?p=26"},"modified":"2025-09-03T16:35:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T16:35:19","slug":"the-world-doesnt-hate-you-its-just-after-9pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sophia\/2025\/09\/03\/the-world-doesnt-hate-you-its-just-after-9pm\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Doesn&#8217;t Hate You, It&#8217;s Just After 9PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Give yourself some grace.<\/p>\n<p>In the simplest terms, that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m here to tell you.<\/p>\n<p>College in itself is inherently such an anxiety-provoking experience, and it can feel isolating and overwhelming for many people, including me.<\/p>\n<p>But if you&#8217;re having one of those days, or nights in particular, where it just feels like everything is going wrong. Maybe you have 5 assignments due, or you feel like everyone is making friends easier than you are. Or maybe you just liked how you looked better last week versus this one.<\/p>\n<p>I want you to take a deep breath, go take a warm shower, get some food, put on a show or something you like to watch, and let that breath go. Because it&#8217;s really, truly, going to be okay.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing is ever as scary or detrimental as it seems to be when you&#8217;re staring at your ceiling at 2 am. So don&#8217;t let the 9 pm scaries get to you. We&#8217;re all doing the best we can, and I couldn&#8217;t be prouder.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of love,<br \/>\nSophia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Give yourself some grace. In the simplest terms, that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m here to tell you. College in itself is inherently such an anxiety-provoking experience, and it can feel isolating and overwhelming for many people, including me. But if you&#8217;re having one of those days, or nights in particular, where it just feels like everything is going wrong. Maybe you have 5 assignments due, or you feel like everyone is making friends easier than you are. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":170,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sophia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sophia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sophia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sophia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/170"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sophia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sophia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sophia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sophia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sophia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sophia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}