{"id":1308,"date":"2012-09-05T15:17:57","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T20:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/?p=1308"},"modified":"2012-09-05T15:17:57","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T20:17:57","slug":"that-freshman-feeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/2012\/09\/05\/that-freshman-feeling\/","title":{"rendered":"That Freshman Feeling"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1314\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/09\/freshmanfeeling.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1314 \" title=\"freshmanfeeling\" alt=\"Song Xiong\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/09\/freshmanfeeling.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption>This photo was taken the summer before my freshman year.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As I begin my (super-duper) senior year, I can\u2019t help but think about all the freshmen and their first day on campus. What if I get lost? Will I be accepted? What if I don\u2019t know the answer? The truth is, we never really escape freshman year. Every new situation we\u2019re placed into, whether it\u2019s a school, internship or job, feels like being a freshman again.<\/p>\n<p>Even as a (super-duper) senior, I felt like a freshman this summer as an intern at the Aurora Walker\u2019s Point Community Clinic in Milwaukee. I was working amongst professionals and medical students to write a grant proposal, a task I had no experience in. The clinic was located in the heart of the Hispanic community, a population I had no experience working with. I was a nervous wreck! Regardless, I found my way, made friends and got respect, and learned some of the answers.<\/p>\n<p>The truth is that even in a place as comforting as UW-Stevens Point, I still get lost, I\u2019m still not sure who accepts me, and I still don\u2019t know all the answers. Like middle school, high school and college, new situations teach us how to grow and become better, smarter people. It doesn\u2019t matter if you\u2019re a freshman, sophomore, junior or senior, there will always be situations that make you feel like a freshman.<\/p>\n<p>-Song<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/category\/students\/song-x\/\">Song Xiong<\/a> is a senior at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point majoring in\u00a0dietetics and communication.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I begin my (super-duper) senior year, I can\u2019t help but think about all the freshmen and their first day on campus. What if I get lost? Will I be accepted? What if I don\u2019t know the answer? The truth is, we never really escape freshman year. Every new situation we\u2019re placed into, whether it\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,51,23],"tags":[343,344],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}