{"id":1311,"date":"2012-09-06T09:14:13","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T14:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/?p=1311"},"modified":"2012-09-06T09:14:13","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T14:14:13","slug":"back-to-the-grindstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/2012\/09\/06\/back-to-the-grindstone\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to the Grindstone!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back!<\/p>\n<p>I hope that everyone was able to have a great summer! While most college students were working this summer, I was stuck at home on crutches. Oh the joys of surgery! While I did have a lot of downtime at home, it&#8217;s nice to have a challenge again.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s been three days since the semester started. How does your course load look? \u00a0Hectic? Laid back? Or &#8220;Oh my goodness! It will be a miracle if I finish this semester with a full head of hair!&#8221; Personally, I don&#8217;t know where I am yet.<\/p>\n<p>With the beginning of a new semester, a lot of student organizations are hosting a wide variety of events. If you have some time between class and studying I encourage you to find one that tickles your fancy. There are almost 200 student organizations here at UWSP. Student orgs are a great way to meet people who share the same interests as you. They also look great on job or grad school applications\u00a0<em>(hint, hint).<\/em> It shows that while you were studying very hard, you also took some time to enjoy other things.<\/p>\n<p>If you aren&#8217;t sure what student orgs there are on campus, take some time to <a href=\"https:\/\/mypoint.uwsp.edu\/SIEO\/SIEO004\/SIEO004.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">peruse the list<\/a> to see if there&#8217;s one that catches your eye.<\/p>\n<p>While I would love to talk more about student organizations, I have an event I have to get ready for.<\/p>\n<p>As Tigger would say, &#8220;Ta ta for now.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back! I hope that everyone was able to have a great summer! While most college students were working this summer, I was stuck at home on crutches. Oh the joys of surgery! While I did have a lot of downtime at home, it&#8217;s nice to have a challenge again. Well, it&#8217;s been three days [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,23],"tags":[310,343,344],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}