{"id":18856,"date":"2013-11-07T16:40:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T21:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/?p=18856"},"modified":"2013-11-07T16:40:26","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T21:40:26","slug":"five-things-that-are-getting-on-my-nerves-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2013\/11\/07\/five-things-that-are-getting-on-my-nerves-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Things That Are Getting on My Nerves Right Now"},"content":{"rendered":"Everything is getting on my nerves.* <em>Everything<\/em>. I thought I'd share a few of those things, in no particular order:\r\n<ol>\r\n\t<li><strong> The mess of finals that live at the end of November\/beginning of December.<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Three 10-page essays and three exams in the span of one week. No, I do not want to hear about how much harder Engineering is than Arts &amp; Science.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\t<li><strong>Long waits for the TTC\u2026during rush hour\u2026in the rain.<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>That $1,500\/month, bachelor apartment with 1\/4 of a bathroom near school doesn\u2019t sound all that outrageous right now.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\t<li><strong>Apple\u2019s insistence on putting out a new version of iTunes every other day.<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>What was wrong with the version you put out last week, Mr. Apple? Oh, the background wasn\u2019t light grey enough?<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\t<li><strong>Long-distance calls to Kenya\u2026at 5:00 AM. <\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Mom, please stop screaming. They can hear you just fine.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\t<li><strong>The week after Halloween: All the good ones are gone.<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Let me just treat myself to an \u2013 *digs through bag of leftover candy, searching desperately for chocolate* \u2013 eyeball shaped ring pop.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<strong>*<\/strong>I know, I know. No better example of #FirstWorldProblems. We all have our days though, right? When we\u2019d give everything to roll up in a ball on a chair at Robarts for a precious half-hour nap? It can\u2019t just be me. Midterms and finals turn me into an ungrateful, whiny, cranky <em>monster<\/em> \u2013 if you\u2019re anything like me in that regard (I can\u2019t imagine any student who isn\u2019t), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/countdown\/generic?iso=20131220T00&amp;p0=250&amp;msg=Last+Day+of+School%21\" target=\"_blank\">here\u2019s a countdown for you<\/a>. In about 40 days, we\u2019ll be home free\u2026until next year.\r\n\r\nKeep on smiling, U of T!\r\n\r\n(If you\u2019d rather frown and be grumpy like me, let me know what\u2019s getting on your nerves right at this very second).\r\n\r\nLove, Hawa","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\n<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nEverything is getting on my nerves.* Everything. I thought I'd share a few of those things, in no particular order: The mess of finals that live at the end of November\/beginning of December. Three 10-page essays and three exams in&hellip;\n<\/div><div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2013\/11\/07\/five-things-that-are-getting-on-my-nerves-right-now\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Five Things That Are Getting on My Nerves Right Now&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2013\/11\/07\/five-things-that-are-getting-on-my-nerves-right-now\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Five Things That Are Getting on My Nerves Right Now&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18856"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18872,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18856\/revisions\/18872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}