{"id":22808,"date":"2015-01-13T15:32:33","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T20:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/?p=22808"},"modified":"2015-01-13T15:32:33","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T20:32:33","slug":"here-we-go-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2015\/01\/13\/here-we-go-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Here We Go Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>Before I start this blog post, I would like to ask for a moment of silence for our dearly departed friend - the best friend I've ever had.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Winter Break.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<figure id=\"attachment_22814\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22814\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/files\/2015\/01\/IMG_3194.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-22814\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/files\/2015\/01\/IMG_3194-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A picture of a plushy dog. There is a Christmas card in front of it that says &quot;Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas!&quot; with images of celebrity D.U.I.'s. \" width=\"584\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/files\/2015\/01\/IMG_3194-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/files\/2015\/01\/IMG_3194-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/files\/2015\/01\/IMG_3194-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22814\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">R.I.P.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<strong>You were my rock, and I will always love you. I know we'll be together again... one day (next year). \u00a0But it's time to live my life, Winter Break. I will not let your loss turn me into a\u00a0Sylvia Plath novel.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3JWTaaS7LdU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\r\n\r\nANYHOO.\r\n\r\n<strong>I know, I know. A lot of you - me included - are still feeling the effect PBD<\/strong> (post-break depression, which is obviously 100% real and probably viral).\u00a0As much as most of us try to avoid PBD, it happens. But that doesn't mean you have to let it insidiously seep into every crevice of your semester.\u00a0<strong>You can and will beat the second-hand semester blues.<\/strong>\r\n\r\nWith the power of teamwork and Gen Y\u00a0dedication, let's beat it together.\r\n\r\nIt's 2015, and we're going to make this semester even better than the last. Which is pretty difficult\u00a0to do, because not to toot my own horn, but my marks were pretty rad last semester. <strong>\"New year, new me?\" More like: \"new year, slightly more adequate me.\"<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IRsPheErBj8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\r\n\r\n<strong>Okay, it's not that easy. This semester I have a bigger coarse load, and the classes I'm in look more intimidating than any class I've been in before. In light of that, I've been trying\u00a0different approaches to neatly ease into this semester.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>First, I've decided to eliminate my laptop.\u00a0<\/strong>By that, I don't mean destroying it, but limiting its use to when I actually need it - when I need to write 6000 word paper. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/technology\/laptop-use-lowers-student-grades-experiment-shows-1.1401860\">It's actually been proven that laptop use during lectures lower your grades.<\/a> I'm used\u00a0to taking notes during my lectures while simultaneously deciding whether or not I should change my Facebook profile picture. No more. This semester, I will be writing notes like the cavemen once did. With a pen and a notebook.\r\n\r\n<figure id=\"attachment_22815\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22815\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/files\/2015\/01\/IMG_3400.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-22815\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/files\/2015\/01\/IMG_3400-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Me taking a picture with my iPhone of my MacBook which has Photo Booth on.  A meta-selfie? \" width=\"584\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/files\/2015\/01\/IMG_3400-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/files\/2015\/01\/IMG_3400-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/files\/2015\/01\/IMG_3400-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22815\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I can still take study breaks to be narcissistic once in a while.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<strong>\r\nSecond, I'm going to start going to the gym for the first time since high school (A.K.A. 30 years ago).<\/strong> I've come to realize that I'm pretty talented in procrastinating, so I might as well be using that time to be a healthier. I've never felt more zen than when I was working out\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/AnS\/psychology\/health_psychology\/exercise_and_depression.htm\">(which is explained by science or whatever).<\/a> It's just the whole getting ready to go to the gym, and then showering and leaving the gym part that I didn't like. Still, the pros\u00a0far outweigh my lowly cons, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/releases\/2013\/Q2\/college-students-working-out-at-campus-gyms-get-better-grades.html\">it actually does help your grades!\r\n<\/a>\r\n\r\n<strong>Lastly, I'm going to make a solid effort to be more casually social early on in the semester.<\/strong> Instead of binge-watching all 10 seasons of\u00a0<em>Friends\u00a0<\/em>on Netflix alone, I'll do it with friends. That way, I won't feel the pressure of going out three nights a week when it gets to crunch time.\r\n\r\n<strong>I'm going to make everyday a wonderful kind of day.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7zkX6kfnWbk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\r\n\r\n<em>So, those are some new things I'm going to do this semester. What about you\u00a0UofT? Tell me below, or tweet me with the hashtag <\/em><strong>#TryItUofT\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\n<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nBefore I start this blog post, I would like to ask for a moment of silence for our dearly departed friend - the best friend I've ever had. Winter Break. You were my rock, and I will always love you.&hellip;\n<\/div><div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2015\/01\/13\/here-we-go-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Here We Go Again&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2015\/01\/13\/here-we-go-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Here We Go Again&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":226,"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\/22808"}],"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\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22808"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22823,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22808\/revisions\/22823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}