{"id":6,"date":"2023-01-12T19:19:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T19:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/schaafru\/?p=6"},"modified":"2023-01-12T19:19:15","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T19:19:15","slug":"getting-back-in-the-swing-of-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/schaafru\/2023\/01\/12\/getting-back-in-the-swing-of-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Back in the Swing of Things"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Refocusing on school work after a long winter term break can always be a challenge for me. This term I found that to be especially so. Despite having weeks off, I still didn&#8217;t feel prepared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I&#8217;m sure others can relate, I wanted to share some of my tips I use to help get myself back in the mindset of school<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Have a designated school work location<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Having a place that when you sit down, you know you are working is extremely important. I find this to be especially true when taking online courses. For me, I renovated one of my apartment rooms into a simple office. I know when I come in here in the morning, that I am focusing on school work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Get plenty of sleep<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>We have all heard it plenty of times but sleep is extremely important for a number of things. Better sleep will allow you to focus on your work and help you to retain the information you&#8217;ve learned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Take breaks as needed<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Especially when just getting back in the swing of things, remember to take breaks, eat some food, and then return to your work feeling more refreshed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Remember your goals<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a big one for me. I am currently on my last term of my post-bacc and senioritis has been real. Each day I remind myself why I am taking this program and my goals. This helps me to stay motivated through the remainder of the program<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hope my tidbits of information was helpful to at least one reader!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Refocusing on school work after a long winter term break can always be a challenge for me. This term I found that to be especially so. Despite having weeks off, I still didn&#8217;t feel prepared. As I&#8217;m sure others can relate, I wanted to share some of my tips I use to help get myself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/schaafru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/schaafru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/schaafru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/schaafru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/schaafru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/schaafru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/schaafru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/schaafru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/schaafru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/schaafru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}