{"id":2325,"date":"2015-08-05T00:22:34","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T04:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=2325"},"modified":"2019-07-24T18:29:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T18:29:49","slug":"classes-have-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2015\/08\/05\/classes-have-started\/","title":{"rendered":"Classes have started"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Classes have started and I am a little nervous for the weeks to come. \u00a0They are completely different than what I am used to at Rollins. \u00a0They are much larger and more of a lecture style. \u00a0I am taking a biology class in which I feel like I may struggle with. \u00a0I think the main thing I have to do to ensure my success is to stay on top of my work. \u00a0I have been doing this, (currently in the library). \u00a0I have met some new friends and excited to see where they take me. \u00a0A friend and I went to dinner with them and had an interesting interaction to say the least. \u00a0The main take away from that dinner is to be more cautious on dating aps because you never know when you will meet one, or three, in the same sitting. I am trying to meet more Australians and locals to show me the ropes in this land down under. \u00a0I am not completely happy about my Homestay as I am living with a 74 year old women, an 85 year old man, and two other exchange students from China. \u00a0I feel alone and find my self watching a significant amount of Netflix. \u00a0Hopefully with meeting new friends I will start to spend more time out of the house. \u00a0I do not think it\u2019s fair that we cannot live in apartments as all other students, but that is just a rule that seems senseless to me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSC00091-300x200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17551 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSC00091-300x200-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 Besides the point, I will make the best of the situation and hopefully have a more positive experience with the living situation than I am now.<\/p>\n<p>Current State of the Union-<\/p>\n<p>Ins: surfing, new friends, kangaroo steak, urbanest, tim tams, waving from windows, dating aps, the clique,\u00a0affogatos,<\/p>\n<p>outs: dating aps, Homestays, biology, school in general, time change,\u00a0deleting\u00a0contacts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Classes have started and I am a little nervous for the weeks to come. \u00a0They are completely different than what I am used to at Rollins. \u00a0They are much larger and more of a lecture style. \u00a0I am taking a biology class in which I feel like I may struggle with. \u00a0I think the main&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sydney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17552,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions\/17552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}