{"id":7602,"date":"2017-03-05T11:35:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T16:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=7602"},"modified":"2019-07-17T14:56:09","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T14:56:09","slug":"6-weeks-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2017\/03\/05\/6-weeks-in\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Weeks In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the most part, the homesickness has subsided, partially because my sister is coming to visit next week. Generally, though, I&#8217;ve really started to see London as my home away from home. I&#8217;ve developed close friendships with my flatmates and have gotten to spend a lot of time with them. I&#8217;m planning to get out of London to see Stonehenge next week. Although I haven&#8217;t done as much traveling as I would have liked, I&#8217;m hoping to change that soon as spring rolls around.<\/p>\n<p>Although my semester has been pretty relaxed, half-term has come with a wave of essays and assignments. I&#8217;ve been completing one assignment after the other, and I&#8217;m currently procrastinating on an essay as we speak. Unfortunately, the grades here are usually determined by one essay and the final exam. My essays are typically worth 40% of my overall grade, so a lot of effort and close attention needs to go into them. Thankfully, I don&#8217;t feel overwhelmed and underprepared, since I start almost a week in advance and spread out my work accordingly. I&#8217;m also used to writing essays because I&#8217;ve been doing it so long at Rollins. My biggest piece of advice, however, is to manage your time as best as you possibly can so you aren&#8217;t spending all day in the library instead of exploring the amazing city you&#8217;re in. It is difficult sometimes, but being in London is motivation enough!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the most part, the homesickness has subsided, partially because my sister is coming to visit next week. Generally, though, I&#8217;ve really started to see London as my home away from home. I&#8217;ve developed close friendships with my flatmates and have gotten to spend a lot of time with them. I&#8217;m planning to get out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qmul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7602","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\/199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15441,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7602\/revisions\/15441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}