{"id":331,"date":"2010-04-29T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/orientation-ambassadors\/2010\/04\/29\/"},"modified":"2010-04-29T10:15:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T15:15:00","slug":"331","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/orientation-ambassadors\/2010\/04\/29\/331\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"color: blue\"><strong>ATTENTION EVERYONE THE TIME TO MOVE-OUT IS UPON US.<\/strong><\/span><\/em><br \/>Alright, so this sounds a little <em>dramatic<\/em>, but it is a significant experience&nbsp;in everybody&#8217;s college career. <em>The&nbsp;residence halls close at 6pm on Friday May 21<\/em>. That means that you need to have everything out of your room by that date. <span style=\"color: lime\"><strong>Don&#8217;t worry, you can&nbsp;do it!<\/strong><\/span><br \/>Ok, here we are,&nbsp;whether for the first time&nbsp;or the last, you&#8217;ve just completed finals. <span style=\"color: #134f5c;font-size: large\">CONGRATULATIONS!<\/span>&nbsp;Now it is time&nbsp;to leave the&nbsp;freedoms of residence hall life and&nbsp;return to the nest for a couple of months. For most of you, this has been dealt with before, but there are still a lot of you out there who are new to this whole &#8220;going home&#8221; thing.&nbsp;Here a few tips to help you make the most of you&#8217;re summer.<br \/>1. <span style=\"color: red\"><strong>Spend time with your family<\/strong><\/span>&#8211; <span>Whether or not you believe it, you&#8217;re family probably missed you while you were away at school.&nbsp;For some of you, it has been a couple of&nbsp;months since you have last seen you&#8217;re family and you&#8217;re house.&nbsp;While you are&nbsp;home, you will have ample opportunity to catch up with you&#8217;re family and regale them with tales of your college experiences.&nbsp;<em><span style=\"color: #3d85c6\">Spending time at home with your family is also a good&nbsp;time to &#8220;recharge&#8221; and stay focused.<\/span><\/em><\/span><br \/>2.&nbsp;<span style=\"color: blue\"><strong>Adjusting to life at home<\/strong><\/span>&#8211; You walk in the&nbsp;door, put&nbsp;down&nbsp;you&#8217;re bags, give a big hello to you&#8217;re family and walk upstairs to you&#8217;re bedroom where you are ready to just lay down for a second and&#8230; wait, what is this exercise machine doing there? <em>What happened to my room<\/em>!?!?&#8230; just kidding. Ok, so you&#8217;re parents probably didn&#8217;t convert your room into the fitness lair they&#8217;ve always dreamed of, and things probably haven&#8217;t changed too much. What may be difficult however is falling back into you&#8217;re parents way of life. <em><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #3d85c6\">As long as you stay cooperative and be flexible, you will have an enjoyable summer.<\/span><\/em><br \/>3. <strong><span style=\"color: #7f6000\">jobs or internships<\/span><\/strong>&#8211; Getting a job or intership will probably be one of the more productive options you can choose during your time off. It is something that can relieve the boredom during the dog days of summer, and can help bring in funds or bolster your career goals. If you need help finding an internship, <span style=\"color: #3d85c6\"><em>career services is an excellent office on campus that can help you with finding a summer intership.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Well that&#8217;s all for now, bye everyone!<br \/>-Tommy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATTENTION EVERYONE THE TIME TO MOVE-OUT IS UPON US.Alright, so this sounds a little dramatic, but it is a significant experience&nbsp;in everybody&#8217;s college career. The&nbsp;residence halls close at 6pm on Friday May 21. 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