{"id":622,"date":"2017-11-28T11:15:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T16:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/orientation-ambassadors\/?p=622"},"modified":"2017-11-28T11:15:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T16:15:54","slug":"its-the-final-stretch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/orientation-ambassadors\/2017\/11\/28\/its-the-final-stretch\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s the Final Stretch!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Exhaustion is beginning to set in as December 21st comes closer and closer. The good news is, you are almost there! You are making it through your first semester here at UMass Lowell and you should be proud. Give yourself a round of applause. Now do it again!\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/media1.tenor.com\/images\/7d818bbb7bfe3c248548575cca18acce\/tenor.gif?itemid=7774909\" width=\"284\" height=\"163\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">It&#8217;s hard staying motivated at the end of the semester. All you want to do is watch <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Netflix<\/span> and nap&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0(maybe that&#8217;s just me getting a little too personal).. But do not forget that finals are approaching, which unfortunately means we have lots of studying to do and papers that won&#8217;t write themselves! The more we let procrastination get to us, the more we are putting our grades in jeopardy. So here are 5 things to do to make sure you never lose that motivation, especially this close to the end of the semester!<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a05 ways to stay motivated:<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>Watch Ted Talks<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>Surround yourself with positive people<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>Dream about your goals<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>Focus on the present<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>Don&#8217;t be too hard on yourself<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/media1.tenor.com\/images\/9792ea789f6585fcda4222c5ceaf9a8d\/tenor.gif?itemid=8555534\" width=\"400\" height=\"224\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 ONLY T H R E E WEEKS LEFT!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exhaustion is beginning to set in as December 21st comes closer and closer. The good news is, you are almost there! You are making it through your first semester here at UMass Lowell and you should be proud. Give yourself &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/orientation-ambassadors\/2017\/11\/28\/its-the-final-stretch\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":577,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/orientation-ambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/orientation-ambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/orientation-ambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/orientation-ambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/577"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/orientation-ambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/orientation-ambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/orientation-ambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions\/666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/orientation-ambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/orientation-ambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/orientation-ambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}