{"id":878,"date":"2025-11-24T13:53:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T18:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/wellbeing\/?p=878"},"modified":"2025-11-24T13:53:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T18:53:39","slug":"winter-check-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/wellbeing\/2025\/11\/24\/winter-check-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Check-In"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>By: Saryna Vith, Manning School of Business Well-Being Leader<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Snow is on the way again, and the campus already feels it. Everyone\u2019s getting sick, myself included, but we\u2019re still dragging ourselves to classes as the semester doesn\u2019t slow down for a sore throat or a fever. You can see it in the hallways; people wrapped in hoodies, half awake, just trying to get through the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What really caught my attention this week, though, is how quiet everything feels. Not the usual calm\u2026 more like students are moving around with something weighing them down. It\u2019s the kind of silence where you can tell people are tired in more ways than one. The looks on their faces almost say, \u201cI\u2019m dealing with more than I can talk about.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It feels like a lot of us are carrying things we don\u2019t say out loud; stress from classes, personal problems, money issues, homesickness, health stuff, everything. And even when we show up, we don\u2019t always show what\u2019s going on inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Winter just started, the sickness is spreading, and the work keeps piling up. But if this week taught me anything, it\u2019s that so many of us are holding heavy things quietly. If you\u2019re one of them, you\u2019re not the only one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take care of yourself, and take a second to check in on someone else. A simple \u201cyou good?\u201d goes a long way this time of year. And if you ever need help navigating these cold months, feel free to <a href=\"https:\/\/calendly.com\/saryna_vith-student\/30min\">Book an appointment with me!<\/a><br>(<a href=\"https:\/\/nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalendly.com%2Fsaryna_vith-student%2F30min&amp;data=05%7C02%7CSaryna_Vith%40student.uml.edu%7C09a50ce103b047944ff508dde5a0b0d9%7C4c25b8a617f746f983f054734ab81fb1%7C0%7C0%7C638919200519585962%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=fox85%2BZ3bKHmDhCOiI37%2FUpnSyvypG7u5iDfueSW%2Btg%3D&amp;reserved=0\">https:\/\/calendly.com\/saryna_vith-student\/30min<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Saryna Vith, Manning School of Business Well-Being Leader Snow is on the way again, and the campus already feels it. Everyone\u2019s getting sick, myself included, but we\u2019re still dragging ourselves to classes as the semester doesn\u2019t slow down for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/wellbeing\/2025\/11\/24\/winter-check-in\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1647,"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\/wellbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/wellbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/wellbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/wellbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/wellbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/wellbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":879,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/wellbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/wellbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/wellbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/wellbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}