{"id":615,"date":"2013-06-19T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uropcbrp.com\/?p=615"},"modified":"2020-08-28T14:08:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T14:08:08","slug":"getting-in-the-swing-of-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/2013\/06\/19\/getting-in-the-swing-of-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting in the Swing of Things"},"content":{"rendered":"

To say that this past week has been difficult would be an understatement.<\/p>\n

My project in itself isn’t that difficult of a concept; I have to conduct a survey to investigate the financial burdens of sustainable farming. But understanding what exactly I need to accomplish this goal has been ridiculously hard for me! I find myself with a desk full of paper with notes all up and down them, not knowing how exactly I can synthesize any of this information. I found myself going into work every day having no idea how to accomplish my overall goal.<\/p>\n

On top of this I couldn’t go into work at the end of the week because I wasn’t feeling well, so I was getting further and further behind in my work until I felt like I couldn’t even go back because it was feeling so helpless.<\/p>\n

Amidst the helplessness, I believe the break was for the best because this Tuesday, going back to work, everything felt crystal clear! I made a to-do list that made sense, I had actually gotten enough sleep the previous night, and I was trying a different side of the problem. I felt like I was handling a problem that looked like a pinata, one side was impenetrable but once I flipped it to the other side I found the sweet spot and now, instead of drowning in notes, I’m drowning in the candy of ideas!<\/p>\n

I think this was all a good life lesson for me. I needed to understand that a problem really is never hopeless, because you just need to keep flipping it over until you find the right approach for you<\/em>.<\/p>\n

And here’s a bunch of random pictures from the past week!<\/p>\n

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I learned how to crochet! Very nice stress-reliever.<\/p>\n

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The Masonic Temple is much too pretty, I find myself staring at it every day!<\/p>\n

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Traffic Jam and Snug is absolutely delicious. It was on the Food Network!<\/p>\n

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Whole Foods is essentially where I live.<\/p>\n

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How I felt this past week: foggy.<\/p>\n

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There’s a pig in the office!<\/p>\n

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The second most dangerous neighborhood in the country? Looks like a nice place to me.<\/p>\n

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Office pig!<\/p>\n

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Candid workstation!<\/p>\n

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Absolutely beautiful view on Woodward on the way to work every morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To say that this past week has been difficult would be an understatement. My project in itself isn’t that difficult of a concept; I have to conduct a survey to investigate the financial burdens of sustainable farming. But understanding what exactly I need to accomplish this goal has been ridiculously hard for me! I find […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1669,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,108],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cbrp-2013","tag-food","tag-sustainable-agriculture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1669"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16633,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions\/16633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}