{"id":1699,"date":"2018-06-03T19:22:24","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T19:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wagsfp.urop.lsa.umich.edu\/?p=1699"},"modified":"2020-08-28T14:10:58","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T14:10:58","slug":"letter-to-myself-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/2018\/06\/03\/letter-to-myself-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to Myself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dear future Amira,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Let\u2019s start off with the essentials: as of right now, I\u2019m doing a double major in Comparative Literature, and Gender and Health, although I think that Gender and Health major will have to drop down to a minor. Looks like Donna Ainsworth was right about how it would be difficult fitting in complit\/gender and health\/pre-med classes all in four years&#8230; It\u2019s not that theoretically I couldn\u2019t do it, but it would come at a very high, very stressful cost, and if there\u2019s two things I\u2019ve realized it\u2019s that I put myself in stressful situations for no reason\/I have to stop doing that if I really want to be successful. I\u2019ve been thinking a lot about my ideas of success actually (something about finishing up half of college has me in a reflective mood). Overall, a sense of success and achievement for me is being dedicated to the work I\u2019ve chosen to do and putting effort into it. In reality though, I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve fit my idea of success very well. Looking back, I\u2019ve just kinda been getting by, day by day, week by week, semester after semester&#8230;I\u2019m sick of this routine, however, and this summer I\u2019m going to make the effort to find my sense of purpose again, both personally and academically, and realign my goals. This summer, I hope WAGSFP can help me do those things. I hope doing my research more intensively will be the start of my working more meticulously\/more thoughtfully in all aspects of my life. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Beyond that, I also want to make more time for the things I love this summer. I\u2019ve got around four or five books I want to read, and a whole lot of painting supplies in my room that are literally collecting dust. I don\u2019t want to just be taking naps in my freetime or looking at my phone! Maybe I can make use of that gym membership I got too, since I\u2019m also terrible at taking care of my body. My mom is convinced I will never go, but let\u2019s prove her wrong (for once).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anyway, that\u2019s all for now. It\u2019s time I go study for my exam and stop procrastinating. Have fun this summer!!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Best,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Amira <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear future Amira, &nbsp; Let\u2019s start off with the essentials: as of right now, I\u2019m doing a double major in Comparative Literature, and Gender and Health, although I think that Gender and Health major will have to drop down to a minor. Looks like Donna Ainsworth was right about how it would be difficult fitting&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/2018\/06\/03\/letter-to-myself-4\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Letter to Myself<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1611,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lettertoself","category-amira","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1611"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3075,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions\/3075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}