{"id":2812,"date":"2015-02-22T12:00:58","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T16:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/?p=2812"},"modified":"2015-02-18T23:21:17","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T03:21:17","slug":"university-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/2015\/02\/22\/university-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"University Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They say that college\/university is supposed to be the best 4 years of your life. \u00a0It&#8217;s a chance to be free from home yet still taken care of by your guardians. \u00a0I think to set yourself up to make something the best 4 years of your life is setting yourself up to have fake fun for the sake of the fear of missing out. \u00a0I know that university won&#8217;t be the best 4 years of my life because I dedicate myself 2000% to my education and my future career to ensure that I will have a stable career and a certain lifestyle post-graduation. \u00a0I see the front desk people of the gym more than I see my friends. \u00a0I couldn&#8217;t tell you the last time that I explored New York, but these are all <em><strong>my<\/strong><\/em> choices. \u00a0But planning and trying to make 4 years the best 4 years of your life puts a lot of pressure on you. \u00a0You&#8217;re allowed to do what you want to do, but don&#8217;t feel forced by the social norms of college. \u00a0There isn&#8217;t a college checklist or bucket list of things or events or milestones that you must accomplish by graduation. \u00a0Dedicate yourself to you and not what you think your high school classmates expect you to post on Instagram. \u00a0Live for you and make your FIT college experience your own experience. \u00a0Write your own stories.<\/p>\n<p>Ashley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They say that college\/university is supposed to be the best 4 years of your life. \u00a0It&#8217;s a chance to be free from home yet still taken care of by your guardians. \u00a0I think to set yourself up to make something the best 4 years of your life is setting yourself up to have fake fun &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/2015\/02\/22\/university-pressure\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;University Pressure&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8688,31188,133,36459],"tags":[31490,41202,4558,32064],"class_list":["post-2812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restaurants","category-ashley","category-bloggers","category-life-post-college","tag-adventure","tag-ashley","tag-college","tag-growth","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3StnM-Jm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}