{"id":16987,"date":"2021-04-21T18:44:36","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T22:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=16987"},"modified":"2021-04-21T18:44:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T22:44:36","slug":"poetry-v-the-world-april-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2021\/04\/21\/poetry-v-the-world-april-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry v. The World: April snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"648\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ui1yQOy5SH0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Every time finals comes around, I expect a lot more than I get.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s never been super-crazy-hectic for me. It gets a lot busier, but I&#8217;ve still, after 4 semesters, never lost more than a few hours of sleep over studying for this stuff. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I&#8217;m still using it as an excuse to get out of certain things haha. But still, I never got the big deal.<\/p>\n<p>What I DO feel during finals is worthless. I sort of thrive on the stress of always having something going on. That fast-paced, focused mood is what I thrive in. It&#8217;s why my hair is falling out, but it also makes finals week a lot more reflective than it should be.<\/p>\n<p>Since I&#8217;m a film major, a majority of my free-time on weekends is spent on sets. If you don&#8217;t believe me, for the biggest project I&#8217;ve worked on yet, we filmed for 17 days over 6 weekends. It was a huge time commitment, and at the time I had midterms and homework and all this other stuff piled on top of it. As opposed to know, when it all slows down into finals. And since I&#8217;m a film student, my finals tend to be pretty light in comparison to others. I go from 100 to 0 in the span of a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p>So with all these massive commitments of mine ending and a whole few months before I get the busy-buzz again, I get really anxious. I turn on myself and think that I&#8217;m just wasting time when I should be planning for something else. I should be studying or trying to make plans for summer or doing something for my future. I think the problem is I never allow myself the time to rest. That&#8217;s why transitions between those hectic moments are so hard for me to get through. Instead of taking them as moments to pause, breath, and reflect on some of the work I&#8217;ve done, I use them to torture myself.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unfair to me, and I gotta get better at it, but I&#8217;ve taken the first step and acknowledged it, so that&#8217;s something.<\/p>\n<p>Please everyone, take care of yourself and try not to stress yourselves out too much. I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re gonna do great!<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Jonah J. Sobczak<\/p>\n<p>-jonahso<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time finals comes around, I expect a lot more than I get. It&#8217;s never been super-crazy-hectic for me. It gets a lot busier, but I&#8217;ve still, after 4 semesters, never lost more than a few hours of sleep over studying for this stuff. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I&#8217;m still using it as an excuse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2230,"featured_media":14234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16988,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16987\/revisions\/16988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}