{"id":3829,"date":"2016-12-31T21:01:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/?p=3829"},"modified":"2016-12-31T21:05:41","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T21:05:41","slug":"5-months-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/2016\/12\/31\/5-months-left\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Months Left"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This winter break has been so nice because its bee just that: a break. A break from lectures, homework, friends, my house in Tacoma, poorly made meals (by myself) and everything. But its kinda scary that with only one semester left: aka 5 months. That deadline is coming up so fast that it makes me not look at this break like a break anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Its a time with no distractions to figure out what I&#8217;m doing next semester. For some they&#8217;ve already figured out they want to attend grad school- they&#8217;ve applied and they&#8217;ve heard back and are deciding or waiting to hear back, they want to attend a postgrad fellowship program- they&#8217;re waiting to hear back. Basically most people on those paths know when they&#8217;re making a decision about next year or they already have. Me, I could&#8217;ve been on the second path but basically I&#8217;m looking for a career and jobs post-undergrad.<\/p>\n<p>The first semester was kinda a weird time because I couldn&#8217;t apply to jobs that had immediate openings or that starting in Jan 2017 because I would still be a student, but I still looked at a lot of companies and organizations just to get a feel about what I want to apply to, how and when to do so. Upon thinking about what my major is and what I want to do I realize its just like applying for college again but way more scary. Every company is different, every location is different and at this point they aren&#8217;t necessarily catering to graduates but real people and I&#8217;m competing with other real people for these jobs. I can&#8217;t take a nonchalant approach to applying for jobs as I did for college because I need them more than they need me. So now my break has turned into future planning because getting a job is the first step. Then there&#8217;s finding somewhere to live, feeding myself, getting transportation and then actually moving there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This winter break has been so nice because its bee just that: a break. A break from lectures, homework, friends, my house in Tacoma, poorly made meals (by myself) and everything. But its kinda scary that with only one semester &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/2016\/12\/31\/5-months-left\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":382,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[701,702,700,698],"class_list":["post-3829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rachel-tanoue-17","category-uncategorized","tag-career","tag-postgrad","tag-real-life","tag-the-college-experience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/382"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3829"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3832,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829\/revisions\/3832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}