{"id":923,"date":"2019-02-09T19:35:18","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T19:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/fass\/?p=923"},"modified":"2019-02-12T10:33:20","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T10:33:20","slug":"wooah-were-half-way-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/fass\/uncategorized\/923","title":{"rendered":"Wooah… We’re Half Way There…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi everyone,<\/p>\n

I thought I\u2019d drop in and let you know what\u2019s been going on in my world recently.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So, it\u2019s Week 5; that means we\u2019re half way through the term already \u2026 and deadlines are approaching quickly. The time goes incredibly fast here, which is why it is important to check in and reflect every now and then about how far you\u2019ve come. I have three deadlines coming up for the end of term, two on the 22nd of March, and one on the 18th. I really would like to start at least summarising some of the topics I have covered in the past weeks as they\u2019re still fresh in my mind, as well as pursue some secondary reading to supplement my summaries. Whether or not this gets done this week is really a different story – I have lots of dissertation work to be doing at the same time, on top of readings for my courses; so finding time is somewhat challenging (definitely not as bad when following a schedule, though!)<\/p>\n

Last weekend I went back home, there was snow in Liverpool and I was really worried I wouldn\u2019t get home – three flights before me were delayed two hours, but I got lucky! All went smoothly. When I was home I got a chance to catch up with all my friends which was awesome, and spent some time with my mum too, as she took time off work. Like I\u2019ve mentioned before, I think it\u2019s really important to take time to recoup at University: if you can get home every 5 weeks or so it really helps to break up term time into manageable chunks. If you can\u2019t – definitely make an effort to socialise with your friends – social time is just as important as study, and that correct balance is so important to strike.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This weekend I saw a friend, we made sweet potato and chickpea curry, and I must say, it was pretty impressive. My cooking has definitely improved since going vegetarian. For anyone that is coming to university without much in the way of cooking skills, I\u2019d definitely suggest trying to expand your set when you get here; making meals as a group is a good way to start.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I also made chocolate-chip [avocado…] protein cookies:<\/p>\n

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avocado<\/em>\u2026 sounds tasty\u2026right? Credit goes to https:\/\/ifoodreal.com\/chocolate-protein-cookies\/<\/a>\u00a0for the completely vegan recipe. I found this recipe online whilst looking for a healthy cookie alternative for a particular cookie monster, I wanted to try the recipe out for myself before sharing them with him.<\/p>\n

Coming up this weekend is another applicant visit day – I hope to meet some of you there!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Catch up with you all soon,<\/p>\n

Ellie\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi everyone, I thought I\u2019d drop in and let you know what\u2019s been going on in my world recently.\u00a0 So, it\u2019s Week 5; that means we\u2019re half way through the term already \u2026 and deadlines are approaching quickly. The time goes incredibly fast here, which is why it is important to check in and reflect […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5DvUs-eT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":932,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions\/932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}