{"id":2018,"date":"2015-11-10T11:45:23","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T16:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=2018"},"modified":"2015-11-08T20:42:11","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T01:42:11","slug":"kevin-battling-that-mid-semester-slump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2015\/11\/10\/kevin-battling-that-mid-semester-slump\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin: Battling that mid-semester slump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mid-semester slump is real. The stretch between Columbus Day and Thanksgiving can start to feel like you\u2019re on mile 25 of a marathon. Luckily, there are some easy tips and tricks you can do to keep yourself motivated and your spirits high.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong> <\/strong><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Go for a walk<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>It sounds clich\u00e9 and boring, but give it a try. Stand up from that desk you\u2019ve been sitting at all day, and just go for a walk. Doesn\u2019t have to be long, can just be down the street. But while you\u2019re on that walk, let your mind wander. Maybe think about the fact that in a month, there will be a new Star Wars movie. A brand new Star Wars. Directed by J.J. Abrams.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><strong> <\/strong><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Make your favorite food<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>There\u2019s nothing like having your favorite comfort food on a cold fall day. No matter what it is, your favorite food will always put you in a better mood. Maybe it\u2019s some mac and cheese, or maybe it\u2019s some tomato soup as red as Kylo Ren\u2019s lightsaber. Did you see that thing? Remember in the first trailer when he lit it up and we were all like \u201coh, ok,\u201d but then the crossguard lit up and we were like \u201cWHOAAA???\u201d Yeah, we\u2019ll get to see more of that in a month. Over 2 hours of it. How awesome is that??<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><strong> <\/strong><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Go to Fitrec<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>It\u2019s been scientifically proven that exercise will improve your mood and energy. It\u2019s hard sometimes to get the motivation to go in the first place, it seems like the last thing you want to do is get all sweaty and tired like John Boyega was in that first <em>Force Awakens<\/em> trailer. Why was he dressed like a Storm Trooper though? I mean, obviously it\u2019s been what, 30 years since the originals? So they clones can\u2019t be the troopers anymore, but is he a rouge trooper? The later trailers make it seem like he\u2019s a good guy, so maybe he was in disguise like Luke and Han in <em>Episode IV<\/em>?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li><strong> <\/strong><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Hang out with friends<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>It\u2019s easy to get so caught up in work, you forget to just get out and have fun. And nobody likes that friend who\u2019s never around, kind of like how Luke Skywalker hasn\u2019t been in any of the posters or trailers. Where is he? Did he turn to the dark side? There was that one shot in the first trailer where we saw R2D2 and somebody with a robotic hand, maybe that was him? He lost his right hand in <em>Empire Strikes Back <\/em>so it totally could be him, but we didn\u2019t see his face so who knows. Also, how cool was it that they used the voiceover from <em>Return of the Jedi<\/em>? Super cool.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mid-semester slump is real. The stretch between Columbus Day and Thanksgiving can start to feel like you\u2019re on mile 25 of a marathon. Luckily, there are some easy tips and tricks you can do to keep yourself motivated and your spirits high. Go for a walk It sounds clich\u00e9 and boring, but give it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2015\/11\/10\/kevin-battling-that-mid-semester-slump\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kevin: Battling that mid-semester slump<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44298],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2018"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2020,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions\/2020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}