{"id":4337,"date":"2018-11-19T11:00:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T16:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=4337"},"modified":"2018-11-19T10:30:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T15:30:54","slug":"josee-its-okay-to-not-be-okay-all-the-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2018\/11\/19\/josee-its-okay-to-not-be-okay-all-the-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Josee: It&#8217;s Okay to Not Be Okay All the Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>College, a time where people are breaking out of their shells, trying new things, and hitting that post-high school glo-up. It&#8217;s also when you&#8217;re out of your small town and plunged into the midst of thousands upon thousands of your peers. No pressure, amiright?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>While I&#8217;m no expert in having things &#8220;figured out,&#8221; one of the greatest things I&#8217;ve learned so far at BU hasn&#8217;t been in the classroom. It hasn&#8217;t been navigating Comm Ave without getting hit by the T or figuring out the MBTA system.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In all honesty, it&#8217;s been realizing that you don&#8217;t have to have things figured out all the time. It&#8217;s okay to have moments where you&#8217;re completely lost and frazzled. It&#8217;s also okay to feel like you&#8217;re on top of the world.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In the age of social media and quick news, it feels like there are so many ways to compare yourself to others. With the huge BU community, it&#8217;s easy to feel inadequate because other people are pursuing things you&#8217;re not.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Sometimes, you wonder whether it&#8217;s just a &#8220;you&#8221; thing. But from my own experience, I can confirm it&#8217;s not. Everyone is figuring themselves out. Everyone is learning and making themselves better than before. Trust me when I say everyone is messing up too.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And that&#8217;s what&#8217;s so amazing about going through this intense transformation when you&#8217;re here at BU. Whether it&#8217;s the support of your friends, your family, or just the kindness of a stranger, it&#8217;s okay to not be okay. Simply because, you&#8217;re not alone. Receive some love and make sure to share it too.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I guess what I&#8217;m trying to say is embrace all of your time here. Embrace the ugly. Embrace the confusing. Embrace the beautiful.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Embrace you.<\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/comblog\/files\/2018\/11\/IMG_2021-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2021\" width=\"415\" height=\"415\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-4338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/files\/2018\/11\/IMG_2021-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/files\/2018\/11\/IMG_2021-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/files\/2018\/11\/IMG_2021.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College, a time where people are breaking out of their shells, trying new things, and hitting that post-high school glo-up. It&#8217;s also when you&#8217;re out of your small town and plunged into the midst of thousands upon thousands of your peers. No pressure, amiright? While I&#8217;m no expert in having things &#8220;figured out,&#8221; one of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2018\/11\/19\/josee-its-okay-to-not-be-okay-all-the-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Josee: It&#8217;s Okay to Not Be Okay All the Time<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337"}],"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=4337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4339,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337\/revisions\/4339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}