{"id":3978,"date":"2020-03-23T18:15:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T22:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/?p=3978"},"modified":"2020-03-23T18:21:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T22:21:02","slug":"were-still-pursuing-our-passion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/2020\/03\/23\/were-still-pursuing-our-passion\/","title":{"rendered":"UN-ite"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>We&#8217;re still pursuing our passion.<\/h3><p>As the whole world has felt the effects of this pandemic, we sit at home and perhaps are feeling a bit different than we typically do at home. Our homes are where we find comfort, love, peace, and mindfulness, but unfortunately these times have now invited anxiety, boredom, and &#8230; work. While we question how to spend the unusual amount of hours inside our safe-spaces, we are tasked with school work and assignments that have fallen into an abyss of motivation, alienated from the classroom, slugging around in our minds hoping to gain our attention.<\/p><p>At the end of the day, we have a job \u2014 we are students. And as we pursue the field of design it is our obligation that we rise to the occasion. I refuse to be taunted by the countless UN(s) and these are a few <em>rules<\/em>, so to speak, for how I am [attempting] to maintain my growth mindset during COVID-19:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New problems present new opportunities.<\/li>\n<li>Replace excuses with attempts.<\/li>\n<li>Get some fresh air.<\/li>\n<li>Acknowledge and take note of the ways your learning environment has shifted.<\/li>\n<li>Be aware of how you are feeling on a day to day basis.<\/li>\n<li>UN-ite<\/li>\n<\/ul><p>Eat. Sleep. Coffee. Design. Take a nap. Read. Eat. Design. Sleep.<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re still pursuing our passion.As the whole world has felt the effects of this pandemic, we sit at home and perhaps are feeling a bit different than we typically do at home. Our homes are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":3979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":""},"categories":[348],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-takes-two","entry-card--square"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/UNmotivated.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p86O3z-12a","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3978"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3988,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3978\/revisions\/3988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}