{"id":24710,"date":"2019-10-01T11:00:47","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/?p=24710"},"modified":"2019-10-01T05:53:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T10:53:08","slug":"the-five-stages-of-adjustment-to-imsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/2019\/10\/01\/the-five-stages-of-adjustment-to-imsa\/","title":{"rendered":"The Five Stages of Adjustment (to IMSA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>DENIAL<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I don\u2019t need a planner. After all, how hard can IMSA be? At my old school, I did all my homework the class before it was due. Sure, IMSA may be harder, but that doesn\u2019t mean I\u2019ll have significant difficulty. I\u2019m amazing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>ANGER<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You\u2019re telling me this problem set and this essay are both due tomorrow? You know what? This is really stupid. IMSA is stupid and horrible. I hope IMSA dies in a fire so I can dance on its ashes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>BARGAINING<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If I just do the next two problems and get <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">everything <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">right, I\u2019ll get a B even though I didn\u2019t finish it. That\u2019s okay, right? And then I can get more sleep, which will definitely allow me to do better and not procrastinate on the next assignment, right? See, what if I do the next three problems, get a B+, and use that grade as motivation for future efforts? I can do this. Right??<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>DEPRESSION<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I can\u2019t do this. How could they ever expect me to do this? I will never crawl out of the deep abyss of homework that piles on top of me every day. Why did I ever choose IMSA?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>ACCEPTANCE<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After a long struggle, I\u2019ve managed to obtain a healthy work-life balance through time management and self-discipline. IMSA has enriched me and helped me grow in many ways&#8230; Also, I\u2019m graduating in two weeks. Sayonara, suckers.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DENIAL I don\u2019t need a planner. After all, how hard can IMSA be? At my old school, I did all my homework the class before&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":22059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2490],"tags":[1939,1147],"coauthors":[2748],"class_list":["post-24710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humor","tag-humor","tag-satire"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24710"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24872,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24710\/revisions\/24872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24710"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=24710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}