{"id":1186,"date":"2026-08-25T21:16:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T21:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/?p=1186"},"modified":"2026-08-25T21:20:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T21:20:36","slug":"its-not-hard-its-just-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/2026\/08\/25\/its-not-hard-its-just-new\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s not hard, it\u2019s just new."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2026\/08\/IMG_0090-683x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1400\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.5712989877749604;width:312px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2026\/08\/IMG_0090-683x1024.jpeg 683w, https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2026\/08\/IMG_0090-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2026\/08\/IMG_0090-768x1152.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2026\/08\/IMG_0090.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Give yourself time to adapt and make friends, then college is going to be way easier.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am so excited about going to clubs and meeting new people. College is a vast community and I am happy to be a part of it. I hope to get support in staying organized, as in college there is no Google Classroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Give yourself time to adapt and make friends, then college is going to be way easier. &hellip; <a title=\"It\u2019s not hard, it\u2019s just new.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/2026\/08\/25\/its-not-hard-its-just-new\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It\u2019s not hard, it\u2019s just new.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1043,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-major"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1043"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1453,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions\/1453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}