{"id":265,"date":"2026-08-25T21:05:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T21:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/?p=265"},"modified":"2026-08-25T21:06:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T21:06:06","slug":"its-not-as-hard-as-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/2026\/08\/25\/its-not-as-hard-as-you-think\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s not as hard as you think."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Everyone is in the same situation<\/strong>\u2014 everyone wants to make friends. Walk up to someone. Give them a compliment. They\u2019ll appreciate it as much as you would if someone did the same to you. Trust that you will know what to say. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" class=\"wp-image-545\" style=\"width: 150px\" src=\"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2026\/08\/IMG_4237-1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Fountain with Flowers\" srcset=\"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2026\/08\/IMG_4237-1-scaled.jpeg 1920w, https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2026\/08\/IMG_4237-1-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2026\/08\/IMG_4237-1-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2026\/08\/IMG_4237-1-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2026\/08\/IMG_4237-1-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2026\/08\/IMG_4237-1-1300x1733.jpeg 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone is in the same situation\u2014 everyone wants to make friends. Walk up to someone. Give &hellip; <a title=\"It\u2019s not as hard as you think.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/2026\/08\/25\/its-not-as-hard-as-you-think\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It\u2019s not as hard as you think.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1013,"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":[15,14],"tags":[59,48],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","category-john-jay-college","tag-inspiration","tag-positivity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","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\/1013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":913,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions\/913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}