{"id":875,"date":"2020-09-22T12:19:20","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T17:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/fye\/?p=875"},"modified":"2020-09-22T12:19:20","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T17:19:20","slug":"overcoming-homesickness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/fye\/2020\/09\/22\/overcoming-homesickness\/","title":{"rendered":"Overcoming Homesickness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:30px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-first\" style=\"width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-right: 4%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\"><img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Hailie\" title=\"Untitled design (7)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/fye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2020\/09\/Untitled-design-7-300x300.png\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-877\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/fye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2020\/09\/Untitled-design-7-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/fye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2020\/09\/Untitled-design-7-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/fye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2020\/09\/Untitled-design-7-600x600.png 600w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/fye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2020\/09\/Untitled-design-7-800x800.png 800w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/fye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2020\/09\/Untitled-design-7.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/span><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_2_3 2_3 fusion-two-third fusion-column-last\" style=\"width:66.666666666667%;width:calc(66.666666666667% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.66666666666667 ) );margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:150px;margin-bottom:100px;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-one\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:31px;\"><h1 class=\"title-heading-left\" style=\"margin:0;\">Overcoming Homesickness<\/h1><div class=\"title-sep-container\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-double sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#e0dede;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\" style=\"transform:translate3d(0,0,0);\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hello everyone, my name is Hailie Lewis and I am currently a junior here at ΄σΟσ΄«Γ½ Western! I am a nursing major, and I look forward to starting my first semester of nursing school this fall! I am going to give you the inside scoop on how to survive something that plagues many new incoming students: <strong>HOMESICKNESS<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I always knew that after high school I would be attending college once I graduated, but the actual act of going to college always frightened me so much! I am a first-generation college student so I knew absolutely nothing about college. On top of that, I was one of three people from my high school that attended MWSU, so I also didn\u2019t know anyone or anything in St. Joseph. I dreaded going to college because all I could think about was how difficult of a transition it would be for me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When move-in day came I had already cried a couple of times before we even made it to check-in at the residence halls. Long story short after I got settled, my family left and I was a MESS. I called my mom that night, crying again, and she told me it was time for me to jump out of the nest, and I could choose whether I would fall or fly. So on the second day of Griffon Edge, I took my mom\u2019s advice and started talking to more people in my group. AND BOY I am SO GLAD that I did! I met two girls that day, they soon became some of my first and best friends that I have ever made in college. And it turns out they were just as nervous as I was about it all! During the first couple of weeks, us three went to most events that MWSU held because we all wanted to get involved on campus. Eventually, we decided to go through Panhellenic Recruitment together, where we ended up going to three different sororities. Even though we went in different ways, we still had almost daily coffee dates at Starbucks and study sessions in the library.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Eventually, I started to stop feeling homesick all together, getting involved on campus played a big part in that. To this day I thank those two girls for SO MUCH, without them I feel like things at MWSU would\u2019ve gone much differently for me. All together my biggest piece of advice to those who are worried about leaving home is to just take the leap of faith. You are going to feel so uncomfortable at first, but those are the environments that you grow in! And nine times out of ten, your peers feel the same way, so yes, it may feel mildly uncomfortable reaching out to new people, but those few hours of discomfort can lead to years of happiness with the group you found because of it. \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/fye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/fye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/fye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/fye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/fye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/fye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":880,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/fye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions\/880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/fye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/fye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/fye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}