{"id":384,"date":"2013-04-24T19:35:48","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T19:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uca.edu\/residential\/?p=384"},"modified":"2013-04-24T19:35:48","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T19:35:48","slug":"jackson-epic-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uca.edu\/residential\/2013\/04\/24\/jackson-epic-part-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackson &#8211; EPIC (Part 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uca.edu\/residential\/files\/2013\/04\/EPIC.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-19\" alt=\"EPIC\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uca.edu\/residential\/files\/2013\/04\/EPIC-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Residential College Life and Making Connections with Other Residents<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">One of the best parts about living in a Residential College at UCA is that there is almost always a program or activity going on, so when you have finished up your homework and studying for the day, the evening holds some fun without having to go far.\u00a0 Resident Assistants (RAs) put on programs that are relevant to students and usually provide entertainment and some kind of snack.\u00a0 These programs range from various cultural awareness events to ways to improve your study habits.\u00a0 In STEM my freshman year, the RAs hosted a Halo tournament, with the winners receiving a Target gift card!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0I have enjoyed my time in EPIC and STEM because I have made some of my best friends here.\u00a0 When you live with, do projects with, and study with a group of people consistently, you obviously are going to get to know them pretty well.\u00a0 Because Residential Colleges allow you to live and work with people who share similar interests, it is so easy to make great friends here! \u00a0Even after two years apart from many of my friends from STEM my freshman year, I still keep in touch with them and still call them some of my closest friends.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">If you are worried about fitting in or finding your place here, I assure you that your worries will fade the moment you start interacting with your fellow Residential College residents!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residential College Life and Making Connections with Other Residents One of the best parts about living in a Residential College at UCA is that there is almost always a program or activity going on, so when you have finished up your homework and studying for the day, the evening holds some fun without having to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[33,9,7,22,27,24,28,21,20,35,13,38,23,15,11,8,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uca.edu\/residential\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uca.edu\/residential\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uca.edu\/residential\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uca.edu\/residential\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uca.edu\/residential\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uca.edu\/residential\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uca.edu\/residential\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions\/432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uca.edu\/residential\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uca.edu\/residential\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uca.edu\/residential\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}