{"id":16698,"date":"2018-11-07T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T17:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=16698"},"modified":"2018-11-05T12:47:29","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T20:47:29","slug":"first-things-first-take-care-of-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2018\/11\/07\/first-things-first-take-care-of-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>First Things First<\/em>: Take care of yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The topic of health should never be taken lightly, especially when the post-secondary workload is something you\u2019ve never experienced before.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16623\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16623\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/First-things-First-full-version.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16623\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/First-things-First-full-version-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/First-things-First-full-version-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/First-things-First-full-version.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/First-things-First-full-version-180x135.jpeg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16623\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>First things First<\/em> is a column about issues pertaining to first-year students; it appears in every issue of <em>Nexus<\/em> (illustration by Tiegan Suddaby).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>You are not a machine, and, despite the career-based mindset of \u201cwork hard, play hard,\u201d or \u201call-nighters are just a part of the job,\u201d or even \u201csacrifice your health so you die young and stressed for some big-name company that doesn\u2019t really care about one of its ant-like workers,\u201d you do not deserve to engineer your body to stay awake for days to finish an assignment. What I\u2019m trying to say is this: don\u2019t romanticize dangerous work. Don\u2019t be one of those poor kids with aching fingers and hands, because you will end up twisting your arm in the middle of an exam. That\u2019s a very specific example, but it still is kind of true. Everything in your body is connected, but often your overachiever brain will be oblivious to how your body is reacting. While you\u2019re thinking, \u201cAn extra espresso shot wouldn\u2019t hurt,\u201d your body is shaking to the point that you can\u2019t even hold the coffee you\u2019re drinking. This roughly translates to, \u201cPlease eat an apple, I am dying. You severed the connection between your brain and fingers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Also, if you\u2019re anything like me, coffee will make you feel like a small, anxious prey animal with a high heart rate.<\/p>\n<p>Writing papers might not kill you, but please put your health first. Take a shower, go to sleep, and eat an actual meal as often as possible. Schedule some proper relaxation time. If you find yourself in a worst-case scenario and skipping classes too often, do contact a doctor or nurse. Never hurt yourself for work. You are a human being, and no college, or company, can price you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The topic of health should never be taken lightly, especially when the post-secondary workload is something you\u2019ve never experienced before.\u00a0 You are not a machine, and, despite the career-based mindset of \u201cwork hard, play hard,\u201d or \u201call-nighters are just a part of the job,\u201d or even \u201csacrifice your health so you die young and stressed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-november-7-2018"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16699,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16698\/revisions\/16699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}