{"id":921,"date":"2011-05-10T21:26:57","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T01:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admissions.me.holycross.edu\/?p=921"},"modified":"2011-05-10T21:26:57","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T01:26:57","slug":"the-final-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/2011\/05\/10\/the-final-push\/","title":{"rendered":"The Final Push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2009\/10\/LynnVerrecchia.BLOG2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-440\" title=\"LynnVerrecchia.BLOG2\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2009\/10\/LynnVerrecchia.BLOG2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"98\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>As I walked from the parking lot to my office this morning, I noticed a particular stillness to the campus.\u00a0 So much so that I had a brief moment of panic that I had mistakenly come to work on Saturday.\u00a0 I quickly remembered that for our students, today marks the first study day before exams.\u00a0 They wrapped up classes yesterday and spent last night celebrating at our annual spring concert.\u00a0 The stillness explained.\u00a0 Rest.\u00a0 A much deserved, albeit brief rest.\u00a0 Soon enough, our students will crawl out of bed, balk at the clock (can I still make it to lunch before Kimball closes?) and make their way to their favorite study spot on or off campus.\u00a0 They have worked so hard all year, and they&#8217;re not going to stop now.\u00a0 We hope you won&#8217;t either!<\/p>\n<p>Lynn Verrecchia<br \/>\nAssociate Director of Admissions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I walked from the parking lot to my office this morning, I noticed a particular stillness to the campus.\u00a0 So much so that I had a brief moment of panic that I had mistakenly come to work on Saturday.\u00a0 I quickly remembered that for our students, today marks the first study day before exams.\u00a0 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/2011\/05\/10\/the-final-push\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Final Push&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":615,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,21],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admissions-staff","category-lynn-verrecchia","tag-application-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/615"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}