{"id":21968,"date":"2025-08-21T09:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T14:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=21968"},"modified":"2025-08-21T09:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T14:41:10","slug":"adjusting-to-msa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2025\/08\/21\/adjusting-to-msa\/","title":{"rendered":"Adjusting To MSA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been two and a half weeks since I started at MSA, (Mississippi School of the Arts). It\u2019s very different from any other school I\u2019ve been to, a big change, and with all changes come adjustment. I\u2019ve spent my whole school life in private religious schools and now I\u2019m going to a public arts school. It\u2019s crazy, but a good crazy of course.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I\u2019ve had to get adjusted to is dress code. I\u2019ve only ever worn uniforms so being able to wear my own clothes is something very new. I feel the biggest adjustment, however, is living an hour away from home. In a dorm, with two other girls. Thankfully I absolutely adore those two other girls. They\u2019re two of the sweetest people you\u2019ll ever meet and I\u2019m very lucky to have them.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve also made quite a few new friends since coming here. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve had a group of friends as big as mine now since middle school. I love my friends. They\u2019re all ridiculously talented, smart, and very funny. You know those big belly laughs that seem rare sometimes? Well, when I\u2019m with my friends they aren\u2019t rare at all. I feel like I\u2019m always laughing when I\u2019m hanging around them.<\/p>\n<p>Another big adjustment for me has been block schedules. I\u2019ve only ever been on a traditional 1-7 period a day schedule. In the beginning I was very confused, but I really feel like I\u2019ve got a handle on things now. Four periods- sorry, <em>blocks <\/em>a day, each an hour and thirty minutes. Right? Feel free to correct me if I\u2019m wrong.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve also had to get adjusted to sharing my work. I expected that I would have to share some pieces of course but expecting it doesn\u2019t make it away less nerve wracking. I will say that everyone has been very kind and helpful during the workshops where we have to share. I reckon that the more I share my work with other people, the easier it\u2019ll get\u2026I hope.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, I think that I\u2019m adjusting quite well to being a student at MSA. I\u2019ve gotten pretty used to the block schedule, the dress code, my roommates, the curfew, still getting used to sharing my work but we just went over that. I\u2019m curious to see as the year goes on what other adjustments I\u2019m going to have to make.<\/p>\n<p>Thank all of you who read this for reading my yap session and please do come back Wednesday so you can read me talk about more of nothing! I\u2019m kidding but really do please come back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_1408-576x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21971\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_1408-576x1024.jpeg 576w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_1408-169x300.jpeg 169w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_1408-768x1365.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_1408-864x1536.jpeg 864w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_1408-1152x2048.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_1408-1200x2133.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_1408.jpeg 1242w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 85vw, 576px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>(My friends and I)<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 It\u2019s been two and a half weeks since I started at MSA, (Mississippi School of the Arts). It\u2019s very different from any other school I\u2019ve been to, a big change, and with all changes come adjustment. I\u2019ve spent my whole school life in private religious schools and now I\u2019m going to a public arts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2025\/08\/21\/adjusting-to-msa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Adjusting To MSA&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21972,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21968\/revisions\/21972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}