{"id":2713,"date":"2021-02-25T09:36:52","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T09:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/?p=2713"},"modified":"2021-03-08T10:22:37","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T10:22:37","slug":"struggling-with-motivation-join-the-psychology-virtual-study-lounge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2021\/02\/25\/struggling-with-motivation-join-the-psychology-virtual-study-lounge\/","title":{"rendered":"Struggling with Motivation? Join the Psychology Virtual Study Lounge!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>What is a Virtual Study Lounge?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The Virtual Study Lounge is a chance to work alongside other students in a virtual space. Each session supports concentrated work, with scheduled breaks, and lots of motivation!<\/p>\n<p>This Spring, Study Lounge sessions are every Thursday 4-5.30pm.<\/p>\n<p>Psychology student Helena Ruster joined the Virtual Study Lounge in search of motivation, she said<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I can only recommend the virtual study lounge not only to do work but also to feel part of the student community at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UKC<\/a> and connect with people.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;But I managed to get quite a bit of work done, as well as being able to socialise with other students. It almost felt like pre-covid times when you go to study at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library-it\/templeman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">library<\/a> with your mates. I must admit that it was a nice change from sitting in my room by myself trying to find the motivation to work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Those five minute chats have really brought back the sense of belonging and created an academic atmosphere, which enables me to be more focused on my work. As a result, I managed to get more work done when in the study lounge than when I\u2019m by myself.&#8221; &#8211; Yunye Chen<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Join us using the following Teams link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/teams.microsoft.com\/l\/meetup-join\/19%3ameeting_OTAxMDM2OGUtMDljMi00OTljLTkxZDgtZDU5NjlkODhmMDgw%40thread.v2\/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2251a9fa56-3f32-449a-a721-3e3f49aa5e9a%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%220354378e-ecd0-4830-a6e2-75525bdf592b%22%7d\">Virtual Study Lounge<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/padlet.com\/lindseycameron2\/x784cd4gmooqfhh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>All our Spring Term events can be found here\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is a Virtual Study Lounge? The Virtual Study Lounge is a chance to work alongside other students in a virtual space. Each session supports &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2021\/02\/25\/struggling-with-motivation-join-the-psychology-virtual-study-lounge\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61662,"featured_media":2738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6598],"tags":[397,9871],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2713"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2779,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions\/2779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}