{"id":6064,"date":"2016-10-17T12:51:04","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T16:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=6064"},"modified":"2019-07-18T14:55:40","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T14:55:40","slug":"no-not-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2016\/10\/17\/no-not-me\/","title":{"rendered":"No, not me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is me writing about the one time I got called on in class.<\/p>\n<p>So we have to do a mini thesis for our semester project. There are only a few guidelines. Must be related to Accounting or Finance. Must be 12 pages long. Must be in German. Must be perfect. We\u00b4re assigned advisors whose goals are to keep us on track. Each advisor has about 30 or so advisees. My fist assignment was to find a question, write an expose on the relevance of the question and create an outline. We were to submit it to him for review and he would have a meeting with all his advisees together to talk over some generalities.<\/p>\n<p>So here I am walking to the meeting and me and my friends strategically pick a spot so that he doesn\u00b4t call on us. Next thing I know, I\u00b4m being called on, and I have to answer. In German. I\u00b4m nervous to speak in class in English, never mind speaking in German. I don\u00b4t really remember what happened but my face got all red, eyes were staring at me and I word-vomited all over the place. But the professor didn\u00b4t sympathize with my struggle. He continued drilling me (well it wasn\u00b4t that bad, but that is how it felt at the time).<\/p>\n<p>But I came out of the classroom a stronger woman, able to conquer anything that comes my way\u2026 welllll, just until the next professor calls on me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is me writing about the one time I got called on in class. So we have to do a mini thesis for our semester project. There are only a few guidelines. Must be related to Accounting or Finance. Must be 12 pages long. Must be in German. Must be perfect. We\u00b4re assigned advisors whose&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ddp-reutlingen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16060,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6064\/revisions\/16060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}