{"id":74,"date":"1999-12-14T17:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-12-14T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/1999\/12\/14\/what_i_learned\/"},"modified":"2024-11-27T20:56:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T01:56:03","slug":"what_i_learned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/1999\/12\/14\/what_i_learned\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Learned in School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>My brain hurts too much to think properly right now.<\/strong> If my last semester of grad school has taught me anything, I have learned:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I am much too old and weary to pull all-nighters. Last night I went to bed after 36 straight hours of school work, regular work, wandering around in the rain to find a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kinkos.com\">Kinko\u2019s<\/a> whose Fiery printer was working, and being generally miserable.<\/li>\n<li>Group projects can really blow chunks. A corollary to this: When you spot a bad apple at the beginning of the semester, you know he won\u2019t rally at the end.<\/li>\n<li>Group projects can also help you bond really well with people you like. Many thanks to my fellow survivor&#8217;s of <i>Fragile<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li>Pratt really needs to get its shit together.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In other news, I\u2019m loving work despite the sleep deprivation. God only knows if I\u2019ll be able to get to work tomorrow, seeing as there\u2019s a threat of a city-wide transit strike. I\u2019ll probably have to ride my bike to Grand Central, and I bet the streets are gonna look like Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>If the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mta.nyc.ny.us\">MTA<\/a> goes on strike, I think we\u2019ll see a lot of people beating the crap out of transit workers.<\/p>\n<p>P.S.: I hate Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My brain hurts too much to think properly right now. If my last semester of grad school has taught me anything, I have learned: I am much too old and weary to pull all-nighters. Last night I went to bed after 36 straight hours of school work, regular work, wandering around in the rain to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/1999\/12\/14\/what_i_learned\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What I Learned in School&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultrapersonal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71435,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/71435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}