{"id":2351,"date":"2008-06-17T08:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T15:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/17\/the-nicest-part-of-taing-the-peru-class\/"},"modified":"2008-06-17T08:14:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T15:14:00","slug":"the-nicest-part-of-taing-the-peru-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/17\/the-nicest-part-of-taing-the-peru-class\/","title":{"rendered":"The nicest part of TAing the Peru class?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Extended time with graduate students who aren&#8217;t interested in PhDs and are still idealistic, upbeat, and full of romance over the belief that public health can make a difference.   Sometimes I feel that being cleared to graduate with a PhD happens once all the love and enthusiasm for the field has been beaten out of you&#8230; slowly&#8230; until you can barely articulate what it is you are doing, why it matters, and why you matter.<\/p>\n<p>Since returning, my contact at the church (where I&#8217;m suppose to be holding interviews, starting tomorrow) has disappeared and the pastor is not responding to email or phone calls.   I&#8217;m feeling awkward, uncertain, and frustrated, and in general&#8230; just feeling like this darn thing is never going to happen.  It&#8217;s not that I can&#8217;t figure out a next step, it&#8217;s just that the steps themselves are grating on me.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phdcomics.com\/comics.php?f=1030\">this <\/a>resonated with me today:<a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.phdcomics.com\/comics.php?f=1030\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 512px; height: 220px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phdcomics.com\/comics\/archive\/phd061608s.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extended time with graduate students who aren&#8217;t interested in PhDs and are still idealistic, upbeat, and full of romance over the belief that public health can make a difference. Sometimes I feel that being cleared to graduate with a PhD happens once all the love and enthusiasm for the field has been beaten out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}