{"id":2217,"date":"2003-08-01T15:24:22","date_gmt":"2003-08-01T23:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm2\/2003\/08\/01\/cwru-thoughts\/"},"modified":"2003-08-01T15:24:22","modified_gmt":"2003-08-01T23:24:22","slug":"cwru-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/2003\/08\/01\/cwru-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"CWRU Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I just got done with the campus tour part of my tour of CWRU.<\/p>\n<p>I know these things always put the best foot forward, no matter what.  Its like asking a dentist how a procedure is going to be, you&#8217;ll never get the answer: &#8220;You&#8217;ll be in excruciating pain for the next three weeks and you&#8217;ll always get food stuck.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Okay all in all I&#8217;m impressed.<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li>This campus has character, there are old buildings, newer buildings, relaxing areas around the buildings, bike racks, etc.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>What seems like a real dedication to actual learning, its &#8220;both a liberal arts college and a major research institution.&#8221; (Yeah hows that for a marketing line?)<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>There are actually residential communities, and most of the population is residential<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Taking classes outside of your major isn&#8217;t considered weird or abnormal, just something that people do.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>I talked with my tour guide, who is a lesbian, after the tour and she indicated that there is a pretty vibrant community, with little problems.  In addition I know Cleveland supports enough of a gay community to have a pretty good sized bi-weekly newspaper.  (as opposed to a gay-weekly newspaper.)<\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p>Can I just apply here and call it a day?  I really want to get back into college, I just want to do it correctly no matter what, and I recognize that doing things correctly requires a proper amount of perspective and thoughtful planning, not jumping into it based on less than 24 hours of experience&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Geeze I don&#8217;t want to go back to Dayton, I really don&#8217;t.  But at least I have a second job that I think I&#8217;ll actually like waiting for me when I get back.  Yea!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I just got done with the campus tour part of my tour of CWRU. I know these things always put the best foot forward, no matter what. Its like asking a dentist how a procedure is going to be, you&#8217;ll never get the answer: &#8220;You&#8217;ll be in excruciating pain for the next three weeks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}