{"id":1107,"date":"2009-01-21T12:28:27","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T18:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2009-01-21T12:29:40","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T18:29:40","slug":"grads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1107","title":{"rendered":"Grads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/meganmcardle.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2009\/01\/grad_days.php\">Megan McArdle<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/drezner.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2009\/01\/21\/what_is_it_about_grad_school\">Dan Drezner<\/a> ask whether undergrad or grad school forms more of your character.<\/p>\n<p>For me, it was definitely grad school.  Part is that I was in a smaller tighter social circle &#8212; most of whom are still in my profession.  I also shaped my career, which is a bigger influence on your life than how much gin you drank one spring break.<\/p>\n<p>But the larger part is that I spent most of my undergrad years overcoming social awkwardness and enjoying being out of my parents&#8217; house (i.e., wine, women and song &#8212; well, at least wine).  I was much more serious about my career in grad school &#8212; I had an actual direction.  Ironically, this freed up more time for having fun, reading classic novels and enjoying life.  I even had a romantic life in grad school!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megan McArdle and Dan Drezner ask whether undergrad or grad school forms more of your character. For me, it was definitely grad school. Part is that I was in a smaller tighter social circle &#8212; most of whom are still in my profession. I also shaped my career, which is a bigger influence on your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1107\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Grads<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2BzKF-grads","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}