{"id":457,"date":"2006-12-12T00:31:34","date_gmt":"2006-12-12T00:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"fus_907-1165883494"},"modified":"2006-12-12T00:31:34","modified_gmt":"2006-12-12T00:31:34","slug":"winding-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrbsdomain.com\/log\/2006\/12\/winding-down","title":{"rendered":"Winding Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all but one exam in school to go, this semester is drawing to a close.  I had my architecture exam last Thursday.  I probably didn&#8217;t do especially well as I did not look over the &#8216;case studies,&#8217; handouts from three classes devoted to a single building.  This evening, Monday, I had my history of radio final.  It was pretty easy thanks to the study guide we got last week.  I&#8217;m not sure what grade I&#8217;ll be getting in this class.  I missed an assignment or two, got a C on the mid-term and I have a feeling the professor is not going to like my research paper.  I know I did well on the final exam though, so that&#8217;s something.  Today, I did not go to work but went to Tulane early instead.  There is one last assignment for architecture class.  Students were instructed to attend a theses review and write an essay on it.  Senior architecture students design some elaborate project and then present their case to a panel of professors.  I saw a few of these although I decided to go with the first one which was about accommodating neo-nomads.  The concept is intriguing although the presentation itself left a bit to be desired.   At the risk of sounding cruel, I did not see one presentation done by somebody that appeared to have an semblance of public speaking skills, which is somewhat odd because students are required to take a course of the subject to graduate from Tulane.  To be fair, however, these kids are obviously under a great deal of pressure and have good reason to be nervous about how the instructors will react to their ideas.  I understand some reviews are downright vicious events.  I can&#8217;t end this post without a word about the amazing Saints game yesterday.  The bless you boys pounced the Cowgirls for a final score of 42-17.  The game was over by the third quarter.  I don&#8217;t mind saying I was completely shocked to see them play so well against the lauded Dallas team.  It&#8217;s always nice to see the home team lay down an ass-whooping on national television.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all but one exam in school to go, this semester is drawing to a close.  I had my architecture exam last Thursday.  I probably didn&#8217;t do especially well as I did not look over the &#8216;case studies,&#8217; handouts from three classes devoted to a single buil&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbsdomain.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbsdomain.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbsdomain.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbsdomain.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbsdomain.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mrbsdomain.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbsdomain.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbsdomain.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbsdomain.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}