{"id":2051,"date":"2015-09-29T10:33:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T17:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/?p=2051"},"modified":"2015-09-30T00:17:57","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T07:17:57","slug":"the-moment-before-meeting-the-new-students-as-a-ta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/the-moment-before-meeting-the-new-students-as-a-ta\/","title":{"rendered":"the moment before meeting the new students, as a T.A."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;First Year Experience&#8221; class\u00a0is something fun and\u00a0optional that incoming students have to apply for, so there&#8217;s already a certain level of interest suggested on their part (always a good sign).<\/p>\n<p>In less thirty minutes\u00a0I&#8217;ll be meeting twenty fresh faces. I am so, so excited &#8212; and nervous at the same time. What are the new students like? And how can I\u00a0be a good T.A. for them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;First Year Experience&#8221; class\u00a0is something fun and\u00a0optional that incoming students have to apply for, so there&#8217;s already a certain level of interest suggested on their part (always a good sign). In less thirty minutes\u00a0I&#8217;ll be meeting twenty fresh faces. I am so, so excited &#8212; and nervous at the same time. What are the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/the-moment-before-meeting-the-new-students-as-a-ta\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;the moment before meeting the new students, as a T.A.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-ucsd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3MSpn-x5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2051"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2054,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions\/2054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}