{"id":3814,"date":"2016-09-21T21:40:07","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T20:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/?p=3814"},"modified":"2016-09-21T21:40:07","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T20:40:07","slug":"in-which-the-calm-cowers-before-the-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/2016\/09\/21\/in-which-the-calm-cowers-before-the-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"In which the calm cowers before the storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can you hear it?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, that&#8217;s the sound of a distinct lack of undergraduates knocking around the place. Even the summer lab students have departed, off for a few weeks of R&#038;R or debauchery before the grind kicks back in again.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lablit\/29214442373\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"Jennys Angels\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c6.staticflickr.com\/9\/8286\/29214442373_398cc39fac.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Jennys Angels\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<i>Jenny&#8217;s Angels: A postdoc and two summer students, who apparently did NOT coordinate their outfits in advance<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I miss them, hovering anxiously next to the tissue culture suite as one of the PhD students helps them out with a culture. Filling the coffee room with laughter. Taking selfies with their contaminated petri dishes. Dropping their experiments on the floor just minutes before they were ready to analyze*. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s quiet, like only a department full of exhausted academics racing towards their last summer grant deadline with grim resolution can be.<\/p>\n<p>But this is our last full week before Induction Week. Come Monday, the next batch of first-years will burst into our lecture halls, labs and corridors with astonishing amounts of energy and enthusiasm. I&#8217;m no longer teaching full time, but working with students has the magical ability to absorb all the hours that the ivory tower can send. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m bracing myself. Bring &#8217;em on.<\/p>\n<p>*Not the students in the picture &#8211; they were exemplary. And I made up the bit about the debauchery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you hear it? Yes, that&#8217;s the sound of a distinct lack of undergraduates knocking around the place. Even the summer lab students have departed, off for a few weeks of R&#038;R or debauchery before the grind kicks back in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/2016\/09\/21\/in-which-the-calm-cowers-before-the-storm\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,40,45,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-students","category-teaching","category-the-profession-of-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}