{"id":1740,"date":"2009-07-23T17:55:31","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T17:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/07\/23\/feeling_old\/"},"modified":"2009-07-23T17:55:31","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T17:55:31","slug":"feeling_old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/07\/23\/feeling_old\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeling old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My first ever student successfully defended his PhD yesterday.<br \/>\nWhen I say &#8220;my&#8221; student I mean that he was officially my PI&#8217;s student, but I supervised him in the lab for his first year or two and helped him with the short-term development of his project. I also <del>crushed his soul<\/del> edited his <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nature.com\/people\/ennis\/blog\/2009\/06\/26\/resistance-is-futile\">first contributions<\/a> to the scientific literature. It goes without saying that I am immensely proud of him!<br \/>\nThe cohort of grad students who joined my department shortly after I began my first postdoc are starting to graduate and move on&#8230; and here&#8217;s me on my third job since those days!<br \/>\nThe remaining question though is whether I should now address my former student as &#8220;Doctor Little Mark&#8221;, or as &#8220;Little Doctor Mark&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first ever student successfully defended his PhD yesterday. When I say &#8220;my&#8221; student I mean that he was officially my PI&#8217;s student, but I supervised him in the lab for his first year or two and helped him with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/07\/23\/feeling_old\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}