{"id":164,"date":"2006-12-04T18:53:16","date_gmt":"2006-12-04T23:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/archives\/164"},"modified":"2006-12-04T18:53:16","modified_gmt":"2006-12-04T23:53:16","slug":"out-with-a-whimper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"Out With a Whimper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The semester ends in two weeks and the finals rush has officially begun. For the next two weeks I will become intimate with one of Radford lab&#8217;s 800 MHz G4 iMacs with a yellowed keyboard and Microsoft mouse. The worst thing that could happen right now would be if I accidently found a Nintendo Wii.<\/p>\n<p>Astute readers may already know that I plan to spend the next semester abroad in Germany. The problem with this little plan is that Marburg University has yet to return their reply to my application. I have been waiting anxiously for months. It just became easier to tell people that I was going to study abroad than explain the whole situation.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m still officially enrolled in classes here at Oshkosh next semester. Why? Because the semester in Germany would not begin until April and again, I still have not received word from them. So what am I to do with my time when the semester ends in two weeks? I&#8217;ve been looking for a job, but no one is hiring. Do I bother buying books for next semester only to drop the courses here at Oshkosh? Do I move in with my parents (shudder) for the time until I leave? I do not have the money to shack of up in Greunhagen at $240\/month for almost three months. The German universities have been calling my references. Hopefully they come through soon.<\/p>\n<p>See that unshaven creature hunched over in the corner of the lab? If you see me come say hello. Bring me a coffee and give me a much needed break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The semester ends in two weeks and the finals rush has officially begun. For the next two weeks I will become intimate with one of Radford lab&#8217;s 800 MHz G4 iMacs with a yellowed keyboard and Microsoft mouse. The worst thing that could happen right now would be if I accidently found a Nintendo Wii. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/?p=164\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Out With a Whimper<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-college","category-deutsch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}