{"id":16,"date":"2007-10-27T17:22:47","date_gmt":"2007-10-28T00:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.students.ubc.ca\/max\/2007\/10\/27\/i-have-been-coerced\/"},"modified":"2007-10-27T17:22:47","modified_gmt":"2007-10-28T00:22:47","slug":"i-have-been-coerced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/2007\/10\/27\/i-have-been-coerced\/","title":{"rendered":"I have been coerced!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, so it&#8217;s one day short of a month since I updated.\u00a0 This is due to a few factors, one of which being midterms, and another being the fact that I&#8217;m not able to update from\u00a0 any place except this computer.\u00a0 I just realized today that this is probably because I need to sign out.<\/p>\n<p>On what&#8217;s happened in the past few weeks, well&#8230;\u00a0 Me and Sam went to California for a weekend, which was good in practice(seeing as we got out before the Wildfires could catch up with us), but the trip home was quite troublesome.\u00a0 First, they lost my luggage.\u00a0 Second, my room keys were in them.\u00a0 Third, it took me a day before I was informed the front desk gives out temporary keys if necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Vital information for new students at any university:\u00a0 If something goes wrong, don&#8217;t expect the bureaucracy to slap you in the face.\u00a0 This school has had so many students come in and out, the likelihood of there not being some kind of person or program in place to help you with your problems is highly unlikely.<\/p>\n<p>On the Academic front, I&#8217;m pretty sure I&#8217;m going to fail microeconomics.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not giving up, but that&#8217;s the way it looks right now.\u00a0 It&#8217;s kind of what I expected, since I&#8217;m terrible with numbers.\u00a0\u00a0 I just hope this isn&#8217;t going to make it difficult for PPE.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been asking around about how failing one course in relation to the rest works in coordinated arts, but there doesn&#8217;t seem to be any set rule.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t quite remember exactly what&#8217;s been happening outside of that.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure if I haven&#8217;t been blogging because I can&#8217;t keep track of my life or vice versa.\u00a0 Oh well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, so it&#8217;s one day short of a month since I updated.\u00a0 This is due to a few factors, one of which being midterms, and another being the fact that I&#8217;m not able to update from\u00a0 any place except this computer.\u00a0 I just realized today that this is probably because I need to sign out. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,207],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic","category-recreation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}