{"id":1012,"date":"2004-05-24T22:00:41","date_gmt":"2004-05-25T05:00:41","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=1012","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have attended a total of five long graduation ceremonies.  Today was the last one&#8211;my friend\\&#8217;s Math department commencement.  My mom was being all motherly in the morning and forced me to eat something before I went, which made me very late.  But I got to Zellerbach Hall just as they were starting the handing out of the scrolls.  Surprisingly, the dean not only called out the graduate\\&#8217;s name but also the graduate\\&#8217;s plan for the future.  It was something personal, but probably something possible since math is so small.<\/p>\n<p>In high school, I put \\&#8221;drummer in LA\\&#8221; as my intended profession.  But probably now in my own desire to be the best, I would put the truth.  The irony, right?  <i>Pursuing a masters degree in human computer interaction at Carnegie Mellon University<\/i>  One girl put, <i>learn how to drive a stick shift.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>My parents plan to buy a car soon since the 88 Acura Legend isn\\&#8217;t faring that well.  They\\&#8217;re thinking of a Toyota Corolla.  Model LE.  Their plan is that when I return from Pittsburgh (if I ever return to California which is my plan&#8230;but we all know how our plans can change so suddenly on us) that&#8230;the Toyota will be my car.  Who knows.  And yet a few years ago, I was trapped in the paradox of <i>i can\\&#8217;t get a job without a car.  I can\\&#8217;t get a car without a job.<\/i>  What if the economy is still the same in 2 years?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have attended a total of five long graduation ceremonies. Today was the last one&#8211;my friend\\&#8217;s Math department commencement. My mom was being all motherly in the morning and forced me to eat something before I went, which made me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=1012\">Continue reading <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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}