{"id":2676,"date":"2018-09-11T09:46:13","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T09:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=2676"},"modified":"2018-09-11T09:55:49","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T09:55:49","slug":"scared-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=2676","title":{"rendered":"Scared (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we approach the beginning of term, and a new cohort of students joining our universities, it is worth remembering that a decent number of our new students are arriving frightened of us, or assuming that we will look down on them. I think that the comment here, from a student admissions forum, is not untypical:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/inferior-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/inferior-1-1024x88.png\" alt=\"You never feel like you&#039;re inferior to the seminar leaders (despite their PhDs!) and nearly all of them are genuinely nice people.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"88\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-2685\" srcset=\"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/inferior-1-1024x88.png 1024w, https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/inferior-1-300x26.png 300w, https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/inferior-1-768x66.png 768w, https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/inferior-1.png 1868w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIt is important, in our first few interactions with them, to make it clear that this isn&#8217;t the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we approach the beginning of term, and a new cohort of students joining our universities, it is worth remembering that a decent number of our new students are arriving frightened of us, or assuming that we will look down on them. I think that the comment here, from a student admissions forum, is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[14,31],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2676"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2687,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676\/revisions\/2687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}