{"id":53,"date":"2013-01-16T02:21:33","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T07:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raisinglinchpins.com\/?p=53"},"modified":"2013-01-17T21:36:53","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T02:36:53","slug":"first-day-of-college-at-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raisinglinchpins.com\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"First Day of College @ Age 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/raisinglinchpins.com\/?attachment_id=87\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-87\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87 alignright\" alt=\"Sketch\" src=\"https:\/\/raisinglinchpins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG_1442.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/raisinglinchpins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG_1442.jpg 275w, https:\/\/raisinglinchpins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG_1442-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a>Today was the beginning of a different way of thinking for me.\u00a0 I got to meet new teachers, new friends, and embrace a new type of education.\u00a0 Because I\u2019m eleven, you may think I\u2019m starting middle school. I actually did that a few months ago. Now, I\u2019m starting college, as a matriculating art major.<\/p>\n<p>My mom drove me to the college and we climbed out of the car in the bitter cold.\u00a0 We walked though campus, looking for the building and classroom.\u00a0 As I opened the door, butterflies fluttered in my stomach.\u00a0 This could turn out amazing, or disappointing.\u00a0 I had mixed emotions as I determined my thoughts on the art class.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019d arrived fifteen minutes early, so we chatted and waited until everyone was there.\u00a0 The Professor gave us each a syllabus and I was surprised how few students had come to class.\u00a0 We went over the syllabus and I was amazed at how simple The Professor made the class seem!<\/p>\n<p>This experience will affect my life, and those of my siblings, greatly, by encouraging us to strive for success and reach our goals.\u00a0 My amazingly cool parents are in the process of raising Linchpins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the beginning of a different way of thinking for me.\u00a0 I got to meet new teachers, new friends, and embrace a new type of education.\u00a0 Because I\u2019m eleven, you may think I\u2019m starting middle school. I actually did <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/raisinglinchpins.com\/?p=53\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soleil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raisinglinchpins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raisinglinchpins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raisinglinchpins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raisinglinchpins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raisinglinchpins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/raisinglinchpins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/raisinglinchpins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raisinglinchpins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raisinglinchpins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raisinglinchpins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}