{"id":81,"date":"2015-09-03T01:56:27","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T01:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/?p=81"},"modified":"2015-09-03T01:56:27","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T01:56:27","slug":"a-new-semester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/2015\/09\/03\/a-new-semester\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Semester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know about my students or my colleagues, but it feels like the new semester hit me like a Mack truck. \u00a0I haven&#8217;t been able to internalize my schedule, am behind in putting up the PowerPoint slides on my institution&#8217;s course management system, and actually walk on to campus most days not really knowing what I will be talking about that day. \u00a0I hope I get over this quickly!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/348\/2015\/09\/Asimov-quote.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-82\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/348\/2015\/09\/Asimov-quote.jpg\" alt=\"Asimov quote\" width=\"240\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tonight in the History of Psychology class we discussed the philosophy of science. \u00a0In discussing Thomas Kuhn and Carl Popper&#8217;s contributions to the field, I had a couple of quotes from Einstein and Sagan&#8230;but had forgotten about the Asimov quote above. \u00a0A few of my students were truly shocked to learn that it isn&#8217;t popular to push against the envelope of a paradigm. \u00a0I was delighted that this lecture merged into a documentary about Socrates; the poster child for pushing against the envelope of a paradigm!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know about my students or my colleagues, but it feels like the new semester hit me like a Mack truck. \u00a0I haven&#8217;t been able to internalize my schedule, am behind in putting up the PowerPoint slides on my institution&#8217;s course management system, and actually walk on to campus most days not really knowing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}