{"id":2910,"date":"2014-03-24T12:06:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T18:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/?p=2910"},"modified":"2014-03-24T12:06:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T18:06:00","slug":"oh-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/2014\/03\/24\/oh-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh No"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My 7th block was canceled a few months ago because the professor is directing the epic stage masterpiece\u00a0<em>Angels in America: Millennium Approaches\u00a0<\/em>instead, so I decided this would be a good time to get my Q credit out of the way. (The Q stands for Quantitative Reasoning, by the way, and it&#8217;s difficult to get one of those within a Theatre major, so you grab it where you can) I&#8217;m in a class called Formal Logic, which I assumed would be easy. I&#8217;m three hours and two minutes into my first day in this block, and I&#8217;m already kind of panicking.<\/p>\n<p>My mind is not meant for this kind of stuff. I&#8217;m a terrible arguer. I always have been. I had heard from a million people that this was supposed to be &#8220;math for English majors.&#8221; I&#8217;m still not feeling good about what&#8217;s going on here, however. Today we learned about conversion, obversion, contraposition, fallacy, subcontraries, superalternation, and so on and so forth. I don&#8217;t really know what any of that means, so I&#8217;m just listing it. I&#8217;m going to do my best not to drown in this class. I&#8217;ve decided to prove to myself that I can make it through a non-humanities class without giving in and taking it pass\/fail. That&#8217;s my ultimate goal.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m worried it&#8217;s a dumb one.<\/p>\n<p>Updates to come after I finish my crazy homework.<\/p>\n<p>Love,<\/p>\n<p>Alec<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My 7th block was canceled a few months ago because the professor is directing the epic stage masterpiece\u00a0Angels in America: Millennium Approaches\u00a0instead, so I decided this would be a good time to get my Q credit out of the way. (The Q stands for Quantitative Reasoning, by the way, and it&#8217;s difficult to get one &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/2014\/03\/24\/oh-no\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Oh No&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":593,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-block7","category-philosophy","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1RtXj-KW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/593"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2911,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions\/2911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}