{"id":105,"date":"2010-10-12T20:02:10","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T20:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spikingneural.net\/?p=105"},"modified":"2013-01-19T15:23:07","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T15:23:07","slug":"freshman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spikingneural.net\/?p=105","title":{"rendered":"Freshman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My PhD has finally got under way. Imperial College is not intimidating at all which is a relief. I have been given a desk in a room with other PhD students and have a shiny new and fast PC. The nice man from the computer support groups has set me up with Linux and Windows. I think I shall be using Linux as a preference. I have just spent 11 years as a Windows programmer and am glad not to have to be forced to use a particular OS and that particular OS.<\/p>\n<p>I have signed up for a few personal development courses. The first one is on giving presentations which is something that scares me a lot. Not the course but presenting, doh!\u00a0 I am prone to collapse into a quivering lump of jelly when put in front of an audience. I have to take seminar groups as part of my PhD so it looks like ill be forced to get over my hang ups. I also found it amusing that there is a networking course, not as in computer networks silly! but networking as in making contacts with people. I am quite socially retarded so this came as a nice surprise and I signed up for it too. All they really need to complete me as a fully rounded person is a course in how to talk to women \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My PhD has finally got under way. Imperial College is not intimidating at all which is a relief. I have[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spikingneural.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spikingneural.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spikingneural.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spikingneural.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spikingneural.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spikingneural.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spikingneural.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spikingneural.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spikingneural.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spikingneural.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}