{"id":305,"date":"2018-02-10T16:49:56","date_gmt":"2018-02-10T21:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/?p=305"},"modified":"2018-02-10T16:50:51","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T21:50:51","slug":"should-you-go-to-grad-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/2018\/02\/10\/should-you-go-to-grad-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Should You Go To Grad School?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No.\u00a0 No, you should not. Let me tell you why.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/roMgJE0IK8Y?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;start=1&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No.\u00a0 No, you should not. Let me tell you why. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p67nDP-4V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":307,"url":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/2018\/02\/10\/when-should-you-have-a-baby-in-academia\/","url_meta":{"origin":305,"position":0},"title":"When should you have a baby in academia?","author":"Anita Blanchard","date":"February 10, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Why the hell do they not ask men this question?\u00a0 It's a rigged system until academia figures out that half the population gives birth.\u00a0 And that, actually, birthing babies takes a moment. \u00a0","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":309,"url":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/2018\/02\/14\/academic-life-as-the-winter-olympics\/","url_meta":{"origin":305,"position":1},"title":"Academic Life As the Winter Olympics","author":"Anita Blanchard","date":"February 14, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"SO, yeah.\u00a0 I figured out this lesson in Grad School, when I was near the end of my dissertation.\u00a0 I was working my booty off, scared I wasn't going to finish, and, generally, overwhelmed by next sunrise. A friend\/peer from my peer mentor group told me he knew I was\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":416,"url":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/2020\/07\/15\/how-to-science-who-should-we-trust-as-experts\/","url_meta":{"origin":305,"position":2},"title":"How To Science: Who Should We Trust as Experts?","author":"Anita Blanchard","date":"July 15, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"So, I saved this as an idea to blog about in April. Who should we be able to trust as \"experts\" in whatever field we need information? Here is the conundrum I start with: We should most\u00a0trust the people who are experts in their field.\u00a0 I am not an expert\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":364,"url":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/2019\/09\/18\/an-entitativity-measure-and-why\/","url_meta":{"origin":305,"position":3},"title":"An Entitativity Measure and Why","author":"Anita Blanchard","date":"September 18, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"For all you folks out there google searching for Entitativity (and there may be a few) and, in particular, for those of you looking for a validated measure of entitativity, I'd like to direct you to our published peer-reviewed paper in Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. 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