{"id":6685,"date":"2022-03-02T03:56:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T03:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6685"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:12","slug":"a-word-of-encouragement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6685","title":{"rendered":"A WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have spent the last month fretting over a research paper for one of my classes. The prof is a tough grader and it has been a long time since I wrote a 10 to 12 page paper. In recent days, I have made massive changes to the structure of the whole thing &#8211; I go round and round on the order of the sections.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had made a commitment to myself that I would go back and look at the professor&#8217;s comments on my previous papers to get an idea of what to improve for this one.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But that made me nervous. (Even though I got an A on the last two &#8211; insecurities run deep.)\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I procrastinated on looking at the comments.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now the paper is due at midnight tonight, it is 8:00 am, and I finally decided it was now or never for looking at comments.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I scrolled all the way through the pages and saw no comments &#8230; except at the bottom of the last page.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Well done. A!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And all of a sudden I have renewed energy for finishing this paper off and getting it submitted&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have spent the last month fretting over a research paper for one of my classes. The prof is a tough grader and it has been a long time since I wrote a 10 to 12 page paper. In recent days, I have made massive changes to the structure of the whole thing &#8211; I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6686,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6685\/revisions\/6686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}