{"id":18,"date":"2021-10-14T02:20:28","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T02:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/rookiemistakes\/?p=18"},"modified":"2021-10-14T02:22:02","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T02:22:02","slug":"the-sky-is-wherever-you-want-it-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/rookiemistakes\/2021\/10\/14\/the-sky-is-wherever-you-want-it-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"The sky is&#8230; wherever you want it to be."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Push yourself.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>To be better than you were yesterday. What does that even mean? Starting our first &#8220;real&#8221; assignment of our capstone, I had a lot of big dreams that came slightly crashing down. But with a blog titled &#8220;rookie mistakes&#8221;, you knew that would happen, right? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:19px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I had all these plans to start off strong, be more prepared than my teammates so I was an equal partner, even though I felt like much less than that. I&#8217;ve always been relegated the &#8220;designer&#8221; roles. &#8220;Just make it look pretty.&#8221; &#8220;Can you organize this page?&#8221; and &#8220;what colors do you want it to be&#8221; seem to be the only questions asked of me in projects. Well, until this term. Finally, I&#8217;m on equal footing and being asked the same questions my teammates are trying to answer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:19px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>And I feel like I&#8217;m reading Greek. (disclaimer: I do not know much Greek.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:37px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>So instead of psyching myself out and underestimating my qualities- for the first time I took this as a challenge. In my mantra for this year and my new career switch, I decided to own my ignorance, and rectify it. And therefore keep me on equal footing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:49px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s to hoping the hill is a bit less steep in future weeks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Push yourself. To be better than you were yesterday. What does that even mean? Starting our first &#8220;real&#8221; assignment of our capstone, I had a lot of big dreams that came slightly crashing down. But with a blog titled &#8220;rookie mistakes&#8221;, you knew that would happen, right? I had all these plans to start off&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/rookiemistakes\/2021\/10\/14\/the-sky-is-wherever-you-want-it-to-be\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The sky is&#8230; wherever you want it to be.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11719,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/rookiemistakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/rookiemistakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/rookiemistakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/rookiemistakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11719"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/rookiemistakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/rookiemistakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/rookiemistakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/rookiemistakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/rookiemistakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/rookiemistakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}