{"id":1075,"date":"2011-12-12T10:10:36","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T18:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/?p=1075"},"modified":"2012-07-23T14:03:16","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T21:03:16","slug":"wow-where-did-the-term-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/2011\/12\/12\/wow-where-did-the-term-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Wow where did the term go!?!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well the term ended and it was a whirl wind. \u00a0The majority of the term was spent either TAing biological oceanography or studying and preparing for my oral exam. \u00a0The TAing went extremely well and I really enjoyed getting to hear the lectures again. \u00a0Hearing the lectures really helped me to feel more prepared for my upcoming orals. \u00a0For part of my project I am using plankton samples collected by NOAA to better understand the vertical migratory patterns of Dungeness crabs. \u00a0This quarter I went to pick up the samples from Newport and they filled the back of a pickup truck!!!! \u00a0It definitely seems I have my work cut out for me. \u00a0However, the majority of the quarter has been spent preparing for orals which has entailed reading countless scientific articles. \u00a0Before the oral exam I have to turn in a written form of my proposal so the next few weeks will be spent finalizing this. \u00a0I am looking forward to getting past the orals portion of my PhD so I can get to work counting samples and building my computer model. \u00a0I will be posting sometime in February to update everyone on how the orals went.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well the term ended and it was a whirl wind. \u00a0The majority of the term was spent either TAing biological oceanography or studying and preparing for my oral exam. \u00a0The TAing went extremely well and I really enjoyed getting to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/2011\/12\/12\/wow-where-did-the-term-go\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7499,1387505],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leif-rasmuson","category-robert-e-malouf-marine-studies-scholar"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1075"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1501,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions\/1501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}