{"id":2552,"date":"2012-12-19T13:44:25","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T18:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/?p=2552"},"modified":"2014-04-07T09:21:13","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T14:21:13","slug":"there-was-a-time-when-professors-were-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/?p=2552","title":{"rendered":"There was a time when professors were kind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Their lecture objectives were clear<br \/>\nand they held review sessions<br \/>\nthere was a time when there was only one right answer<br \/>\nor it was matching<br \/>\nthere was a time<br \/>\nthen it all went wrong<\/p>\n<p>I dreamed a dream of grades gone by<br \/>\nWhere scores were high and curves forgiving<br \/>\nA GPA of 3.5<br \/>\nFor six semesters, it had risen<\/p>\n<p>When I was just a sophomore<br \/>\nAnd exam grades were far less weighted<br \/>\nI was boosted by my homework scores<br \/>\nExtra credit was allocated<\/p>\n<p>But my grades began to fall<br \/>\nWhen I started therapeutics<br \/>\nWhere B and C are both right<br \/>\nBut B is not &#8220;the most correct&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Though after countless Friday nights<br \/>\nImmersed in a 2-inch thick ring binder<br \/>\nTumbler of coffee by my side<br \/>\nYet I still got a 73<\/p>\n<p>I dream my grade will rise again<br \/>\nThat this final boosts it higher<br \/>\nI can still pull off a B<br \/>\nif i score 93 or better<\/p>\n<p>I had a dream my grades would be<br \/>\nSo much higher than these C&#8217;s I&#8217;m given<br \/>\nSo much higher like they used to be<br \/>\nTherapeutics killed the dream I dreamed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Their lecture objectives were clear and they held review sessions there was a time when there was only one right answer or it was matching there was a time then it all went wrong I dreamed a dream of grades gone by Where scores were high and curves forgiving A GPA of 3.5 For six [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2552"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3510,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552\/revisions\/3510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}