{"id":815,"date":"2009-03-26T07:32:33","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T07:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/2009\/03\/26\/chances-are-you-sat-here-once\/"},"modified":"2009-03-26T07:32:33","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T07:32:33","slug":"chances-are-you-sat-here-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2009\/03\/26\/chances-are-you-sat-here-once\/","title":{"rendered":"Chances Are You Sat Here Once"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"428\" height=\"288\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/yousathere.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chances are you sat in these very same seats once on Honors Weekend, just like these young men last weekend. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You were probably doing the same mental gyrations they are:<br \/>&#8211; Is this the place for me?<br \/>&#8211; I need to do well on these tests!<br \/>&#8211; If I attend Wabash, what&#8217;s the right living arrangement for me?<br \/>&#8211; I don&#8217;t know if my family can afford it?<br \/>&#8211; Can I hack it here?<br \/>&#8211; Will I ever see a girl?<\/p>\n<p>Yep, whether you were in the Class of 2004, 1979, or 1954, those same thoughts ran through your mind.<\/p>\n<p>You might be able to help one of these guys, especially if you referred him to Wabash. &nbsp;Pick up the phone and give him a call.&nbsp;&nbsp;Let him tell you about the weekend. &nbsp;Let him tell you how he did. &nbsp;Let him tell you what he is wondering\/worried about. &nbsp;Then tell him everyone wonders the same things.<\/p>\n<p>The more some things change, the more some others don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more Wabash Stories at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wabashstories.com\">www.wabashstories.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chances are you sat in these very same seats once on Honors Weekend, just like these young men last weekend. &nbsp; You were probably doing the same mental gyrations they are:&#8211; Is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}