{"id":1134,"date":"2014-05-03T23:44:58","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T03:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/?p=1134"},"modified":"2025-07-08T15:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T19:27:11","slug":"a-look-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/2014\/05\/03\/a-look-back\/","title":{"rendered":"A Look Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/03\/Audie.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-978\" alt=\"Audie\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/03\/Audie.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"115\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s been a long first year of college. I&#8217;ve been tested mentally, physically, and emotionally at times on this small campus. I&#8217;ve met people I can&#8217;t imagine going a summer without, and I&#8217;ve met people that things can only get better with. I&#8217;ve tasted potential I didn&#8217;t see in myself with running, and I&#8217;ve also seen just how much I am my own enemy in running. I&#8217;ve seen the brotherhood I&#8217;ve always looked for in the miles on roads with my teammates, and the long weeks with my brothers. I&#8217;ve been made to think critically of the conservative values I&#8217;ve grown up with, and change them to traditional values. Little bit opposite then how most college students become more liberal. I&#8217;ve seen the stresses of a Wabash education, athletics, and fraternity pledgeship. Similarly I have seen the fruits of many of these labors, a more educated mind, and Socratic Method of looking at life&#8217;s questions. I came here a Biology Major, and I will enter my sophomore year as a Classical Studies Major and Religion Minor. After a long year, which would take too long to entirely look back on, I only have a summer of running, work, and reading standing between myself and another semester under her scarlet banner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a long first year of college. I&#8217;ve been tested mentally, physically, and emotionally at times on this small campus. I&#8217;ve met people I can&#8217;t imagine going a summer without, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audie-kaufman-17"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1135,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions\/1135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}