{"id":1207,"date":"2009-02-15T09:26:20","date_gmt":"2009-02-15T14:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/wp\/?p=1207"},"modified":"2009-02-15T09:26:20","modified_gmt":"2009-02-15T14:26:20","slug":"friday-five-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=1207","title":{"rendered":"Friday Five"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks again to <a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/thefridayfive\" target=\"_blank\">Live Journal<\/a> for reviving this entertaining meme:<br \/>\n<strong>1. If you were to have a scholarship created in your honor, what qualities would you look for in applicants (leadership, service, GPA, etc.)?<\/strong><br \/>\nI would look for two things: evidence of strong intellectual discipline and curiosity &#8211; such as teaching oneself a new language or building\/repairing a house without help &#8211; and proof of overcoming long odds &#8211; adoption, physical deformity, recovery from serious illness.<br \/>\n<strong>2. Who would be eligible to apply for your scholarship (members of a certain major, ethnic group, sexuality, etc.)?<\/strong><br \/>\nWomen over forty who have never been married and who wish to enter a profession that is predominantly male.<br \/>\n<strong>3. Would it be need-based or not? Why?<\/strong><br \/>\nI think any middle-aged woman who&#8217;s never been married would <i>a priori<\/i> meet a needs test, so it wouldn&#8217;t be necessary to explicitly impose such a requirement.<br \/>\n<strong>4. What would you call it?<\/strong><br \/>\nA Second Chance<br \/>\n<strong>5. If you made applicants write an essay, what would the topic be?<\/strong><br \/>\nInstead of a written interview, I&#8217;d prefer a presentation on any scientific, technical, engineering, mathematical, historical or political topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks again to Live Journal for reviving this entertaining meme: 1. If you were to have a scholarship created in your honor, what qualities would you look for in applicants (leadership, service, GPA, etc.)? I would look for two things: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=1207\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}