{"id":10547,"date":"2019-10-07T20:20:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T00:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=10547"},"modified":"2019-10-08T17:58:25","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T21:58:25","slug":"being-at-bc-makes-me-feel-dumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/10\/07\/being-at-bc-makes-me-feel-dumb\/","title":{"rendered":"Being at BC makes me feel dumb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"409\" height=\"386\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/AW10072019-08-e1570493793572.jpg\" alt=\"Being at BC makes me feel dumb\" class=\"wp-image-10532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/AW10072019-08-e1570493793572.jpg 409w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/AW10072019-08-e1570493793572-300x283.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 409px) 100vw, 409px\" \/><figcaption>Being at BC makes me feel dumb<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m sorry to hear that. I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re quite smart; you&#8217;re at BC, after all! Story: a human I know was a high-performing figure-skater as a teen. She had a world-class coach at a competitive skating center. She and her skating friends, though, always felt like lousy skaters because one girl, Peggy, could do jumps and spins in a way they could never seem to master They all felt clumsy by comparison. Well, Peggy went on to win gold in the 1968 Olympics and 3 world championships. You know her as Peggy Fleming. There are some world-class brains at BC. Let them shine, and don&#8217;t worry about it. (And don&#8217;t tell anyone, but there&#8217;s a rumor that BC students work their images really hard, and don&#8217;t admit to struggling when they are.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sorry to hear that. I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re quite smart; you&#8217;re at BC, after all! Story: a human I know was a high-performing figure-skater as a teen. She had a world-class coach at a competitive skating center. She and her skating friends, though, always felt like lousy skaters because one girl, Peggy, could do jumps &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/10\/07\/being-at-bc-makes-me-feel-dumb\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Being at BC makes me feel dumb&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10547"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10561,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10547\/revisions\/10561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}