{"id":3527,"date":"2009-03-23T10:14:49","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T10:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/03\/23\/academic-poll-drop-it-like-its\/"},"modified":"2009-03-23T10:14:49","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T10:14:49","slug":"academic-poll-drop-it-like-its","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/03\/23\/academic-poll-drop-it-like-its\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic Poll: Drop It Like It&#8217;s Hot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I handed in my final grades for the term this morning, and am now on &#8220;Spring Break&#8221; which is the misleading term for the week of frantic preparation for next term&#8217;s classes that our schedule allows. Here&#8217;s a poll question for you, though:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We operate on ten-week &#8220;trimesters.&#8221; How late into the ten-week term should students be allowed to drop a course without special permission?<br \/>\nA) By the end of the second week.<br \/>\nB) By the end of the fourth week.<br \/>\nC) By the end of the sixth week.<br \/>\nD) By the end of the eighth weeks.<\/br\/><br \/>\nE) By the end of the tenth week.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Leave your answers in the comments. If you&#8217;d like to indicate whether you&#8217;re answering as a student or a faculty member, that would be helpful, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I handed in my final grades for the term this morning, and am now on &#8220;Spring Break&#8221; which is the misleading term for the week of frantic preparation for next term&#8217;s classes that our schedule allows. Here&#8217;s a poll question for you, though: We operate on ten-week &#8220;trimesters.&#8221; How late into the ten-week term should&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/03\/23\/academic-poll-drop-it-like-its\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Academic Poll: Drop It Like It&#8217;s Hot?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-education","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}