{"id":245,"date":"2010-04-21T09:36:38","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T16:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/21\/cornell\/"},"modified":"2010-04-21T09:40:09","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T16:40:09","slug":"cornell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/21\/cornell\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Devon has decided to pursue graduate studies in Applied Physics at Cornell University, in Ithica, NY.  Cornell is ranked 7th in the nation for Physics graduate programs <a href=\"http:\/\/grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com\/best-graduate-schools\/top-physics-schools\/rankings\">(US News and World Report)<\/a>, so he could have done a lot worse.<\/p>\n<p>He had originally applied for the PHD program in Physics, but later regretted it, feeling that the 6 or so years it would require were too much.  When they offered him admission to the MS program instead, he jumped at it.<\/p>\n<p>In the mean time, he has given notice at his job in Rancho Cucamonga, California, and is preparing to spend the summer in Taiwan intensively studying Chinese and having fun.<\/p>\n<p>(Interesting note:  Mom has traced our ancestry back to the Cornell family.  We apparently are distant cousins, many times removed, of Ezra Cornell, the founder of the University.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devon has decided to pursue graduate studies in Applied Physics at Cornell University, in Ithica, NY. Cornell is ranked 7th in the nation for Physics graduate programs (US News and World Report), so he could have done a lot worse. He had originally applied for the PHD program in Physics, but later regretted it, feeling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}