{"id":114,"date":"2018-12-11T01:53:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T01:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hojnotes.com\/?p=114"},"modified":"2018-12-11T01:53:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T01:53:01","slug":"big-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hojnotes.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/11\/big-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Big in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Monday mornings, first thing, I ask for volunteers to share their weekend stories as they relate to physics or science or school activity or anything really, that might be of interest to the class. &nbsp;Seated at the same table in my second period AP Physics class, two students shared their weekend stories spent out of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first student, RK, had just returned from London after an admission interview at Cambridge (his <em>second<\/em> choice; first choice, The Imperial College of London.) &nbsp;A fellow student upon hearing Cambridge, asked, \u201cWhat college?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPembroke,\u201d RK said, \u201cI\u2019m interested in medicine.\u201d &nbsp;RK said the interview was awful.  \u201cI was not prepared at all for what they asked.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPaint the scene, RK,\u201d I said. &nbsp;\u201cWere you alone, seated across from a long table of five sour-faced, stuffy taskmasters in a dank, echoing room?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAlmost as bad. &nbsp;Only two people at a time, but two interviews, and yeah, the room smelled bad. &nbsp;The building was beautiful but it was built before the U.S. even existed as a sovereign country. &nbsp;So yeah, old.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDidn\u2019t you google the most likely asked interview questions at Cambridge?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs a matter of fact, I did. &nbsp;They only asked one question regarding my prep. &nbsp;Instead, they showed me a graph, dated 1910-1920, which showed a decline in infant deaths and asked me why. &nbsp;I answered, \u2018immunizations\u2019.  The answer was sanitation.  My first answer was water, and thinking back, the interviewer even tried to lead me to it, but I still blew it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">RK said there were other questions, like,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Are you aware of any recent viral outbreaks in the UK?<\/li><li>Can you list three viruses responsible for transmitting disease from animals to humans?<\/li><li>What treatments exist?<\/li><li>The source of HIV?<\/li><li>How did the first HIV transmission occur?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two chairs to the left of RK, my other student, TC, shared her trip to Brussels, Belgium. &nbsp;Her mom works in quality control, apparently addressing international product complaints, and brought her daughter along on a business trip as a birthday gift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another student commented, \u201cOn my birthday, my mom takes me to Olive Garden.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI met the Belgian Santa Claus,\u201d TC said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDid you ask for Belgian toys?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNo, candy. &nbsp;Their Santa is really skinny and wears a red and gold-crossed bishop\u2019s hat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TC had purchased a gift-shop keychain with an image of a larger-than-life atomic iron crystal (constructed of stainless steel), or as Belgians know it to be, The Atomium, a science museum first built in 1958. &nbsp;The Atomic spheres are large enough to walk inside and hold exhibits.  Near The Atomium, TC took a picture of a brightly lit, miniature Eiffel tower at mini-Europe, a miniature park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TC also attended a Smurf Experience Expo in Brussels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apparently, viruses and atoms and Smurfs and mini-parks are really big in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday mornings, first thing, I ask for volunteers to share their weekend stories as they relate to physics or science or school activity or anything really, that might be of interest to the class. &nbsp;Seated at the same table in my second period AP Physics class, two students shared their weekend stories spent out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hojnotes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hojnotes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hojnotes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hojnotes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hojnotes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hojnotes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117,"href":"https:\/\/hojnotes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hojnotes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hojnotes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hojnotes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}