{"id":45,"date":"2026-08-13T22:16:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T22:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/?p=45"},"modified":"2026-08-17T20:58:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T20:58:52","slug":"casting-on-a-new-semester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/2026\/08\/13\/casting-on-a-new-semester\/","title":{"rendered":"Casting on a New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Class of 2030, I can&#8217;t wait to meet you. My hope for you is that you arrive at Macaulay full of wonder and joy, and that we meet your enthusiasm with our own. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the lead coordinator of seminar Common Events like Night at the Museum and STEAM Festival, I know that I can plan everything well, but the events don&#8217;t work without the you showing up. We will be mutually supportive as a community to make these events meaningful and fun, and create lasting memories for you in your educational journeys and as Macaulay&#8217;s future alums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I love to knit and think the process of knitting is a lot like teaching and learning. There are so many styles, textures, techniques, tools, and fibers. There is also a lot of trial and error, patience, mistakes, and some occasional cursing&#8211;but usually a lot of satisfaction with the outcome. I chose an image of a partially complete sock with a rabbit holding a dandelion stem. May it bring luck and good wishes for us all in our ongoing works in progress!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Class of 2030, I can&#8217;t wait to meet you. My hope for you is that you arrive at Macaulay full of wonder and joy, and that we meet your enthusiasm with our own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":49,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,36,21],"tags":[33,29,32,30,34,31],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humanities","category-macaulay-central","category-tlc","tag-common-events","tag-crafts","tag-good-luck","tag-knitting","tag-night-at-the-museum","tag-teaching-and-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}