{"id":1506,"date":"2023-10-08T18:20:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T22:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/?p=1506"},"modified":"2026-03-16T15:18:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T19:18:38","slug":"end-of-summer-students-alumni-gathering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/2023\/10\/end-of-summer-students-alumni-gathering\/","title":{"rendered":"End of Summer Students\/Alumni Gathering"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We were glad to host students and research group alumni for food and games to welcome a new crop of research assistants before Nils has to head back to Germany at the end of September.  This time I actually managed to capture a few pictures and one humorous exchange over the gaming table&#8230;.<br><br>Student 1:  This game is purely random.<br>Student 2:  If it is random, why do the people with PhDs have most of the chips?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/files\/2023\/10\/PXL_20230924_022529847.MP_-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/files\/2023\/10\/PXL_20230924_022529847.MP_-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"End of Summer Students\/Alumni Gathering\" class=\"wp-image-1498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/files\/2023\/10\/PXL_20230924_022529847.MP_-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/files\/2023\/10\/PXL_20230924_022529847.MP_-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/files\/2023\/10\/PXL_20230924_022529847.MP_-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/files\/2023\/10\/PXL_20230924_022529847.MP_-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/files\/2023\/10\/PXL_20230924_022529847.MP_-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Nils, Naomi, Jack, Bradley, and Mackay in the foreground.  Research alums and guests in the back.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were glad to host students and research group alumni for food and games to welcome a new crop of research assistants before Nils has to head back to Germany at the end of September. This time I actually managed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/2023\/10\/end-of-summer-students-alumni-gathering\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1506"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1839,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions\/1839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}