{"id":108,"date":"2004-02-01T17:01:01","date_gmt":"2004-02-01T17:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=108"},"modified":"2004-02-01T17:01:01","modified_gmt":"2004-02-01T17:01:01","slug":"work-hard-play-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2004\/02\/01\/work-hard-play-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"Work Hard, Play Hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Work Hard.  Play Hard.  That&#8217;s the motto that would best characterize the events of the past week.  I went from pulling all-nighters for my PQE on Monday to my birthday celebration on Thursday, then busting my balls on my PI&#8217;s grant, and on Friday joining in the festivities for the Neuroscience recruitment weekend.  I took off from lab around 10pm to head over to <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.jillians.com\">Jillian&#8217;s<\/A> with my friend Mike, where we played 2 solid hours of 8-ball (completely ignoring all the prospective students, of course), followed by dancing at <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.antuanua.com\">An Tua Nua<\/A>, which featured a mix of music from 80&#8217;s to modern Hip-Hop.  The beautiful thing was that everything was covered by the program &#8211; from the cover charge to drinks at the bar.  All you had to say were the magic words &#8220;Harvard Neuroscience&#8221;.  Other than that, my parents were in town this weekend, so I just chilled with them while I continued working on the grant.  It&#8217;ll be another breath of fresh air once this grant is over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work Hard. Play Hard. That&#8217;s the motto that would best characterize the events of the past week. I went from pulling all-nighters for my PQE on Monday to my birthday celebration on Thursday, then busting my balls on my PI&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2004\/02\/01\/work-hard-play-hard\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}