{"id":604,"date":"2011-02-24T15:25:17","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T23:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/?p=604"},"modified":"2011-02-24T15:25:17","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T23:25:17","slug":"personal-blog-post-on-mentors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/2011\/02\/personal-blog-post-on-mentors\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Blog Post on Mentors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following a recent group meeting, <strong>Behzod Sirjani<\/strong> (our newest CSC Lab member) posted to his personal blog his <a title=\"Being an Intellectual Child\" href=\"http:\/\/behzodsirjani.com\/blog\/2011\/being-an-intellectual-child\/\">thoughts on being an &#8220;intellectual child&#8221; of a valued mentor<\/a> and what it means to be a scholar. The conversations one has with a mentor can plant seeds for ideas that can last a lifetime. The first few sentences are excerpted below to pique your interest, but the whole post is well worth reading.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;An idea is like a parasite. Resilient, highly  contagious, and once an idea has taken hold of the brain, it\u2019s almost  impossible to eradicate.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This quote from Leonardo DiCaprio\u2019s character in the movie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1375666\/\">Inception<\/a> is something that has rang true with me for most of my life. Ideas  often start as seeds, planted somewhere amidst a conversation, and over  time, they grow, finally budding. Often we don\u2019t know when those seeds  are planted, but later we can identify what it was that sparked the  idea.<\/p>\n<p>Each week gives me more reasons to be thankful for my current position at UW\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/hcde.washington.edu\/\">HCDE<\/a> program, and this morning presented me with another moment to be truly thankful for&#8230;&#8221; <a href=\"    An idea is like a parasite. Resilient, highly contagious, and once an idea has taken hold of the brain, it\u2019s almost impossible to eradicate.\u201d  This quote from Leonardo DiCaprio\u2019s character in the movie Inception is something that has rang true with me for most of my life. Ideas often start as seeds, planted somewhere amidst a conversation, and over time, they grow, finally budding. Often we don\u2019t know when those seeds are planted, but later we can identify what it was that sparked the idea.  Each week gives me more reasons to be thankful for my current position at UW\u2019s HCDE program, and this morning presented me with another moment to be truly thankful for.\">Read the rest of the post.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a recent group meeting, Behzod Sirjani (our newest CSC Lab member) posted to his personal blog his thoughts on being an &#8220;intellectual child&#8221; of a valued mentor and what it means to be a scholar. The conversations one has with a mentor can plant seeds for ideas that can last a lifetime. The first few sentences are excerpted below to pique your interest, but the whole post is well worth reading. &#8220;An idea is like a parasite. Resilient, highly&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":605,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions\/605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}