{"id":1357,"date":"2025-06-04T13:25:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T18:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/?p=1357"},"modified":"2025-06-05T08:04:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T13:04:45","slug":"midweek-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/midweek-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week is focused on C++, which was a bit daunting because most of the other interns are CS majors, and I am not. I have a focus in mechanical engineering, and my small experience with code taught me to, put politely, <em>strongly dislike <\/em>it. But, now a few lessons in, I see its not so bad when you understand it (like most things). The lessons have actually been engaging and I feel like I\u2019m learning a lot. My mentors and peers have been very kind and helpful in teaching me the basics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s a picture of the pond from yesterday. It was a bit rainy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250603_085139-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1360\"><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week is focused on C++, which was a bit daunting because most of the other interns are CS majors, and I am not. I have a focus in mechanical engineering, and my small experience with code taught me to, <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/midweek-2\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1357"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1367,"href":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions\/1367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}