{"id":1868,"date":"2025-07-17T13:32:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T18:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/?p=1868"},"modified":"2025-07-17T13:32:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T18:32:38","slug":"everything-is-so-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/everything-is-so-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything is so cool :("},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s so many cool people to meet here, and all of these cool people know other cool people, and all of these cool people combined are doing so much cool stuff, so how can I possibly feel like what I am working on in the next year is even close to cool?????<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today we heard from Cody Fleming who is the future Associate Director of VRAC. He\u2019s doing a lot of cool work related to air taxi\u2019s, which has a lot of relation to the NAVI project. It\u2019s funny how such niche ideas can be related to so many various disciplines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I feel like I\u2019m failing to ask all of these people all of the questions I could be asking them, and instead placing more emphasis on the research project. I guess my conclusion is that balancing your time is really hard, but that\u2019s good because I\u2019m trying to balance it between a bunch of cool things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s so many cool people to meet here, and all of these cool people know other cool people, and all of these cool people combined are doing so much cool stuff, so how can I possibly feel like what I <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/everything-is-so-cool\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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-1868","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\/1868","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1871,"href":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions\/1871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}