{"id":1291,"date":"2011-06-10T04:47:07","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T11:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=1291"},"modified":"2011-06-10T04:47:07","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T11:47:07","slug":"showing-up-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=1291","title":{"rendered":"Showing Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x15011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1292\" title=\"mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x15011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Thirty minutes late, but my last student arrived yesterday. He\u2019s a recent immigrant to the U. S., and I\u2019m pretty sure he has trouble finding a ride each morning.<\/p>\n<p>Another student, a young lady, came 15 minutes late. \u201cForgot to set my alarm,\u201d she told me. But she got up. She came.<\/p>\n<p>And that encourages me. All 25 summer Comp I students showed up for a midterm. At 7:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m encouraged because it tells me something about their futures. Pupils who take my midterm almost always take my final. They finish the course.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s bigger than that. Students who show up for exams tend to show up for other hard life events, too.<\/p>\n<p>Which, in my book, is a big predictor of success: Just showing up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty minutes late, but my last student arrived yesterday. He\u2019s a recent immigrant to the U. S., and I\u2019m pretty sure he has trouble finding a ride each morning. Another student, a young lady, came 15 minutes late. \u201cForgot to set my alarm,\u201d she told me. But she got up. She came. And that encourages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1293,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions\/1293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}