{"id":18470,"date":"2017-09-20T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T17:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/?p=18470"},"modified":"2017-09-21T14:58:45","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T19:58:45","slug":"titans-stretch-their-cognitive-muscles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/2017\/09\/20\/titans-stretch-their-cognitive-muscles\/","title":{"rendered":"Titans Stretch Their Cognitive Muscles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">NAPERVILLE, IL &#8211; At a recent gathering with friends from their hometown, several IMSA students couldn\u2019t help but brag about the \u201creal world curriculum\u201d and \u201cnaturally inquisitive environment\u201d that had convinced them to attend the elite Aurora boarding school. \u201cIt\u2019s nice to go to a school where people genuinely care about learning, not just building up an impressive college resume,\u201d remarked Barley Hultquist, who is also the captain of 10 extracurricular clubs and first visited Harvard when his umbilical cord was still attached to a placenta. \u201cHere, teachers challenge you to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">apply <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the things you learn in the classroom to real-life situations. In fact, just last week I learned how to take a triple integral!\u201d he continued, noting that he could now figure out the perfect volume for a prison for his estranged brother in the fourth dimension.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Barley\u2019s friends have a flurry of accomplishments under their belts, as well, since many of them attended prestigious science and math programs in Boston and Michigan over the summer. At the same time, members of the group are still unable to perform basic tasks like tie shoelaces, microwave ramen, or use faucets that don\u2019t have \u201con\u201d and \u201coff\u201d buttons. When we attempted to reach them for further comment, Barley and his friends were flattered, but all claimed to be \u201cvery, very busy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAPERVILLE, IL &#8211; At a recent gathering with friends from their hometown, several IMSA students couldn\u2019t help but brag about the \u201creal world curriculum\u201d and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":318,"featured_media":18576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2490,2621],"tags":[2743],"coauthors":[2596],"class_list":["post-18470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humor","category-humor-satire","tag-backtoschool"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/318"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18470"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18563,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18470\/revisions\/18563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18470"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=18470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}