{"id":374,"date":"2014-02-19T20:13:37","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T20:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/rock50\/?p=374"},"modified":"2014-02-19T20:13:37","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T20:13:37","slug":"christoph-schmidt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/2014\/02\/19\/christoph-schmidt\/","title":{"rendered":"Christoph Schmidt (Class of 1982)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-375\" alt=\"20140219christophSchmidt\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2014\/02\/20140219christophSchmidt.jpg\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2014\/02\/20140219christophSchmidt.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2014\/02\/20140219christophSchmidt-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2014\/02\/20140219christophSchmidt-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2014\/02\/20140219christophSchmidt-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2014\/02\/20140219christophSchmidt-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The above quote is from Christoph Schmidt\u2014Class of 1982. Read the full memory below:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As one of the few honors concentrators in Comparative Literature, I was given a carrel in the bowels of Level B. If there was ever a desk situated for minimal distractions, it was along that cinder block wall two floors below the main entrance door.<\/p>\n<p>There were two positive attributes that kept the location bearable enough for me to keep returning and writing my thesis. First was that all the literature stacks were at hand. Second was that the three other thesis writers in Comp. Lit. were also banished to the same area. Hearing about their work was a great motivator to mine.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect those ratty carrels are long gone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The above quote is from Christoph Schmidt\u2014Class of 1982. Read the full memory below: As one of the few honors concentrators in Comparative Literature, I was given a carrel in the bowels of Level B. If there was ever a desk situated for minimal distractions, it was along that cinder block wall two floors below [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rock-memories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}