{"id":52,"date":"2008-01-16T05:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T09:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admissions.me.holycross.edu\/2008\/01\/16\/deadline-day\/"},"modified":"2008-01-16T05:43:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-16T09:43:00","slug":"deadline-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/2008\/01\/16\/deadline-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadline Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/me.holycross.edu\/blogimages\/pmaloney.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Pmaloney\" \/> January 15th is a day that is circled on many calendars across the country for a variety of reasons.\u00a0 Did you know that on January 15, 1559, Queen Elizabeth I was crowned?\u00a0 In 1622, French writer Moli\u00e8re was born?\u00a0 In 1922, Irish revolutionary Michael Collins became the Irish Free States&#8217; first premier?\u00a0 In 1929, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born?\u00a0 And in 1967, the Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl I.?\u00a0 Well, it&#8217;s true.\u00a0 And in addition to those events, January 15th is important at Holy Cross because it is the deadline for regular decision applications.<\/p>\n<p>Where did the time go you ask?\u00a0 Well, it has flown by in a blur of high school visits, open houses, college fairs, interviews, phone calls and emails for counselors here at HC.\u00a0 But today &#8211; January 16th is the start of full scale reading for us counselors.\u00a0 Oh, we&#8217;ve been chipping away at early applications for a few months, but now we know what we&#8217;re up against.\u00a0 The last applications are being downloaded and all the rest of the mail is coming in.\u00a0 Counselors will be able to go find a quiet area to read applications for hours at a time.\u00a0 Our very own Suzanne likes to read at her desk&#8230;and by the looks of the pile on her desk this morning, she&#8217;ll be there a while.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/holycrossadmissionsblog.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2008\/01\/21\/read.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/me.holycross.edu\/blogimages\/read.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Read\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know what you&#8217;re thinking &#8211; it sounds like fun!\u00a0 Well, like any good novel, it has it ups and downs, makes you laugh or frustrates you, but overall it&#8217;s enjoyable to find out about all of you.\u00a0 As you might have already guessed, I&#8217;m putting off reading in order to write this entry, but if I don&#8217;t start, I&#8217;ll never finish.\u00a0 So, with all this work to be done, and a full night&#8217;s rest behind me, I&#8217;m ready to go.\u00a0 You might not be hearing from us very frequently over the several weeks, but don&#8217;t forget to check back with us because you never know what we&#8217;re going to read about next.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Maloney &#8217;02<br \/>\nAssistant Director of Admissions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 15th is a day that is circled on many calendars across the country for a variety of reasons.\u00a0 Did you know that on January 15, 1559, Queen Elizabeth I was crowned?\u00a0 In 1622, French writer Moli\u00e8re was born?\u00a0 In 1922, Irish revolutionary Michael Collins became the Irish Free States&#8217; first premier?\u00a0 In 1929, Dr. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/2008\/01\/16\/deadline-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Deadline Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":615,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admissions-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/615"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}