{"id":1578,"date":"2013-04-25T18:29:21","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T22:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmcurr11.me.holycross.edu\/?p=1578"},"modified":"2013-04-25T18:29:21","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T22:29:21","slug":"alpha-iota-sigma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/2013\/04\/25\/alpha-iota-sigma\/","title":{"rendered":"Alpha Iota Sigma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">Tonight, I had the pleasure of skyping in to the first Alpha Iota Sigma Honors Society Induction Ceremony to give a speech about the honors society. If you remember, this was a joint pet project for both Prof. Matlak and myself during my senior year, and it has finally come to fruition. <a href=\"http:\/\/cmcurr11.me.holycross.edu\/files\/2013\/04\/Screen-Shot-2013-04-25-at-10.42.49-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1579\" title=\"Screen Shot 2013-04-25 at 10.42.49 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/cmcurr11.me.holycross.edu\/files\/2013\/04\/Screen-Shot-2013-04-25-at-10.42.49-PM-300x187.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a>(Skyping in was a touch weird, but it did work out).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">It is incredible to know that this project finally became a reality, and that future interdisciplinary students can now benefit from such an honors society. But the entire honors ceremony took me back to where I was just a few years ago, when I submitted my application to CISS for my Medieval Studies second major. I didn&#8217;t really think that I&#8217;d be sitting here in Oxford pursuing a Masters degree just a few short years later. When people ask me about my experience with CISS and how I came to find the program, they typically think that I came into Holy Cross with the idea of making my own major from the get-go. And that couldn&#8217;t be farther from the truth. I just happened to take so many courses in the medieval period, and I fell in love with the themes that I found there. And the rest is truly history.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I guess now is a good time to announce that I will be staying in Oxford next year to begin my DPhil research. I do plan on coming back to the States one day, I swear! But for now, I&#8217;m staying here to complete the manuscript projects that I&#8217;ve begun (and, maaaaybe do some dancing on the side). So, here&#8217;s to the late nights, the dissertation crises, and the many, many manuscripts that I will look at over the next three to four years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, I had the pleasure of skyping in to the first Alpha Iota Sigma Honors Society Induction Ceremony to give a speech about the honors society. If you remember, this was a joint pet project for both Prof. Matlak and myself during my senior year, and it has finally come to fruition. (Skyping in was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/2013\/04\/25\/alpha-iota-sigma\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Alpha Iota Sigma&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-beyond-holy-cross"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}