{"id":633,"date":"2019-06-06T14:07:26","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T18:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/narratives-project-curriculum\/?post_type=exercise&#038;p=633"},"modified":"2019-06-06T14:15:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T18:15:04","slug":"alumnae-note-and-anti-note","status":"publish","type":"exercise","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/narratives-project-curriculum\/exercise\/alumnae-note-and-anti-note\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumnae Note &amp; Anti-Note"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Read and write two DIFFERENT potential alumnae notes for yourself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Examples of real Smith College alumnae notes <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>Sarah Smith<\/b> completed medical school at UMass in Worcester and an internal medicine residency at Newton-Wellesley Hospital, and since 1988 has worked as a part-time physician in private practice in the Dover, NH area. \u00a0Husband Gary is a neurologist; son Jason completed his first year of college; and daughter Sara is in high school.\u00a0 The family is completed by a golden retriever and two cats.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alexis Jones<\/strong> writes, \u201cFive years after moving back home to Sarasota, I am now a stay-at-home mom to my 2-year-old son, Jack. \u00a0I\u2019m still not sure how I ended up a housewife, although it probably had a lot to do with my childcare collapsing, my job stagnating, and my husband pursuing a new career. \u00a0Most times I feel like I\u2019m secretly being filmed for a bad reality show entitled <em>My Mother\u2019s Life<\/em>. \u00a0In addition to applying my hard-earned degree to such things as laundry and trips to Target, I\u2019ve been busy managing our outdoor pest infiltration. \u00a0I am on a first-name basis with the Terminix man.\u00a0 Provoked by exhaustion, humidity, and my toddler\u2019s time-consuming neediness, I recently chopped off all my hair and now bear a startling resemblance to Sheena Easton circa 1983. \u00a0It saddens me to realize that current Smith students will have no idea who I\u2019m talking about.\u00a0 I love my son, I love being a mom, and most of the time I love my life.\u00a0 Yet I\u2019ve been confounded by choices I never thought I\u2019d have to make. \u00a0Which makes me think that my personal Reunion slogan could well be \u2013 \u201915 Years After Smith \u2013 What the Hell Happened?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students write about the best (and worst!) post-graduation scenarios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"modes":[4,7],"group":[],"class_list":["post-633","exercise","type-exercise","status-publish","hentry","modes-connect-to-peers","modes-explore-identity-and-purpose-through-narrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/narratives-project-curriculum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exercise\/633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/narratives-project-curriculum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exercise"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/narratives-project-curriculum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/exercise"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/narratives-project-curriculum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exercise\/633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":640,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/narratives-project-curriculum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exercise\/633\/revisions\/640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/narratives-project-curriculum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"modes","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/narratives-project-curriculum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/modes?post=633"},{"taxonomy":"group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/narratives-project-curriculum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/group?post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}