{"id":3451,"date":"2023-06-07T19:02:27","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T19:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/?p=3451"},"modified":"2023-06-07T19:05:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T19:05:36","slug":"a-letter-to-future-lauren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/2023\/06\/07\/a-letter-to-future-lauren\/","title":{"rendered":"A Letter To Future Lauren"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dear Lauren,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I know we have have been well-aware transitioning into my senior year of college that this summer would be important to us. I would be a bridesmaid for the first time, I would begin a new volunteer position at the humane society, and I would cherish the memories of being with our college friends for probably the last summer. But I also knew that getting into and going to graduate school is our top priority, as getting my PhD is a daunting but glittering goal of ours. As I am starting to get my footing in the WAGSFP I hope we gain skills focused in research that are more often learned through experience and application rather than in a lecture hall. I\u2019m looking forward to becoming more confident in not only my analytical, statistical, and computational skills, but also my curiosity. However, if I wanted just those developments alone I could have gone about this in another way. This particular fellowship program will allow me to put into practice a feminist research lens that I have carefully studied during my time at UM. My work in women and gender studies have played a large part in directing my focus in psychology and guiding my interactions with others.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2023\/06\/IMG_0143-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3452\" width=\"233\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2023\/06\/IMG_0143-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2023\/06\/IMG_0143-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2023\/06\/IMG_0143-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2023\/06\/IMG_0143-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2023\/06\/IMG_0143-1568x2091.jpeg 1568w, https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2023\/06\/IMG_0143-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I come into this program knowing that I will likely face challenges or roadblocks throughout the process. Perhaps I would overestimate how much time I had before starting the poster, perhaps I would make errors in the new programming I will learn this summer. Regardless, I have to expect to make mistakes in this process and have grace with myself, while also striving for improvement in every step of the way.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s safe to say that I\u2019m looking forward to strengthening my research \u201cvoice\u201d and to refine the skills that help to put that voice in practice. Through this program I hope to further learn to bridge the fields of psychology and women &amp; gender studies. Future Lauren, you&#8217;ll have to let me know how we do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Lauren, I know we have have been well-aware transitioning into my senior year of college that this summer would be important to us. I would be a bridesmaid for the first time, I would begin a new volunteer position at the humane society, and I would cherish the memories of being with our college&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/2023\/06\/07\/a-letter-to-future-lauren\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Letter To Future Lauren<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2068,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,353],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lettertoself","category-2023-cohort","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2068"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3451"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3456,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451\/revisions\/3456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}