{"id":68,"date":"2019-10-08T09:15:22","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T13:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jessicasheppard\/?p=68"},"modified":"2019-10-12T10:32:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T14:32:06","slug":"guys-guys-guys-can-we-take-a-step-back-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jessicasheppard\/2019\/10\/08\/guys-guys-guys-can-we-take-a-step-back-here\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Guys, guys, guys, can we take a step back here?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jokes\/soundbites\/attempts to <a href=\"https:\/\/thecooperreview.com\/10-tricks-to-appear-smart-during-meetings\/\">appear smart at meetings<\/a> aside, I hadn&#8217;t been at TYS long on Saturday before I found others with whom to share the experience of the low-level panic that occurs when you step away from work responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p>Whether we were missing a homecoming festival,\u00a0 asking our student leaders to run their first community event, or leaving a list of triathlon logistics for colleagues and hoping for the best, (they rocked it; see photos below by Season 7&#8217;s <span class=\"atwho-inserted\" contenteditable=\"false\" data-atwho-at-query=\"@lfar\"><a class='bp-suggestions-mention' href='https:\/\/cohort21.com\/members\/lfarooq\/' rel='nofollow'>@lfarooq<\/a><\/span> and RLC residence don J. Glavin,) many\u2014perhaps even most\u2014of us felt some level of guilt, anxiety, or pressure of a day away. I certainly did, and I&#8217;ve always been fairly confident in my ability to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PQBOJMFYIo8\">roll with the punches <\/a>when things are beyond my control.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jessicasheppard\/files\/2019\/10\/DSC_2309.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-76 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jessicasheppard\/files\/2019\/10\/DSC_2309-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jessicasheppard\/files\/2019\/10\/DSC_2309-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jessicasheppard\/files\/2019\/10\/DSC_2309-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jessicasheppard\/files\/2019\/10\/DSC_2309-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jessicasheppard\/files\/2019\/10\/DSC_2309-676x451.jpg 676w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jessicasheppard\/files\/2019\/10\/DSC_2309.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jessicasheppard\/files\/2019\/10\/Canoes-from-Rockcliffee-Point.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-77 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jessicasheppard\/files\/2019\/10\/Canoes-from-Rockcliffee-Point-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jessicasheppard\/files\/2019\/10\/Canoes-from-Rockcliffee-Point-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jessicasheppard\/files\/2019\/10\/Canoes-from-Rockcliffee-Point-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jessicasheppard\/files\/2019\/10\/Canoes-from-Rockcliffee-Point-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jessicasheppard\/files\/2019\/10\/Canoes-from-Rockcliffee-Point-676x507.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But, as challenging as it may feel sometimes to take a step back from our daily routines, we are all in the midst of a beautiful opportunity to take a step into the world of Cohort 21.\u00a0 It&#8217;s exciting to be part of this special community where we can collaborate, innovate, and grow. Let&#8217;s do this, Season 8 team!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jessicasheppard\/files\/2019\/10\/DSC_2588.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-73\" src=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jessicasheppard\/files\/2019\/10\/DSC_2588-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jessicasheppard\/files\/2019\/10\/DSC_2588-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jessicasheppard\/files\/2019\/10\/DSC_2588-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jessicasheppard\/files\/2019\/10\/DSC_2588-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jessicasheppard\/files\/2019\/10\/DSC_2588-676x451.jpg 676w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jessicasheppard\/files\/2019\/10\/DSC_2588.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-74 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jessicasheppard\/files\/2019\/10\/DSC_2671-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"159\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jokes\/soundbites\/attempts to appear smart at meetings aside, I hadn&#8217;t been at TYS long on Saturday before I found others with whom to share the experience of the low-level panic that occurs when you step away from work responsibilities. Whether we were missing a homecoming festival,\u00a0 asking our student leaders to run their first community event, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jessicasheppard\/2019\/10\/08\/guys-guys-guys-can-we-take-a-step-back-here\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Guys, guys, guys, can we take a step back here?&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-face-2-face-sessions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jessicasheppard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jessicasheppard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jessicasheppard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jessicasheppard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jessicasheppard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jessicasheppard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jessicasheppard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jessicasheppard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jessicasheppard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jessicasheppard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}