{"id":6850,"date":"2025-01-04T12:58:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T18:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=6850"},"modified":"2025-01-01T13:03:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T19:03:45","slug":"midterms-in-fact-mid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/04\/midterms-in-fact-mid\/","title":{"rendered":"Midterms, in Fact, Mid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The students of the University of Chicago have come to a shocking realization: midterms are, it turns out, pretty mid. This discovery, which is made every quarter, still came as a shock to the community. Despite our best efforts, <em>The Shady Dealer\u2019s<\/em> attempts to conduct interviews in the field have fallen short, with our reporters encountering difficulties pulling quotes from sobbing students.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amidst a sea of dissatisfaction, professors have gone on strike, demanding students write their own midterms. Nevertheless, midterms have been decidedly, shockingly, and unavoidably, mid.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following a university-wide poll, our researchers at <em>The Dealer<\/em> have come to the conclusion that midterms have been mediocre all around. Not a single person has scored higher than a D (bar biz econ majors, some of whom are reportedly receiving grades as high as Cs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other words, the same students who applied to the place where &#8220;fun goes to die&#8221;, were surprised when fun, in fact, died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a university-wide poll, our researchers at The Dealer have come to the conclusion that midterms have been mediocre all around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2089,"featured_media":6852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2089"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6853,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6850\/revisions\/6853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}