{"id":5213,"date":"2026-05-19T22:49:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T22:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/a-summer-college-conversation\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T22:49:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T22:49:23","slug":"a-summer-college-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/a-summer-college-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"A summer college conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michigandaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/A_Summer_College_Conversation_-scaled.png?fit=1024%2C329&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image\" alt=\"Three panel cartoon. In the first panel, a yellow character texts a blue character &quot;Hey, what have you been up to?&quot; The blue character looks at their phone pensively and says, &quot;hmm...&quot; Two thought bubbles lead to the second panel. In the second panel, there are dark lines swirling around two versions of the blue character. One is sleeping and the other is staring sadly at a laptop that says, &quot;Internship stuff&quot;. In the third panel, the blue character smiles and replies, &quot;The usual, how about you?&quot; while looking at their phone.\" data-attachment-id=\"609804\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.michigandaily.com\/opinion\/cartoons\/a-summer-college-conversation\/attachment\/a_summer_college_conversation_\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michigandaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/A_Summer_College_Conversation_-scaled.png?fit=2560%2C824&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,824\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"A_Summer_College_Conversation_\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Emily Quinteros\/DAILY&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michigandaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/A_Summer_College_Conversation_-scaled.png?fit=780%2C251&amp;ssl=1\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><em>Emily Quinteros is an Opinion Cartoonist and can be reached at emilyq@umich.edu<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigandaily.com\/opinion\/cartoons\/a-summer-college-conversation\/\">A summer college conversation<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigandaily.com\">The Michigan Daily<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emily Quinteros is an Opinion Cartoonist and can be reached at emilyq@umich.edu. The post A summer college conversation appeared first on The Michigan Daily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[504,3172,603],"class_list":{"0":"post-5213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-college","9":"tag-conversation","10":"tag-summer"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5215,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5213\/revisions\/5215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}