{"id":171610,"date":"2021-04-16T14:55:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T18:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=171610"},"modified":"2021-04-16T14:55:52","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T18:55:52","slug":"talha-bhatti-21-school-of-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2021\/04\/talha-bhatti-21-school-of-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Talha Bhatti &#8217;21, School of Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What\u2019s your major and why did you choose it?<\/strong><br \/>\nChemical Engineering! Like most people, I thought, \u201cI like chemistry and I like engineering,\u201d so I picked chemical engineering. I was torn between CHEG and Political Science, but I really like STEM and went with that. I now am less of a fan of chemistry but absolutely love chemical engineering. The chemical engineering classes I took really taught me to love learning. The professors are some of the nicest and smartest people I have ever met, and my classmates are some of the greatest friends I have ever made.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are your plans after graduation?<\/strong><br \/>\nI want to work on big picture problems. I want to shape policies and initiatives. I want to meet new people and travel the world. I also want to continue learning and I have hopes of going into law school!<\/p>\n<p><strong>What activities were you involved with as a student?<\/strong><br \/>\nI was an active member of Model United Nations and I ran for Student Body Vice President. I got the opportunity to travel the world and debate on a variety of issues. I play the violin and was a member of the UConn Chamber String Orchestra.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Any advice for incoming first-year students?<\/strong><br \/>\nTake fun classes! Don&#8217;t be afraid to put yourself out there! Live every day to the fullest and don&#8217;t be afraid to try new things!<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s one thing every student should do during their time at UConn?<\/strong><br \/>\nTravel! Join student organizations and have UConn fund your travels to anywhere around the country. Take advantage of the resources on campus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s one thing that will always make you think of UConn? <\/strong><br \/>\nAnytime I work on something I always draw on what I learned from UConn. If there is anything that will remind me of UConn, it is the people that go here and the people I met, and the networks I have formed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talha Bhatti reflects on his time at UConn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":171611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[117],"class_list":["post-171610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-quote"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-31 23:11:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171612,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171610\/revisions\/171612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/171611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171610"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=171610"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=171610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}