{"id":92211,"date":"2014-04-22T15:59:25","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T19:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=92211"},"modified":"2014-04-30T16:09:24","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T20:09:24","slug":"kyoko-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2014\/04\/kyoko-thompson\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyoko Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Was there a defining moment during your UConn career?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>My defining moment involved planning and leading a trip to Guatemala, where I and other UConn students worked in clinics in the region surrounding Antigua. I was able to not only assist an underserved community in a developing country, but also inspire a new generation of students to adopt humanitarianism as an integral part of their own lives.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Where are you headed after graduation?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>I\u2019m thrilled to say that this fall, I will begin medical school. I want to be an emergency physician and work for Doctors Without Borders. Eventually, I plan on obtaining a master&#8217;s in public health as well.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>What would you tell someone who is considering UConn?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>A large university can cater to you. A wide array of student organizations ensures that you will find a close-knit group of students with similar interests. And with so many majors and courses to choose from, you will have every opportunity to study what appeals to you.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Write your memoir in six words.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Past struggles gave rise to strength.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was there a defining moment during your UConn career? My defining moment involved planning and leading a trip to Guatemala, where I and other UConn students worked in clinics in the region surrounding Antigua. I was able to not only assist an underserved community in a developing country, but also inspire a new generation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":92213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[149],"class_list":["post-92211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-profile","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 11:08:30","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\/92211","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\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92211"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92724,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92211\/revisions\/92724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/92213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92211"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=92211"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=92211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}