{"id":92251,"date":"2014-04-23T09:38:28","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T13:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=92251"},"modified":"2014-04-30T15:59:03","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T19:59:03","slug":"morgan-konney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2014\/04\/morgan-konney\/","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Konney"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"p1\"><strong>Was there a defining moment during your UConn career?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p2\">I had a rough year last year due to my transition to the Storrs campus and family issues, which led me to academic probation. I was given an advisor to help mentor me, and she helped me realize that I shouldn\u2019t let other people and problems disrupt my career as a student. I focused on myself and school, and\u00a0I have never had a better semester in all four years of my college career.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><strong>Where are you headed after graduation?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p2\">After graduation, I am planning on doing a six-month program to become a certified gemologist at the Gemological Institute of America headquarters in Carlsbad, Calif. After I graduate from GIA, I will work with my mother as a jewelry appraiser. This is something I&#8217;ve been looking forward to, and I can&#8217;t believe that it is actually happening.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><strong>What would you tell someone who is considering UConn?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p2\">I would tell someone that the UConn community is like a home. Although it\u2019s a big school, it has many communities within it that bring students close together.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><strong>Write your memoir in six words.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\">Focus on achieving your own individuality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was there a defining moment during your UConn career? I had a rough year last year due to my transition to the Storrs campus and family issues, which led me to academic probation. I was given an advisor to help mentor me, and she helped me realize that I shouldn\u2019t let other people and problems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":92679,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[149],"class_list":["post-92251","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":"2026-08-04 10:27:37","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\/92251","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=92251"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92727,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92251\/revisions\/92727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/92679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92251"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=92251"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=92251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}