{"id":92288,"date":"2014-04-23T09:54:14","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T13:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=92288"},"modified":"2014-04-30T15:46:58","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T19:46:58","slug":"ragini-phansalkar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2014\/04\/ragini-phansalkar\/","title":{"rendered":"Ragini Phansalkar"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"p1\"><strong>How has being at UConn changed you?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p2\">I have learned something very important from each person I have connected with here, which has molded my outlook on friendships, ambition, commitment, service \u2013 being able to lean on and in turn support those I have become close to has allowed me finally to become the person I really wanted to be four years ago. (My threshold for cold weather is also probably higher.)<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><strong>Was there a defining moment during your UConn career?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p2\">Working in Paris the summer after sophomore year was one of the best times of my life!<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><strong>Where are you headed after graduation?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p2\">To an MD\/Ph.D. program, where I will be on the hunt for free food and maybe some secrets of the universe.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><strong>What would you tell someone who is considering UConn?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p3\">When you first get here, joining\u00a0every club is a fantastic idea (but then just make sure you drop at least a few down the line!).<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><strong>Write your memoir in six words.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p3\">Random choices were the best ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How has being at UConn changed you? I have learned something very important from each person I have connected with here, which has molded my outlook on friendships, ambition, commitment, service \u2013 being able to lean on and in turn support those I have become close to has allowed me finally to become the person [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":92289,"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-92288","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":"2026-05-07 18:09:23","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\/92288","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=92288"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92717,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92288\/revisions\/92717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/92289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92288"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=92288"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=92288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}