{"id":92367,"date":"2014-04-23T14:02:31","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T18:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=92367"},"modified":"2014-04-30T14:40:47","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T18:40:47","slug":"joshua-andrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2014\/04\/joshua-andrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Joshua Andrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"p1\"><strong>Was there a defining moment during your UConn career?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\">At the conclusion of my freshman year, I wasn\u2019t satisfied with my collegiate experience. The move from home got to me, I wasn\u2019t performing as well academically as I would have liked, and simply wasn\u2019t enjoying my time here. I reflected for a bit, and decided the following year to fully immerse myself in campus life and dedicate myself to my classes. The next three years were a complete turnaround from the first. I picked up my GPA, became involved in organizations I cared about, and have loved my time here ever since.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><strong>Where are you headed after graduation?\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\">After graduating, I will be working as a Corps Member for Teach for America in New York City. I am looking forward to playing my part in combating educational inequities and educating young minds in the sciences. Later, I plan on attending medical school and beginning my journey toward becoming a physician.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><strong>What would you tell someone who is considering UConn?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\">UConn is your oyster. There are endless opportunities here to not only receive a quality education, but also to explore life, grow, and really find who you are.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><strong>Write your memoir in six words.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\">Oh, the places you will go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was there a defining moment during your UConn career? At the conclusion of my freshman year, I wasn\u2019t satisfied with my collegiate experience. The move from home got to me, I wasn\u2019t performing as well academically as I would have liked, and simply wasn\u2019t enjoying my time here. I reflected for a bit, and decided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":92379,"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-92367","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":"2026-05-06 09:44:48","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\/92367","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=92367"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92695,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92367\/revisions\/92695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/92379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92367"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=92367"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=92367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}