{"id":4763,"date":"2018-08-27T23:21:20","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T16:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/studentmedia\/?p=4763"},"modified":"2018-08-30T22:43:50","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T15:43:50","slug":"student-of-the-year-amber-rodriguez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/student-of-the-year-amber-rodriguez\/","title":{"rendered":"Student of the Year: Amber Rodriguez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Starting Classes<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cI recommend bringing a planner or creating some type of schedule. It could be as simple as writing down your class schedule for a week and whatever you work. For me, I have to have hours down in the day like \u2018what am I doing this hour?\u2019 It helps remind myself that I do have time here and not there\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Staying Strong<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201c\u2018Don\u2019t be a fool, stay in school\u2019 is a<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>motto in my household. I love going to school, it\u2019s inspired me to want to learn more. I\u2019ve always been kind of the odd ball in class.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Working in Student Life<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cI networked so much and was able to create a lot here at my time in Student Life&#8230; I did come out a much stronger and much more confident person because of it. I don\u2019t know how to thank everybody for how much I\u2019ve learned here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Future Self<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cI want to be in the Computer Science field, because that\u2019s the future and I want to be part of it. My one goal is to find a job I do really love and do enjoy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Why School?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cACC is cheaper to take classes. Higher education is the key to success. I know from my parents, they didn\u2019t get past high school and they had dreamed of going to college&#8230;I hope students see there is a lot of opportunity getting a higher education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link=&#8221;https:\/\/youtu.be\/_j7FonJgg1s&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Starting Classes \u201cI recommend bringing a planner or creating some type of schedule. It could be as simple as writing down your class schedule for a week and whatever you work. For me, I have to have hours down in the day like \u2018what am I doing this hour?\u2019 It helps remind myself that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4103,"featured_media":4801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[758,656],"tags":[847,848,849],"class_list":["post-4763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-life4u","tag-amber-rodriguez","tag-nite-in-the-life","tag-student-of-the-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}