{"id":7174,"date":"2021-09-09T23:26:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T16:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/?p=7174"},"modified":"2021-09-09T23:35:02","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T16:35:02","slug":"graduating-virtually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/graduating-virtually\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduating Virtually"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Graphic by Kate Korepova <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Story and Video By Pete Ramirez<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ACCENT: Graduating Remotely\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NYL7Tyrubp8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In order to protect ourselves from COVID-19, much of our lives and work have been pushed into virtual settings. Austin Community College\u2019s spring 2021 commencement was no different and was also forced to be held virtually.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ACCENT wanted to check-in with students graduating during this unusual time, so we reached out to a pair of recent ACC graduates, Emily Pesina and Ashley Silva. ACCENT editor-in-chief, Pete Ramirez, spoke to both graduates to understand what their graduation experience was like and what they had planned for the near future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"595\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-25-at-2.18.29-PM-1024x595.png\" alt=\"A picture of a smiling young woman named Ashley Silva. And a small screen with a picture of a smiling young man named Pete Ramirez.\" class=\"wp-image-7176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-25-at-2.18.29-PM-1024x595.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-25-at-2.18.29-PM-300x174.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-25-at-2.18.29-PM-768x447.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-25-at-2.18.29-PM-1200x698.png 1200w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-25-at-2.18.29-PM.png 1240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Ashley Silva, a recent Austin Community College graduate and recipient of the spring 2021 Chancellor&#8217;s Student Achievement Award, speaks to ACCENT editor-in-chief, Pete Ramirez, about the her graduation experience.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graphic by Kate Korepova Story and Video By Pete Ramirez In order to protect ourselves from COVID-19, much of our lives and work have been pushed into virtual settings. Austin Community College\u2019s spring 2021 commencement was no different and was also forced to be held virtually.&nbsp; ACCENT wanted to check-in with students graduating during this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4103,"featured_media":7180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1135,6,12],"tags":[1094,1194,100,1193,1021,1190,1195,1192,951,1191],"class_list":["post-7174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","category-career","category-news","tag-accent","tag-ashley-silva","tag-austin-community-college","tag-chancellors-student-achievement-award","tag-emily-pesina","tag-graduation","tag-pete-ramirez","tag-spring-2021","tag-students","tag-virtual-graduation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7174","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=7174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}