{"id":4094,"date":"2017-05-11T19:49:34","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T19:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/?p=4094"},"modified":"2017-05-11T19:49:34","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T19:49:34","slug":"things-i-never-thought-id-do-in-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/2017\/05\/11\/things-i-never-thought-id-do-in-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Things I Never Thought I&#8217;d do in College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Become president of a club<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When I was high school, I was very much a follower, rather than a leader. I was way too shy of a person to ever take charge of anything. Although I still am bit of a shy person, since coming to college I have grown so much since then. I have become someone who is more confident with herself, and because of that (plus with a bit of encouragement from my friends), I was able to become co-president for the Asian Pacific American Student Union (APASU) club. From this experience, I was able help to create and find a community\u00a0of friends\/&#8221;family&#8221; on campus.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Present in front of a large group<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Although I still don\u2019t like presenting in front of people. I found the courage to present on the research I worked on during my senior year for the Phi Sigma Research Symposium. For me, I chose to do this because put so many hours into my research that I wanted to share with people what I had found. Additionally, I wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to gain experience with presenting in public\/in large groups, while in a familiar environment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dance in Luau<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Similar to the one above. I do not like being in front of large crowds; as I\u2019m sure most you are on the same boat. But with a little encouragement from some friends, I found myself on the stage, in the fieldhouse, performing a dance I\u2019ve never done before to a very large crowd. And I did it again next year, and I am glad I did it. It was such a fun experience and it was a great moment to share with friends.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Get scuba licensed<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I had always wanted to get licensed as a scuba diver, but I never made the extra effort into actually getting it (you know finding an actual place that taught scuba diving). But lo and behold, it was offered here! All I had to do at this point was register for the course, attend classes\/practice diving in the pool, take the test in the sound, and here I am now with a scuba license.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Become president of a club When I was high school, I was very much a follower, rather than a leader. I was way too shy of a person to ever take charge of anything. Although I still am bit of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/2017\/05\/11\/things-i-never-thought-id-do-in-college\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":516,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/516"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4094"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4121,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094\/revisions\/4121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}