{"id":1927,"date":"2019-02-14T14:45:08","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T19:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/?p=1927"},"modified":"2019-02-14T14:45:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T19:45:08","slug":"reports-from-the-field-julianne-zala-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/2019\/02\/14\/reports-from-the-field-julianne-zala-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports from the Field: Julianne Zala (&#8217;17)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>On her first semester of grad school:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The greatest lesson I had to learn my first semester in graduate school was to make a place for myself in the program. I am in a Masters in Comparative Literature program at the University of Massachusetts &#8212; Amherst, and most people are doctoral students. Therefore, they are more knowledgeable and situated in their field. It took me awhile to feel comfortable with the knowledge I had. Ultimately, though, realizing my strengths and the support of my fellow graduate students made me feel more comfortable. I am very grateful to be a part of a program where the students support one another.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Overall, my first semester went well. I found the workload to be the same of seminars I took at OWU, so I felt prepared. I am excited for this semester because my coursework is more personalized to my research interests. My goals for this semester are the following: take more breaks, take more delight in my reading, and find a hobby. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On her first semester of grad school:\u00a0The greatest lesson I had to learn my first semester in graduate school was <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/2019\/02\/14\/reports-from-the-field-julianne-zala-17\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":1928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scholars-of-sturges"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1927"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1931,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927\/revisions\/1931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}