{"id":415,"date":"2017-10-25T14:00:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T21:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/compactscholars.sdsu.edu\/?p=415"},"modified":"2017-10-25T12:44:21","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T19:44:21","slug":"letter-to-future-scholars-dont-take-college-for-granted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/compactscholars.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/2017\/10\/25\/letter-to-future-scholars-dont-take-college-for-granted\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to Future Scholars: Don&#8217;t Take College for Granted!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;14&#8243; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;]<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_416\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/compactscholars.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cc-sdsu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-416\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-416\" src=\"https:\/\/compactscholars.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cc-sdsu-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/compactscholars.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cc-sdsu-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/compactscholars.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cc-sdsu-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/compactscholars.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cc-sdsu.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-416\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Feel pride that you&#8217;ve made it to college and can only go up from here!<\/p><\/div>\n<p><b>Submission by <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lucia A.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The most essential piece of advice for incoming freshmen commuter students entering SDSU in future years is to enjoy the privilege they have by being able to come to a university this beautiful. Not many get the chance to do so. So don\u2019t waste your opportunities. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even if they are hard, enjoy your classes. Enjoy your newfound independence and enjoy the new people, but be responsible. Never take for granted that you\u2019re here at SDSU. I\u2019m pretty sure that many have helped you achieve this goal, like your parents or teachers or friends. Make them proud and become the best person you can be by using the resources that SDSU offers &#8212; besides they are almost all free and you pay for them in your tuition and fees already whether you use them or not! <\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;14&#8243; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;] Submission by Lucia A. The most essential piece of advice for incoming freshmen commuter students entering SDSU in future years is to enjoy the privilege they have by being able to come to a university this beautiful. Not many get the chance to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[6,23,21,20],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letter-to-future-scholars","tag-compact-scholars-program","tag-letter-to-future-scholars","tag-san-diego-state","tag-sdsu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/compactscholars.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/compactscholars.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/compactscholars.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/compactscholars.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/compactscholars.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/compactscholars.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417,"href":"https:\/\/compactscholars.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions\/417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/compactscholars.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/compactscholars.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/compactscholars.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}