{"id":684,"date":"2020-03-06T10:30:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T18:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/compactscholars.sdsu.edu\/?p=684"},"modified":"2020-02-06T14:49:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T22:49:47","slug":"feature-friday-alumni-spotlight-jacob-veritas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/compactscholars.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/2020\/03\/06\/feature-friday-alumni-spotlight-jacob-veritas\/","title":{"rendered":"Feature Friday: Alumni Spotlight &#8211; Jacob Veritas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Name: <\/strong>Jacob Veritas<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Major at SDSU:<\/strong> Television, Film and New Media<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Graduated:<\/strong> May 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What is your greatest accomplishment at SDSU and what do you think this accomplishment says about you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve used my experiences as SDSU to write my new urban fantasy novel, House of Sol Alpha. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Jacob-Veritas\/e\/B07XS97RHK\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Jacob-Veritas\/e\/B07XS97RHK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What is the greatest challenge you faced at SDSU and how have you addressed the challenge?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As an autistic individual, I went through the challenge of sharpening my verbal communication skills. I immersed myself in Greek Life, volunteering, and Student Life &amp; Leadership to work on being able to articulate my thoughts better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What ONE piece of advice would you give an incoming, first-year Compact Scholar? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Use some kind of planner, an app or a physical book, to preview your weeks and manage your time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Jacob Veritas Major at SDSU: Television, Film and New Media Graduated: May 2018 What is your greatest accomplishment at SDSU and what do you think this accomplishment says about you? I&#8217;ve used my experiences as SDSU to write my new urban fantasy novel, House of Sol Alpha. https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Jacob-Veritas\/e\/B07XS97RHK What is the greatest challenge you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-spotlight","category-feature-fridays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/compactscholars.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684","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=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/compactscholars.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":685,"href":"https:\/\/compactscholars.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions\/685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/compactscholars.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/compactscholars.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/compactscholars.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}