{"id":9922,"date":"2022-03-11T09:06:21","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T14:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=9922"},"modified":"2022-03-15T13:50:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T17:50:20","slug":"student-spotlight-kinda-alsaidi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2022\/03\/11\/student-spotlight-kinda-alsaidi\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Spotlight: Kinda Alsaidi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9923 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2022\/03\/Kinda-Alsaidi.jpg?resize=225%2C209&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"kinda Alsaidi\" width=\"225\" height=\"209\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>Our Student Spotlight shines on international student Kinda Alsaidi.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Home countries:<\/strong> Syria and Turkey<\/li>\n<li><strong>Year and major:<\/strong> First year, Master of Business Administration<\/li>\n<li><strong>Languages spoken:<\/strong> Arabic and English<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>What shocked you upon coming to the United States?<\/h4>\n<p>The very cold weather in winter and snowing most of the time here in Michigan.<\/p>\n<h4>What have you learned about yourself since arriving in the U.S.?<\/h4>\n<p>I should always believe in myself and hard work pays off.<\/p>\n<h4>What do you like best about Detroit Mercy and the U.S.?<\/h4>\n<p>What I like about Detroit Mercy is that although I was attending all of my classes online, I still felt the friendly environment and they are very helpful. What I like about the U.S. is the independence and empowerment that the people have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Student Spotlight shines on international student Kinda Alsaidi. Home countries: Syria and Turkey Year and major: First year, Master of Business Administration Languages spoken: &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4235,4083],"tags":[80,130,2195,4537,1142,79,5296,1070,4224,4223],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-2A2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9922"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9946,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9922\/revisions\/9946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}