{"id":805,"date":"2007-08-19T20:38:42","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T01:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/womantalk.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/19\/songbaes-advice-to-a-college-freshman\/"},"modified":"2007-08-19T20:38:42","modified_gmt":"2007-08-20T01:38:42","slug":"songbaes-advice-to-a-college-freshman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=805","title":{"rendered":"Songbae&#039;s Advice to a College Freshman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My niece-in-law is starting college this week; as she happens to be interested in Songbae&#8217;s field (international business), he sent her a few words of advice:<\/p>\n<p>1. she should choose any major she&#8217;s interested in.<\/p>\n<p>2. unless she wants to go to medical school, it doesn&#8217;t really matter what she studies<\/p>\n<p>3. my goal at college was to make friends, have fun, broaden my experiences.\u00c2\u00a0 older and wiser now, i would add &#8220;learn&#8221; to that list.<\/p>\n<p>4. if i went back to college, i would have been a history or english major because critical thinking and writing are probably the best skills you can learn that will always help.<\/p>\n<p>5. no matter what she studies, in general, getting good grades in what she studies will matter more.<\/p>\n<p>6. if she&#8217;s interested in international business as a topic, be an international business major.<\/p>\n<p>7. is interested in international business as a future career, don&#8217;t be an international business major.<\/p>\n<p>8. if she&#8217;s interested in something international, best thing is to either learn a language, focus on a region, live\/study abroad.<\/p>\n<p>9. if she&#8217;s interested in the business side, better to take straight accounting\/finance classes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My niece-in-law is starting college this week; as she happens to be interested in Songbae&#8217;s field (international business), he sent her a few words of advice: 1. she should choose any major she&#8217;s interested in. 2. unless she wants to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=805\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-says-songbae"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}