{"id":112,"date":"2011-12-21T10:07:18","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T15:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/issa\/?p=112"},"modified":"2011-12-21T10:08:43","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T15:08:43","slug":"adapting-to-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/issa\/2011\/12\/21\/adapting-to-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Adapting to Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Thomas La, USA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hi! My name is Thomas La and I am from Houston, TX.\u00a0 I am currently a senior Psychology and pre-professional major and I hope to go to dental school after ND.<\/p>\n<p>My time at Notre Dame has been great so far.\u00a0 Although I am an American citizen, my parents came to the USA from Vietnam so I can identify a bit with international students.\u00a0 Coming to ND, I will admit I had a preconceived notion of what I thought it was going to be like, specifically with regard to diversity and culture on campus.\u00a0 I had heard that ND was a homogenous school that catered mostly to a specific crowd of students, namely wealthy, white Catholics.\u00a0 However, upon arriving at ND for frosh-o and my first week of college, my expectations were blown away.\u00a0 Everyone here is so welcoming and kind, it is not hard to find your place.\u00a0 There is something for everyone, whether you are Asian, White, Catholic, Muslim, man, woman, etc.\u00a0 True, you may have to dig a little deeper, but I promise you there is something here for you.\u00a0 Whether it is a cultural club, a team sport, or a hobby, there are people here that have the same interests as you.<\/p>\n<p>New international students &#8211; I realize that adapting can be tough.\u00a0 I urge you to embrace your new Notre Dame family and talk to everyone around you.\u00a0 ND has such a great support network.\u00a0\u00a0 I wish you the best in the upcoming years!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Thomas La, USA Hi! My name is Thomas La and I am from Houston, TX.\u00a0 I am currently a senior Psychology and pre-professional major and I hope to go to dental school after ND. My time at Notre Dame &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/issa\/2011\/12\/21\/adapting-to-campus\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/issa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/issa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/issa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/issa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/issa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/issa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/issa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/issa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/issa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/issa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}