{"id":3664,"date":"2018-12-10T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T08:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/?p=3664"},"modified":"2018-12-07T16:22:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T16:22:52","slug":"student-success-profile-jennifer-atkinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/?p=3664","title":{"rendered":"Student Success Profile &#8211; Jennifer Atkinson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(HARLINGEN) &#8211; Jennifer Atkinson is an Agricultural Technology major at Texas State Technical College and boasts a perfect 4.0 grade-point average.<a href=\"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JenniferAtkinsonStudentProfile-72dpi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3665 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JenniferAtkinsonStudentProfile-72dpi-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"Jennifer Atkinson\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JenniferAtkinsonStudentProfile-72dpi-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JenniferAtkinsonStudentProfile-72dpi.jpg 504w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Rio Hondo native expects to earn her associate degree in Spring 2019, and when the 23-year-old is not in the classroom or out in the field she is busying doing community service with the TSTC Agriculture Club.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are your plans after you graduate?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After I graduate I plan on transferring to Texas A&amp;M Kingsville to pursue a bachelor\u2019s degree in Agricultural Science with a teaching certificate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s your dream job?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My dream job is to have a successful career in agriculture with U.S. Customs and Border Protection.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What has been your greatest accomplishment while at TSTC?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My greatest accomplishment so far has been making it on the Chancellor\u2019s List and maintaining my honor roll worthy grades. I never used to be an \u201cA\u201d student so this has helped motivate to continue and appreciate school even more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What greatest lesson have you learned about yourself or life?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The greatest lesson I have learned in life is that everything happens for a reason and in God\u2019s perfect timing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who at TSTC has had the greatest influence on your success?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All of my instructors and my classmates have had a great influence on my success. First, my instructors have been a blessing. They genuinely care about us, are easy to talk to and take every step necessary to ensure we succeed. Last but not least, my classmates. They have become lifelong friends and an extension of my family.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is your advice for future TSTC students?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My advice for future TSTC students is to work hard because nothing in life is handed to us on a silver platter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(HARLINGEN) &#8211; Jennifer Atkinson is an Agricultural Technology major at Texas State Technical College and boasts a perfect 4.0 grade-point average. The Rio Hondo native expects to earn her associate degree in Spring 2019, and when the 23-year-old is not in the classroom or out in the field she is busying doing community service with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-harlingen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3666,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664\/revisions\/3666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}