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<\/a>What are your plans after graduation?<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/strong>I look forward to starting my civilian career.\u00a0 Ultimately, I would love to work with the La Feria school district because that\u2019s where I\u2019m from.<\/p>\n What\u2019s your dream job?<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>I hope to become the supervisor in charge of the food distribution in the district.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>What has been your greatest accomplishment while at TSTC?<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>Succeeding at math has been an accomplishment for me.\u00a0 A lot of people are afraid of it, and in my degree plan you have to take math or biology, so I decided to challenge myself by taking math.\u00a0 In culinary arts, you deal with a lot of numbers, so I\u2019m really proud of everything I\u2019ve learned.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>What greatest lesson have you learned about yourself or life?<\/strong><\/p>\n Coming back to school in general has been a lesson for me.\u00a0 I took different avenues and did 20 years in the military, so being around a bunch of younger people made me contemplate my priorities, but I\u2019m here now, and I love it.<\/p>\n Name a TSTC person who most influenced your success.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>All my fellow veterans in the Veteran\u2019s Center have helped me out so much.\u00a0 If someone is having problems with an assignment, they help you out.\u00a0 My confidence is so high right now because of the support that I\u2019m getting from everybody there.<\/p>\n What is your advice for future TSTC students?<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>Learn everything that you can while you\u2019re in school and make sure your priorities are always straight.\u00a0 Getting your education is so important!<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (HARLINGEN) – TSTC student Omar Duran is currently studying Culinary Arts and hopes to bring his talents to a school district after graduation.\u00a0 The 43-year-old Army veteran boasts a highly impressive 3.7 grade-point average and will be graduating in the Fall of 2018. What are your plans after graduation? \u00a0I look forward to starting my […]<\/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-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-harlingen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","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=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":949,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions\/949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}