{"id":887,"date":"2018-09-07T15:08:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T15:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/?p=887"},"modified":"2018-09-12T13:40:39","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T13:40:39","slug":"welcome-back-to-the-new-school-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/welcome-back-to-the-new-school-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Back to the New School Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The graduate student blog is resuming for the 2018-2019 academic year. We are very excited to have nine graduate students on board, who will be sharing with us about their experiences as graduate students at Memorial.<\/p>\n<p>Here are bloggers who are returning to our blogging team this year:<\/p>\n<p>Anna Crofts is from West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and is completing a Master of Science in Geography.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/10\/A-Crofts_Sept15-16-213_blog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-343\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/10\/A-Crofts_Sept15-16-213_blog.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/10\/A-Crofts_Sept15-16-213_blog.jpg 532w, https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/10\/A-Crofts_Sept15-16-213_blog-300x200.jpg 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"354\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Courtney Marlene Laprise is from Angus, Ontario, Canada and is completing a Master of Science in Chemistry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/09\/Untitled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-623\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/09\/Untitled.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/09\/Untitled.jpg 532w, https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/09\/Untitled-300x200.jpg 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"354\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Marina Schmidt is from Sonthofen, Bavaria (Germany) and is completing a Master of Arts in Classics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/09\/Untitled3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-895\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/09\/Untitled3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"531\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/09\/Untitled3.jpg 531w, https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/09\/Untitled3-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amy Sheppard is from St John\u2019s, Newfoundland, Canada and is completing a PhD in Sociology.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/09\/A-Sheppard_Sept15-16-008_blog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-897\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/09\/A-Sheppard_Sept15-16-008_blog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/09\/A-Sheppard_Sept15-16-008_blog.jpg 532w, https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/09\/A-Sheppard_Sept15-16-008_blog-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Patrick Wells\u00a0is from Western Shore, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, Canada and is completing a PhD in Education.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/09\/Untitled2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-898\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/09\/Untitled2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/09\/Untitled2.jpg 532w, https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/09\/Untitled2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Juliana Vidal is from Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil and is completing a PhD in Chemistry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/09\/Untitled4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-626\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/09\/Untitled4.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/09\/Untitled4.jpg 530w, https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/09\/Untitled4-300x200.jpg 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"353\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We would like to introduce new bloggers who are joining our team as first year bloggers:<\/p>\n<p>Dave Nathanael is from Jarkata, Indonesia and is completing a Master of Music in Performance and Pedagogy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/09\/Dave.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-888\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/09\/Dave.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/09\/Dave.jpg 532w, https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/09\/Dave-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shannon Pearson is from Conestogo, Ontario, Canada and is completing Master of Arts in Sociology.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/09\/Shannon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-889\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/09\/Shannon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/09\/Shannon.jpg 532w, https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/09\/Shannon-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Christina Prokopenko is from\u00a0Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and is completing a PhD in Biology.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/09\/Christina.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-890\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/09\/Christina.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/09\/Christina.jpg 532w, https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/09\/Christina-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Welcome everyone!<\/p>\n<p>To all of our readers, stay tuned every Friday for a new post from one of our bloggers!<\/p>\n<p>~The School of Graduate Studies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The graduate student blog is resuming for the 2018-2019 academic year. We are very excited to have nine graduate students on board, who will be sharing with us about their experiences as graduate students at Memorial. Here are bloggers who are returning to our blogging team this year: Anna Crofts is from West Vancouver, British &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/welcome-back-to-the-new-school-year\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sgseditor","4":"post-887","6":"format-standard","7":"category-student-blog"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":905,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions\/905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}