{"id":9212,"date":"2025-05-02T14:58:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T14:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/?p=9212"},"modified":"2025-05-02T14:58:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T14:58:24","slug":"reflecting-on-the-past-for-a-better-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/reflecting-on-the-past-for-a-better-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflecting on the Past for a Better Future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As classes are coming to a close for another semester at Purdue University, I think it is important to reflect on how much we have learned over the course of the semester and see how much we&#8217;ve grown. For myself, my time as an undergraduate is coming to an end at Purdue, so I wanted to reflect on my past few years here. When I was in high school, I questioned if I even wanted to go to college, and I didn&#8217;t know if it was going to be the right thing for me. It seemed scary to be moving away from home to a place that I hardly knew anyone, and I just didn&#8217;t know if I would ever fit in. However, it turns out that I met an amazing amount of new friends that I would say I am closer with than even some of my friends back home. I found people with similar interest as me, and I felt like I connected with these people so well and could talk about almost anything with them. Besides the friends I&#8217;ve made the past few years, I have also learned so much valuable information that I will use for the rest of my life at my employment and on the farm. Before I came to college, I knew some basic ideas in agronomy, but there were so many things that I didn&#8217;t know why we did certain things. I think I didn&#8217;t realize how much I didn&#8217;t know until I came through some of the great agronomy classes here at Purdue, and I learned the science about certain things and the thought process behind different decisions. It has really expanded my critical thinking and making sure I look at all the information before jumping to any conclusions. Overall, I believe coming to Purdue University has really helped me grow as a person academically and socially, and I am so grateful I decided to come as I know my time here will greatly benefit myself in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As classes are coming to a close for another semester at Purdue University, I think it is important to reflect on how much we have learned over the course of the semester and see how much we&#8217;ve grown. For myself, my time as an undergraduate is coming to an end at Purdue, so I wanted&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogposts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9213,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9212\/revisions\/9213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}