{"id":1467,"date":"2014-03-25T10:39:17","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T14:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=1467"},"modified":"2014-03-25T10:39:17","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T14:39:17","slug":"jason-just-go-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2014\/03\/25\/jason-just-go-for-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason: Just Go For It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just go for it.<\/p>\n<p>This is the message I\u2019d like to leave you with for my last COM Ambassador blog post.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of my four years at Boston University I\u2019ve monitored planetary nebula at BU\u2019s observatory in Flagstaff, lived, worked, and studied for four months in Madrid, and produced content for a national sports event. I\u2019ve taken a number of classes outside of my major: Spain and the European Union, Sociology of Deviance, and Controversies in Public Health, just to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The experiences I\u2019ve had in my last semester speak to everything I\u2019ve learned thus far. Working on my own startup app, proposing social media strategies for airline companies, and joining the ski team are all ventures I never would have considered to have any value. But opportunities arise in places where you least expect. Because of the people I\u2019ve met through my business class, for example, I\u2019ve taken on three new freelance jobs and am now connected to an entire network of creative professionals.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s not much else to it. There\u2019s certainly something to be said about managing your workload and how many projects you involve yourself with\u2014not to mention spending time with your friends, practicing your hobbies, and other activities\u2014but as they say, \u201cYOLO.\u201d Or in this case, YOLICO, you only live in college once. So maybe that\u2019s the message I\u2019d like to leave you with for my last COM Ambassador blog post. Take on projects that will foster your success, build meaningful relationships and YOLICO.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>PEACE!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just go for it. This is the message I\u2019d like to leave you with for my last COM Ambassador blog post. &nbsp; Over the course of my four years at Boston University I\u2019ve monitored planetary nebula at BU\u2019s observatory in Flagstaff, lived, worked, and studied for four months in Madrid, and produced content for a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2014\/03\/25\/jason-just-go-for-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jason: Just Go For It<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7278],"tags":[44441,44385,1776,44342],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1468,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions\/1468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}