{"id":1037,"date":"2014-11-16T09:46:25","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T14:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/?page_id=1037"},"modified":"2014-12-15T12:53:11","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T17:53:11","slug":"keiko-talley","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/keiko-talley\/","title":{"rendered":"Keiko Talley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"\/comgrad\/files\/2014\/09\/309816_2309641775476_657241058_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 5px solid black;margin: 5px\" src=\"\/comgrad\/files\/2014\/09\/309816_2309641775476_657241058_n.jpg\" alt=\"309816_2309641775476_657241058_n\" height=\"400\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\" dir=\"ltr\">My name is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KMTALLEY_BU\">Keiko Talley.<\/a> No one can ever say my name correctly, not even my roommates.\u00a0I was born and raised in northern New Jersey, on the lake. There are no Snookies or Pauly Ds by me, and I couldn&#8217;t be happier. I studied communications at a small private college, only 30 minutes away from home.\u00a0After college I tried to get a job, but like most of my friends I ended up moving back home and becoming a nanny. After two years of changing diapers and picking up after children, I realized my favorite part of the job was giving the kids back to their parents.\u00a0Desperate for change, I decided to pack up everything I owned and drive five hours north to the best journalism graduate program at Boston University. Having never lived further than 30 minutes away from my family, my adventure as a New Jersey girl in a foreign land has officially begun.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Check out my posts from the Fall 2014 semester:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/2014\/11\/11\/com-student-represents-bu-at-this-years-coaches-vs-cancer-tripleheader\/\">COM student represents BU at this year\u2019s Coaches vs. Cancer Tripleheader<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/2014\/10\/21\/behind-the-scenes-of-butv10\/\">Behind the scenes of butv10<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/2014\/09\/26\/zuckoff-talks-about-the-challenges-he-faced-while-writing-nyt-best-seller-13-hours\/\" style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Zuckoff talks about the challenges he faced while writing NYT best-seller: 13 Hours<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/2014\/09\/18\/com-talks-comes-to-bu\/\">COM Talks comes to BU<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/2014\/10\/06\/classmates-and-competition-in-grad-school\/\">Classmates and competition in grad school<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/2014\/09\/15\/only-in-grad-school-do-you-have-class-on-the-weekend\/\" style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Only in grad school do you have class on the weekends<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/extension\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Keiko Talley. No one can ever say my name correctly, not even my roommates.\u00a0I was born and raised in northern New Jersey, on the lake. There are no Snookies or Pauly Ds by me, and I couldn&#8217;t be happier. I studied communications at a small private college, only 30 minutes away from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/keiko-talley\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Keiko Talley<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3725,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1037"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3725"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1362,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1037\/revisions\/1362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}