{"id":1041,"date":"2014-11-16T09:47:24","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T14:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/?page_id=1041"},"modified":"2014-12-15T12:58:28","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T17:58:28","slug":"ali-parisi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/ali-parisi\/","title":{"rendered":"Ali Parisi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><\/strong><a href=\"\/comgrad\/files\/2014\/09\/blog-photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"margin: 5px;border: 5px solid black\" src=\"\/comgrad\/files\/2014\/09\/blog-photo-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"blog photo\" height=\"400\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">My name is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aliparisi15\">Ali Parisi <\/a>and I\u2019m in graduate school\u2026. My name is wait, no, that can\u2019t be right. That would mean that I\u2019m an adult&#8230;or it means I\u2019m trying to put off adulthood for as long as I can. Yeah, that\u2019s more like it.\u00a0I grew up in Los Angeles, California. After making the decision to turn down an offer to play soccer at Pepperdine University, I decided to come to Boston University for college. The city, the campus, the people \u2013 everything about it just felt right. So I took a leap of faith. After a series of fortunate events, I was even able to walk onto the soccer team.\u00a0Three years later, very satisfied\u00a0with my decision, I found myself facing graduation a little earlier than expected. I had majored in Communication Studies, but I still wanted more preparation for a career in\u00a0communication. Public relations stood out, and BU has one of the best programs in the country. Plus, why\u00a0would I want to leave a city like Boston?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Check out my posts from the Fall 2014 semester:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em><a style=\"text-align: left\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/2014\/12\/02\/why-bu-mens-soccer-team-will-make-you-a-sportsfan-even-if-youre-in-grad-school\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Why BU men\u2019s soccer team will make you a sports fan, even if you\u2019re in grad school<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/2014\/11\/18\/bus-college-of-communication-pioneers-new-media-studies\/\">BU&#8217;s College of Communication pioneers new media studies<\/a> <\/em><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/2014\/10\/21\/what-it-actually-means-to-get-a-masters-in-pr\/\">What it actually means to get a master&#8217;s in PR <\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/2014\/10\/07\/theres-parents-weekend-in-grad-school-what-to-do-with-your-out-of-town-guests-in-boston\/\">There&#8217;s a parents weekend in grad school? What to do with your out of town guests in Boston<\/a> <\/em><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/2014\/09\/25\/boston-bucket-list-for-grad-students\/\">Boston bucket list for grad students <\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/2014\/09\/12\/back-to-my-new-old-school\/\">Back to my new old school <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Ali Parisi and I\u2019m in graduate school\u2026. My name is wait, no, that can\u2019t be right. That would mean that I\u2019m an adult&#8230;or it means I\u2019m trying to put off adulthood for as long as I can. Yeah, that\u2019s more like it.\u00a0I grew up in Los Angeles, California. After making the decision &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/ali-parisi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ali Parisi<\/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\/1041"}],"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=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1365,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1041\/revisions\/1365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}