{"id":5653,"date":"2017-09-11T11:30:38","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T15:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=5653"},"modified":"2017-09-09T16:45:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T20:45:51","slug":"postcards-to-the-core-from-rome-summer-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2017\/09\/11\/postcards-to-the-core-from-rome-summer-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Postcards to the Core: from Rome, Summer 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Another postcard has flown to us from overseas. It comes from Core alum and current senior Gregory Kerr, who writes to us from Rome, Italy. He says:<\/p>\n

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Hello Core,<\/p>\n

Greeting from Rome!<\/p>\n

I’m taking a vacation following my completion of a summer project I’d only have done because of my experience with Core. (If it weren’t for you, I’d be a self-loathing Econ major.) This trip has been great, in no small part because of all I’ve learned in Core and classes over the past 3 years. How else could I spend 45 minutes explaining the Sistine Chapel to my parents in such thorough detail?<\/p>\n

Being here has made me truly, viscerally understand and appreciate in context how much of a joy it is to learn and to know. I feel like I’m almost one with something when I’ve learned so much about it. There’s this connection that I can’t explain, I just feel it, and it’s amazing.<\/p>\n

After rejections from 6 collections, Core made BU exciting to me, and gave me reason to see how somehting good could come of something bad. 3 years later, I owe so much of myself to Core, and I’ll never look back.<\/p>\n

– Gregory<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* Core <\/span>loves <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/em>postcards. Whether you’re at home or abroad now, we’d love to get one from you. Our address is easy: Core Curriculum, Boston University, Boston MA 02215.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another postcard has flown to us from overseas. It comes from Core alum and current senior Gregory Kerr, who writes to us from Rome, Italy. He says: Hello Core, Greeting from Rome! I’m taking a vacation following my completion of a summer project I’d only have done because of my experience with Core. (If it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6257,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4308],"tags":[48778],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5653"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5663,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5653\/revisions\/5663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}