{"id":5186,"date":"2017-05-23T19:39:51","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T07:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auip.com\/?p=5186"},"modified":"2017-05-24T17:31:54","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T05:31:54","slug":"student-perspective-t-minus-5-days-and-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/student-perspective-t-minus-5-days-and-counting\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Perspective: T-Minus 5 Days and Counting!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_38781-e1495525003212.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5188\" src=\"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_38781-e1495525003212-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_38781-e1495525003212-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_38781-e1495525003212-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_38781-e1495525003212.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Jessica Fong, the Arizona State University&#8217;s\u00a0Barrett in Australia\u00a0student blogger, writes: Now that the semester has finally wrapped up and I am no longer losing sleep over group projects, lab reports, and final exams, I can finally focus my attention on the really important things&#8230;like packing for Australia!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My name is Jessica Fong and I am a mechanical engineering student at Arizona State University. I just finished my junior year and admit that I have been bit by the infamous travel bug. All I\u2019ve wanted to do since a trip to Paris and Berlin two years ago is see the world. All of it. Every nook and cranny! As time and funds are limited as a student, I have not been able to explore as much as I would like. Well, ladies and gentlemen, fellow travellers, and blog readers, that is all about to change! In under a week I will be boarding a plane that will literally take me halfway around the world, down under, to the beautiful city of Melbourne, pronounced <em>mel-bun<\/em>. (Trust me, you\u2019re going to want to know how to say it right!) As I impatiently wait for my plane to leave for the Lucky Country, I find myself daydreaming of all the places I will go and the people I will meet. I\u2019m already making plans to eat my way through every city and town I visit. After all, it\u2019s all about getting to know as much as possible about the local culture, including what they eat, right?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am excited to journey through the incredible itinerary my professors and AUIP have put together. As a group of 35 students, we will be traveling to seven cities; studying the history, politics, film, and literature of a country 7,931 miles away; snorkeling the Great Barrier Reef; and camping in the Outback\u2014all in the span of 29 days!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica Fong, the Arizona State University&#8217;s\u00a0Barrett in Australia\u00a0student blogger, writes: Now that the semester has finally wrapped up and I am no longer losing sleep over group projects, lab reports, and final exams, I can finally focus my attention on the really important things&#8230;like packing for Australia! &nbsp; My name is Jessica Fong and I am a mechanical engineering student&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,23,17,250,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-student-blogs","category-australia-north-queensland","category-australia-sydney","category-customized-program","category-student-perspective"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5186"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5210,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5186\/revisions\/5210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}