{"id":11077,"date":"2020-10-28T12:13:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T16:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/?p=11077"},"modified":"2020-10-28T12:13:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T16:13:47","slug":"threes-a-charm-julia-santini-21-on-triple-majoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/news\/threes-a-charm-julia-santini-21-on-triple-majoring\/","title":{"rendered":"Three\u2019s A Charm: Julia Santini \u201821 on Triple Majoring"},"content":{"rendered":"

Julia Santini<\/a> \u201821 epitomizes the interdisciplinary approach we strive for at URI in today\u2019s interconnected world. Growing up in URI\u2019s hometown of Kingston, Rhode Island, she decided to enroll at URI after hearing her friends\u2019 good reviews, as well as taking into consideration the distance from home and her acceptance into the Honors Program. She entered her freshman year as a Biology major. \u201cI had taken biology courses in high school and loved it,\u201d she says. \u201cI entered on the pre-med track, too, and bio fits really well.\u201d It was then that her collegiate plan got an upgrade. While initially enrolling in Professor Helen Mederer<\/a>\u2019s SOC 100: General Sociology<\/em> class on a whim, Santini left with a newfound attraction to the discipline. As she explains, \u201cDr. Mederer made me completely fall in love with Sociology, and she even convinced me to become a major.\u201d<\/p>\n

Santini was now officially a double major, but she didn\u2019t stop there. Instead, her formative year at URI reintroduced her to another discipline she carried over from high school and her family\u2019s lineage: Italian. Although she only planned to take one or two Italian courses during her time at URI, it was Professor Catherine Sama<\/a> from URI\u2019s Italian department<\/a> who saw Santini\u2019s potential, encouraging her to take on the task of triple majoring. Over the course of her time as an Italian major, Santini notes that her language skills greatly improved, thanks in great part to the unique, immersive approach URI takes to foreign language studies. This included an opportunity she took part in during her freshman year that\u2019s offered in select Italian courses, involving taking part in video calls with an Italian pen-pal her freshman year. \u201cThe conversations really inspired me,\u201d Santini says. \u201cIt was great to communicate with someone in a completely different culture.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even saddled with all three of her majors, Santini remains steadfast on the pre-med track<\/a>. After her expected graduation (with honors) in May of 2021 with degrees in Biology, Sociology, and Italian, Santini will begin the Early Identification program for the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University. \u201cI want to practice medicine and do work in policy, specifically advocating for public health policy,\u201d she explains. \u201cURI has definitely helped. The pre-med advising is incredible; I\u2019ve had really great experiences with all my advisors. They are the greatest support system. I can talk with them about anything.\u201d To future students ready to advance their studies at URI, Santini advises them to take a leap of faith into the unknown. \u201cDon\u2019t be afraid to step out of your comfort zone,\u201d she says. \u201cGoing in, I had no idea what sociology was. I had the general idea, and I took the risk. Now I\u2019m absolutely in love with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

~Written by Chase Hoffman, Writing & Rhetoric and Anthropology Double Major, URI Class of 2021<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a Biological Sciences, Italian, and Sociology major, Julia Santini \u201821 epitomizes the interdisciplinary approach we strive for at URI in today\u2019s interconnected world. She was admitted to Brown-Alpert Medical School via the Early Identification Program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1089,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[218,233,109],"class_list":["post-11077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-italian","tag-sociology","tag-sociology-and-anthropology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1089"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11077"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11086,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11077\/revisions\/11086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}