{"id":17533,"date":"2025-04-21T13:52:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T17:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/?p=17533"},"modified":"2025-04-21T13:52:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T17:52:28","slug":"haley-westberg-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/class-of-2025\/haley-westberg-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Haley Westberg \u201925"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Why did you choose URI and the English program?<br \/>\n<\/strong>When I first arrived at URI, I was undecided. I knew that I loved to write and wanted to further my education so I could get a better idea of what a writing career would look like. When I discovered that the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/\">English program<\/a> at URI has a creative writing track, I was very eager to declare my major and start taking creative writing courses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is something special about the English program at URI?<br \/>\n<\/strong>Something special about the English program at URI is that everyone involved is extremely passionate about what they do. Although we are a smaller program, every single member of this community has a story to tell and a will to inspire others.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are your post-graduation plans?<br \/>\n<\/strong>Immediately after graduating, I\u2019m planning to work with publishing companies, copywriting, and editing. However, my ultimate goal is to publish my own work\u2014novels and comics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is your favorite memory at URI?<br \/>\n<\/strong>I\u2019ve made amazing connections at URI, and my happiest memories lately involve spending time with friends at extracurricular events or off campus. On campus, during my sophomore year, I lived with all four of my best friends, and I\u2019ll always cherish the many chaotic memories we made that year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is something you would tell your freshman-year self?<br \/>\n<\/strong>\u201cCommit to making decisions that will impact your life much sooner. Don\u2019t leave things until the last minute.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5153,"featured_media":17534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[361,362],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-17533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-class-of-2025","category-student-profile","tag-english"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17533","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\/5153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17535,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17533\/revisions\/17535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}