{"id":30,"date":"2022-10-20T21:46:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T21:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/draft-health101\/?page_id=30"},"modified":"2022-12-08T15:52:27","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T15:52:27","slug":"my-major","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/synia-eportfolio\/my-major\/","title":{"rendered":"My Major"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover is-light\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"749\" height=\"929\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-122\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/synia-eportfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30939\/2022\/10\/8974A11F-86B5-45D4-A6EA-E2D9691ADDCC-1.jpeg\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/synia-eportfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30939\/2022\/10\/8974A11F-86B5-45D4-A6EA-E2D9691ADDCC-1.jpeg 749w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/synia-eportfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30939\/2022\/10\/8974A11F-86B5-45D4-A6EA-E2D9691ADDCC-1-242x300.jpeg 242w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 749px) 100vw, 749px\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:#000000\" class=\"has-inline-color has-white-color\">Future Dental Hygienist<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I will be pursuing the dental hygiene major! I chose this major for multiple reasons, one being that I believe it would be amazing to be a person of color in the field. I also believe oral health is very important. I want to help raise awareness about it and in the future whenever someone leaves my chair, I want them to leave smiling and feeling confident.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After graduating, I want to become a travel hygienist. I want to be able to learn more and perfect my craft so that eventually, I can go back to school and become a dentist. Patiently, one step at a time.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/synia-eportfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30939\/2022\/10\/B1211D30-33E0-4259-94BA-E620A24C60D4-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-123\" width=\"427\" height=\"785\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/synia-eportfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30939\/2022\/10\/B1211D30-33E0-4259-94BA-E620A24C60D4-1.jpeg 512w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/synia-eportfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30939\/2022\/10\/B1211D30-33E0-4259-94BA-E620A24C60D4-1-163x300.jpeg 163w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><figcaption><strong><em>&#8220;Oral health = Overall health&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>My first experience in the dental field is when I interned at my local pediatric dental office (above is a picture of me in my scrubs). This opportunity really opened my eyes to what goes on in offices and the roles that everyone plays. Even though I wasn&#8217;t hands on, they taught me the names of different instruments and their purposes. I also had the job of sterilizing the tools and packaging them. This was another contribution to why my knowledge has widened. I loved my job so much!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will be pursuing the dental hygiene major! I chose this major for multiple reasons, one being that I believe it would be amazing to be a person of color in the field. I also believe oral health is very important. I want to help raise awareness about it and in the future whenever someone&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/synia-eportfolio\/my-major\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":25184,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/synia-eportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/synia-eportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/synia-eportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/synia-eportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25184"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/synia-eportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/synia-eportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/synia-eportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/synia-eportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}