{"id":6,"date":"2020-01-18T22:42:26","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T22:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/psyc420template\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2020-01-18T23:05:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-18T23:05:03","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tmccu007\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Tara and I am a non-traditional Senior student at ODU. I am working towards my Bachelors is Biology with a Minor in Psychology. I plan to apply to medical school after graduation from ODU and completing a Physician Assistant program, ideally at EVMS. I work fulltime at GEICO as an Underwriter for the Motorcycle department and have been with the company for 13 years.\u00a0 I live in Virginia Beach, VA with my husband and our three cats, George, Sally and Calliope.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_104\" style=\"width: 308px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-104\" class=\"wp-image-104 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tmccu007\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18110\/2020\/01\/mesal-298x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tmccu007\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18110\/2020\/01\/mesal-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tmccu007\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18110\/2020\/01\/mesal-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tmccu007\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18110\/2020\/01\/mesal-768x774.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tmccu007\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18110\/2020\/01\/mesal.jpg 953w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-104\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pictured: Tara and Sally<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I am taking this course not only because it is part of my degree program but because social psychology is important for maintaining a healthy life balance. Understanding how the behavior of individuals is influenced by their surroundings and society will give me an important insight needed to be a healthcare professional. I hope to learn something about myself and experience growth as well in my continuing psychology studies.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Tara and I am a non-traditional Senior student at ODU. I am working towards my Bachelors is Biology with a Minor in Psychology. I plan to apply to medical school after graduation from ODU and completing a Physician Assistant program, ideally at EVMS. I work fulltime at GEICO as an Underwriter for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16436,"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\/tmccu007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tmccu007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tmccu007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tmccu007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tmccu007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tmccu007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tmccu007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tmccu007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}