{"id":1094,"date":"2025-02-05T17:00:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T23:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/?p=1094"},"modified":"2025-02-05T17:00:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T23:00:01","slug":"hows-it-going-so-far-jccc-three-students-weigh-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/2025\/02\/05\/hows-it-going-so-far-jccc-three-students-weigh-in\/","title":{"rendered":"How’s It Going So Far, JCCC? Three Students Weigh In"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two-plus weeks into the semester, students are finally beginning to settle into classes and into their schedule for the next four months. So we decided to go out onto campus and ask some students about their feelings on how the year has started out.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWell the beginning of the school year for me has been really good,\u201d Asher Demo said. \u201cI\u2019ve been very organized, with everything and it hasn’t been too stressful.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Jacob Nation, however, found that the year has begun with some struggles, but has faith it will grow better with time.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is my second week here and I\u2019ve been enjoying it fairly well so far,\u201d Nation said. \u201cI find it a struggle to make friends because everyone\u2019s so focused on their work, but I\u2019ve joined a club and I’m going there tonight so hopefully something comes from that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

For others this semester won\u2019t be their first time in college, leaving students like Lucas Altenburg with a unique view of how this year has started.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m old, 26 years old,\u201d Altenburg said. \u201cA long time ago, I went to MCC and a lot of the teachers just didn\u2019t feel like they cared nearly as much as the teachers here do. Just that one change of energy, that the teachers really feeling like they care, made the world of difference.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two-plus weeks into the semester, students are finally beginning to settle into classes and into their schedule for the next four months. So we decided to go out onto campus and ask some students about their feelings on how the year has started out.\u00a0 \u201cWell the beginning of the school year for me has been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1007,"featured_media":1093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[26,46],"ppma_author":[129],"class_list":["post-1094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","tag-jccc","tag-student-life"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Cash Navarro","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/2025\/02\/05\/hows-it-going-so-far-jccc-three-students-weigh-in\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/files\/2025\/02\/2-5-25-Start-of-the-semester-300x194.jpg","coauthors":[{"link":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/2025\/02\/05\/hows-it-going-so-far-jccc-three-students-weigh-in\/","display_name":"Cash Navarro"}],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Life<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Life<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["JCCC<\/a>","Student Life<\/a>"],"unlinked":["JCCC<\/span>","Student Life<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 2 years ago","modified":"Updated 2 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on February 5, 2025","modified":"Updated on February 5, 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on February 5, 2025 5:00 pm","modified":"Updated on February 5, 2025 5:00 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":129,"user_id":1007,"is_guest":0,"slug":null,"display_name":"Cash Navarro","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/384d75c09d99c5e24638c4b674e6df1654835a9e6fbc713bd31befc4a4905b1d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","first_name":"Cash","last_name":"Navarro","user_url":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/files\/2025\/02\/2-5-25-Start-of-the-semester-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1007"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1094"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1097,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions\/1097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1094"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}