{"id":1089,"date":"2020-11-09T11:48:21","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T17:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bryanisd.org\/BryanCollegiateHS\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2020-11-06T13:06:23","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T19:06:23","slug":"alumni-spotlight-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bryanisd.org\/BryanCollegiateHS\/2020\/11\/09\/alumni-spotlight-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Each week, we will be spotlighting a Bryan Collegiate alumni and what they are doing now!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Name:  <em>Iris DelaCruz<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When did you graduate from Bryan Collegiate?  <em>May 2012<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What college\/university did you attend?  <em>Texas A&amp;M University Galveston<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When did you graduate from your college\/university?  <em>May 201<\/em>6<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What did you major in at your college\/university? <em> Bachelors of Science in marine Biology with a minor in English<br><\/em><br>What are you doing now?<em>  I\u2019m currently working for the Texas A&amp;M University Veterinarian School as a Research Assistant in the Veterinarian Pathobiology Department.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What would you like to tell current Bryan Collegiate students?<br><em>My advice\u00a0\u00a0for current BCHS students is to enjoy life. Take it one day at a time. Push yourself out of your comfort zone. Don\u2019t be afraid to pursue your dreams. Don\u2019t let anxiety or stress hold you back from doing what you want to do. You want to skydive? Do it! You want to hike the Pacific Crest Trail? Do it! You want to binge watch all the Harry Potter movies in one weekend? Do it. Do what makes you happy.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bryanisd.org\/BryanCollegiateHS\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2020\/11\/IMG_4410-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1090\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bryanisd.org\/BryanCollegiateHS\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2020\/11\/IMG_4410-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bryanisd.org\/BryanCollegiateHS\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2020\/11\/IMG_4410-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) calc(100vw - 50px), (max-width: 767px) calc(100vw - 70px), (max-width: 991px) 429px, (max-width: 1199px) 637px, 354px\" \/><figcaption>Iris working in her lab at the Texas A&amp;M Vet School<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each week, we will be spotlighting a Bryan Collegiate alumni and what they are doing now! Name: Iris DelaCruz When did you graduate from Bryan Collegiate? May 2012 What college\/university &#8230;<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bryanisd.org\/BryanCollegiateHS\/2020\/11\/09\/alumni-spotlight-10\/\" class=\"read-more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\"Alumni Spotlight\"<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administration","penguin-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.bryanisd.org\/BryanCollegiateHS\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2020\/08\/dfw-alumni-spotlight.jpg","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bryanisd.org\/BryanCollegiateHS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bryanisd.org\/BryanCollegiateHS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bryanisd.org\/BryanCollegiateHS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bryanisd.org\/BryanCollegiateHS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bryanisd.org\/BryanCollegiateHS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bryanisd.org\/BryanCollegiateHS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1091,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bryanisd.org\/BryanCollegiateHS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions\/1091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bryanisd.org\/BryanCollegiateHS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bryanisd.org\/BryanCollegiateHS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bryanisd.org\/BryanCollegiateHS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bryanisd.org\/BryanCollegiateHS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}