{"id":8888,"date":"2017-11-27T12:26:23","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T18:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/?p=8888"},"modified":"2021-02-03T08:46:46","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T14:46:46","slug":"meet-sophomore-priya-manda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/2017\/11\/27\/meet-sophomore-priya-manda\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Priya Manda &#8217;20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive alignright wp-image-8890 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/nclhx5yj.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/PriyaWP-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Student in classroom sitting on desk\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/>What do you love about MPA?<\/strong><br \/>\nI love the community and the way I feel encouraged to push myself and strive to do my best. I also love how there are so many resources within the community to help me achieve my goals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How are you encouraged to dream big and do right at MPA?<\/strong><br \/>\nOne way in which I\u2019m encouraged is through the academically competitive nature of the students. Almost all of the students push themselves and want to accomplish a lot and are supported by the school\u2014this makes you want to work hard too. I feel like MPA has encouraged me to pursue anything I would like and, in many ways, I feel like with my Mounds Park Academy education, I can.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you have attended another school, how has your experience at MPA been different?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe school I went to before was very small and I felt like I wasn\u2019t pushed at all. I remember that when I came to MPA I was shocked by how rigorous the classes were and how many opportunities I had.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What would you tell a family considering MPA?<\/strong><br \/>\nI would tell them that because of my MPA education I feel like I have so many options for colleges and careers that I could pursue. In a way, I feel limitless.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In what ways has MPA prepared you for life?<\/strong><br \/>\nI feel like I\u2019m really well prepared for college because of MPA. I know that I will be able to handle and accomplish a lot thanks to my experience in high school.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you dream for yourself in 20 years? <\/strong><br \/>\nThis is hard! I would love to be a surgeon or work in human rights. Either way, I see myself settled down and successful!<\/p>\n<p><i>Priya Manda now attends the University of Southern California.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you love about MPA? I love the community and the way I feel encouraged to push myself and strive to do my best. I also love how there are so many resources within the community to help me achieve my goals. How are you encouraged to dream big and do right at MPA? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":8891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,27,10025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-posts","category-my-mpa-experience","category-student-experience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8888"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19063,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8888\/revisions\/19063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}