{"id":122,"date":"2021-10-17T21:52:40","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T04:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/houp\/?page_id=122"},"modified":"2021-10-17T21:53:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T04:53:00","slug":"anjali-arora","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/houp\/archived-interviews\/anjali-arora\/","title":{"rendered":"Anjali Arora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-124 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/houp\/files\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-17-at-9.52.42-PM-300x215.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/houp\/files\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-17-at-9.52.42-PM-300x215.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/houp\/files\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-17-at-9.52.42-PM-1024x732.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/houp\/files\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-17-at-9.52.42-PM-768x549.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/houp\/files\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-17-at-9.52.42-PM.png 1124w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Before I came to UBC I was very shy and reserved, but I have been getting better about being open to opportunities. As part of a service learning placement, I&#8217;m going away for three months this summer to learn about global development initiatives in either Uganda or Kenya, depending on where I get placed. It&#8217;s an applied psychology course offered by UBC ORICE and we just had our first pre-departure learning session\u2014it was actually very interesting and inspiring. Just having discussions, I felt very involved and excited about it. I&#8217;m still undecided about what to do after my bachelor&#8217;s, but even before taking psychology courses, I always thought I wanted to go into social work and to travel the world. So this course [PSYC 417A] is just a super great opportunity that just fell into my lap. Initially I thought I was going to do Go Global, but I thought it would be a lot more meaningful than doing a semester abroad, and I would get to go into a totally unfamiliar environment. I think it&#8217;s super important to go out of your comfort zone and see other ways of living, because you&#8217;re missing out on so many experiences and perspectives.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-excerpt\">&#8220;Before I came to UBC I was very shy and reserved, but I have been getting better about being open&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86628,"featured_media":0,"parent":15,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-122","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/houp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/houp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/houp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/houp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86628"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/houp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/houp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/houp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/122\/revisions\/125"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/houp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/houp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}