{"id":1164,"date":"2024-05-01T13:09:26","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T19:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/herald\/?p=1164"},"modified":"2024-05-01T13:09:26","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T19:09:26","slug":"forever-a-war-hawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/herald\/2024\/05\/01\/forever-a-war-hawk\/","title":{"rendered":"Forever a War Hawk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What an amazing four years it has been, thank you McMurry for every opportunity you have given me. I have gained so much while being a student here that I will forever be grateful for. I graduate in ten<a> <\/a>days alongside many of my friends that have changed my life while experiencing our first four years of adulthood together. I knew I belonged here as soon as I stepped foot on campus for my tour, which somehow seems like just yesterday and a million moons ago, at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All the procrastination and juggling of many different activities is coming to an end; I enjoyed every minute of it. \u00a0I even enjoyed the not-so-great things because I know that everything I experienced was, for a reason, a lesson to be learned or a memory to never be forgotten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Writing for the War Hawk Herald was one of the first things I wanted to do when I got to campus, I am so glad I was given the opportunity. I hope you all have enjoyed my articles; I have loved going to events and interviewing students on their experiences to capture what it is like to be a War Hawk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am thankful for the hard work and determination I was able to put into my team, the reason I came to McMurry was so I could continue being a competitive swimmer for just a while longer. Thank you to my teammates that kept me accountable when things got hard and giving up felt like the only option. Swimming wasn\u2019t just a sport but my entire life for so long, and I learned so many life skills by being \u201cjust a swimmer.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I learned how to be a leader and work with difficult people, I enjoyed being a peer leader and meeting all the freshman and being a part of their welcome week experience. I wanted to be there for them and help them through the scary times and to just have fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Putting myself out there and getting involved was the greatest gift I could have given myself; I am so proud of the shy 18-year-old girl that came to college in the middle of a pandemic and decided nothing was going to stop her from being who she was meant to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you to everyone that has ever taken a chance on me, I will forever be a McMurry War Hawk!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What an amazing four years it has been, thank you McMurry for every opportunity you have given me. I have gained so much while being a student here that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":1165,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"[]"},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-issue-29","clearfix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/herald\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/original-F6445F4E-FB3C-4A14-BC4C-241584B93586.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/herald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/herald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/herald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/herald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/herald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/herald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1166,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/herald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions\/1166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/herald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/herald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/herald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/herald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}