{"id":67041,"date":"2006-05-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-communication-studies-student-to-speak-at-commencement\/"},"modified":"2006-05-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-09T00:00:00","slug":"uri-communication-studies-student-to-speak-at-commencement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2006\/05\/uri-communication-studies-student-to-speak-at-commencement\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 communication studies student to speak at commencement"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. — May 9, 2006 — Blair Valentine, who will graduate this month with a degree in communications studies, will be the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s student commencement speaker.<\/p>\n


\n \u201cA friend of mine dared me to submit a speech to the contest that the Student Senate holds to be the commencement speaker,\u201d the Southington, Conn. resident said. \u201cShe told me I wouldn\u2019t do it, so of course I set out to prove her wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nValentine said she wanted her speech to focus on topics to which her classmates could relate, touching upon rushing to finish a paper on time to shaking sand out of homework done at the beach. <\/p>\n


\n \u201cI have really become an adult these past four years,\u201d she said of her own 溏心vlog免费B站 experience. \u201cI couldn\u2019t have done it without the support of my family.\u201d Valentine is close to her parents, David and Alice, and her older brother, Anthony, 24, who she described as her best friend and protector. <\/p>\n


\nThe 21-year-old decided she wanted to attend 溏心vlog免费B站 after her first visit to Kingston. \u201cAfter walking around the campus, a sense of home hit me and I knew I wanted to go to college here,\u201d she said in her speech. \u201cAnd that was before I even saw the beaches.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nWhen she did enroll, Valentine thought she would become an accountant, but after a few classes she switched majors and decided to study communications studies instead. She realized she was much better with people than numbers.<\/p>\n


\n During her four years, Valentine has been a marketing intern at the Newport Yachting Center and a teacher\u2019s assistant for a family communications course and the community service class required for all 溏心vlog免费B站 101 mentors. Additionally, she has been the assistant coordinator of the 溏心vlog免费B站 101 Mentor Program since her junior year. <\/p>\n


\nWhile working for the program, Valentine helped recruit, hire, train and facilitate nearly 150 student mentors. \u201cThe program not only helps freshmen transition into college but it also changed my life,\u201d she said. \u201cI could see myself in the freshmen\u2019s confusion. All of a sudden my mistakes could become their lessons.\u201d <\/p>\n


\nValentine said leaving the mentor program will be one of the hardest things for her. \u201cThe friends I have made and the things I\u2019ve learned there are irreplaceable.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nFollowing graduation, Valentine hopes to pursue a career in marketing, public relations or the non-profit field. \u201cJust like with college, the possibilities out there are endless,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n


\n溏心vlog免费B站 News Bureau photo by Michael Salerno Photography.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. — May 9, 2006 — Blair Valentine, who will graduate this month with a degree in communications studies, will be the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s student commencement speaker. \u201cA friend of mine dared me to submit a speech to the contest that the Student Senate holds to be the commencement speaker,\u201d the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}