{"id":794,"date":"2014-06-17T08:30:22","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T12:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/globalhealth\/?p=794"},"modified":"2014-06-17T08:30:22","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T12:30:22","slug":"ditching-the-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/2014\/06\/17\/ditching-the-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Ditching the Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Peace Eneh<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I am excited but super-scared.<\/p>\n<p>I am excited to go home to Nigeria\u2014I am always excited to go home. But this time is different. I am going home as a budding medical student to do global health research. I have always dreamed of going home to help improve the health-care system. That is the whole point of coming to the United States to study medicine. I have always dreamed of returning to make a difference. But as <a title=\"Shonda Rimes at Dartmouth College commencement\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EuHQ6TH60_I\" target=\"_blank\">Shonda Rhimes said<\/a> at Dartmouth\u2019s recent commencement ceremony, it is time to ditch the dream; it is time for me to not just be a dreamer but to actually start doing something, time for me to start making my mark. <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dartmouth.edu\/medexperience\/ditching-the-dream\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more...<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Read more from medical student Peace Eneh (\u201917) on the <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dartmouth.edu\/medexperience\/ditching-the-dream\/\" target=\"_blank\">Geisel Med Blog<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just after finishing her first-year exams, medical student Peace Eneh headed to Nigeria to begin work on a global health project. She reflects on the mix of excitement and nervousness she feels as she takes on the challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":808,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-nigeria","author-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}