{"id":1794,"date":"2014-06-17T17:02:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T21:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=1794"},"modified":"2014-06-17T17:05:34","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T21:05:34","slug":"student-voices-ditching-the-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2014\/student-voices-ditching-the-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Voices: Ditching the Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Peace Eneh ('17)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1796\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1796\" style=\"width: 127px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1796\" src=\"http:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/06\/eneh-portrait-small.jpg\" alt=\"Peace Eneh\" width=\"127\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1796\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peace Eneh<\/figcaption><\/figure>\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 - Dartmouth College Commencement\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EuHQ6TH60_I\" target=\"_blank\">Shonda Rimes said<\/a>\u00a0at 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.<\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"Peace Eneh on Geisel Med Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/sites.dartmouth.edu\/medexperience\/ditching-the-dream\/\">Read more<\/a> about Eneh's trip to Nigeria and about how she will be spending her summer on Geisel's medical student blog.<\/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":15,"featured_media":1795,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[23,59,301,39],"class_list":["post-1794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-voices","tag-global-health","tag-nigeria","tag-peace-eneh","tag-students","post_format-post-format-aside","author-15"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/06\/eneh-featured.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4r3h1-sW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1794"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1807,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions\/1807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}