{"id":450,"date":"2022-10-05T01:21:51","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T01:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portfolio.wcu.edu\/jlconnole1\/?page_id=450"},"modified":"2022-12-08T14:19:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T14:19:18","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/portfolio.wcu.edu\/jlconnole1\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243;][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/catamountsports.com\/images\/2022\/9\/1\/Connole_headshot_1.jpg?width=300\" alt=\"Jessica Connole headshot\" \/><strong>Jessica Connole:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To me, a challenge is the best form of motivation because of the hard work and satisfaction that comes from completing a difficult task. Mechanical engineering falls right into this description. The perfect combination of logic, math, and creativity is what makes the field so appealing and why I am choosing to further my education and career on this path. Outside of academics, I also love to challenge myself physically as I am on the WCU cross-country and track team, and enjoy any type of outdoor activity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LinkedIn<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jessicaconnole\">http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jessicaconnole\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row_empty\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_0  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> Jessica Connole:\u00a0 To me, a challenge is the best form of motivation because of the hard work and satisfaction that comes from completing a difficult task. Mechanical engineering falls right into this description. The perfect combination of logic, math, and creativity is what makes the field so appealing and why I am choosing to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1932,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"<p><img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/catamountsports.com\/images\/2022\/9\/1\/Connole_headshot_1.jpg?width=300\" alt=\"Jessica Connole headshot\" \/><strong>Jessica Connole:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><p>To me, a challenge is the best form of motivation because of the hard work and satisfaction that comes from completing a difficult task. Mechanical engineering falls right into this description. The perfect combination of logic, math, and creativity is what makes the field so appealing and why I am choosing to further my education and career on this path. Outside of academics, I also love to challenge myself physically as I am on the WCU cross-country and track team, and enjoy any type of outdoor activity.<\/p><p><strong>LinkedIn<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jessicaconnole\">http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jessicaconnole\u00a0<\/a><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-450","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.wcu.edu\/jlconnole1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.wcu.edu\/jlconnole1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.wcu.edu\/jlconnole1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.wcu.edu\/jlconnole1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1932"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.wcu.edu\/jlconnole1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.wcu.edu\/jlconnole1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.wcu.edu\/jlconnole1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/450\/revisions\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.wcu.edu\/jlconnole1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}