{"id":3602,"date":"2018-02-23T10:10:50","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T15:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.pages.roanoke.edu\/?p=3602"},"modified":"2018-02-23T10:10:50","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T15:10:50","slug":"humans-of-roanoke-college-nicole-brobston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=3602","title":{"rendered":"Humans of Roanoke College: Nicole Brobston"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written by Shamira James<\/em><\/p>\n

Nicole Brobston is a senior at Roanoke College, where she is double majoring in creative writing and literary studies. She also is editor of On Concept\u2019s Edge, Roanoke\u2019s literary magazine, and a finalist for the Fulbright U.S. Student Program in Germany.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI knew I wanted to apply [for the Fulbright program] since freshman year because of a class I had with Professor Jenny Rosti. I would actually go to her class and cry everyday, because I was so homesick. But she was so great, and we built a good relationship. She eventually asked me if I had ever heard of the Fulbright program. That led me get more involved.<\/span><\/p>\n

I came into college not wanting to write at all. I wanted to teach, definitely on a college level and more geared towards the literary side of it. The further I got into the major and the internships I did with Bella Magazine and Leisure Media it just hit that that\u2019s what I wanted to do. So, I ended up switching career paths. <\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m applying to MFA [master of fine arts programs], because I decided I want to write, specifically poetry \u2013 so I\u2019m not going to make any money. I still do want to teach, but I would also want to be published and be popular with the small circle of people who do still read poetry. <\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve applied to nine [graduate] schools. I got accepted at American University and I got a funding package for half of tuition. American has a lot of dynamic writers, and I think I could fit in nicely, as I wrote a poem, \u201cA glossary of men I shouldn\u2019t have slept with.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ll miss Roanoke College. I\u2019ll miss the English department, which has almost become my home. All of the professors I work with made me feel so comfortable to the point where I changed my mind freshman year from transferring [from Roanoke], because I was nine hours away from home and lonely. You make great relationships here and that\u2019s what I love. Professors wants to be resources, and they want to support you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Written by Shamira James Nicole Brobston is a senior at Roanoke College, where she is double majoring in creative writing and literary studies. She also is editor of On Concept\u2019s Edge, Roanoke\u2019s literary magazine, and a finalist for the Fulbright U.S. Student Program in Germany. \u201cI knew I wanted to apply [for the Fulbright program]…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-folks-at-noke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}