by Juniper Rogers<\/p>\n
Rebecca Dance is a senior from central Massachusetts who is majoring in literary studies and english education, with a concentration in publishing and editing.\u00a0 Speaking in Massachusetts, Rebecca said \u201cThey don\u2019t call it New England for nothing!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Rebecca is currently a semi-finalist for a Fulbright English Teaching Award (ETA).\u00a0 \u201cLast summer, I went to Guatemala to learn Spanish for my Distinction Project for the Honors Program.\u00a0 I learned a lot during that trip and I hope to use that information for my time in Spain.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Learning is the primary goal of college, right?\u00a0 Right?\u00a0 \u201cI have learned that it is very difficult to cook Mac&Cheese so that it tastes good and doesn\u2019t taste like rubber (lol).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n When asked what her proudest accomplishment was during her time here at RC, Rebecca said \u201cI would have to say making friends while I\u2019ve been in college.\u00a0 They are wonderful and will be my friends for life!\u201d\u00a0 I know I also hope that my friendships last for many years to come!<\/span><\/p>\n You know the best place to find friends?\u00a0 Middle school!\u00a0 \u201cI am in Roanoke City teaching 7th and 8th graders in english.\u00a0 Its a lot of fun!\u00a0 They have so many crazy things to say and rambunctious personalities, I hope they keep that spunk up!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Rebecca is also involved with the BA and has developed a close relationship with Alexis, the Editor-in-Chief. When asked about Rebceca, Alexis shared, \u201cBecca is one of the most genuine people I know. She never fails to put a smile on my face, and it gives me hope that she will be changing the world through educating future generations\u201d.\u00a0 Rebecca has made service a core part of her time at Roanoke, and she has set herself up to pursue service as a career, whether through teaching, research, or perhaps something new.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI would like to give a special shoutout to my friends Alexis and Suzanne and my boy Noah. Roanoke would not be the same without you!\u201d To read more about the fantastic thoughts of Rebecca, head to the Opinion page of the Brackety-Ack!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Juniper Rogers Rebecca Dance is a senior from central Massachusetts who is majoring in literary studies and english education, with a concentration in publishing and editing.\u00a0 Speaking in Massachusetts, Rebecca said \u201cThey don\u2019t call it New England for nothing!\u201d Rebecca is currently a semi-finalist for a Fulbright English Teaching Award (ETA).\u00a0 \u201cLast summer, I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7095,"comment_status":"closed","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":[23],"class_list":["post-7094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-folks-at-noke","tag-summer2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7094","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=7094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}