{"id":11306,"date":"2020-06-23T16:18:23","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T16:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/?p=11306"},"modified":"2020-06-23T16:23:04","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T16:23:04","slug":"ncc-grad-finds-passion-and-continues-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/2020\/06\/ncc-grad-finds-passion-and-continues-education\/","title":{"rendered":"NCC Grad Finds Passion and Continues Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div id=\"attachment_11341\" style=\"width: 329px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11341\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11341\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Karol-Vite-Perez-Cropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"319\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Karol-Vite-Perez-Cropped.jpg 3112w, https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Karol-Vite-Perez-Cropped-274x300.jpg 274w, https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Karol-Vite-Perez-Cropped-768x841.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Karol-Vite-Perez-Cropped-935x1024.jpg 935w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 319px) 100vw, 319px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11341\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karol Vite-Perez<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Karol Vite-Perez, of Rocky Mount, enrolled at Nash-Rocky Mount Early College in <span class=\"gmail_default\">2014<\/span>.<span class=\"gmail_default\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Located on the campus of Nash Community College, Early College students take a combination of high school and college courses, and upon successful completion, graduate with both a high school diploma and either an Associate Degree or two years of college credit transferable to a four-year institution.<\/p>\n<p>She graduated with an\u00a0Associate in Arts, College Transfer in 2019.\u00a0&#8220;At first, I just planned to graduate and go to a four-year college,&#8221; <span class=\"gmail_default\">Perez<\/span>\u00a0said. &#8220;But I discovered my passion during my senior year and I decided to continue at Nash Community College to pursue an additional associate degree. I saw opportunities here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Perez is enrolled as an Advertising and Graphic Design major with plans to graduate <span class=\"gmail_default\">in the spring<\/span>\u00a0and transfer to a four-year university. While also balancing work and personal life, she has maintained a 3.3 cumulative grade point average.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As an educator, I am thrilled to know that Karol wants to continue her education in graphic design even beyond her graduation from NCC,&#8221; Advertising and Graphic Design Instructor Natasha Neal said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The instructors at Nash encourage me to do what I\u2019m good at by giving me honest feedback and advice about my design,&#8221; Perez said. \u201cI would like to focus my career on magazine <span class=\"gmail_default\">design<\/span>. I enjoy applying my creativity to <span class=\"gmail_default\">layouts<\/span>, fonts and colors.<span class=\"gmail_default\">&#8220;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"gmail_default\">Instructor <\/span>Neal has encouraged her to pursue her dreams. &#8220;Karol is a student who is fully engaged in the classroom. When I first met her I was struck by her commitment to excellence, not only in her scholastic endeavors but in all aspects of her life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">&#8220;I imagine living in New York in a loft apartment and working at a hipster-chic company,&#8221; Perez said.<\/div>\n<p>At the Early College, she earned the Eagle of Excellence: College Readiness and Outstanding Student awards. She is the recipient of numerous scholarships at NCC.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Karol is a take-charge person who is able to successfully develop plans and implement them &#8211; as proven in all of her work. I am confident that she will excel wherever she goes beyond NCC,&#8221; Neal said.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karol Vite-Perez, of Rocky Mount, enrolled at Nash-Rocky Mount Early College in 2014.\u00a0 Located on the campus of Nash Community College, Early College students take a combination of high school&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/2020\/06\/ncc-grad-finds-passion-and-continues-education\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11306"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11347,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11306\/revisions\/11347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}