{"id":3703,"date":"2015-02-09T16:47:52","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T16:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/?p=3703"},"modified":"2015-02-09T16:47:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T16:47:52","slug":"study-something-you-are-passionate-about-greg-hess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/2015\/02\/09\/study-something-you-are-passionate-about-greg-hess\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Study Something You Are Passionate About&#8221; &#8211; Greg Hess"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3704\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3704\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/02\/hess-.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3704\" alt=\"hess-\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/02\/hess-.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/02\/hess-.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/02\/hess--300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3704\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Gregory D. Hess<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At the Cincinnati dinner last week, we had four young men interested in Wabash. \u00a0At one point, an alumnus asked President Hess to explain the liberal arts and it&#8217;s relevance this day and age. \u00a0It was a good question &#8211; the President gave a great answer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Study something you are passionate about at Wabash&#8221; he suggested. \u00a0Then he reflected on his own undergraduate experience. \u00a0He didn&#8217;t know what he was going to do after college, he suggested, but he did love the study of Economics and that ended up his major. \u00a0Did a degree in Economics help him as a consultant with Honda Motor Company and the Federal Reserve? \u00a0For sure. \u00a0But it was the passionate search for knowledge, coupled with the all around liberal arts education, that made him the College President he is today.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the same for those young men considering Wabash and a bazillion other schools. \u00a0Get an education that will prepare you for anything, including the great unknowns. \u00a0The CEO of one of Indiana&#8217;s fastest growing tech companies? \u00a0A Wabash German major. \u00a0A Cardiothoracic Surgeon in Illinois? \u00a0A Wabash\u00a0English major. \u00a0The father \/ son Wabash team at Sun King Brewery? \u00a0An economics major and a speech major.<\/p>\n<p>Passion&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Cincinnati dinner last week, we had four young men interested in Wabash. \u00a0At one point, an alumnus asked President Hess to explain the liberal arts and it&#8217;s relevance this day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/02\/hess-.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3703"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3710,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703\/revisions\/3710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}