Maria Acosta is a 19-year-old pre-nursing major who is from Angeles City, Pampanga in the Philippines. Along with her whole family, she moved to Hawai’i in 2014 in search of a better life and more opportunities.<\/p>\n
It is Acosta’s dream to be a physician.<\/p>\n
“I’ve always been interested in emergency medicine,” she said. “I want to do my pre-nursing here [at KCC], to kick start into bachelor’s degree.”<\/p>\n
Similar to many students who are attending KCC,<\/span> Acosta does not intend to follow<\/span> the traditional college path.<\/p>\n “I want to get as much credit as I can before transferring to a university,” Acosta said. “I heard that KCC has a really good medical program.”<\/p>\n Since Acosta has been in Hawai’i for nine years, she fell in love with the island’s diversity, the cuisine, and the beaches.<\/p>\n “I like Kailua, Lanikai, and Waimea Bay,” she said. “That’s my go to.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Juri Dagio | Staff Writer Maria Acosta is a 19-year-old pre-nursing major who is from Angeles City, Pampanga in the Philippines. Along with her whole family, she moved to Hawai’i in 2014 in search of a better life and more opportunities. It is Acosta’s dream to be a physician. “I’ve always been interested in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":23195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-voices-views","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}