{"id":542,"date":"2018-12-15T14:55:03","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T14:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandboxfoundation.org\/site\/?p=542"},"modified":"2018-12-15T14:55:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T14:55:03","slug":"spartan-austen-malczewskis-3rd-semester-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandboxfoundation.org\/index.php\/2018\/12\/15\/spartan-austen-malczewskis-3rd-semester-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Spartan: Austen Malczewski&#8217;s 3rd Semester Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>My third semester of college has been an awesome learning experience, college sure seems to be going quick. Now that I have been accepted into the Business college, I am going to pursue an accounting major with an Information Technology minor. With the majority of my classes business focus, It has provided me with a much more interesting curriculum already. I have also been taking advantage of all the organizations on campus, for example, the MSU finance association and the Accounting Student Association (ASA).<a href=\"http:\/\/sandboxfoundation.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Austin-at-State-e1544885568719.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-543\" src=\"http:\/\/sandboxfoundation.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Austin-at-State-e1544885568719.jpeg\" alt=\"Austin at State\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sandboxfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Austin-at-State-e1544885568719.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/sandboxfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Austin-at-State-e1544885568719-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The biggest difference between this year and last year has been all the extra curricular activities I have taken up in my free time. With such a big campus at MSU, I have had to find a way to make it a little smaller\u2026 once you start exploring there&#8217;s so many ways to condense campus. For the Honors College at MSU I joined a book club where I read books of my choosing with a group of other Honors students on Tuesday nights, this has allowed me to learn a ton about good books and also allowed me to meet some really good people.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Lately, most of my time has been directed towards research on a possible invention I have. Just this last month I started an LLC for this new company and I ordered a Provisional Patent on my Idea. The best part of this idea is that I found an organization on campus that Is funded by Alumni, who have agreed to help pay for my legal fees, patents, and other costs I may incur building Prototypes and what not, without a catch or giving up any equity in the company. I entered a competition (Burgess New Venture Challenge) put on for MSU students with my idea and If I place top 5 I could be granted potential funding, I will keep you posted on this.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I have also made great strides in wrestling, I was awarded my varsity letter-man jacket at the beginning of the semester, which was a super cool experience. I have also taken 3rd place at the MSU open tournament, and Ohio Intercollegiate open tournament with a record of (9-2) over the last two weekends.<\/div>\n<div>I want to thank you for the continued scholarship this year, It has helped me out tremendously. As a student who is responsible for paying for his own college experience, I constantly remind myself how fortunate I am to receive this Sandbox Foundation Scholarship.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My third semester of college has been an awesome learning experience, college sure seems to be going quick. Now that I have been accepted into the Business college, I am going to pursue an accounting major with an Information Technology &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sandboxfoundation.org\/index.php\/2018\/12\/15\/spartan-austen-malczewskis-3rd-semester-update\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grants","category-recipients"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandboxfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandboxfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandboxfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandboxfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandboxfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandboxfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544,"href":"https:\/\/sandboxfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandboxfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandboxfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandboxfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}