{"id":211,"date":"2022-10-15T15:49:49","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T06:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/samuelgerges\/?p=211"},"modified":"2022-10-15T15:55:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T06:25:17","slug":"i-made-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/samuelgerges\/i-made-it\/","title":{"rendered":"I Made IT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t believe it, but it&#8217;s done!! I have finally graduated from Harvard University with a Master&#8217;s in Information Management Systems.<br \/>\nIt has been an incredible journey of 5 years full of events, pandemic, lockdowns and changing jobs but best of all, finding my beautiful wife and soulmate. 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I have finally graduated from Harvard University with a Master&#8217;s in Information Management Systems. It has been an incredible journey of 5 years full of events, pandemic, lockdowns and changing jobs but best &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/samuelgerges\/i-made-it\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8877,"featured_media":214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[202158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-notes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/samuelgerges\/files\/2022\/10\/grad-1.jpg?fit=1679%2C2584&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9ngh5-3p","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":219,"url":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/samuelgerges\/moving-to-gerges-dot-org\/","url_meta":{"origin":211,"position":0},"title":"Moving to gerges.org","author":"Samuel Gerges","date":"30\/Mar\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Hey everyone, Unfortunately, Harvard decided to Shut Down the blogging platform. 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