{"id":1110,"date":"2023-08-14T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/?p=1110"},"modified":"2026-05-19T21:19:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T01:19:52","slug":"find-what-you-love-and-study-that-with-marissa-pierce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/2023\/08\/14\/find-what-you-love-and-study-that-with-marissa-pierce\/","title":{"rendered":"Find What You Love and Study That with Marissa Pierce"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Find What You Love and Study That with Marissa Pierce\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/7f1vt22gEWLX6MTq4KYTGN?si=mKZklvQhQxWWlU8OWW4E3g&amp;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This week on the Victors in Grad School podcast, we are joined by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/marissa-pierce-55141629\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Marissa Pierce<\/strong><\/a>, Director of Development for the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flintarts.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Flint Institute of Arts<\/a><\/strong>. Today we talked to Marissa Pierce about her own educational journey leading her from receiving her Bachelor&#8217;s degree from the University of Michigan-Flint to receiving a Master of Arts degree in English Language and Literature, also from the University of Michigan-Flint.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This podcast is brought to you by The Office of Graduate programs at the University of Michigan-Flint. If you\u2019re still wondering about other things to consider when it comes to graduate school, you can also contact the&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/contact-us\/\">Office of Graduate Programs<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;at UM-Flint. We\u2019re here to answer questions Monday \u2013 Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. EST. You can also find out more about the 50+ programs that the university has to offer&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week on the Victors in Grad School podcast, we are joined by Marissa Pierce, Director of Development for the Flint Institute of Arts. Today we talked to Marissa Pierce about her own educational journey leading her from receiving her Bachelor&#8217;s degree from the University of Michigan-Flint to receiving a Master of Arts degree in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":509,"featured_media":1196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,23,13,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-communications","category-english","category-graduate-school-general","category-podcast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2808,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions\/2808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}