{"id":629,"date":"2023-01-30T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/?p=629"},"modified":"2026-05-19T22:16:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T02:16:55","slug":"victors-in-grad-school-shittu-kudirat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/2023\/01\/30\/victors-in-grad-school-shittu-kudirat\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving Up Is Easy, Push Through With Kudirat Shittu"},"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: Giving Up Is Easy, Push Through With Shittu Kudirat\" 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\/1aLVvi4AC15gNBHvf31oGh?si=84fu4M-bQ4-ivdv5MiZwag&amp;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>This week on the Victors in Grad School podcast we are joined by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/shittu-kudirat\/\">Kudirat Shittu<\/a> who is just completing her Master&#8217;s degree in Public Administration from the University of Michigan-Flint.<\/p>\n<p>Kudirat Shittu and I talk about her journey as an international student at the University of Michigan-Flint and what she had to do to transition to a university in a foreign county and be tenacious as she worked on completing her graduate degree so she could be a change agent for the world.<\/p>\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\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/contact-us\/\">Office of Graduate Programs<\/a>\u00a0at 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\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/\">here<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week on the Victors in Grad School podcast we are joined by Kudirat Shittu who is just completing her Master&#8217;s degree in Public Administration from the University of Michigan-Flint. Kudirat Shittu and I talk about her journey as an international student at the University of Michigan-Flint and what she had to do to transition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":509,"featured_media":861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,19,45,16],"tags":[58,44,73,31,27,99,30,42,54,98,100,53],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-graduate-school-general","category-international-student","category-podcast","category-public-administration","tag-choosing-a-graduate-program","tag-choosing-a-graduate-school","tag-christopher-lewis","tag-graduate-degree","tag-graduate-school","tag-international-student","tag-masters-degree","tag-masters-degree-2","tag-podcast","tag-public-administration","tag-shittu-kudirat","tag-victors-in-grad-school"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","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=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2891,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions\/2891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}