{"id":748,"date":"2023-03-20T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/?p=748"},"modified":"2026-05-19T21:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T01:57:10","slug":"victors-in-grad-school-mark-mercado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/2023\/03\/20\/victors-in-grad-school-mark-mercado\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn How To Manage Your Time &amp; Enjoy It With Mark Mercado"},"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: Learn How To Manage Your Time &amp; Enjoy It With Mark Mercado\" 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\/7bOcp2SjHglNV8Ntfpqg7A?si=zw4nIDzUTwqRaFbELbW64g&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\/mark-mercado-ba343623\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mark-mercado-ba343623\/\">Mark Mercado<\/a>, Systems Engineer at DigitalOcean. Today we talk about the educational journey that he went through as he went from being an undergraduate student to being a Masters student at the University of Michigan-Flint.<\/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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/contact-us\/\">Office of Graduate Programs<\/a>&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;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week on the Victors in Grad School podcast we are joined by Mark Mercado, Systems Engineer at DigitalOcean. Today we talk about the educational journey that he went through as he went from being an undergraduate student to being a Masters student at the University of Michigan-Flint. This podcast is brought to you by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":509,"featured_media":932,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,13,45],"tags":[113,31,27,117,30,42,54,53],"class_list":["post-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-computer-science","category-graduate-school-general","category-podcast","tag-computer-science","tag-graduate-degree","tag-graduate-school","tag-mark-mercado","tag-masters-degree","tag-masters-degree-2","tag-podcast","tag-victors-in-grad-school"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748","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=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2870,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions\/2870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}