{"id":7,"date":"2025-09-20T01:39:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T01:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/ezhao001\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2025-09-20T03:46:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T03:46:22","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/ezhao001\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Hello, I\u2019m Eric Zhao. I&#8217;m a Freshman at ODU interested in majoring in Computer Science. I&#8217;ve studied Java and now I&#8217;m working to build my repertoire with Python. I am also looking to explore my career options related to Computer Science and how I could make effective use of my time at ODU. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve developed simple programs in Java such as a simple calculator and a display for a user interface. I am currently working on a project to code Chess in Java and learning programming languages on the side. <br><br>I&#8217;ve worked in fast food for 6 months, organized events to raise money for charity, tutored coursework to peers, and led student organizations like Chess club to bring together students with common interests. <\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/ezhao001\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39755\/2025\/09\/YearbookPhoto2025-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/ezhao001\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39755\/2025\/09\/YearbookPhoto2025-2.jpg 480w, https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/ezhao001\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39755\/2025\/09\/YearbookPhoto2025-2-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, I\u2019m Eric Zhao. I&#8217;m a Freshman at ODU interested in majoring in Computer Science. I&#8217;ve studied Java and now I&#8217;m working to build my repertoire with Python. I am also looking to explore my career options related to Computer&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/ezhao001\/about-me\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31328,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/ezhao001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/ezhao001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/ezhao001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/ezhao001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/ezhao001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/ezhao001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44,"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/ezhao001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/ezhao001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}