John Ruiz, is a peer-mentor at the Center for Student Success. Ruiz is a sophomore studying Mechanical Engineering and is from Cuero, Texas. Here is more about him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What are your hobbies?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n My hobbies consist of building construction type projects, driving tractors and welding. I like to see how things work and the mechanics behind it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What do you look forward as a student mentor?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I look forward to seeing younger students become more involved with TAMUK. As a mentor I encourage everyone to go join a club and just be active on campus. Networking is extremely important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you could pick an actor to play you in a movie who would it be? Why?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n If I could be an actor it would be Tom Hanks, just because of his realistic portrayals <\/p>\n\n\n\n What are your goals?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n My goals are to graduate with a degree in mechanical engineering, getting a job either working process engineering or maintenance reliability for a petrochemical plant. That\u2019s what I would really like to do in the long-run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What is the best part of being a TAMUK student?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The best part about TAMUK is the small class sizes and the ability to meet your professors for help. There\u2019s a lot of helpful resources here and a lot willing to help you succeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" John Ruiz, is a peer-mentor at the Center for Student Success. Ruiz is a sophomore studying Mechanical Engineering and is from Cuero, Texas. Here is… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":2625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[151],"class_list":["post-2623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"authors":[{"term_id":151,"user_id":21,"is_guest":0,"slug":"aryssa-enriquez","display_name":"Aryssa Enriquez","avatar_url":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/wp-content\/litespeed\/avatar\/0020c1ea55d6b31711a3a85616fd14b0.jpg?ver=1778633080","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2626,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions\/2626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2623"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=2623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}