{"id":50721,"date":"2026-02-27T09:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T13:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.knightcrier.org\/?p=50721"},"modified":"2026-02-27T09:52:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T13:52:18","slug":"knights-next-quest-brendan-leary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.knightcrier.org\/top-stories\/2026\/02\/27\/knights-next-quest-brendan-leary\/","title":{"rendered":"Knights Next Quest: Brendan Leary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">1. What schools did you apply to?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I applied to Penn State, West Chester, Pitt, and Boston University.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\">2. Where did you commit to, and why?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I committed to Boston University for a lot of reasons. I love the city of Boston, and I\u2019ve always wanted to go to school right in the middle of a city, and BU is right in downtown Boston. The environment was so welcoming and positive both times I went to visit. Their education program is also super interesting and provides a lot of opportunities other schools don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">3. What are your career\/academic aspirations?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m majoring in education at BU and I plan to become a teacher and teach early elementary school.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\">4. What are you most excited about next year?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m most excited about living in a new city and getting to know lots of new people!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">5. What is your favorite North Penn memory?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>My favorite North Penn memory is probably the 2024 homecoming dance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. What schools did you apply to? I applied to Penn State, West Chester, Pitt, and Boston University. 2. Where did you commit to, and why? I committed to Boston University for a lot of reasons. I love the city of Boston, and I\u2019ve always wanted to go to school right in the middle of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,11],"tags":[],"staff_name":[1540],"class_list":["post-50721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-top-stories","staff_name-erin-malley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knightcrier.org\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knightcrier.org\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knightcrier.org\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knightcrier.org\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knightcrier.org\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.knightcrier.org\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50726,"href":"https:\/\/www.knightcrier.org\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50721\/revisions\/50726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knightcrier.org\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knightcrier.org\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knightcrier.org\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knightcrier.org\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50721"},{"taxonomy":"staff_name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knightcrier.org\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/staff_name?post=50721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}