{"id":369291,"date":"2026-08-12T11:36:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T11:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/369291\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T11:36:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T11:36:23","slug":"transitioning-to-college-why-the-first-six-weeks-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/369291\/","title":{"rendered":"Transitioning to college: Why the first six weeks matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wesh.com\/news-team\/ceed934a-4a4b-487e-b430-796ce9f0c4d9\" aria-label=\"Meredith McDonough profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ceed934a-4a4b-487e-b430-796ce9f0c4d9_1739564660.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Meredith McDonough\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786534583_657_author_avatar.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Default author avatar\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Transitioning from high school to college: Why the first six weeks matter<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wesh.com\/news-team\/ceed934a-4a4b-487e-b430-796ce9f0c4d9\" aria-label=\"Meredith McDonough profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ceed934a-4a4b-487e-b430-796ce9f0c4d9_1739564660.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Meredith McDonough\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786534583_657_author_avatar.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Default author avatar\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>WINTER PARK, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">The way students approach the transition from high school to college can set the stage for their entire college experience.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">WESH 2&#8217;s Meredith McDonough spoke with Micki Meyer, vice president for student affairs at Rollins College in Winter Park, about why the first six weeks of college are so critical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Transitioning from high school to college: Why the first six weeks matter WINTER PARK, Fla. \u2014 The way&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4403,149506,2625,74925,149508,139,141,140,16786,149507,149509,13341,149510,149505,918,4567],"class_list":["post-369291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-college","tag-entire-college-experience","tag-high-school","tag-meredith-mcdonough","tag-micki-meyer","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-stage","tag-student-affair","tag-transition","tag-vice-president","tag-way-student","tag-week-matter","tag-wesh","tag-winter-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}