First Generation Student

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Okay, I’m excited to hear from Pamela. An accounting major and first generation student here to tell us about just a few of the services offered to help students achieve academic success. Take it away, Pamela.

– Thank you for the introduction, Alex. As a first generation student, I wanna pick a university that provides me internship opportunities and career preparation. After learning that St. Peter’s University delivers that to me, I knew I had to come here. The Educational Opportunity Fund or EOF is a New Jersey funded program established to help low income and first generation students to achieve academic success. At St. Peter’s, the EOF program had provided first gen students with personal advisors, peer mentors, tutoring, seminars, student activities, and the EOF network. I found many friends who share the same interests and goals as me through that program. It’s nice to be surrounded by people who support me. I can also leverage St. Peter’s network of companies and organization in the New York region. The Center for Career Engagement and Experimental Learning or CEEL, knows about the internship process from recruiters and alum contacts at these companies. The people at CEEL are very supportive and helpful. They advise me of what university, organizations to be involved in, and direct me potential internship for my major in accounting. They help me update my resume and edit my cover letters to grab their interviewer’s attention. Through many mock interviews with CEEL, I became confident in nailing my interviews. Thanks to CEEL, I’ve worked at a full-time accounting internship over the summer. St. Peter’s career center and EOF program have prepared me more ways I can ever hope. I applied the lessons and skills I learned from class and school activities into two different internships. Being part of university with a diverse background with many opportunities for students here makes me proud as a St. Peter’s student. Back to you, Alex.

– Wow, amazing, thank you, Pamela for that wealth of information. EOF and CEEL sound like amazing areas on campus. The people there help St. Peter’s students prepare for a successful career in their field, and that is amazing.