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First-year student and mentor discuss the power of Dickinson's First-Year Mentor program

鈥淲hat I鈥檓 doing matters,鈥� says Brooke Serra 鈥�15, reflecting on her time as a mentor in Dickinson鈥檚 First-Year Mentor program. 鈥淚 have a purpose here.鈥�

The First-Year Mentor program was recently put in place as part of the college's enhanced effort to provide layered support鈥攖hrough fellow students, staff and alumni鈥攖o first-year students, and Serra鈥檚 mentee in the program has been Estiven Rodriguez 鈥�18.

鈥淏rooke is always there when I need her,鈥� says Rodriguez, who notes that a true friendship has developed between the two. 鈥淪he always wants me to become a better person, to be a better student.鈥�

Bringing everything full circle, Serra will head off to New York in July to help a new wave of students when she begins her teaching assistant position at Blue Engine, the organization that helped Rodriguez find his way to Dickinson.

Learn more

• First-Year Mentors
• "Creating a Caring Community"
• Learn more about Brooke Serra 鈥�15&苍产蝉辫;in "A Guiding Hand."
• Learn more about Estiven Rodriguez 鈥�18 in "When the President Talks About You in a Speech."
• Latest News

Published February 4, 2015