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The National First Gen College Celebration takes place every year on November 8th. The 2022 Syracuse University celebration was sponsored by the Kessler Scholars Program, HEOP, TRIO SSS, New Student and Family Programs, and SU Libraries. This podcast series was part of a larger campus effort to celebrate first gen students at SU.
In talking about programs Well, I'm an SSS student and I'm in the program. What I also really like about these types of programs and these opportunity programs, right? What I really like is that a lot of the staff are also first gen. So Amy, I I think Michelle too. So it's really great to have these programs that the staff kind of understand what you're going through, because they also went through something similar.
Speaker 1:And being able to surround yourself with staff that are very supportive of what you want to achieve here in college, and they kind of guide you to like make sure your goals are met is also like something great. And I think that like, it's great about like the SSS program and also HEOP and the other programs. Very inspiring. Yes, it's very inspiring.
Speaker 2:Really inspiring seeing people who were in your shoes make it successfully and make them living for themselves because it's like, okay, if they've done it, I could do it. Yeah. I think it's one thing that really we're talking about what gets you through things is that knowing that these people have done it, other people in the past have done, I can do it.