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A first-generation high school senior finds her college path, with help from an adviser who had walked it before.
A first-generation high school senior finds her college path, with help from an adviser who had walked it before.
A first-generation high school senior finds her college path, with help from an adviser who had walked it before.
Early in their college career at Michigan State University, Ashley Thoms can recall a key moment that helped to shape a career path, albeit amid a stream of tears while conversing with an adviser. “I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my future, I was freaking out,” Thoms recalled. “My adviser, she would make me feel so calm, happy and assured of myself and my future. I want to give people that feeling. I want people to be able to talk to me, to leave and feel like they have a plan, that they are capable of things.”