Disclaimer: East Stroudsburg University disapproves coercing potential students to tour campus. That being said, Danielle Tretola is happy such a measure was taken on her behalf. \u201cI did not want to go to ESU,\u201d says the English major, \u201csimply because my sister went here and I didn\u2019t want to copy her.\u201d Her sister, Elizabeth Tretola Petrangeli \u201904, however, extolled the university\u2019s many hallmarks of quality education until, finally, she could extol no more. Tretola laughs at the memory: \u201cOne day [she] threw me in the car and drove me to campus.\u201d And before her private tour was complete, Tretola was ready for the admissions office. <\/p>\n
\u201cEast Stroudsburg was just everything to me from then on,\u201d says Tretola. All her questions were answered and everywhere she went she felt the campus was a happy place to be. Now a junior, she is an English, secondary education major, a choice she made because she loved reading and writing. \u201cBut I probably should have gone into college undeclared,\u201d she says, with hindsight. \u201cI really had no idea what I wanted to do.\u201d <\/p>\n
Tretola\u2019s student jobs as resident adviser and orientation leader, and just working with the student affairs folks helped clear things up. \u201cPeople who work at a college seem so happy,\u201d she says. \u201cThey love their jobs and love being around students and care about them \u2013 even just getting students to know what they want to do with their lives. And there’s something going on every single day, especially on weekends. <\/p>\n
\u201cUltimately, I would like to work in resident life,\u201d she continues, \u201cmaybe starting out as a resident director and moving up from there.\u201d Tretola is considering her next steps which may include a master\u2019s program in counseling with a concentration in student affairs and higher education. \u201cA lot of it [would be] talking to students and getting them over the \u201cfreshman hump\u201d and through the \u201csenior battle\u201d, she says. \u201cI just think that\u2019s really cool.\u201d <\/p>\n
Among other accolades, Tretola holds a 3.9 GPA and membership in Sigma Tau Delta, the international English honors society. \u201cI work very hard at academics,\u201d she says. \u201cI like to show my mom I’m doing the best I can. And now, with my sister moving out, it’s just my mom and me here. We\u2019re very close, and I like to make her happy.\u201d If being the ESU success story she is constitutes happiness, Tretola can rest easy \u2013 her mother is indeed happy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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