On January 14, our sophomore class attended a panel discussion featuring six successful college students with ties to our O'Bryant Gateway program. On this occasion, we welcomed back with great pride two recent alumni of the O'Bryant School, Olaniyi Ogunbodede (Class of 2008) and Massiel De los Santos (Class of 2009). They were joined by Tonia Smith, an alumna of the Clara Barton Gateway program in Brooklyn who currently attends Wellesley College; Janice Mathew, an MIT senior who tutors in our program; and Dennis Guadarrama and Javier Rios, both senior undergraduate students in BU's Early Medical School Selection Program, whose students have volunteered in our program for the past three years.
After listening to our panelists describe their strategies for academic success, our students had the opportunity to ask our college volunteers more general questions about college life, in small-group discussions that were organized by gender.
Many thanks to our amazing panelists, our student facilitator Christelle Salomon, and our video production crew of Manny Rios Alers, Anthony Antonelli and Andrew Sepulveda, for helping put together this great event for our sophomore class.
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