Student Profile
Tetty Collins, big things ahead
Tetty Collins didn鈥檛 enjoy high school; she had poor grades and lacked confidence. But 91制片厂 has helped change that. Here, she has excelled in the classroom and taken on leadership roles with the long-term goal of becoming a lawyer.
After graduating high school in 2015, Tetty joined AmeriCorps and worked as a teacher鈥檚 assistant in a South Portland school for a year. After her service time was up, she decided the time was right for college.
Since coming to 91制片厂, Tetty has come into her own, gaining self-assurance with her academic success (a 3.8 GPA), her involvement in campus activities, and the support she鈥檚 received from faculty and staff. She serves as president of the 91制片厂 chapter of the Phi Theta Kappa honor society, holds a seat on the Student Senate and is the student representative on the College Council鈥檚 academics committee.
Tetty plans to transfer to a baccalaureate school next fall to study international relations. Georgetown, Tufts, Fordham and Lafayette are on her list of possibilities.
In time, she hopes to become a lawyer specializing in international or human rights law.
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Alumni Profile
Kimberly Couillard, 2nd career
Kimberly Couillard studied accounting when she first went to college, but later came to 91制片厂 to earn a nursing degree when she realized that healthcare was where she belonged. 91制片厂 served as the catalyst for her nursing career and her passion for patient care.
Kimberly attended UMass Lowell for accounting straight out of high school. But her college career was put on a hold to raise a family.
After moving to Maine, she worked in billing and insurance for a cardiology medical group in Portland. That鈥檚 where she recognized how much I enjoyed working with patients.
When the time was right, she enrolled in the nursing program, drawn by 91制片厂鈥檚 affordability, small classes and the fact that she could become a nurse quicker than at a four-year school. She graduated in 2018 and now she鈥檚 working at Maine Medical Center providing medical and surgical care to cancer, cardiology, urology and other types of patients requiring specialty care.
鈥淎ll of the instructors at 91制片厂 are really vested in making sure you鈥檙e successful. It鈥檚 not an easy program and you have to put in the effort to get through it. But your success is their success, and that鈥檚 what they want.鈥�