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Your Family Away From Home
If you checked your email any over the summer, you will find an email from someone naming themselves, your Peer Advisor. Right now you may not see it, but the Office of African American Affairs Peer Advising Program is a social and academic organization that provides you with so many tools to ensure your success here at the University. Your Peer Advisor has the potential to not just be your mentor, but your friend, confidant, and by the end of the year, part of your family away from home.
OAAA works tirelessly to pair you with a Peer Advisor that matches both your personal and academic interests so that you have the greatest opportunity for success. These upperclassmen act as big brothers and big sisters that without question will provide the support and love that you need throughout the year. From things like, Calculus tutoring when all the letters seem to be mixing together to where you can go on the weekends to forget the rough week you had before, your Peer Advisor has a GroupMe for it all.
My biggest regret from first-year is not using my Peer Advisor as much as I could have. As a Peer Advisor, I now see the setbacks I could have avoided if I was just willing to ask for help. I have gained a group of friends from my involvement that I would have never had encountered without the program and the opportunities it presents. This program has allowed me to deepen my connection within the black community and its where I could finally feel myself start to fit in. I will forever be grateful for what this program has to offer me, and I can only imagine what it can do for you if you use it as much as you can your first-year.
OAAA works tirelessly to pair you with a Peer Advisor that matches both your personal and academic interests so that you have the greatest opportunity for success. These upperclassmen act as big brothers and big sisters that without question will provide the support and love that you need throughout the year. From things like, Calculus tutoring when all the letters seem to be mixing together to where you can go on the weekends to forget the rough week you had before, your Peer Advisor has a GroupMe for it all.
My biggest regret from first-year is not using my Peer Advisor as much as I could have. As a Peer Advisor, I now see the setbacks I could have avoided if I was just willing to ask for help. I have gained a group of friends from my involvement that I would have never had encountered without the program and the opportunities it presents. This program has allowed me to deepen my connection within the black community and its where I could finally feel myself start to fit in. I will forever be grateful for what this program has to offer me, and I can only imagine what it can do for you if you use it as much as you can your first-year.