{"id":9293,"date":"2020-02-25T10:45:46","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T15:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/?p=9293"},"modified":"2025-11-13T20:38:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T01:38:49","slug":"titan-student-success-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/titan-student-success-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Titan Student Success Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From SPC Student to Career Professional <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hello, my name is Jennifer Johnston and I am currently the student support specialist at the St. Petersburg College Seminole campus. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jennifer Johnston M.Ed. Ed.S., Student Support Specialist at St. Petersburg College Seminole Campus <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I thought it would be an important piece to share my \u201cstudent success story,\u201d most importantly, one that started here at St. Petersburg College. In fall 2011, I began my degree as an early admissions student. I graduated from Seminole High School in 2012 while I simultaneously completed my first year of college. As a Presidential Scholar, I finished my Associate’s degree at the Seminole campus at no cost to me. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thereafter, I transferred to the University of South Florida and graduated in 2016 with a B.S. degree in Secondary Social Science Education. Working with students, I soon came to realize that I enjoyed helping my students navigate through decision-making more than I liked teaching them civics and economics, so I continued my education at the University of Florida. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flashing forward to May 2019, I received a Master\u2019s degree in Education as well as an Education Specialist degree in Mental Health and School Counseling. In addition to my counseling program\u2019s coursework, I was able to teach human growth and development to undergraduate students, enriching my life as well as the 250 students I taught from 2017 to 2019. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I bet you\u2019re wondering, why did I keep going? How did I figure out what I wanted to do? Quite frankly, there were nights studying, working, and lesson planning when I wondered myself. But I promise you, every single sleepless night was worth it. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At SPC, I had faculty and advisors that believed in me and inspired me daily to channel my strengths, and more importantly, to persevere. I not only get to do what I love, but I also get to learn along with staff and students who have the same drive and passion as me. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I look back on where my journey began, I am astonished at how far I have come, and all of the people who had faith in me to live out my goals and dreams. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTwo\nroads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and\nthat has made all the difference<\/strong>\u201d   – Robert Frost (1916)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jennifer Johnston, an alum of St. Petersburg College, returned to the college with a bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree to join the Career Services team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1896,"featured_media":9295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[12,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-career-news","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1896"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9293"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9344,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9293\/revisions\/9344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}