{"id":27256,"date":"2019-05-17T18:40:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T22:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom2\/2019\/05\/17\/sarah\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T14:15:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T18:15:02","slug":"sarah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom\/2019\/05\/17\/sarah\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychology Grad will Transfer to Boston University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2019\/05\/Sarah-Donohoo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-20451 size-medium\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2019\/05\/Sarah-Donohoo-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Most community college students are local, but not Sarah Donohoo, a 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.necc.mass.edu\/learn\/credit-programs\/liberal-arts\/liberal-arts-psychology\/\">psychology<\/a>\u00a0graduate, who came all the way from Sicily to attend Northern Essex.<\/p>\n<p>Donohoo was born in Boston but soon moved with her Italian mother and her Texan father to Italy, where she spent the first 20 years of her life.<\/p>\n<p>She attended an Italian classical high school that focused on Ancient Greek and Latin, and discovered a passion for psychology.<\/p>\n<p>When it was time for college, she knew she wanted to study in the United States and she looked at both two and four-year colleges in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>Her family had recently settled in North Andover\u2014her father transferred from Sicily to Burlington, MA\u2014so Northern Essex was on her radar.\u00a0 When a family friend shared what a great experience he had here, Donohoo was sold.<\/p>\n<p>She arrived in the United States on October 1 of 2017 and, just two weeks later, she started accelerated mid-semester classes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve loved my time at Northern Essex,\u201d she says.\u00a0 And, although she only finished classes a week ago, she claims \u201cI already miss it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What Donohoo appreciates most about Northern Essex are the \u201camazing\u201d professors.<\/p>\n<p>Classes with Psychology Professors Krista Titone and Isabelle Gagne helped her recognize that psychology was the right career choice, and she calls them \u201cphenomenal and inspirational.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also credits Northern Essex faculty with helping her to discover a love for subjects outside her field of interest.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u201cI always thought I hated biology, but thanks to Professor Clements, I found I loved it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the fall, Donohoo will transfer her associate degree in psychology to Boston University where she will live on campus and study for a bachelor\u2019s in the same field.\u00a0 Here long-term goal is to go to medical school and become a psychiatrist specializing in child psychiatry.<\/p>\n<p>Northern Essex offers a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.necc.mass.edu\/learn\/credit-programs\/liberal-arts\/\">Liberal Arts: Psychology Degree<\/a> which is designed for transfer to a four-year college or university.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psychology grad will transfer to Boston University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":27258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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