I'm Mollie Wraga and I'm from Mullica Hill, NJ. I'm a true Jersey Girl, born and raised in Gloucester County. About me: Will stop and pet your dog without asking. A lover of all ocean things, the beach being my happy place. You will likely find me either eating dessert, or at the gym sweating off that dessert. A huge advocate for mental health and wellness. Studying Counseling and Mental Health Services at Penn GSE. Hope to continue onto Year Two of the program and receive dual certifications in School Counseling and my LPC. My ultimate career aspiration is to work in the education system in the inner-city and work with at-risk adolescents/young adults, and eventually move back to New Jersey to tackle the opioid epidemic all over the state.
One of my program’s favorite things to say is “it depends” when it comes to situations in counseling and mental health. The same can be applied to nearly every situation in life, especially the decision on where to go to graduate school.
Personally, I applied to four schools; three in New Jersey, plus Penn. The three New Jersey schools were “ranked” differently, however their...
As the time drew near to choose which graduate programs I was going to apply to, Penn wasn’t even on my original list. I visited schools like NYU, dabbled with Columbia, and a few other small programs in New Jersey. It wasn’t until a professor of mine, whom I truly admire, who one day in class just said flat out to me, “Why don’t you look at Penn?”
At first, I thought “no way would a...
I grew up in a very small town in Gloucester County in Southern New Jersey. We were actually rated the slowest paced town in the state, and horses still trot along busy roads. That bubble of being a small-town girl was inevitably popped when I entered my undergraduate career at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, and even more so when I began my graduate studies at Penn.
Moving to West...
Here you are. After all that deliberation, back and forth, upside down/inside out decision making you’re here. How? You’re not really sure, but you are. Congratulations.
As you embark on this little thing you call “The Dream” make sure you don’t lose your vision. That little seventh grade version of yourself who had this little idea to help people one day, don’t lose her. She would be...
