Student Mentor: Trinity’s First-Year Seminars ‘Build Foundational Relationships and Skills’
Birdie Stark ’26 reflects on her experience as a first-year seminar mentor: “We help students navigate both the academic and personal dimensions of college life,” she says. “Beyond serving as academic courses in their own right, first-year seminars provide an opportunity to build foundational relationships and skills to last the remainder of one’s undergraduate career. Even now, as an alumna, I’m still able to reflect on the ways in which my first-year seminar shaped me for a life beyond college. It was a delight to mentor my students as they began their social, academic, and emotional undergraduate journeys, and I know that—like me—they’ll carry the lessons and connections into the rest of their college careers and beyond.”
