Interview With Stephanie Duckham

Here is the exclusive Simba Says interview with 22 year old Stephanie Duckham, the creator of the "Eating Out With Steph" blog. If you don't have time to play the entire interview, here are a few questions and answers from the interview:

Q: How did you get to St. Johns & why did you choose it?

Stephanie: Well, I am a transfer student, I was actually at Suffolk County Community College out in Long Island, and I just needed to get out. I needed to get out of my hometown, I needed to go away, but similar to what you were telling me before, I wanted to stay close enough to home where if I do move out, I still can go home. Also, the first time I came to visit the campus, I fell in love with it because it is so close to the city. It has that great appeal to it that you can go hop on the train whenever you want and go right into Manhattan. The fact that St. Johns has a quad, it has a green, it has all the aspects of a real university and its still in the heart of the New York City Manhattan area, so that is why I liked it the best, I think.

Q: How does your college experience at St. Johns so far compare to your experience at Suffolk Community College?

Stephanie: Well, Suffolk was a community college, so that pretty much says it all right there. There, you have the professors that don't really care about you. I've noticed coming here to  St. Johns, they email you regularly and keep you up to date on whats going on on campus and off campus. They will give you questionaires and stuff. I mean, this is only my second semester now, but I noticed that the professors like to interact with you a lot more and I actually feel like they care about their students. That was the main thing from my first semester that I really did notice.

Q: What do you hope to do with the degree that you get from St. Johns?

Stephanie: I hope to go right into Manhattan, and work for ESPN hopefully. That is my main focus right now. It's kind of like a pipe dream, but I can't wait to get internships, that is what I am really focusing on right now. I really want to get my foot in the door and really get some experience under my belt.