Brian Rohanna is showing students at Cabrini that it’s never too late to go to school. He has also shown everyone that keeping your job at the same time. This 22-year-old from Boothwyn, Pa., has been working for Sodexo—the college’s dining service company—for the past three and a half years. This year, he decided to actually enroll at Cabrini as a student, not just a worker.
“I already knew a lot of kids that go to Cabrini from working here,” Rohanna said. “So I knew I wanted to go here. It’s like a second home.”
Rohanna’s major is business and he is interested in human resources and sports management. His dream is to one day open his own restaurant. He attended culinary school at Johnson & Wales University before coming to Cabrini.
Although Rohanna is not living on campus, he still hopes to get involved in student activities here at Cabrini. He is interested in things like flag football and club baseball. He played a lot of sports in high school, so it is important to him to continue as much as he can while in college. He is also in the Cabrini Cruisers, a Learning Community (LC) for commuter students. He feels his LC is like another family. Rohanna’s main concern when it comes to the transition of worker to student-worker is time management. As someone who is used to working full-time, it is going to be a big adjustment figuring out when it is time to study and when it is time to work. He is still working for Sodexo part-time while going to school full-time.
“I’m mostly worried about finals,” Rohanna said. “I’ll probably ask to work less around that time so I can study more.”
Classes have been going well for Rohanna so far. He says management is his favorite class, and his favorite professor is the professor of that class, Dave Burke, the assistant professor of human resources. Rohanna says he is glad to have great classmates who have been helping him out a lot in class. A transition like this is not always necessarily easy, so Rohanna’s been grateful to the Cabrini students who have reached out to him.
