Inside Jenna’s college experience
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In a 2013 interview with Variety, Jenna said she first found her now-famous voice and let loose with her wacky sense of humor in college. “I was relatively quiet,” she said of her younger self. “I came out of my shell in college.” Jenna had grown up in Rochester, New York, and after she graduated high school, she moved to Boston to attend Suffolk University. She graduated from Suffolk with a B.S. in psychology and then enrolled in Boston College where she earned a master’s degree in sports psychology.
So while Jenna may have a deep understanding of how to help people psychologically in a clinical setting, she clearly also understood how to help them by making them laugh, and that’s the career path she chose. Though, she says it just sort of happened. Once she started posting videos, the success “sort of fell into my lap,” she told Variety. And though she was approached by studios to develop a TV shows or movies, she turned them down in favor of keeping the freedom YouTube allowed her. Studios “want to own your soul,” she said. “And the coolest thing on YouTube is nobody owns you.”
This Is How Many College Degrees Jenna Marbles Has
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By Elizabeth S. Mitchell/Dec. 17, 2020 3:46 pm EST
But before she became the confident entrepreneur we all know and love, she was just Jenna Mourey, shy college student. And she credits her time in college for giving her the ability to come out of her shell.
Inside Jenna’s college experience
Mike Windle/Getty Images
In a 2013 interview with Variety, Jenna said she first found her now-famous voice and let loose with her wacky sense of humor in college. “I was relatively quiet,” she said of her younger self. “I came out of my shell in college.” Jenna had grown up in Rochester, New York, and after she graduated high school, she moved to Boston to attend Suffolk University. She graduated from Suffolk with a B.S. in psychology and then enrolled in Boston College where she earned a master’s degree in sports psychology.
So while Jenna may have a deep understanding of how to help people psychologically in a clinical setting, she clearly also understood how to help them by making them laugh, and that’s the career path she chose. Though, she says it just sort of happened. Once she started posting videos, the success “sort of fell into my lap,” she told Variety. And though she was approached by studios to develop a TV shows or movies, she turned them down in favor of keeping the freedom YouTube allowed her. Studios “want to own your soul,” she said. “And the coolest thing on YouTube is nobody owns you.”
So while Jenna may have a deep understanding of how to help people psychologically in a clinical setting, she clearly also understood how to help them by making them laugh, and that’s the career path she chose. Though, she says it just sort of happened. Once she started posting videos, the success “sort of fell into my lap,” she told Variety. And though she was approached by studios to develop a TV shows or movies, she turned them down in favor of keeping the freedom YouTube allowed her. Studios “want to own your soul,” she said. “And the coolest thing on YouTube is nobody owns you.”
