This semester, I have grown a lot, and I think for the better also. I have experienced so many feelings while being here on campus from happiness to crying all night. But I am glad that my hardships happened because they developed my character. I am more of an advocate for myself now. I realized that a closed mouth does not get fed so, now whenever I want something all I do is ask the worst thing a person can do is say no. Did I have any expectations for this year? My answer is no. I knew I was going to struggle in college. I knew that I would cry some nights. But I was bewildered by the fact that some people out here don’t want you to win. Some people out here are very self-centered and only care for themselves but I was aware of that already I just never understood it. College is a learning experience, just take everything with a grain of salt and move on. Something I wish I had known fourteen weeks ago is that we have many on-campus support groups. From the tutors for every subject to counselors helping us to write our papers. I wasn’t aware that we have people that help us with our resumes. I am glad that ODU offers these services to their students and faculty. While class is challenging I would like to believe I changed a lot. At the beginning of the semester, I would not prioritize my work. I would just wait until the last minute and wing my test. As we progressed in the semester I saw myself studying at least ten hours a week for my exams and tests. A resource that I truly honestly enjoy on campus is our public library. The resources that are in the library are endless and I truly love that. After my class, I just come in here to get a coffee and do my work. The Science Center was very good at assisting me with my homework problems and showing me how to solve the work. A study habit that I will take with me would have to be going to tutoring on the first day of classes. I will not allow myself to struggle further. The minute I do not understand something I will bring myself to ask for help. I enjoyed being in the learning community this semester and it exposed me to many different opportunities and classes. I would say these classes are tied together to show how we would benefit from these prerequisites once we entered the medical field. In chemistry, we built a foundation on how chemicals can be brought together to make drugs. In Sociology, we learned how people work as a group and different societies around us. The healthy professions community exposed us to how we would react to people. After being shown many majors in this LC the two I am most interested in would have to be Nuclear medicine and Speech-Language Pathology. I liked how I applied to the nuclear program when I was a junior allowing myself a backup plan. And I enjoy how you get to help people with their speech in speech pathology. I like how both these pa=majors are both hands-on and giving direct care to a patient. The importance of having a parallel plan is that you have something to go to just in case plan A does not go accordingly. It would be a terrible situation if you have nothing to lean on if things go left. I think speech pathology would benefit me tremendously. It would allow me to understand patients who have strokes and how to communicate with them. Nuclear medicine would allow me to gain more empathy for people seeing how sickly they are. Overall I am glad I got the opportunity to be in the Health Professions LC. I got my feet in the water with multiple majors and found more ways to be successful. I am excited for my upcoming journey in becoming a Dental Hygienist.