Considering your Pre-Semester Reflection, identify the changes you have made between the start of the semester and now, and how you are going to continue working on areas that you are struggling.

Study habits

• I am doing well in majority of my classes so far. I am doing well in Introduction to chemistry I have an 83.45%, English 95%, History 87.08%, Health Professions 80% but soon to get that back up to an 95%, I don’t know about my chem lab it doesn’t show my grades, but I do know that I am passing. I try my hardest in every single one of my classes, I make sure I study, ask for help if I don’t understand something, I don’t play around for my classes and I study but, I’ve realized study late doesn’t help, but some way I am passing.
• Right now, sociology is the class in struggling in for right now, but I plan to get my grade back up, it was because I messed up on my mid-term and I didn’t realize that mid-terms were weighed so heavily, but I will get my grade back up.
• When I was done with school for the day, I would take a nap, but usually my naps run overboard then what I planned. So, I said for now on, once classes are over with, I will get my homework done as soon as possible, no more naps. I plan to study a little more to really get it down on what I need to accomplish, and some classes I will stay back and ask for help from all my teachers if I have to.

Transition to college

• The expectations I was having going into college was, I am going to make good grades, study hard, meet new people, network with people, make sure I have my priorities in line. College life is a very fast pace, it’s a lot faster than high school, I mean a lot faster. Everything is done in a timely manner.
• What surprised me the most was literally having this one bad grade and it is making me worried because I have always made good grades and that’s me, plus I like to prove to myself that I can do it. I thought that I would be having fun having a mixture of me time and schoolwork, but I donate all my time and efforts to school.
• My expectations have come to fruition, but it’s only one class that’s messing me up, I promised myself I will get a good grade. I don’t care how hard it gets I will get a good grade.
• I live on campus, my toughest challenge on campus is really nothing just time management and dealing with how to handle my hugest project. I don’t know which one to start with, but I will learn how to manage with it.

Major

• I did not know that being with the nursing program they have people that have their degrees in nursing but work with people that have a hearing impairment or a speech impediment, It was quite interesting to me.
• I did have some thoughts about changing my major recently because I was feeling overwhelmed, felt like I didn’t belong, and also felt like I wasn’t good enough to be in the program, but I realized that I am a overcomer and I will get my BSN. I will do whatever it takes to become a Travel nurse in the future.
• I am also exercising science, sports medicine, physical therapy, and also business but, right now I just want to do nursing.

Connecting to campus

• So, I was having thoughts that I wasn’t good enough to be in school because I was looking at the other students getting it faster than me, but since I am in this program named trio, that program has helped me so much to make college life so much easier. From planning out doing my schoolwork, having a social life, helping me get more connected to my teachers asking them for help when needed, also getting me comfortable with college life and more.
• Trio has helped me out to get connected to a lot of resources that I needed. They have meeting with people that are doing successful in life, recently we had a business meeting, but I couldn’t attend it because I forget to sign up for it, but I heard a lot of good things about that meeting I wish I would’ve gone.
• I have not attended any interest meetings; I have been so busy, and I didn’t know how to balance my everything. I wish that I could have attended the interests’ meetings, but at the time I did not know how to balance everything, but I am getting better at it.

Guest speakers/ field trips

• I like this lady that had dreads she was speaking about public health and how it was a kid that couldn’t afford 80 dollars, he had two head surgeries at the time, and he died because the 80 dollars he didn’t have for a tooth extraction, and he died. It touched my heart because he couldn’t get 80 dollars because his family was poor and the tooth that he needed to get out of his mouth it ended up killing him because the tooth that was decaying got to his brain. I want to go out and help people once I get into the nursing program go into places like income places and apply some type of medications for people that are not able to afford it.
• I mean even though they are in a different place of healthcare they are still finding ways to help people that have needs. The nursing program lady and the lady that talked about public health.
• I am sorry that I can’t remember their names but once I see them again, I want to speak to them again.