Reflect on the Fall semester and the overall experience of your first semester at college.

My first semester

I have grown tremendously from living with my family to living on my own experiencing adult hood, I can say that I’ve gotten used to it. Being in college it was a rough start and a rough finish not going to lie because literally I thought that I would’ve been hard, but not too hard I was doing perfectly fine until mid-terms and everything picked up quickly on me and I was so lost and it put me into an uncomfortable situation and it made me think was nursing meant for me, was college meant for me. I had to pray a lot for an answer and when I thought that I was going to give in and change my major someone on my hall had a panic attack/asthma attack and it put me into a situation to were once my job was done the police officers and emt’s were commending me for trying to save someone’s life and turned out she survived and I told God thank you for giving me a sign. I thought that college life was going to be easy, but it made me realize soon as I left off the brake’s things can pick up or even if I didn’t let up I still have to work really hard. It didn’t meet my expectations but I will retake classes to get 3.0 grade point average or better so I could be accepted into the nursing program. It was time management that was my huge factor and I wish I could’ve found my mark earlier, but it’s okay because I will do it correctly next semester. I wish that I would’ve known that time management plays a huge role in life and being a college student.

         Study Habits

In the beginning of the semester, I really didn’t study hard like I was supposed to plus I couldn’t understand half of the information that was given. I wasn’t used to having a big class to where the teacher wasn’t able to help me the way I would like, but I had to adjust. I maybe studied for 30 minutes. I planned to study for more than 30 minutes because clearly 30 minutes didn’t cut it. I kept the same 30-minute routine, and I said I will never study for that short of time. My study habits were the same, I kept it consistent long as my schoolwork was on time that’s all that mattered to me, but I’ve also realized that teachers give multiple attempts for us to go back over and try to learn the information to have it down packed instead of us just getting it done. I’ve had tutors for classes but literally I asked them to give me another way for me to understand it not just look at me and make me feel like I’m stupid when I’ve tried to learn the materials and still didn’t understand what was going on. Really only tutoring that helped me was the English department and I really didn’t need to use them, but they were amazing to me and helped me a lot. Getting a great tutor, making time for me to study.

Health Professions Learning Community

Sociology and History because literally Mrs. White and Mr. Lopez asked almost similar questions and it was crazy how we used sociology in history to ask how people act in the modern-day life and why did they act that way. It was a lot but both classes were talking about class systems and how they interacted how people were treated in horrible ways or better than other. We talked about people being treat in the insane asylums, like how they shouldn’t be treated as criminals and be treated as the people that need help. PTSD we talked about that how people from war literally comeback with a disability because of what they seen, dealt with, or heard from being deployed or in training so little things could trigger them. I realized as time went on that we needed history because I was like man why do we need it, but we needed it because I didn’t know that sociology plays a huge role in history.

Parallel plan

I was interest in Nurse Anesthesiologist and Nurse Practitioner I also like the recreational therapy and the radiology part but the main two were my first options. Because literally I was born with 23 holes in my heart, they put wires in my heart and stapled my chest back together, so surgery has interest me because of that really so I was like I want to save people lives and help people get better. The pay is great, but the thing that means the most to me is saving a life and helping them get better. But if we are talking about switching majors though it would’ve probably been business because I always wanted to own my own business like my own tractor trailer business or opening my own nursing home. If I have my nursing degree there is always a need of nurses and doctors, so I would constantly have a job and people would also recommend me to have them as their nurse because I would be a great nurse to them. Business would be great because I would have knowledge to start my own business and make a lot of money and plus, I would have my CDL and I would be able to travel on the road.