My First-Semester Experience 

My first semester has been a big learning experience. I remember the day my Parents dropped me off with my brother and I was full of all these different emotions. After they left I had just felt as if they dropped me off at a summer camp, and would be back in a week. Obviously that wasn't the case. I got super homesick and the first couple weeks were hard for me. I remember the first day of bridge, I didn't really know what to think.  I've had to learn to live on my own, which has been really weird. It was a big struggle for me in the beginning, just because I felt alone, and felt like I was missing out with stuff at home. I do like how I was able to create my own schedule and how I was able to pick my teachers.
This semester has also taught me that failure is bound to happen. It's the way you recover from it that changes the outcome. I remember the first day of anatomy our professor told us we had an exam in a couple weeks, I remember freaking out and not knowing what to do. I didn't know how to adapt from high school tests to college exams. I even looked up online how to study in college, because I was so lost. When I went into the testing center to take my first exam it was like reading gibberish. What I study just got thrown out the window, because nothing I studied was on the test. After the test I was anxious to know how I did because I couldn't see my test score until that friday. When I was able to see my test I saw that I completely failed. It had a big effect on me, just because I had never really failed a test. What I learned from this is that failure is bound to happen; it's how you learn from failure to do better. I remember the feeling of failing my first test, and I remember I didn't want to go through that again.
So we had a lab exam test coming up and there was a girl in my class that had already taken the course, so she knew what to expect. She helped me study and figure out how to study for the test. I remember going into that test and seeing the different models and questions. I just knew what was going on and felt better about that exam. I remember the feeling of getting my test score back and seeing I got a better score than my first. A quote I live by is “ Sometimes you're on top stay humble. Sometimes you've hit a low, stay hopeful.”