I went to a very small school my entire life. In fact, my graduating class consisted of 25 people. There were only 4 people in my biology 12 class. That’s why when I went to my first university midterm, where there was 350 people sitting next to me, I was stunned. Not the I-just-saw-ryan-gosling kind of stunned. It was the bad, terrified kind of stunned. I became so nervous during my first exam that I accidentally circled so many wrong answers on the test. For example, the answer I would calculate would be 100, and I would circle 1000. About one week later, I received my exam back and realized that my nerves had gotten the best of me and that I had made so many absent-minded mistakes on my test. I went to my professor shortly after and asked her if there was anything I could do about the answers that I had accidentally circled wrong while showing her my correct written calculations. She said no, and at that moment I realized that I am really in university.
There are no favours, no one chasing after you, and there are not a whole lot of second chances. Though that came with a lot of fear it was a pivotal moment, I was now taking steps toward my future, and now so are You.
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