Last January, I was loving my first semester of nursing courses, until the pandemic struck, cancelling all in-person learning, including lab and clinicals. I was disappointed, but tried to stay patient. However, as I progressed through the summer semester, my frustration grew. I had virtual simulations in place of clinicals, and I had to record myself practicing how to suction a tracheostomy on a teddy bear. While my peers, professors, and administrators, and I were slowly running low on patience, we began to realize that we had to simply make the best of what we had. Even though being in nursing school during a pandemic is extremely challenging, I realized that so many people were facing such greater challenges than my classmates and I. By taking things more seriously and putting just as much caution and empathy into taking care of that teddy bear, as I would a person, I could still prepare myself to enter into the medical field and be able to help those that were impacted in much worse ways than me by the virus. Finally, in November, I got a chance to test those skills I had been practicing at home. I was able to administer intramuscular injections, document, and teach patients ranging in age from 2 to 68 at a Boston Medical Center flu clinic. I am also excited to share that I have been selected by a panel of professors from my program to apply for a preceptorship next semester. This means, if I am selected by a hospital, then I would be assigned a nurse to follow and work closely with for the entirety of his/her 12 hour shift up to three times a week. This would be an incredible opportunity, as it would be the most realistic view of what my life is going to be like once I become a licensed nurse in the upcoming year.