I knew that this fall semester was the point where my education turns a corner and becomes real. Walking around the nursing wing of Wheaton College and seeing all the equipment and simulation labs had me so excited and also terrified. Nursing school is not an easy journey. You experience self-doubt, heartache when it comes to exams/grades, and more importantly the constant question of “ can I really do this?” My fall semester was full of bumps along the road, but how could it not be when you are learning how to keep a human being alive. During my semester I spent most of my days in the Nursing wing learning skills from something as small as hand washing and setting up sterile fields to injections and head to toe assessments. I took 6 classes during my semester, all of which contributed to my major of Nursing. Wheaton College has provided me with an amazing community and team of professors that has gotten me through this experience so far. I cannot express the countless times I have experienced going from tears of self-doubt in one of my professor's offices to jumping with joy once I have finally achieved a certain skill the correct way. It truly is an emotional rollercoaster, but at Wheaton college there has never been a time where I have felt I am in it alone. With all that has come of my fall semester, I am so happy to say that in the spring I will be able to bring the 30+ skills that I have learned into a real clinical setting. I will be going to Milford Regional Medical Center, to start my journey of helping others. I am so beyond grateful for the support and opportunities that Wheaton College has given me, and most of all so proud of myself for sticking with the major I have always dreamed of so that I am able to see my education turn the corner and become real.