Year-in-Review 2015 - 2016
2015 - 2016… Ohhhhh what a year. From being the secretary of my Bible study (SBOC) to travelling to the Dominican Republic! This year was an eventful year. I can truly say that I enjoyed this school year along with the ups and downs. Fall semester was the first time that I had ever taken classes and worked at the same time. I did not know how to properly balance work and classes on top of my involvements on and off campus. As a result, my grades weren’t the best and my overall GPA dropped. I finished working through winter break and then decided that I wasn’t going to work spring semester. Spring semester I ended with a 3.67 GPA and made Dean’s List for the first time since being in the nursing program! Wooooohoooooo! That was one of my exciting highlights of the year.
The biggest challenge that I had to overcome this year was the fact that I wasn’t going to graduate with my friends. It really hit me in the middle of spring semester. Three of my close friends graduated this year. Even though they all are going to be in Cincinnati and I would still be able to see them, it was hard knowing that we wouldn’t all be celebrating graduating together. Eventually, I got over it and was able to support them wholeheartedly when they graduated. I felt like a proud sister watching them cross the stage at graduation and seeing happy they were and how proud their families and friends were of them. I know that they’ll be here to support me when I graduate, so I can’t be mad about that :).
If I could change anything about this year, I would change my attitude regarding not graduating. I spent a lot of time thinking about not graduating that I could’ve spent doing something else. I would have had a much more joyous school year than I did, although this school year was still a great one. I would’ve been able to focus on my classes and other activities better. Nevertheless, I graduate next spring, so I have nothing to complain about. Honestly, if I would’ve graduated this year, I don’t know if I would’ve been ready to enter the working field. So, everything worked out. Jesus knew what He was doing by keeping me another year. :)
Advice for myself for this upcoming year would be don’t give up. Even though in your mind, you’re not supposed to be here still, there is a reason why you are. God has blessed and chosen you to be a head over one of His prized possessions. He has called you to be the leader of a Bible study on a COLLEGE CAMPUS! Not everyone is called to do something like this. This is your portion for the time being. Don’t rush to graduation, but enjoy this time and season that you are in. One day you’re going to look back on this time of your life and hope that you would’ve taken in and absorbed what God was doing in your life if you don’t slow down and enjoy it now. “Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof” (Matthew 6:34).
I have many goals for myself for the upcoming year. I want to make it my mission to enjoy my last year in undergrad. Although I am ready to graduate, I don’t want to focus so much on graduation and my what I’m going to do next that I miss out on all of the fun things I will be doing. Next year, I will be the president of my Bible study, and co-oping with the nursing program at UCMC. I only have to work 16 hours a month during the school year for co-op, so that won’t be too bad.
When I was elected the president of SBOC (Student Body of Christ) at the end of the year, I realized that it was time for some of the qualities God has placed in me to blossom. I have been in leadership roles of organizations before but I have never been the president over an organization. I’m so used to receiving directions from other people and now I have to be that person to make those decisions and delegate tasks. I know that this position will help me develop a deeper relationship with God and teach me to be a leader in all areas of my life. It will also help me manage people if I do open my own medical practice in the future. Overall, this year was a great year and I’m expecting next year to be even better!
The biggest challenge that I had to overcome this year was the fact that I wasn’t going to graduate with my friends. It really hit me in the middle of spring semester. Three of my close friends graduated this year. Even though they all are going to be in Cincinnati and I would still be able to see them, it was hard knowing that we wouldn’t all be celebrating graduating together. Eventually, I got over it and was able to support them wholeheartedly when they graduated. I felt like a proud sister watching them cross the stage at graduation and seeing happy they were and how proud their families and friends were of them. I know that they’ll be here to support me when I graduate, so I can’t be mad about that :).
If I could change anything about this year, I would change my attitude regarding not graduating. I spent a lot of time thinking about not graduating that I could’ve spent doing something else. I would have had a much more joyous school year than I did, although this school year was still a great one. I would’ve been able to focus on my classes and other activities better. Nevertheless, I graduate next spring, so I have nothing to complain about. Honestly, if I would’ve graduated this year, I don’t know if I would’ve been ready to enter the working field. So, everything worked out. Jesus knew what He was doing by keeping me another year. :)
Advice for myself for this upcoming year would be don’t give up. Even though in your mind, you’re not supposed to be here still, there is a reason why you are. God has blessed and chosen you to be a head over one of His prized possessions. He has called you to be the leader of a Bible study on a COLLEGE CAMPUS! Not everyone is called to do something like this. This is your portion for the time being. Don’t rush to graduation, but enjoy this time and season that you are in. One day you’re going to look back on this time of your life and hope that you would’ve taken in and absorbed what God was doing in your life if you don’t slow down and enjoy it now. “Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof” (Matthew 6:34).
I have many goals for myself for the upcoming year. I want to make it my mission to enjoy my last year in undergrad. Although I am ready to graduate, I don’t want to focus so much on graduation and my what I’m going to do next that I miss out on all of the fun things I will be doing. Next year, I will be the president of my Bible study, and co-oping with the nursing program at UCMC. I only have to work 16 hours a month during the school year for co-op, so that won’t be too bad.
When I was elected the president of SBOC (Student Body of Christ) at the end of the year, I realized that it was time for some of the qualities God has placed in me to blossom. I have been in leadership roles of organizations before but I have never been the president over an organization. I’m so used to receiving directions from other people and now I have to be that person to make those decisions and delegate tasks. I know that this position will help me develop a deeper relationship with God and teach me to be a leader in all areas of my life. It will also help me manage people if I do open my own medical practice in the future. Overall, this year was a great year and I’m expecting next year to be even better!