Throughout my first semester at OSU, I have challenged myself with a myriad of new experiences that have shaped me into an absolutely new person. Living on my own for the first time has taught me how to balance time and prioritize things in my life without anyone telling me to do so. This all plays into my development of self-reliance which will only strengthen within my next semesters in college. Early on in the semester I changed my major from Biology to Public Health in order to spend more time learning about the actual issues in health care throughout the world, while still staying on the pre-med track. I will be taking more public health courses next semester which will only strengthen my passion for the field. Overall, now that I have started to become accustomed to the style of the classes here (which was a challenge at first) my main goal for next semester is to become more involved in clubs and student organizations on campus to take a lot of what I am studying outside of the classroom!