Full circle moments
Six hours ago, I was frantically shoving Jake's textbooks into a drawer and wiping down surfaces because four nursing classmates were coming over for what started as "let's grab d…
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Reaching out
Fifteen minutes into writing what I thought would be a quick text to some classmates about maybe studying together this spring, and I've somehow turned it into a full organization…
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Send button courage
Stared at my phone for twenty minutes before finally typing it out: "Hey everyone - wondering if anyone wants to start a regular anatomy study group? I know we all struggled with…
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Network building 101
Sitting here staring at my laptop screen for twenty minutes before finally hitting send. Five different emails to classmates from my Advanced Pathophysiology course, basically say…
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Command central
Turns out being the person everyone comes to for anatomy help means I should probably make it official. Spent this afternoon creating an actual schedule for our study sessions ins…
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Official business
Reserved study room 306 for three hours today and sent actual email invitations. Not just the usual "hey want to study?" text, but proper invites with agenda items and everything.…
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Making it official
Reserved study room 204B for two hours today and sent out actual invites to six people from my prerequisite classes. Not just "hey, want to study sometime?" but real calendar invi…
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Study group coordinator
Apparently I'm the type of person who volunteers to organize things now. Study group coordinator Posted a sign-up sheet for a nursing study group last week and somehow ended up be…
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Teaching moment
Something amazing happened in study group today. We were all staring at this impossible circulatory system diagram when I just... started explaining it. Not the tentative "I think…
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Finding my voice in room 204B
Third week with the nursing study group and something clicked today. Instead of sitting there trying to look like I belonged, I actually started talking. Finding my voice in room…
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Trial by textbook
Finally made it to that nursing study group I've been psyching myself up to join. Three other girls who've been meeting for months - they had this whole system down with color-cod…
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Trial by flashcard
Walked into that study room at 3pm today with my anatomy book clutched like a security blanket and approximately zero confidence. The nursing study group I'd been stalking at the…
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