Dear Arleth,

This is the next chapter of your life and you must take every opportunity you can to succeed as a student. Meaning, you must prioritize school over anything that could pull you away from becoming the best version of yourself. Use all your time wisely even when taking breaks because the choices you make affect your future. It is going to be very challenging, that is why it is also very important that you make sure to take care of yourself as well. Rest, learn a new hobby, eat, and socialize. All of this will help you maintain good habits and good academic learning.

 I hope you can accomplish your goals, figuring out what you actually want to be in life, that you get to do a lot of hands-on experience and earn the knowledge and skills that you need to pursue that field. That you can do what you love and contribute to the community in some way. Make sure to get involved in organizations or even better, maybe challenge yourself and start your own club where people can also be part of and benefit from it. Get out of your comfort zone and become more open to try new challenging programs, complete internships, apply to a job related to your program and continue earning knowledge and skills from the experiences you can get.

I hope that you can get a job where you can interact with animals, especially farm animals. That way you can experience the type of life you would have once you reach my goal, working in a vet clinic has been one of your many goals before entering to vet school which is a great way to make good connections after you graduate from college. Pursuing  biology will provide you a lot of career choices to choose if the first option happens to not interest you anymore. so work on figuring out what you want to do for a living. Learn and grow, and don’t forget that it was worth the wait and the hard work.

Sincerely, Arleth Gomez.