It is a crazy feeling to know that I’ve already been in college for five weeks, the time here has truly flung bye. I think back to a few months ago when I was dreading coming to school, knowing that I had a challenging course load I didn’t know if I was ready or prepared to even start this new chapter of my life. The past few weeks I have grown more as a person and learned more about myself than in my entire life. I’ve learned that although my classes are challenging I am capable of pursuing this career. I can see myself in the personable future using all the knowledge I have learned so far. Whether it be from building my knowledge and understanding in learning a new language or using what I’ve learned about research in our past annotated bibliography. Before Longwood I had barely done any sort of research when it came to the APA formatting. I was able to learn many things using the greenwood library to help find good and reliable sources I could count on in my essay. With the assignment I now feel way more comfortable when it comes to finding sources and being able to narrow down the difference between a good and bad source. By reading the Understanding Rhetoric book I’m also confident in defining what a good primary and secondary sources are. I still think that I could use some work on paraphrasing, I’m not 100% confident on whether or not I am doing it correctly or not. That is one thing I believe would be beneficial is for me to look more in depth about ways to paraphrase without plagiarizing. Over these weeks I’m proud to have grown my knowledge in research and be able to apply it to nursing assignments in the future.