 Hello everybody Andrea here so let's talk about what you should know before starting dental assisting school. This is exciting you guys get excited and you probably want to get started like right away right you want to be at the top of your class. You want to not feel like you don't know anything. You want to really get a good head start right, but what I can tell you is there's no point studying early, because you don't know what your classes are going to be. You don't know what topics you're going to learn first and every teacher has a different teaching style so let's just say, even if you know your dental hygiene curriculum, you know, you're going to be taking, I don't know lab first like that's one of your first semesters your first classes is going to be lab, and then maybe you're going to talk about dental anatomy and then head and neck anatomy. Well guess what you don't know where in that book where in those books chapters, what they're going to teach first dental anatomy is huge. Lab work is huge. So there's no sense working hard now before you start school because trust me when you're in school you're going to be working like a crazy person so don't try to get ahead of yourself. I tried it to you guys, but there's no point rest while you have the chance. Something else you should know if you can help it. It is best to work as least the least amount possible. Okay you guys, if you have to work to pay the bills you're supporting a family. That's one thing but if you're able to not work every day full time that will be better for you because school is going to be demanding depending on when your classes are let's say you have classes in the morning, you want to work every evening after school maybe you can do it, but I had a really hard time doing that I think it was even so much so where I said I could work. You know, four nights a week, I ended up changing that to twice a week, and even that was hard for me. Yes, you're not, you're not making money when you're not working, but if you're failing your classes because you're working so much because you can't study you can't focus. That's not helping you either so if you're able to do it if you can afford it, please focus on school something you definitely should know. Another thing else you should know as well is they will likely try to sell you all new textbooks. If you can get used textbooks. I know they don't look as pretty there might be notes inside pages missing, but you will save a fortune and those old textbooks are absolutely fine. Even if it's not the most current edition. Yes, you might have to find different page numbers if they're referring to a certain topic in your textbook or something, but just go under that chapter, and that's fine. You can get used textbooks. These days textbooks are on like Amazon Kindle you can actually download them buy them to your iPad. Kindle, Kobo, whatever. It's the most amazing thing I wish I had that option when I was in school, so I didn't have to carry around a million things in my backpack I could just open up my cell phone my iPad and do it that way, but it depends on what you prefer do you want an actual textbook or you can download things digitally, I would always be digital, all the way, but that's up to you, but think about it. I mean, if they haven't told you yet, you will probably need a laptop for class. So get a good one, you will likely need it when I went to school, even we were using laptops in class at that point and I. I went to dental assisting college 17 years ago like it's been a while, I believe I graduated when I was 19 or 20. So it's been a while and even we had laptops in school then not everybody did, but those that did it was so much easier to take notes so something to consider. I hope that helps you guys let me know if any questions congrats. This is super exciting I do offer a dental assisting prep course, a dental assisting prep Academy so for students still in school, I do offer you help tutoring assignment help exam help test help. If you go to school, I can leave the link for you down below definitely check it out I would love to help you, and I do offer dental assisting prep for the board exam as well, a different course, check out the website you guys down below click like if you like this video and I'll talk to you in the next one.