 Hello, Andrea Trosti here with Dental L Tutoring. Now, this is going to be a talk to just kind of make you guys feel better if that makes sense, okay? So this is for those students who you could be new to your program or you could be halfway through or you could be almost done. Basically, you feel discouraged, okay? You might feel sad, you might feel angry, you might feel lonely, you might feel discouraged just pretty much when you're in either the dental hygiene program or the dental assisting program, you will go through a lot of emotions, okay? It's pretty much like a roller coaster. You'll be super, super happy when you get a good mark on a test and then you'll be really, really sad when you fail another one or you might be super excited because you've got a good mark on a project and then you might be annoyed when you get a bad mark in clinic and you don't pass a patient and then have to do another one. So there's a constant, I guess, roller coaster of emotions and it's even harder when you don't live at home. I took dental assisting first. I did live at home and that did make things a lot easier just because I didn't have to worry about buying myself food or being able to have enough money for this or that or just things have changed. I took dental assisting when I was a lot younger so I just lived at home. For dental hygiene though, I believe I was 25 when I took the program and I had to move out of town about two hours away. So with my family, they couldn't just come up to see me because they were two hours away and they had their own lives too. Plus I was living alone for the first time. I had a lot of roommates and a very tiny apartment to save money and that was hard enough as it is. I'm a neat freak and let's just say that my roommates were not. So that made things a lot harder. There's just a lot of things that you have to deal with not just in your program but your program is pretty much where you're spending all of your time, right? But how I want you guys to look past it is to just always think positive, okay? Just keep on remembering that your program is not forever and it's worth it. Even if you have to deal with horrible teachers who just don't seem to understand you who want to make you feel bad about yourselves because I'm sorry but there are teachers out there who I swear it's their mission to make students feel bad. I don't know. I had a couple of them that I will never forget and I remembered even thinking to this day, why did they act like that? They made my life so much harder than it needed to be. I was not the best student. Like I didn't get perfect marks all the time. I had to take a lot of additional classes in clinic to be able to be up to par if that makes sense. I seem to struggle with clinic the most. I don't know why but it just didn't sort of click in for me as it seemed to click in for everybody else. And look at me now. I've been tutoring for 13 years. So just because you might be having a hard time either in your classroom studies or in clinic, just try to look past it and do the best you possibly can. Okay, your classroom studies, I find a little bit easier as silly as that may sound because it just means usually you have to study more and you do have to manage your time. In my courses, the board exam prep academy and the dental L student program where I do help you. We have a set, I guess, studies schedule if that makes sense. So that students don't have to think, okay, what do I study now? So whether they're prepping for the large exam, you have to know sort of what to study each week to sort of keep you on track. Or if you're in school simply trying to pass all of your tests and all of your exams, you have to know, okay, I have seven tests coming up the next two weeks. How do I study for that? You know, how long do I spend on this topic versus how long do I spend on this topic? And that is different for everybody. You might feel you do a lot better in a certain topic and then there's two topics specifically that you might be thinking I need to pass these because my mark is low, okay? So then those ones you would spend a little bit more time with, you know? But I think I talked about the study schedule in another video. So if you haven't seen that yet, have a look. And it does help to have some help and some support. School is not easy. Your friends, your families don't understand you guys. They don't understand. They might think they do, but they don't understand. I understand, okay? So if you guys need help, please let me know. That is what my courses sort of help you with, okay? I don't just help you pass or I don't just help you pass your, you know, tests, exams, project, the national exam, no. I do so much more. I will talk to you when you need help. I will help you with that tricky teacher who wants to seem to not pass you on everything. I will help you if, you know, English isn't your first language and you are just having a tough time, okay? That's what we all sort of help each other with, okay? I did start a private Facebook group about two years ago, I believe, and we all just help each other. So let me know if this is something you would like because it does help to have some support. I wish I had that when I was in school because I just always felt like nobody was listening to me. I had teachers that didn't like me. I would study all day, all night, and still barely pass. I didn't understand how the other students would study for like a day or two and they would pass. Yet I would be studying for a week and not pass, but there is such a thing as not studying the right way. So I do help all of you with that too because there is such a thing as studying too much and there is such a thing as not studying enough. So please, if you guys need help, let me know and just try to think positive. I know it's not easy, it is hard, but just keep on thinking that school is not forever and if the other people can do it, so can you. It's worth it. You have spent a lot of money, so just keep on trying and it is worth it. And if you need anything, I am here, so please just let me know. And I will see you guys later. Thank you so much for watching.