 Hello everybody, Andrea here. So I am the owner of dental L tutoring. So I teach dental hygiene and dental assisting students past the board exam. But what I like to talk about as well is, what is it like being a dental hygiene student and being in school. I have some advice and some tips for you. This is from somebody who took the dental hygiene program twice. The first time I took it, I was almost done. I was weeks away from graduating and then my school went bankrupt. Literally, the doors closed, we were all out of time out of money, we had to take the program again. I do go through the whole story and another video of mine in my YouTube channel so have a look at that, where I talk about I went to dental hygiene school twice so there's a big story behind it. But I really want to help dental hygienists in school so here's some advice for you. The program is very, very difficult. I cried nearly every day, whether it be because I just had so much to study for I felt overwhelmed. There's projects, there's tests, there's homework. I had to work as well so I did have to maintain a job in order to pay for where I was staying and pay for my school. So that makes it even harder, where a lot of students are lucky enough they don't have to work, they can go home, they can nap, they can study, and it does make things a little bit easier but you might not have that luxury. Some tips for you so hang in there. Just remember it's not forever and you're working towards the bigger goal. If other people can do it, you can do it too that truly helped me survive dental hygiene school honestly that helped me survive. I just kept remembering that if other people can do it, I can do it too, and it's not forever. I had instructors who were very weren't very nice instructors in clinic they made things so much harder for me in classes they made things impossible. If you had to study and then nothing would be on the test what you studied. It was kind of like they picked these questions from nowhere. And we all know if we don't pass those classes we get kicked out. We have to maintain a certain average to pass. So let me give you guys some advice on tests and exams. You have to find out what works for you. Some students are okay to study the night before and they get 80% they do amazing. I was not one of those students, I had to really manage my time, where, if I knew a test was coming up a week later. You might be studying every day for a week, a couple hours every day per topic. Sometimes you'll have four exams next week for tests, whatever. Next week, really manage your time you might be studying one hour on the bus for radiography, and then over your lunch hour while you're eating food. And then over one hour of pharmacology. When you get home you have to work that evening so you can only study two hours when you get home, you'll be studying prevention. So really manage your time properly, and use up that time so if you're on the bus study. If you're on your lunch break study, but also takes take breaks to your body can only handle so much. I shouldn't say this you guys, but if you need a day off, take a day off, call in sick. Okay you guys. Sometimes we need to do that. You can't do it for clinic, you need to get those certain clinical hours in. There are of course certain days where you can't call in sick you have to be there, but try to manage your time that way or maybe take the morning off because you're sick and then you feel better in the afternoon. I know I shouldn't be saying these things but it's true. Listen to your body. If you try to push yourself if you wake up at 2am to study for that test, you're going to be too tired you're going to get burnt out and you're not going to learn anything. So really manage your time, but take breaks maybe you've been working so hard all week on Saturday call in sick for work. Don't go to work go shopping instead and spend too much money. Okay, sometimes you need that break that will really pick you up and make you feel better. I did that a couple times and dental hygiene school and that really worked for me. You can't expect to go to school all day long study all night long wake up at 2am and study some more. You can't do it so really try to manage your time. So manage your body if you need to take a break and again you guys remember it's not forever you can do it. Don't expect to get support from your friends or family not that you would expect that or it's their faults, but nobody understands what you're going through unless and unless it's another dental hygiene student or me. If we have graduated. Nobody knows what you're going through don't get annoyed don't get frustrated. If you're trying to talk to your friends and family and they just don't get it they say we'll take a break or quit if you can't handle it or maybe don't worry about not getting 80% on that test you'll get over it you know they do not understand what you're going through. Reaching out to friends and family might be difficult reach out to me I am here to help reach out to other students we're all here to help each other. I tutor for the dental hygiene and the dental assisting board exam. I have I have something called the VIP board exam prep Academy, where we have our own Facebook group where we network with each other we go through the stresses of being a student, having to study even if you're not studying for the board exam yet, you are still a student, I have courses for dental hygiene and dental assisting students still in school where you can kind of learn in different modules at different times say you're you're having a hard time on your pharmacology test, you want to learn that material a different way, I might be able to help you guys I have full courses for that my job is to make your job as a student even easier and less stressful. So I hope this video helps kind of bring everything into perspective, the program the dental hygiene program is extremely hard but you can do it. If I can do it, I would cry literally every day I was burnt out. I hated it, but it was completely worth it you guys I've been a dental professional now for 17 years. I have my own mobile dental hygiene practice so please reach out to me you guys if you need anything. I'm here to help. Good luck and get some sleep, relax, and then study. Okay guys. Thank you so much. I will talk to you soon. Bye for now.