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Abbi Rosen - 5th Floor - Pre-Health and
Nursing LLC
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Year
: Junior
Majors
: Biological Sciences / Chemistry / Pre-med
Interests and Hobbies
: Reading, swimming, working out and shopping!
Clubs or Organizations
: Sergeant at Arms for the FAU chapter of the
American Medical Student Association, Resident Assistant
for Pre-Health and Nursing Living Learning Communities
and Recognition Chair for the National Residence Hall
Honorary.
Favorite Memory at FAU
: Making friends in the residence halls! |
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Finals Week:
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For most of the floor, finals week is a
new experience. We all have final exams in high school
too, but finals week in college is an entirely new
experience. Usually there are no review sheets, no
practice finals, no teachers telling you exactly where to
be and when and especially no parents to keep us on task.
Finals in college are usually a lot harder than any final
exams we have seen before, so it can be quite a shock to
many students.
The Pre-Health and Nursing LLCs handled finals week
better than I could have ever imagined! Study groups were
in the study lounge every single night and I saw
collaboration on final projects on a daily basis. There
was so much support coming from all of the residents on
the floor, it s no wonder everyone did amazing! So many
residents have told me how proud they are of their first
semester grades and I could not be happier! I really
believe the teamwork this floor displayed was a major
contributor to the high GPA the residents managed to
obtain. Without each other s support and collaboration I
don't think we would have survived with as few meltdowns
and tears as we did! Even those of us in different
classes kept each other on track with our studying and
reminded each other that we needed to take a break once
in a while too. Late night food and coffee runs were
quite common last week...even more than normal! I m so
proud of what my floor was able to achieve this semester
and I know it will be even more amazing next semester
when everyone has at least one finals week under their
belt! All of the winter break plans sound amazing, I will
miss everyone! |
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Halloween!
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| This week the floor had a decorating
party to spook out the floor! This years theme: Freddy
Kruger. The floor turned out amazing, thanks to the 20
residents (and even some non residents) who helped out!
The life sized Freddy Kruger is sure to shock anyone
stopping by our floor! From the bloody quotes to the 3D
claws, the floor looks like a real life scary movie! More
importantly, half of the floor came out to work together
to put this masterpiece together! Many residents from
other floors dropped by, either to help or to see what we
created, and they all stated how jealous they were of the
community on the 5th floor! To top it all off we are
having a Freddy Kruger Movie Sleepover in the spooky
study lounge on the Thursday before Halloween! I can't
wait to see what else this amazing floor has in store for
me throughout the rest of the year! |
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Seeing the residents in the LLC s develop
has been amazing so far! I have never seen a community
form as fast and strong as the Pre-Health and Nursing LLC
s have this year. Not only do I see residents together in
class, in the caf?, and other events around campus, I
have seen numerous study groups already! With a couple
big exams this week, many students would feel overwhelmed
and underprepared but not the 5th floor! The residents
are already expressing great study habits, some Nursing
students even took on a volunteer research project just
to get extra exposure to their field!
Although studying has been a major part of the
week for many residents, it was also great to see them
have a little fun! Our first social took place this week,
and over 50 residents came out! Not only did residents
from the entire building come together for the night, the
5th floor really showed their support by helping set up
and take down tables, chairs and advertisements for the
program. Knowing about the program in advance gave some
residents a goal; if they could study up until the
program they would reward themselves with a couple hours
of fun and it worked! So many people said thank you for
having the program I can t wait to have the next one! Let
s all keep up with the studying and never stop striving
for those future goals! |
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Blog #1:
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No matter what year in school you are,
the fall semester is always exciting. As a college junior
majoring in both Chemistry and Biological Sciences as
well as minoring in Philosophy, sometimes exciting may
seem more like daunting . As the week progressed,
however, I fell right back into the swing of being a
resident assistant, being an executive officer in the
American Medical Student Association at FAU, having a
social life and most importantly classes.
The first week of school is always full of
surprises, especially when you are pre-med! There are
textbooks to buy, clubs to join, classes to find and
during it all there are friends you haven t seen all
summer! Being an RA the first week always brings new
people into my life; new residents! Although everyone on
the floor is either pre-med or pre-nursing, our floor is
such a diverse group of people.
As the first week comes to completion, I have
gotten to know many of the residents on the floor. Some
have revealed that even though medicine is their passion,
they would like to major in Business instead of Science
and didn t know that was possible before this week! At
our first LLC hour we all learned a little bit about the
people we will be living with this upcoming year. Some of
us enjoy many of the same hobbies, ranging from horseback
riding to skydiving! One thing we all have in common is
our drive to enter the world of medicine, no matter what
level that may be. One resident is already a Certified
Nursing Assistant! I have really enjoyed getting to know
the residents on my floor and I look forward to the year
we will all share together...anything can happen! |
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