This year we asked our incoming 2019-2020 Leadership team one simple question, to help the incoming students, the prompt was: What advice would you give to an entering 1st-year podiatry student?Here is how our Students Responded…
1st Year Advice: You are here for a reason
by Nicole Lagstein
The single most valuable piece of advice I would give to an entering 1st-year podiatry student is that …
YOU ARE HERE FOR A REASON
A team of professionals went through applications and
chose you,
interviewed you,
and accepted you.
No matter how difficult or stressful this journey maybe, you have proven yourself, and you belong here. This is my anthem, my mantra that I repeat in my head. If there is ever a time when those negative self-deprecating voices that every human being has go off in my head, I remind myself that I am exactly where I am supposed to be. The more I repeat this mantra, the more I believe it, and the better I perform.
The more I repeat this mantra, the more I believe it, and the better I perform.
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After my first semester of medical school, I witnessed a severe accident.
A car lost control and flipped over multiple times in the middle of the desert between my home in Las Vegas and WesternU in Pomona. I immediately pulled over and broke the car windows with roadside rocks and helped the couple escape their overturned car. I applied first aid and bandaged wounds while waiting for emergency personnel to arrive.
Their daughter ended up being a physician’s assistant and wrote to the Dean of my college about what I did. I received an Award of Recognition for the help I provided.
My advice is to believe in oneself because one never knows where this journey will lead. If I had listened to those negative voices, I would not have had the knowledge or the belief that I possessed the skills to help this couple in need.
By Nicole Lagstein
1st Year Advice: You are here for a reason
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