“If anything, I was one of the more prepared students, because of the teachers and mentors I had who are Rochester alumni, and it still was a shock—getting adjusted to the kind of work, the expectations, and the culture here. In high school everything was so easy—you’re a big fish in a little pond, but here it’s a totally different thing. In the first semester of my sophomore year I ended up doing really poorly—I had a GPA of 1.4, and I had to talk with my counselors here and use the resources available. The good part was I knew how to use those resources, but the bad part was it took me two semesters to figure that out.”
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