First semester nursing school

I managed to pass my first semester of nursing school. The biggest shock was that every class required an essay that was around 40% of the overall grade. Oddly, my favorite (favourite) class was the one that I just barely passed. That class was about Australia's (theoretical) approach to health care, which is different from (to) the US approach. I completely grasped the concepts, but the final exam required writing three essays, and I hadn't memorized nine specific points requested by one of the questions about community capacity building. I never imagined essay writing, community capacity building, and Freudian theories would be such critical components of nursing education.