In Rebekah Nathan’s My Freshman Year, Nathan states, "This chapter serves as a response to questions others ask me and questions that, since my freshman year, I keep asking myself. What did I personally learn from this experience?" (132). In the first part of the chapter, Nathan examines the relationship between students and teachers. She explains how most teachers don't see how students live or how hard it is to balance several classes and maintain a good GPA. The second section of the chapter is about how Rebekah Nathan goes back to being a teacher after being a student. Nathan now sees her classes are from a student's perspective. She learns that many of the articles and readings she assign won't actually be read or how other students have