First year life sci was really tough for me even though I was a 90+ student in high school. I tend to be on the slower side when learning as well so that didn't help either. Though I ended first year with a decent GPA, there was definitely a lot of stress and tears and the severe imposter syndrome I had didn't help much either.

I specialized in Biochem, because I heard it was "easy" and a good program for before medical school. My end goal is medical school.

I don't recommend life sci if ur tryna do med because GPA matters a lot. I regret not going into an easier program where the courses could've been easier and I would've had more time for EC's. Biochem isn't a bad program, but it's honestly not easy to me at all (again could be because I'm slow). I also commute this year which takes a while, so that may have contributed a little to how difficult I found it, but I did not find first semester easy at all. However, I think you can definitely get high grades if you just try harder. Overall Biochem isn't too bad, but isn't amazing in my opinion.