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Year One: Life at ASU — Hannah plays football

October 27, 2015

Editor's note: "Year One: Life at ASU" is a periodic photo series following five freshmen navigating their first year at ASU. This installment checks in on Hannah Kiesling, a Barrett scholar majoring in nursing.

Hannah Kiesling's freshman year at Arizona State University is going better than she expected it would. "School is going great," said the freshman from Illinois. "I am honestly surprised how prepared I was for all my classes." It's one reason why she's been able to add social activities and experiences into her schedule, like joining a sorority.

Kiesling pledged and was accepted into the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority earlier this fall. As part of the group she participated in the recent War of the Roses flag football game that pits sororities against each other.

For fall break she surprised her family with a visit home, though the long weekend was quite a bit colder than her days at ASU's Downtown Phoenix campus.

Overall, "I have been able to manage really well, I think," she said. "I just do all my work right when I get it, and then I have time to do all the other fun activities in my schedule."

Hannah Kiesling laughs as she and her sorority sisters of Kappa Kappa Gamma joke around before playing tag football on the Student Recreational Complex fields at Tempe campus on the morning of Sunday Oct. 25, 2015. The game was part of the War of the Roses, an annual occurrence which pits Greek organizations against each other for charity and awareness.

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Sometimes you want to look the part to play part, which is why Hannah Kiesling and her teammates paint black lines under their eyes to absorb the sunlight as they prepare to play tag football. Hannah wasn't expecting to play, just support her sorority sisters. But when there was an opening in the lineup she stepped up to help.

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Part of the freshman experience is the bonding first-year students do with their peers. Kiesling has found friends through her sorority sisters of Kappa Kappa Gamma. They huddle and cheer before starting their game of flag football during the War of the Roses.

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Hannah Kiesling and her sorority sisters of Kappa Kappa Gamma get ready for the friendly flag football "battle" during the War of the Roses by tossing around the ball.

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So much of the freshmen experience is meeting new people, but Kiesling doesn't forget her old friends either. Before the flag football game she found her high school friend Danielle DiMaggio and gave her an enthusiastic hug.

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The game has begun as Kiesling and her sorority sisters of Kappa Kappa Gamma take the field at the Student Recreational Complex on the Tempe campus to play flag football against the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. The teams were coached by members of the male fraternities.

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Kiesling played defense for her flag football team, which meant she had to keep her arms behind her back to avoid "tackling" someone. Despite the awkward body position, she was agressive on the field and helped her team.

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Kiesling's team lost the game, but they had fun being part of the annual War of the Roses events. Her dedication to getting her work done first allows Kiesling to have these student life experiences as she moves through her first year at ASU — like taking a selfie with her fellow footballers.

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See what Hannah was up to earlier in the semester in these past galleries:

Year One: Life at ASU — Hannah's first day of class

Year one: Life at ASU — moving into the dorms

Year One: Life at ASU — Hannah's first day of class

"Year One: Life at ASU" is a periodic photo series following five freshmen navigating their first year at ASU. This installment checks in on Hannah Kiesling attending her first class and lab as the nursing major starts her ASU career.See what Hannah was up to earlier in the semester in this past gallery:Year one: Life at ASU — moving into the dorms...

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Year One: Life at ASU — Hannah's first day of class

Downtown Phoenix campus

September 17, 2015

Kiesling's first class at ASU didn't waste any time getting into the course work. The freshman from outside of Chicago looks up to the periodic table as she tries to figure out the atomic mass of copper during an exercise assigned by her instructor on Sept. 9.

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Kiesling wants to be a nurse, which means she needs a strong background in chemistry. Here, she learns the basics of cations and atomic mass from principal lecturer Richard Baurer during her Intro to Chemistry course in the Walter Cronkite School building on the Downtown Phoenix campus.

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The first class was just the beginning of this nursing student's path toward a degree. With that start now behind her, Kiesling (center) leaves her Intro to Chemistry course and moves on to the next step of her academic journey.

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As a freshman nursing student, Kiesling will spend a lot of time in labs. Her first hands-on experience took place Sept. 14 in her Chemistry 101 lab at the University Center on the Downtown Phoenix campus. The lesson began with Kiesling and her lab mates deciding what tools to use. With two years of chemistry in high school, Kiesling's lab mates turned to her for guidance.

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Kiesling and her team listen to chemistry lab instructor Jett Feld as he lists the different types of tools students can use to conduct measurements. It might sound basic, but this is the foundation Kiesling and her fellow students will use to build the rest of this year's lab work upon.

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Kiesling fills an Erlenmeyer flask for a lab exercise based on precision and accuracy.

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Kiesling and community health freshman Alexis Kennedy measure out 10 ml of water during their chemistry lab. Mastering these tasks is a key part of forging a foundation of knowledge and experience on the way to becoming a nurse.

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