This article discusses one first-time student teacher's experience. Her experience was not unsuccessful, but was different than she had expected. She passed the semester with an acceptable report and found a position the next fall in her chosen school district as a kindergarten teacher, and perhaps more importantly, she learned some valuable lessons. She learned what kind of teacher she did not want to be. She witnessed poor teaching and supervising in action. She saw the opposite of what her professors and role models meant when they talked about the developmental domains, the "urge to grow," or "arranging for children's success." Her experience served to reinforce for her the importance of those principles she had been taught and helped her remember why she wanted to be a teacher and how she can truly make a difference.