Complex sentence: As no blind student had ever before ventured to enroll in this kind of studies, she could not fall back on any experiences of anyone else so had to develop her own methods to come to terms with her course of studies.
Split into simpler sentences: As no blind student had ever before ventured to enroll in this kind of studies, she could not fall back on any experiences of anyone else. So she had to develop her own methods to come to terms with her course of studies.