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Do you ever have that feeling that something just isn’t real?
That’s how I’ve felt about going into this Nursing program up until now.
I received a thick packet of papers in the mail yesterday with requirements up the wazoo that need to be completed in the next month. It feels like I am signing my life over to this school, and I am finally realizing that I pretty much am.
Okay, not really. It’s a big step, and I am finally coming face to face with that fact. Up until now, it’s just been something lingering on the outskirts of everything else that is going on. Which, when added to THAT list, it is now the size of a small country.
I’m not complaining, I’m just a bit overwhelmed at the moment. I will be taking classes both spring and summer, and will only get a couple of weeks off before starting up in September.
I have tests and immunizations that need to be done, orientations to attend, booklets, rules and regulations to read, CPR licensure to complete, drug testing, a criminal background check to be done, and advisors to meet with.
But, in the end, I realize that I’ve been waiting for this time to come for a long time. It’s finally here, and it’s finally real.
I am in a bit of a rush right now, but I am going to try to come around here more often. I do have plenty to talk about.
Well, we didn’t get the house. I’m not losing any sleep over it. We are putting an offer in on another one tomorrow. This particluar one, we actually saw a few weeks ago, but were too enthralled with the first one to notice this one for what it really was.
So anyway, the house we are offering on has a lot of potential. The key word there is potential. It’s very small, no basement, and it needs some work. On the other hand, it sits on over an acre, is very charming, and it’s a brick ranch. The location probably couldn’t get any better. So, once again, cross your fingers!
In other news, Derek passed the state exam, so he is now a licensed EMT. Woo-Hoo!! He hopes to work one day a week somewhere while he goes through the rest of the program to become a Paramedic. He did his clinicals through a local ambulance company, and they told him to apply there once he was licensed. So, that’s the plan!
I got another letter yesterday, I’ve officially been moved up to the Fall 2009 Nursing class!! Now, it’s only a year and a half to wait!
I got a letter of acceptance into the Nursing program yesterday. For 2010. I am automatically listed as an alternative for the 2009 program. (After Meg commented, I had to add that I am not hoping people drop out, it just said in the letter that the reason I was considered an alternative was because people often change schools or change their mind during the waiting period.) So, let’s just hope that enough people change their minds and I get into the 2009 program. We could really put our hopes high, and hope that enough people change and I get in this fall. I highly doubt that is going to happen. If not, it will be two to three years. What am I going to do for three years? I could basically get another degree in that amount of time. Another upside it that the college I attend is building a brand new biomedical building, scheduled to open this fall. If that goes on as scheduled, it is supposed to enlarge the class size for any medical related classes. Cross your fingers.
I go back to school tonight. I am looking forward to it. I have a feeling it’s going to be a tough semester. But then again, I am not even IN the program yet, so I really shouldn’t talk. I don’t have it bad at all. I could be like another completely crazy person (perhaps my husband), and take one class that almost equals three times the amount of work from my measly class. On top of that, he has to volunteer somewhere around 50-60 hours outside of class. Oh yeah, and we both still work full time. It should be an interesting semester, so if I disappear for awhile, don’t send a search party. I will simply be frying my brain, or helping him fry his.
Well, the semester is officially over. What a relief. I hadn’t realized just how much pressure it was putting on me until I walked out of there last night. I just felt…..better, there is no other way to describe it. Being the class that was required for me to apply to the Nursing progam, I know that was part of it too. Now, I just have to sit back and wait, and take the other couple of classes that are required before the program, that is.
Over the years, going through the different majors, and realizing it wasn’t for me was the easy part. If I’d known it was going to be like this once I chose something, I would have just kept on changing. Just kidding, I know this is it. In a sense, I am glad I didn’t figure it out until I was a little older. I’ve got an entirely different respect for school and grades than I did when I was younger. Being the anal retentive middle child that I am, I tend to obsess over my grades a bit. I see nothing wrong with this, especially if I choose to become one of these someday. Being older has allowed me to know myself better, because if you know me, you’d know that I was basically a completely different person many years ago. I just needed to grow up, and I’ve definitely accomplished that! But, it has also put off starting a family. That was always something I’d wanted to do before I turned 30, hopefully that will still happen. Since I chose nursing, I’ve always planned on continuing on with a masters.
I always had big dreams for the times before I started my family. Of course then, I wasn’t married and I didn’t worry about what I’d be doing for the rest of my life. I was going to move down to Florida, and become a Marine Biologist, I don’t know what happened with that. Oh yeah, I met my husband. So, I stayed, and from then on, everything changed. I did get to travel to California a few years later, where I became engaged. That’s a cute story, maybe I’ll tell it another time. Then I got a husband, a mortgage, two dogs, a horse, and suddenly, what I was going to do for the rest of my life really mattered. So, here I am. I think everything worked out just perfectly.
Now that I am free from the wrath of anatomy and physiology, what am I going to do with all my newfound freedom? Tonight, we are having a family holiday gathering at my parents house, this weekend I am catching up on housework, and then going to the farm. Next week, I am preparing for vacation. Sounds like a blast, I know!!
Happy Friday!
This week marks the last week of class for this semester. I’ve got one lecture and one exam to get through, and I am free. I am very much looking forward to getting ONE WHOLE MONTH off, before returning to the second half of this class and starting off exactly where we left off, which won’t be easy. Next semester won’t be like any other courses I’ve ever took. There will be no easing into a new subject, there will only be diving into subjects even more complex than what I’ve had to deal with this semester.
Though it may seem so, I am not complaining. I have thoroughly enjoyed this semester. I often get teased by my classmates, because I enjoy the class so much. Who in their right mind would actually ENJOY looking at and dissecting a cadaver, sheep brains and some eyeballs. Yeah, that would be me. Don’t worry, I won’t go into any more detail than that (for those of you who can’t stomach that sort of thing). Which, brings me to another point. Most of the people in my class are going into Nursing, and most of them couldn’t handle the dissections. I just really don’t understand WHY they would choose a medical profession. But, that’s their decision.
Anyway, I’ve got one free week before we leave for our vacation, and I’ve got some big plans. Plans which include all the housework I can fit into my free evenings, taking my dogs for some well deserved walks, cooking some meals, and basking in my temporary laziness by catching up on some movies I’ve been meaning to watch for some time now. Doesn’t that sound like a blast?! Okay, not really, but I am sure looking forward to it.
I suppose I just want to feel normal, even if it’s just for a week. I don’t want to always have somewhere to be, and studying in between everything I do. I don’t want to have to run errands on my lunch break, simply because I don’t have any other time to get it done. And I most definititely don’t want to eat sandwiches for dinner anymore, just because it’s easy to pack and can be eaten while driving between work and school.
Then, I am going to rejuvenate myself by spending two weeks in sunny Florida. I really am excited to go, despite my reservations from before. It will be a good rest, and if you ask me, definitely well deserved.
For the past three weeks, I’ve been cramming my brain with information about the nervous system, brain and spinal cord. I had the exam related to all that tonight, and it went well. And boy, is my cerebrum fried! I am just glad it’s finally over and I can spend my Thanksgiving not worrying about studying anything.
I am currently enrolled in the first of two Anatomy and Physiology courses, and I absolutely love it!! I am pretty wiped out, but the end of the semester is nearing, so I have something to keep me going. Whoever would have thought Nursing would have been it for me. Seriously, I always wanted to do something in a male dominated field.
I have no idea why I always wanted that. Well, maybe I do. I always got along better with guys than girls, and had more male friends than female. That’s not the case anymore, but back when I started school it was. I just always imagined doing something that not many women would aim for. None of that matters to me anymore. For the first time in seven years of college, I can say I am enjoying the classes I am taking.
