What a headache

This college stuff is HARD!!! If you do not maintain a certain number of credit hours per semester you are not eligible for financial aid. Once in the actual nursing program, there was a semester in which I would only have 3 credit hours (bad). So I had to save a support class to take that semester. I have 2 support classes left, A&P II and Microbiology. I will take microbiology along with my nursing classes. That leaves me with A&P II, which is 4 credit hours. Uh-oh, I am below the hours needed for loans to kick in. My solution is this. Take sociology. Yes I took it back at YSU and passed and technically (though it is required for the nursing program) I do not have to take it, I see no other option. I really cant afford to pay out of pocket for 1 class, and they (by which I mean the people who decide whether or not they will pay for my classes) are not very lenient in which classes you can take, it has to pertain to your major. I had to fight for nutrition this semester, just so I wasn't in the very boat I am trying to avoid being in. Very frustrating. Have I mentioned how happy I will be once I graduate. I am sick of the headaches.

Decision time

I am coming up on some major decisions

The school that I am currently attending just got its nursing program. The class that started last fall semester is its first class. Prior to that the school of nursing was through another college. So because the first class hasn't graduated yet, the school is not as of yet accredited. I am looking (if I attend there) to be enrolled in fall of 2013, and they will graduate their first class in Spring 2013, shortly after I would have started.

Another school in the "area" has a school of nursing that is also ADRN (associate degree). I say in the "area" because the campus is about a 45 minute drive from my home. Now, a lot of the classes I am taking now would transfer over and count towards my pre requrisites. And the support classes can be done online. But I dont know that I want to drive 45 for my classes and clinicals.


Input would be greatly appreciated

Whew

So 2 weeks ago in A&P we had our bones test....it was killer. And I thought I really had the axial skeleton down pat so I focused my time and attention while studying on the appendicular skeleton. I got in there and the info flew right out of my brain.....bye bye

Stuff I knew that I knew that I knew I blanked on.
Holy crud, I thought for sure I failed.
So imagine my great surprise this evening when I got my grade....80/100!!!!! I was ready to do backflips!!
In 2 weeks we have our next exam, it covers the eye and the brain....let the fun begin!

wish I had gotten the memo

So apparently I did NOT get the memo at work today. Ya know, the one where its call off/change your schedule/quit, day! I am not joking. Today we had someone in management quit, someone call off, and when one didn't show up, she assured it was because she dropped to part time, thus she had the day off.In case you were wondering, my day was peachy keen

  

more than 8 hours later....

I am taking my classes this semester, and most semesters, online. For me, its easier with my work schedule to not take them in a classroom setting. The only class that I took thus far in a traditional classroom setting, was statistics, I just didn't think I could learn it online.

This semester I have just 2 classes, Nutrition and Anatomy & Physiology. With online classes there is so much "busywork". For each class, each week I have at least 1 chapter to read (and in nutrition, normally 2 chapters), approximately 10 questions to answer in essay form, 1-2 discussion questions, responding to at least 2 other people's discussion questions and the quiz. This is for EACH class.

I think the time requirements are much greater for online classes than they are for traditional classes. I was working on nutrition all day long. I read 2 long chapters, probably 80 pages, did the assignment which was 13 essay questions between both chapters, and am getting ready to take the quiz. I will do the discussion question after work tomorrow night as I do not feel like looking up more information off the web right now.

Online classes are convenient in some ways but a major pain in the butt in other ways.

2 days in a row

I had yesterday and today off work. Felt good to relax.

I got some studying done, but beyond that, not too darn much. And I needed that downtime. Listened to some good uplifting music and recharged my batteries. Days like that were much needed. To have some alone time.

Bones

I have bones on the brain!!! LOL. I have been studying so much for my lab test Tuesday night. Its not just the bones, but the surfaces, the trachanters, the tubercles, the fossa. All the bones of the wrist and ankle.....ugh

Studying like a mad woman, in my A&P lab book there is an access code for online modules, showing all the bones with identification of the surfaces.

Must be sinking in as last night I was dreaming of the ankle bones: talus, calcecanous, cuboid, navicular, medial, intermediate and lateral cuneform.....I'm both proud and sad that I know them

Hello

Hello, and welcome.

I am a working mother, wife, and student. It can be downright difficult to juggle it all, but juggle it I do. I am currently working in a long term care facility as an LPN, but am in the midst of studies to achieve my RN. I would love to either work in labor/delivery or surgery. Not decided yet. Have a while to decide, as right now I am still working on my pre requistits. This semester I am taking Nutrition and Anatomy & Physiology. FUN!!!!!!! Yeah right.

I hope to share my life, the ups and downs, and some fun along the way!