Sunday, August 8, 2010

3rd Semester Fall 2010 Starting

So I slacked off majorly on this blog. I don't know if it's because no one follows me or if it's just because it's another thing to be done. Either way I want to journal or blog I guess about the next step in my journey. I will be start Clinicals this fall. I am scared but ready to get started.

I will be a full time student, which is 12 credits. I originally only had 11 credits qualifying me to still be considered part-time. However in order for me to remain on my mom's health care insurance I must be full-time. I was worried about finding a one credit course or even a two credit on; plus whatever the course was had to fit my crazy course schedule already laid out. Let's just say I have an amazing academic advisor who was able to find a 1 credit course that is online, I only have to show up in person for exams.

I will be taking Medical Terminology (which is the online course), Anatomy and Physiology II, Nursing 101 and 111 which is Nursing lecture and Clinicals. The online course shouldn't be that hard. It will be an easy GPA booster; as long as I don't slack off ( which I don't plan on doing). A&P II should be more challenging but I have been told that it isn't as hard as A&P I so I guess we will see. Nursing Lecture and Clinicals is where my focus will be. It is demanding as well as interesting it looks like. Well at least that is my perspective when I observe what other people have experienced. The big thing I am worried about is giving injections. I enrolled into LGC (Lancaster General College) with the full awareness of my fear of needles and giving shots. I have been today by a fellow classmate of mine that the instructor I have for Clincals will work with me and help me. This was a relief to hear.

I will post again closer to when school starts; which isn't that far away. August 23rd is creeping up faster than I thought.

Saturday, October 3, 2009

1 month down

So my first month of college has come.....and well its going rough. I failed my first exam and my second and most likely my third. On a brighter note I did land the job at Lancaster General Hospital. I can't wait to start but I'm really nervous about managing college and the job especially once I start my clinicals in January. But hey I got a job which is what I needed to the most. Now I'm having trouble with studying. It's a lot harder than what people think. Like in high school I couldn't pull the all nighters or the two nights before.....but in college it's hard to manage when to do what. Just because my college does classes a little bit different; my classes are about 2 hr 50 min each and I have them once a week. So if I have a class Tuesday I wont have it again until the following Tuesday so you see why time management is tough.

Well I'm off to do Nutrition black board quiz...just updating since I haven't posted in about 10 days...if anyone cares.....................

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

So its been a lil bit

.....college is in full swing and pretty much taking over, enabling me to not make it to the blog to post.....so what has happened since the 16th. I got hired at LG hospital were I'll work in the kitchen. I start in about 2 weeks hopefully. I had my first college exam. It was in Psych and I failed it. Needless to say, I went to the learning resource center to get some help. So hopefully that will help.

I also met someone who well makes me happy. Like I get a giddy when he texts me or something. He lives in NJ though ): but we'll see where it goes. But right now I'm living life. Trying to not worry about everything and realizing that somethings just aren't worth the fight and pain anymore.

Today I had my first A&P exam. I think I did ok. Definitely screwed a few parts up but I feel good. So now to do my English and pre-lab for tomorrow. I dislike English very much.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

....Day I'm not sure....

Ok so I haven't be on here in few days....College is kinda getting busy. So I will try to post as often as I can..... I just got home from class...But I will post later tonight.

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Day 7 of classes

Had my long day today. A&P Lab then English. So my lab booklet did not come in until later today. And my professor didn't put the lab on blackboard. So I had sent her an email letting her know I didn't get my labs yet and that I have no way of completely the pre-lab. So I tried to get to class early but for the first time hit traffic. Not bad traffic but enough to make me arrive at school later than I wanted to. But my professor printed off the next two labs, so I'm all set to go.

English was next. I like my teacher and all but ugh.......She gives a lot of homework and assignments out. Next Thursday I have a summary on the Gettysburg Address and a list of 2 topics each with 3 sources for our controversial issue in the medical field paper. So yeah I feeling a little stressed.

Onto of those two classes I still have Psych and Nutrition to deal with. I thought Nutrition would be good with it being a blended class; meaning having class every 3 weeks and doing things mostly online; I was wrong. This is a lot hard that I could of imagined.

Good Night all. Hopefully I'll get to bed earlier tonight.

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

day 6 of classes, day 7 of college

Anatomy and Physiology class today. Classroom was a bit cold so that made me want to fall asleep. Class went well. Printed out the PowerPoint so that helped a lot, but I tend to go all over the 6 slides to a page so next time I'm printing them out one slide at a time that way my notes does blend together. Which is what happened today; I finally had to start boxing out the areas I had written so I would know which area of writing went with which slide.

Got the correct English books but still no lab exercises. :( Hopefully they arrive soon. And on a much different note, my best friend Mike had his one year of sobriety today. A year ago he had just gotten high for the very last time. He has not relapse once. I am so proud of him and he is one of my heroes. I wrote a poem for him. I think I may start another blog and put my poems up...... yeah I think I'm going to do that.

Well I'm off to finish my pre-lab questions ( a friend Facebook messaged me them) and possibly start a blog containing my poems and songs.

Monday, August 31, 2009

Day 5 of classes, dat 6 of college

It's official week 2 of college. I had a good weekend. I got my English books today! I had Psychology today. I wasn't the only one who got confused about sending an email to the Prof. after every quiz. Oops. But the class went well. I printed off the powerpoint so that helped greatly. And our teacher gave us a break today, which was extremely awesome. So it was colder than normal outside and I like warm weather so that was annoying. But I feel confident about my second week and I'm realizing I can do this. I need to stop stressing out about every little thing.

So tomorrow is my day off. Going to hopefully get a hold of my dad so we can fill out the rest of the loan. He is really being a pain in the a$$ about it. He agreed to be co-signer but it's done all online now and he has to create an account to become a co-signer and that is where the problem lies. He creating the account for himself.

Well I'm off tomorrow and need to get some sleep.

Night

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