blah... i thought that nursing school was not going to be this hard!!!

RNDreamer · Mar 18, 2009

Wow! I'm so glad my classmates don't have drama....at least none that I've noticed. It sounds like you are doing good, hang in there!

RNShenanigator · Mar 18, 2009

Ah, end of the semester burn out. Don't ya just love it.:banghead: Sounds to me like your doing pretty good "low A"

I think everyone here has some drama in their classes so don't feel bad. I have some of those same people in my class, if I didn't know any better I would say we went to the same school. There are times when I have have to do like you and go off by myself or plug in the music so I don't have to listen to it and don't feel bad by telling them you did good on a test. It is none of their business what you got. The one I love are the people who sign up last for instructor checkoffs and then want to call me to find out how bad was it, what did they make me do, what questions did they ask. I am all for helping people out, but don't expect me to make it easier for you because you didn't want to go to the practice labs. There is always one that waits for us outside and literally says "just tell me what I need to know I didn't have time to study" but they always has time to party on the weekends.

Just worry about your studies and try not to let them get to you. You will be a better person for it.

Sounds to me like you are doing great!!! :yeah:

~Mi Vida Loca~RN, ASN, RN · Mar 18, 2009

Well keep at it, it's obviously trying but you are doing something right to be keeping up your grades. I can completely understand your views on girls LOL, I have very few close girlfriends and most always tell me I think to much like a man. (not on everything, I do have an emotional side to me since becoming a mom) I guess that is why I always tend to get along with guys better.

Anyway, best of luck to you, it sounds like you are right on pace, just picture the end!

iluvivt, BSN, RN · Mar 18, 2009

OMG...I can see that in the past 27 yrs...nothing has changed......I was just like you....could not stand the drama...came late to tests on purpose to avoid it!!!......you are on the right track...i graduated first in my class out of 88 students b/c i avoided the drama and study groups as well. Whenever I went to study groups I always ended up teaching and then leading them instead of adding to my knowledge base.....so I just ditched them.

missjennmb · Mar 18, 2009

There's a lot of drama, but if its anything like my school it will die down once people start to fail out. We're at the halfway point and even the most drama queen types have started to buckle down and get serious (its gotten tougher if thats even possible) You said the worst part is that half are failing. I hate to sound mean, but thats actually probably the best part. I feel bad for those that fail, but its a lot easier to concentrate when those who are not serious are gone.

As for girls and their drama... lol. There is a lot of pettiness that I've seen/experienced since our class started but guess who was at the heart of it? the sole guy in our class. So as much as you feel women are hormonal, its not a girl problem. Its a stress problem. People are not used to dealing with the amount of stress involved in nursing school (yourself included from the sound of it). I have the same grade issues as you. Studying my tail off day and night for ok but not great grades, and frustrated because I've always gotten As with ease.

People are going to flip out and there are those that will never accept that they are the reason they are failing. Every end of class (ours are 9 wk increments) you are going to have huge spastic temper tantrums as this person or that fails out and "didnt see it coming" or "would have passed if it werent for the teacher doing x, y, z". Last quarter end, if one of the girls who failed out had been on TV, she would have been a straight constant *BLEEP* because she managed to use more curse words than actual words and about 2 octaves above speaking volume, every word she said for the entire day (it was a day when we had class from 10am till 9:30pm too, ugh)

You get used to it, and by that I mean you reach a point where you don't hear it anymore because you're so stressed or focused on your grades that there's simply no time to deal with the drama even if you did want you to.

letarn2b · Mar 18, 2009

I start nurs school in the fall and i have only used study groups twice for my micro midterm/final. I'm a self learner always been.

chevyv, BSN, RN · Mar 18, 2009

Ahhh yes, the joys of nursing school. Just keep your eye on the prize and let the rest fall to the side! Good luck and I too had very good grades but never put alot of stock into them. C's get degrees has always sounded good to me. This keeps me level headed about not obsessing like some of my classmates did.

soon2bns · Mar 18, 2009

Wow CSantos I start ns in a few months and I hope I don't experience the same thing. You are a good student and I think the choice of refusing to socialize with the other students was a good one. Good Luck!:wink2:

Tweety, BSN, RN · Mar 18, 2009

Nursing school, while working, to date remains the hardest thing I've ever done, due to the overwhelming amount of work. Fortunately with me, one other guy and 58 women there was no gossip and backstabbing that bothered me. I was too busy to care or notice even if there was any going on.

I'm sure since you've asked three people to leave you alone, soon word will get around and you'll get your wish.

I think when people are under stress they tend to complain. I see it at work now, people who normally are relatively quiet become a little witchy when they are under extreme stress (which is usally one of us at all times. I too have had my "moments").

Hang in there and best of luck!

HouTx, BSN, MSN, EdD · Mar 18, 2009

Note to OP - stop using the term "girls" to refere to the women in your class. I'm sure you dont' mean it, but no matter what you're trying to communicate, it always comes out as misogynistic if you use that demeaning term.

~Mi Vida Loca~RN, ASN, RN · Mar 18, 2009

I have never thought it to be demeaning to refer to me as a girl, I have told my husband their are a few boys in my class but it's mostly girls.

Now if someone was like, "you're nothing but a little girl" than yea I would be offended or find that demeaning. but in the context of the OP's post I don't see that he was being demeaning at all.