How overwhelmed and/or tired will I be?

[motyandproudofit]

I would like some input on how busy and overwhelmed I will be once I begin school. I feel like I have a good jump start since I have been a CMA for 8 years and an EMT for 2. I pick things up pretty easily. Throughout my prereq's I have gone to school fulltime, worked fulltime, with a child and husband and would usually get A's and once in awhile a B. I know when I was in school for EMT they too said that it would be sooo overwhelming and it was not so bad at all. I kinda think that the same will happen with this but then again I worry too that it will be soo crazy. Any insight?

Also, I am a person who really needs 8+ hours of sleep a night. This is probably my biggest concern. I feel like such a wimp, but I know that I can bust my butt so much in other ways .....but I NEED my sleep. Do ANY of you who are in school get enough sleep .... or is it that, in school there really is no way to get more than 4 hours of sleep. Is that sleep depravation more in the last semester or each and every semester?

[Cfitz]

I am in an ADN program (5 semesters) and we HAVE had exams that covered an unreasonable number of chapters. The one that goes down in history was a renal/cardiac test - it was 22 chapters. It was NUTS.

I have to say that it has been sort of roller-coasterish - some units were very doable; few chapters, more time; other units have been nuts with many chapters and less time to study them. It all seems to even-out though.