So the waiting for the letter was torturous. You know that feeling....... I woke up anxious, I went to bed anxious, I dreamed of showing up for my first day at nursing school naked and being told "Go home, you so obviously do NOT belong here." I passed the time reading, walking on the beach, playing with my dogs. Then, the letter came, and I opened it after I examined it for a few minutes. Is that my name on it? Seriously? My heart started racing, my fingers were trembling, there were tears in my eyes, because no matter what it said, there would be tears. Oh for sure there would be tears. I opened it, and it was exactly the news I'd been waiting for for sooo long as I busted my tail getting pre reqs and co reqs done. There were and there were . All at once. I checked my rear view mirror for the cops, because surely I must have looked crazy sitting in the post office parking lot. There were no cops. I took out my phone and started calling people, and quickly made my escape.
Fast forward three weeks. I am still anxious. Even more anxious. There has been no word on orientation. There are things that I know have to be done before class starts in August. I can't get my background check/document tracker until I get my school package code. I can't order books. I can't register for class. I can get my immunization record straight, so I am doing that. (First time ever I am bouncing into the doctor's office thrilled to get shots) I can't get the health and dental exams without the forms required, which, you guessed it, we will get at orientation. I can't buy scrubs or even shoes until I know exactly what to buy. I have almost exactly two months to do all of this. Initiate panic mode. Oh :poop:!!!!!! Now, I dream not of showing up for class naked, but with my teeth falling out and wearing handcuffs (the dental exam anxiety and the background check..... no arrests on my record, but could this be guilt from when I was in fourth grade and went into the neighbors unlocked garage to the refrigerator they kept there and ate a whole box of Krispy Kremes?) This journey is a stressful one, and it's only going to get more stressful. So, I have decided to take up yoga, and buy a hammock to hang between the trees out back so that I can go watch the river and the birds and decompress....... Those are the skills that I need to work on now. I shall name them...... Serenity Skills.
I just wanted to post to tell you all that 3 years ago when I started nursing school I was the same way. Every semester I would be excited to have one class done but so ready to start the next one. Until the last couple of semesters. Then I just wanted to be done. The time comes and goes so fast. One day I was a student at the college looking at all the nursing students walking in their scrubs and wishing so much I could be one. Then wishing so much I could be finishing my last class and graduating.
Enjoy your time as a student and try to soak up as much as you can. But also try to take time out for yourself also. Nursing school is hard and stressful! When you have a break even if it is just a small holiday break, try to do some things that make you happy. As nice as it sounds to get ahead on school work, it is possible to burn yourself out. My last semester I was so tired of being in school all the time and all the papers and clinicals and everything else I wondered if I would even make it through the semester. But I did and actually took my NCLEX-RN yesterday. Stopped at 75 questions. Hopefully I will find out tomorrow by quick results that I passed.
I am rambling. Anyway enjoy your time in school but taking time out for yourself is very important too. I wish you all the best of luck in your new endeavor!
Oh mah GAH! I'm so nervous for you! Let us know and praying it was good news!
Oh well, maybe when my Fundamentals of Nursing book gets here I can at least concentrate on something else. Excuse me while I go check the post office box...... again.
LOL! Just you wait. That thing is MASSIVE. It weighs more than my Maine Coon and probably has bigger fangs. I don't know if we have the same book or not. However, mine is 1600 pages with a font size that seems less than 10. We were given a list of books to get. They didn't tell us which ones were for which class but I started collecting anyway. I also have fancy highlighters and am trying to create a "study sanctuary".
I cried hysterically when I got my letter. No one got it. I am plotting a study schedule already as well as a trying out a house cleaning chart I've found.
LOL! Just you wait. That thing is MASSIVE. It weighs more than my Maine Coon and probably has bigger fangs. I don't know if we have the same book or not. However, mine is 1600 pages with a font size that seems less than 10. We were given a list of books to get. They didn't tell us which ones were for which class but I started collecting anyway. I also have fancy highlighters and am trying to create a "study sanctuary".
I cried hysterically when I got my letter. No one got it. I am plotting a study schedule already as well as a trying out a house cleaning chart I've found.
Oh mercy! Bigger than your Maine Coon with bigger fangs! I bet you are right too! I got my study sanctuary done, insofar as I scooped everything off the desk, put it in a box, and polished the desk with lemon oil. My back will be to the rest of the room while I am studying at the desk, so I won't see the bunk beds in there with mismatched sheets, or the piles of discarded electronic equipment, or the bags of clothes that will one day need to go to the thrift store....... just thinking about all that stuff gives me the willies. Maybe I should expend some of this pent up angst on the study sanctuary..........
I have been there also. I gave myself baby steps to purge the clutter. When I had to go out of the house I made a rule to take one full donation bag with me. Be ruthless. Someone probably needs or would love that stuff. Also, there is nothing wrong with mismatched sheets.
LOL! Just you wait. That thing is MASSIVE. It weighs more than my Maine Coon and probably has bigger fangs. I don't know if we have the same book or not. However, mine is 1600 pages with a font size that seems less than 10.
LOL! This sounds like my Funds book- 1600+ pages and it weighs, according to Amazon, 8 pounds!
Haha!!!!!!! That's why people say we need rolling bookbags, I guess! I thought my A & P book was big...... that probably looks like a brochure by comparison.
I passed the time reading, walking on the beach, playing with my dogs. Then, the letter came, and I opened it after I examined it for a few minutes. Is that my name on it? Seriously? My heart started racing, my fingers were trembling, there were tears in my eyes, because no matter what it said, there would be tears. Oh for sure there would be tears. I opened it, and it was exactly the news I'd been waiting for for sooo long as I busted my tail getting pre reqs and co reqs done. There were 
and there were 
. All at once. I checked my rear view mirror for the cops, because surely I must have looked crazy sitting in the post office parking lot. There were no cops. I took out my phone and started calling people, and quickly made my escape. 
LoriRNCM, ADN, ASN, RN
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Oh mah GAH! I'm so nervous for you! Let us know and praying it was good news!