Superstitions???

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As I'm sitting here making my med cards, I realized I have a superstition that gets me through. I religiously watch deathly hallows part 1 & 2 while I study and make note cards. (waving my nerd flag) I, for some reason (?), find it comforting and I feel like I can concentrate better when it's on.

Hey whatever gets us through, right?!?

So what's your superstition?! I'd love to know! :-)

I almost forgot about something else! In the beginning of my first semester, I failed the dosage calc test (ended up with 100% the second time). After the failure, I went to my instructor's office for help and she's this crazy cat lady. I'm not even kidding when I say she had 1000's of little tiny cat figurines in her office. Well, she gave me one as a good luck charm and I have it with me during every exam and it seems to have brought me luck because I've done really well on every exam. It's just weird because I actually don't care for cats but if I don't have it with me I freak out. I actually turned around to go home and get it and was almost late to a test. I'm convinced that the little cat that she gave me has saved my a$$ more than once in nursing school.

I had a routine I did prior to an exam and if i didnt do it or if anything messed it up I felt it altered how I tested. My routine was to make sure I have my "promise ring" on, then go to my routine Starbucks get my usual, get to class an hr prior to the exam, listen to music, and overview my lime green index cards up to 10 til.

I didn't do too much in nursing school but when I used to ride and show horses I had certain underwear and shirts I would and wouldn't wear. My daughter also has little quirky superstition based behavior which a coworker noticed and told her, "Oh you are SO Irish!"!

Oh I just remembered! Yes, I would bring like 5 pens into the test if it was written. And they were all seriously vetted, favorite pens. And classical music in the car on the way to class on test day.

Specializes in Oncology.

Don't get too attached to those good luck charms... you can't have any of those things (even your jewelry) when you take the NCLEX.... I am freaking out that I can't wear my "lucky" necklace and bracelets...

Specializes in Medical Oncology, Alzheimer/dementia.

Driving to school/clinical on test day, I wouldn't have any music playing in my car. Total silence.

If I'm distracted or have a lot on my mind, I need quiet. I find the noise to be even more distracting. I know some people are just the opposite.

Specializes in Primary Care, OR.

I've used the same pen (pilot G2, has to be .07 refills) and mechanical pencil (Bic) for the past 5years!!!!! Hasn't failed me yet, well except for the time I switched bags and neither came with me for my test:arghh:.... I flunked that one. :sniff:

I listen to the phantom of the opera soundtrack during finals week and BLAST it on my drive to school on final test days.

No superstitions but my routine: Read everything, fall asleep thinking about the material for the day, stay in bed for a few minutes each morning and think about the stuff from the night before, and study right up until the second that they tell me to put stuff away.

And gobs and gobs of really strong coffee.

I used the same pen/pencil for tests and quizzes in my RN program (thankfully they lasted me the entire program because I only used them for that). The two times I forgot my 'special' pen I did very poorly on the test, I think I psyched myself out b/c I didn't have 'my' pen.

During LPN school it was the 'special' pen as well as the same scrub outfit. Not sure when I noticed but I did notice I did much better on tests when i was wearing that 'special' scrub set. haha

And I always took my notes to bed, got comfy and read and fell asleep doing it. I would purposely start reading the notes just as I was getting really sleepy and I made sure I was nice and comfy (In a sleeping postion). I would dream all night long about those notes. it just sort of made it really 'stick' the night before. I could study study study for days and do ok, or I could just study the night before, and read myself to sleep and got better grades than if I studied for days/week etc. (of course I would look over my notes more than just the night before but my 'heavy' duty studying was the afternoon/night before the test.

I almost forgot about something else! In the beginning of my first semester I failed the dosage calc test (ended up with 100% the second time). After the failure, I went to my instructor's office for help and she's this crazy cat lady. I'm not even kidding when I say she had 1000's of little tiny cat figurines in her office. Well, she gave me one as a good luck charm and I have it with me during every exam and it seems to have brought me luck because I've done really well on every exam. It's just weird because I actually don't care for cats but if I don't have it with me I freak out. I actually turned around to go home and get it and was almost late to a test. I'm convinced that the little cat that she gave me has saved my a$$ more than once in nursing school.[/quote']

Google professor Umbridge from Harry Potter ...

LOL

StudentOf, I used the same calculator on every med-dosage exam too - until I lost it! It was my good luck charm from my first prereq class. Of course I failed the exam because I didn't have "Lucky" by my side. I ended up finding it and sailed through the rest of NS!;)

I chew gum during every exam.

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