Starting school soon..

I am starting this fall. I read all the horror stories on here. Yes I am sure it all requiers a lot of selfstudy and focus. But my mom became an RN while she raised 2 sons (not the best on the behavior side of things) at the same time. I am 35ish now and decided to make a career change from contracting to medicine. I was a paramedic for 8 years before contracting and miss a lot about it. The feeling of "I did something good today." has been missing. So no matter the sacrafice I CAN DO THIS AND WILL DO THIS. All All classes are complete with good grades except my core nursing classes and 'human growth and development' and a humanity. So my couseload wont be as bad as some. A&P 1 and 2 were tough. I belive that if you set your mind to it you can do anything. This will be a piece of cake.(Just maybe an old piece of cake that got hard on ya, but you can swallow it!!!!)

I too am starting my classes this month. I have been out of school for 13 years. What is getting me worried the most if just not remembering how to be a student, how to study the right things. I dont really care that im 1 of 4 men in my class or that im 1 of 3 white people in the class either. I was in the Army for 12 years I dont see color or working with woman as a issue. I had schooling in the Army to advance in rank and was always finished with honors, but that was the Army. I know that I am not stupid, but I also know I am not the smartest cookie in the box. I just know that I will have to work harder and longer then most. I hope that my background and my will not to quit will push me thru the rought times ahead. I salute you all for taking this step and looking past the BS that men get for chosing Nursing as thier path in life. Good luck to you all.

I too am a Veteran, and hoping to start this fall. This will be my second career, and I'm looking forward to it. I'm 34 right now, and will be 36 when I graduate.

Jason