Grad school grades

I'm doing much better in grad school vs my BSN. Probably because I'm completing this degree by choice, not because I'm ready to get out and working! The fact that you have to make A's and B's in order to stay in my program is probably also a factor. Also, I think I'm more serious and just plain more mature this time around.

I got much better grades in grad school than in undergrad. I thought the graduate work was much, much easier -- less rote memory, less "busy work," etc. and more straightforward intellectual work about concepts, theories, etc. in grad school. To me, that stuff was always easier and more fun than the laborious undergraduate drudgery. In grad school, if you understood the material, you would do fine. But undergrad had a lot of additional hoops to jump through that frustrated me and I rebelled.

I agree with this as far as the undergrad goes...so much bs busy work for grades. I hear the Masters program is much easier compared to the undergrad program at our school...probably cause its more focused and less bs stuff which i too have no patience for.

Mex

I've had a couple of friends over the years who excelled at the drudgery work of their undergraduate programs and then struggled in graduate schools. It seemed to me that they had never learned to think independently. They were good at memorizing things and spitting it back and/or writing detailed reports of facts copied out of books and patient charts -- but had never learned to think -- reason, evaluate, etc. ideas. The conceptual world of grad school was simply not a realm they could relate to. They could follow concrete, step-by-step procedures, but could not go beyond that.

this exactyl why i'm soooo excited to start my MSN program in two weeks!!! this is the stuff i love

Mex