40 years and over?!

[jlpn2004]

41 years young here! Starting nursing prerequisites in the fall! Two babies 20 and 14 lol! Probably end up in college with the both of them. Advise or encouragement would be greatly appreciated! Very nervous! Have been an LPN for 10 years have not been back to school since. Hoping to go all the way to my BSN from scratch. Starting with 1 to 3 classes in the fall, but I work Full time is this a possible or should I only start with One?? How do online classes work as Seminole State Florida? I have a long haul ahead of me but with the grace and mercy of God, here I goooooo!

Thank you

J

[CDEWannaBe]

Just start taking classes. Start with one and see how you do and how many you can handle going forward. I went all year round and did a mix of online and traditional classes. The online classes offer more flexibility but usually take more work. I'd also try to schedule easy and tough classes in the same semester, so I did Statistics and Nutrition together since stats was difficult for me. Nursing school is incredibly difficult to get into, so work hard and get A's in your prereq classes.

Before enrolling in a class look up the teacher on www.RateMyProfessor.com Save money by renting books from www.chegg.com (get the book's ISBN from the school bookstore's website and then see if Chegg has it, you'll save lots of money).

The biggest surprise to me going back to school in my late 30's and early 40's was that despite all the technology, the top students in my Microbiology and Physiology classes still learned the material using flash cards they'd made.

You will also love some of the new stuff, like how you enroll online and how fast professors grade. And their gradebooks are online so you can see exactly what grade you have in a class. Much better than in the past.

[jlpn2004]

Thank you so much for all the great info!! Truly appreciated!!!