Summer Sessions are for Champs!!!

Nursing Students Pre-Nursing

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Summer session classes just started this past Monday, and I already feel wiped out! :dead: I'm taking an 8-wk Microbio class, to be followed by a 5-wk A&P II class before I'm finished with prereqs and off to start to my ABSN program in the Fall.

I have my first test in Microbio this coming Tuesday (after just ONE wk of class!) and the professor is intense! Not to mention the fact that I'm already at a disadvantage because I'm in a highler level Microbio class than I should be. Due to low enrollment in, and the cancellation of, my originally scheduled class, I was forced to take whatever Microbio I class was available in order to complete the prereqs in time to start my program. What the heck have I gotten myself into!??? I earned my first Bachelor's degree at a school that operates on quarter systems, so I'm used to the quick turnover of courses. However, during that degree I wasn't taking sciences lol!

Of course it can be done, but working full-time and trying to incorporate workouts and healthy eating is NOT helping. Up at 5am, at work by 7:30a, off work by 4p, on the road to classes for an hr and 15mins, class and lab from 5:30p-8:05p, and then a 40 min drive home to do it all over again, 4x a week...and somewhere in there, I have to find the time to study, do homework, workout, clean, prep meals and fundraise to finance my nursing degree (bye bye weekends! :woot:) Anyone else out there feeling the pressure this Summer? If so, just know that we're all in the struggle together! This is only the beginning! Be encouraged everyone. :up:

Specializes in PICU, Pediatrics.

It's great to know that we're all in the struggle together! How are classes going for everyone??

Specializes in OMFS, Dentistry.

I am taking A&P II summer.. holy intense!! I can't wait for Fall so it won't be this insane

Specializes in Maternal Child, Home Health, Med/Surg.

I'm taking chemistry in the summer with my human life span and development and ouch. Both are 8 week courses. I kind of love it though. It's so quick that it forces me to be on my toes, where normal semesters bore me(not that I can't do it, I had never done accelerated before). But the demand of information makes me a diligent studier because I know I literally CANNOT get behind.

I feel you!!! I'm taking 3 classes this summer, work full time and am a single mom if 2. Sometimes I so see how crazy I really am taking all this on!!! But like you, I have to take a certain amount if credits/classes this semester to get everything completed on time. Good luck with your first test!

Specializes in Psychiatry.

I am taking A&P II and American Lit this summer. Can't wait for it to be over, it has been insane!

I am 2.5 weeks away from being done with chemistry! I can't wait.

Hi guys!!

I'm taking a 5 week MicroBio class that just started today... Lab and class 4 days a week! I really hope I can do this ~ I'm terrified but it's my last science pre-req and I hear from the BSN program in October for Spring start! We can do this! AHHHH! :)

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