TCAT-Hartsville LPN Fall 2013 (Tennessee College of Applied Technology)

U.S.A. Tennessee

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Hey is anybody else out there going to start next TCAT-H Tuesday? (09/03/13)

My bio:

I live in Hendersonville (former home of Johnny Cash and Roy Orbison). Married, two wonderful kids (one each, ages 10 & 12). I like cars especially Audi (Have an A8) and my hobby is doing laundry and reading the entire internet.

I was at one time an EMT (volunteer) and I have worked as an equipment tech for Apria Home Healthcare and KCI (the air bed company). I also sold metal cutting tools and started my own industrial supply company. Now I'm going back to school to do what I was doing when I was offered the "brass ring" and took it back in 1994. I was taking Micro and A&P and applying to RN programs when I was offered a lucrative sales job. I took it, it paid pretty well but was utterly unfulfilling. So now I shall start the LPN program at TCAT (Tennessee College of Applied Technology) which until last month was known as the Tennessee Technology Center Hartsville (TTCH). There are five guys in the class of forty-some students. I am as giddy as a schoolgirl, if you'll pardon the expression. I truly am excited!

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thats awesome! Thanks for sharing so much! I will be attending TCAT hartsville in January 2014, any good starter tips? : )

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Do not expect the breaks and lunch hour - or even dismissal - to occur anywhere near the allotted times. For a school that's so hung up on being in your seat at 8:00 and homework being unacceptable after 0800, they do not respect the students' time one iota. Very unprofessional. I just pretend that lunch is supposed to be at 12:30, not at 11:30 as scheduled, and it bothers me less. What does drive me insane is how a great deal of very important information is presented AFTER dismissal time. I have to leave right at 2:30 because I have to pick up my kids at their school 35 minutes away, and I have missed studying for tests because they announced an exam AFTER DISMISSAL! Now that I have made some friends in the class they look out for this and let me know but, again, this school is not like a real college in many respects. Another example is today the maintenance guy was actually painting the metal doors and frames inside our classroom WHILE THE TEACHER WAS TRYING TO LECTURE! I mean, scraping the metal frames and then not even getting out of the way while we literally had to step over him to go to break! It's pretty unbelievable really. I have had profs at real universities who would have calmly walked over and dumped the can of paint over the guy's head who tried that in THEIR classroom.

/rant off.

Good luck in any case...

Tom

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