Am I setting myself up for failure?

[Kaylle]

I am a freshman pre-nursing student and I will be taking Intro to Organic Chemistry this fall. Yikes!!

I am soooo nervous that you cannot even believe it. My school doesn't require Gen Chem as a pre-req to take Organic Chem, but I can't take Gen Chem first even If I wanted to because it's capped at 31/30 students (someone was forcibly added) .

But the good thing about all of this is that I can just focus on Organic Chemistry only this fall because I'm just taking 3 liberal arts classes with it (reading and writing based).

My advisor is giving me the option to see how I like it my first week and if I don't think I can handle it he will drop it.

The direct entry nursing program I will be applying to this fall requires their students to take Organic Chem with A&P 1. So that does make me feel just a little better.

So my question is: will this be doable to you personally and do you think I am setting myself up for failure? Should just drop the course now before I get too over my head?

[traumaRUs, MSN, APRN]

Moved to prenursing forum

[brandiep1982]

To me personally? Personally, I sit myself down. I figure out what my goals are. I map out my path to those goals. Then I fully commit to those stepping stones and get to work. Stop doubting yourself. Do what you gotta do if you really want it.