Anyone familiar with this?

[RTsoonRN]

Ok so this is my first thread so I hope I do it ok. I just had a question for all you "salty-dogs" and students that hopefully are experiencing/have experienced the same thing. Right now I am an RT with several years experience going for my RN. I am doing it online through Rue/Excelsior (i'm sure most of you are familiar with the concept of the program) because I am working 40 hours and taking care of a 10 & 6 y/o. My question is I find myself CONSTANTLY reading the texts, doing the workbooks, doing the online material, and then doing it over and over and over and over. I ABSOLUTELY love it! But, I find myself getting more and more exausted and lots of the time barely able to keep my eyes open and concentrate. I've passed all my exams on the first shot every time and have been doing this non-stop since Janurary. I just wanted to know if this is what it's like for someone in a traditional nursing school/class because I find myself trying to push myself harder and reading or doing anything remotely related to nursing even if it doesn't have to do the class(es) i'm taking because I worry about the job prospect of someone who has taken an online bridge program to ASN as opposed to a traditional program ASN.

[SnMrsSmiley]

im in a traditional adn program. I do the same things. If im not driving my car (well i listen to lecture through my heeadphones then as well) im reading, practicing, going through note cards, taking practice tests, rewriting notes etc etc etc. I literally saturate myself in the material. Its working though. I make high 90's on my tests and we have alot of really smart people failing out. I have three kids all under the age of 9.... so yes its exhausting, i dont sleep much. But it will be worth it to get through this program. I think for me its better to saturate in the material then to only study right before tests because its less stressful for me. I may not have a life at the moment BUT i dont have that added stress of being on the pass fail line either.