what class kicked your backside?

Nursing Students Pre-Nursing

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anything?Im not expecting a cakewalk by ANY means...but hopefully with serious studying and focus I can pull through

What was the class that was the most challeging/difficult for you?

Microbiology (due to the professor, not the subject matter).

Got an 81 on the first exam (!), but I fought back and got a 98 on the final... and got an A for the course. :cool:

It was an ordeal, but thanks to that class, I definitely possess some serious study skills!

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Organic Chemistry and Physics. Strangely enough, since lecture and lab were graded seperately I always seemed to do pretty good in lab but just barely scraping by in lecture. That never made any sense to me:banghead:

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Specializes in LTC, Med-surg.

Thanks guys for the advice and the anecodotes. I hope I am on the right track by finding chemistry and biology easy except biology is getting increasingly hard what with the introduction of the intricacies of cellular respiration. Chemistry is starting to lose me a bit in the Lewis structures of molecules. I can't draw them correctly. :[ Hopefully, I'll get better as the exam for that chapter is in about 2 weeks.

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Art History II (Renaissance to Modern Art) is the most challenging for me simply because the subject bores me to death. I find it hard to complete the readings (each chapter is 20+ pages) without my mind wandering. There's a lot of busy work and minute details I must remember that I don't care about.

I've already taken all my prereqs (including Chem, A & P, and Micro) and Art History is my last prereq. I did well in all my science prereqs but I'm having a hard time in Art History. I've always been a math and science person, and a good student in general, but it's so much harder to learn something that you have absolutely no interest in and will have no use for in the future.

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I'd take Art History any day over Chemistry!!! But then both my degrees are in Art....Chemistry on the other hand makes absolutely no sense to me. I feel like a 5 year old learning how to write. Amazing how everyones brain work so differently.

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Specializes in Psych, LTC/SNF, Rehab, Corrections.

Nothing yet, really but then I just started my pre-reqs. LOL

Had some challenging courses in my previous major but nothing with nursing, yet.

I'm thinking that Pharmacology may be a bit difficult. I don't know if it's difficult because it's hard to grasp...or difficult to retain the sheer amt of material, though.

Doing well in Chem and Anat&Phys.

First tests.

- 96 in lecture.

- 82 in lab.

Evening class avg for the lab test was a B. I think we were all a bit underprepared for the whole 'fill in the blank' type test. LOL Everyone's test sheet was filled with red slashes. LOL

Lots of just...silly mistakes.

Some folks couldn't recall 'endoplasmic reticulum' to spell it correctly and chose to abbreviate it -- but did that incorrectly...and had points taken off. LOL

I misspelled 'arrector pili'. Two 'L's instead of one. Took points off for that. LOL

The tissue samples were another major issue.

...because people kept moving them! The Prof adjusted one slide, like 3 times. LOL

Clearly, it was too much to ask that folks:

1. **READ** THE QUESTION.

2. Peer through the oculars

3. Identfy whatever the pointer was pointing towards.

Some people seemed to be like, "No. We must move everything out of position!"

These people had to feel all over the microscopes. Screw around with the knobs. Stick their fingers all in the slide, etc...

I watched form afar while waiting for tables to open up, like, "Dude - why are you turning knobs...?"

That's not even an objective. LOL We didn't learn a thing that had anything thing to do with 'turning or manipulating' anything on the microscope.

But anyway, doing the test the 'fill in the blank' way is a good idea. It helps the student. Encourages them to study harder and really learn the info, I believe.

In Chem

- got an 86. Kind of neglected Chem a bit in favor of bio. Taking the Test 2 tomorrow, I've no idea why I'm awake but I cannot sleep. LOL The material for test 2 is easier so I should perform better.

Neither class is difficult. Bio is just a lot of info to swallow. Some of it isn't all that interesting.

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