Dropping classes?

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Ahhh. I need some advice everyone! I think I know what I want to do maybe I just want to feel like less of a failure...

I started the semester off with 5 classes... three nursing, an english, and some other general requirement. I never took clinical time and work load into consideration and it is killing me. I already dropped my general course, they can be taken whenever. I just bought a house and am in the process of moving out of my apartment and handling all that business, and am not able to put as much time into school as I would love to.

Does dropping my english class make me a total failure?? :cry: This english class has the worst theme ever and the prof. is insane. I have put more time into english than nursing!!!

It'll drop me to 8 credits.

Reassure me everyone. :(

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Specializes in no specialty! (have to graduate first!).

I guess it depends. Do you need to have full-time status for financial aid or scholarship reasons? Because if that's the case you may want to rethink going down to part-time.

But if that isn't the case, then I would say drop it. Dropping your English has nothing to do with being a failure. You're in nursing school. So obviously you have not failed. Dropping a class because its too big of a workload is not a failure at all. If anything, it just shows your maturity about the situation. Nursing is your first priority as far as your classes are concerned. Being able to admit now that you've taken on too much is better than you trying to get through all those classes and possibly failing out of them.

And just so you know, I also took two classes on top of my nursing classes. I had 17 credits. I dropped one which took me down to 14. I kind of wish I could drop the other one but I have to keep 12 credit hours to keep my financial aid.

If being able to maintain your grade in nursing, drop the course. That's what I would do.

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yeah I dont get financial aid so itll just be a big fat waste on my wallet...but I am so overwhelmed its rediculous

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Specializes in CDI Supervisor; Formerly NICU.

It's a lot easier to pick up a later English class than to repeat all your classes when you fail out of nursing school due to being overloaded.

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Specializes in ER, ICU, Medsurg.
It's a lot easier to pick up a later English class than to repeat all your classes when you fail out of nursing school due to being overloaded.

Ditto

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If you have a bad teacher get out now. You can always take the class later.

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