Finals Week Has Me Feeling Blue

[rkolberg]

I am currently in my last semester of prerequistites at SUNY Brockport. I rushed through my prereqs, and didn't take any easy A classes because when I started school I didn't know just how hard it would be. My advisor didn't help me at all--in fact she encouraged me to take classes out of order, and basically my GPA is screwed because of it. This semester has been nothing but tears, and pulling out my hair.

Tomorrow I have my last three final exams.

One in Microbiology.

One in A&P

One in Italian

These three grades will determine whether or not I am in the program next year. I have been trying to study, but worry I just don't know HOW to study. My GPA drops even a tiny bit, and I am done. I guess I just needed a place to vent that is not my parents, my boyfriend (who hears enough of my college woes), or my cousin (who is taking business classes). My mom constantly is dissapointed in me for not having straight As. I was a straight A student in high school, so I guess that was supposed to carry into college. Lately I have been feeling alone, depressed, and wondering why in the world I want to be a nurse anymore when school is making me feel this way.

Anyone else out there having these feelings?

[FutureNurseInfo]

Sorry to hear about your problems. Trust me, many people go through similar situations in life. I am also completing my pre-reqs and I usually feel uneasy around the finals' week. I feel like we all are pressured to perform, and meet, at times, unrealistic expectations, to always be "perfect". And if we cannot perform, meet the expectations, or be "perfect", we feel like we have failed. In my life experience I learned that, as much as we would like to be always be "perfect" - an A student - it may not always last. Sometimes it would be just ok to settle for less perfect, a B. So all I can say is, try your hardest and hope for the best. As long as you believe you did your best, I think you will feel fine.