Full time for 1st time

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hello all,

for the past two years i have been attending southwest tennessee community college and i will start baptist college of health sciences this spring :D, i have registered for my classes and all that stuff. i have 21 hours that are transferable to baptist from southwest. even though i had like 35 at southwest.

i am just nervous because when i went to southwest i only went part time, but this coming spring i will be a full blown full time student, 13hrs.

for the past 4 1/2 years my husband has been attending the university of memphis, and we have always worked our schedules around our daughter so someone is always home with her, avoiding daycare.(hence, me going part time) he graduates dec. 13th, finally, ha ha.

just wonder if anyone has ever made that transition from part time to full time? if so, how did it go?

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I am just wrapping up my first quarter as a full-time student. I did all of my pre-requisites part-time. I worked probably 40-50 hours a week and then took one class per semester.

Honestly, it was a weird transition to go from full-time work and part-time school to no job, full-time student. I did my first bachelors degree 15 years ago and did the traditional move to college right out of high school. Obviously a completely different experience than this time around.

Now I'm approaching school with 10+ years of real-world, independent working woman experience. I think it's been harder for me to adjust my expectations because of that. I'm very used to controlling my own schedule but in NS it feels like you just have to hand yourself over to them and be happy with what you're given. I have to take my classes when they're offered, I have to sign up for whatever clinical site is available (regardless of where it's located in reference to where I live), I have to be able to make schedule changes on the fly because they always seem to be coming up with little things here and there that we "have" to attend/do that were not mentioned at the beginning of the quarter.

As far as work load from part-time to full-time, yeah, it's a difference! I'm still working on developing good study habits. I've found out a lot about what works for me and what doesn't this quarter; now I just need to put it into practice!

Congratulations on the move to full-time. Best of luck to you!

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Thanks for the luck, i'm gonna need it. I did exactly the same thing as you with the part time classes.

Good luck to you as well!:snowflake:

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