I've been working on them since I was 18..yikes!! I dropped out when I was 20..and started back to school just this last semester.
Im accepted into a LPN program for next fall * deferred my acceptance this year because I'm pregnant* but now im looking at other options..such as a community college for my RN or maybe even working on my pre reqs for longer and applying for a BSN program.
so I might be working for another 1.5yrs if I choose the BSN option..which might be a better fit since I will have 2 small children at home...that way they would be older when I entered a program.
I learned that if you know deep down in your heart you don't have the time or energy to take more than 2 classes then don't. No one is rushing you and it sucks if you fail and have to do it again. I've been there, done that almost every semester. There was only one semester out of the fours years I've been going to school that I didn't drop or fail a class. Even in my first semester I dropped a class. It's best to just go at your own pace and do what's best for you.
I agree slow is always better than fast at least until you realize what you can handle and what you cant.
I went back to school this year and finished my pre-reqs in Spring + Summer, applied after summer and am starting nursing school this Spring.
I live by myself and work full-time so I limited myself to 4 classes/semester (12-16 credits), although I am a pretty good student and if I wasn't working I could easily take 20.
I did have English and Math already finished from before, but if I only worked part-time then I could have taken those at the same time too.
I'm about to enter my third term of pre reqs. So ready for it to be over. By the time I enter my BSN program I will have been in school a year. It's worth it though, I finished my BS a long time ago and its helping me get back into the swing of studying, etc.
As one of the other posters said, I work full time and its hard...but I figure its practice for the program since I will work FT during it as well.
Specializes in CNA (Stroke, Neuro, LTC), Volunteer.
I've been going to school since 2005. But as far as working on my pre-reqs for nursing school this is my 3rd semester. I started in the Spring of 2010, went the Summer semester and then the Fall. It may sound bad but I'm really excited because when I start Spring 2011 classes not only will I be applying to the program but I will have been going to school for a year straight and I've never accomplished that much before so I'm proud of myself. I'm so sick and tired of pre-reqs. This time next year all my pre-reqs will be done and all I will have left is nursing classes, I cannot wait for that day to come :)
I didn't know I wanted to do nursing, so I had gone to college for 3 years before getting into a program. I worked with LPNs who recommended not getting an LPN because most hospitals won't hire you anymore and it's hard to get into LPN-RN bridge programs.
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I agree slow is always better than fast at least until you realize what you can handle and what you cant.