I know this may sound rediculous but....

[ERsn]

I can't help but not be excited about meeting my future nursing class mates. I know that sounds strange, I mean, everyone seems so excited about making new friends, but i'm not really looking forward to that. I guess i just figure most people are going to be stuck up and just be a pain in the bum. I know ya'll must think i'm childish but it's just a concern of mine. I guess experiences from past courses in school have left we wary. Has anyone had expereinces with annoying class mates and how do you just not give a hoot?

Thanks :paw:

[pca_85]

If you think it's bad in nursing school, wait until you become a RN and have to work with some of them.

With that being said, I was a second career student in my nursing school and I hung out with the older students. We become all supporters of each other. While our other classmates were talking about what they were gonna be doing for spring break, we all made plans to break down a studyguide and meet up on a certain day for a study group.

We still keep in touch after graduation.

I tend to get along more with the older students as well. The ones fresh out of high school-most, not all-don't take school as seriously as they should and their grades reflect it.:sofahider

[ERsn]

Thank you everyone! :D :D

[ERsn]

I guess i just hope school's a good experience. Other areas of my life already has it's own drama.... lol

[EDjunkie]

i completely understand where you are coming from. after being a pca for almost 4 years when i started nursing school, i knew there were going to be a lot of people in my class who probably hadn't stepped foot in a hospital since the day they were born, and that it would get aggravating having to constantly be held up in lecture for those people who *always* had stupid questions. eventually it does get better. i have met some amazing friend while in nursing school, and i've also realized that those people i did meet, i probably wouldn't have been able to make it through the program without them there and us constantly pushing and encouraging each other.

i wish you all the best. hang in there...the light at the end of the tunnel is closer than you think.

less than 4 months to go for me!!!

[sh1901]

There are going to be some people that no matter what you just can't seem to make yourself like. Most people are a little "stuffy" the first couple weeks, but when you all start getting tired and stressed it puts you on more of an even playing field and most everyone gets along. hang in there - it will be ok!

[slacktime]

Dearest Ridiculous,

If you are thinking that nursing students are like the lazy, whiny students you met while taking your prerequisite classes, they aren't. Generally, nursing students are a select group of bright, hard working, balanced people. Those that are not will be gone after the first or second semester.

I just finished an ADN program last month, I spoke at our convocation, this is how I felt and what I said to my classmates:

"I never dreamed that the most rewarding part of our training would be the time we spent together. In class, sometimes furiously writing notes. In the lab, tangled in IV tubing, air bubbles going round and round, saline dripping in my shoe. Studying together, where we would start discussing hydrochlorothiazide pharmacology, segue to an amateur movie review and end up talking about orthostatic dyspnea. In the hospital, where we went from shaky fingers, shaky voices, and being able to accomplish 3 tasks in only 5 trips to the patients room, to the competent graduate nurses we are today. It has been an amazing time of personal growth for me, for all of us I am sure. Sharing it with each other has made it all the more memorable. Remember our time together and be gratefull to each other for the experience, I am."

Mark