I quit, now regret it. HELP!

[prairiegirl]

I got into a BSN program this fall, and quit after 3 days. I basically got panicked, said "what the heck am I doing" and changed my major to business. It was so overwelming and I felt physically sick from it all. Now, I regret it. I hate business classes. They are boring, not challenging, and have no meaning. I want to go back to nursing, but I"m going to be a year behind due to course sequencing. I think I can take a few classes in the spring which will cut next fall's course load in half and make it much less overwhelming. I have no medical experience, so reading every textbook was like greek. I think if I take it more spaced out (maybe even part-time) I could do fine. I have a hard time learning alot really quickly. I usually have to read things at least 3 times, and hear them at least once to get it. I still want to be a nurse. I went to see my sister-in-law have her baby yesterday, and I almost cried because I want so bad to be a nurse, but I just quit the nursing program (too late to drop add now).

Has anyone else quit, and then regrouped and went back? I feel like such a failure. I wish I had just stuck it out. Now even if I go back, all my friends will be far ahead of me. And my husband will go, "youre going back to nursing? You better make up your mind and quit changing your major".

Also, the BSN program I was in is 1 hour and 15 minutes away from my house. Some clinicals would be 2 hours away. There is an ADN program 15 minutes from my house with all clinicals within 40 minutes away. If I am only 2 years from a BSN, would it be stupid to go to an ADN program now, just for the convenience of its location? Will I be giving up a better education? For one, I really truely love the faculty at the BSN school (mostly because I know them already). I dont know what to do. I think I am going to volunteer at the hospital once a week for the rest of this semester just to get used to hospitals etc. I am stuck with my sucky business classes this semester, so I guess I'll just trudge through them. Maybe I could just get a BSN and minor in business? Since I'll have nearly a business minor by then.

Could someome please help me out, advise me, let me know i am not the only idiot who freaked and quit when I really do want to be a nurse?

[Daytonite, BSN, RN]

I have no medical experience, so reading every textbook was like greek. I think if I take it more spaced out (maybe even part-time) I could do fine. I have a hard time learning alot really quickly. I usually have to read things at least 3 times, and hear them at least once to get it. . .Now even if I go back, all my friends will be far ahead of me.

I think you've probably done a pretty good job of talking yourself back into nursing. I would just like to comment on two things you've said.

First of all, there are very few people in the world who consistently learn and retain information the first time they read or hear it. Learning and retaining information involves repetition and the use of more than one method (reading, hearing, hands on acitivty). I advise nursing students to not just read their textbooks, but to read articles about different nursing subjects, and seek out other sources of information about the diseases they are covering in their program. The same information presented from a different perspective can set off little sparks of understanding in your brain that make the difference as to whether you learn it or forget it.

Second, I don't know how old you are (I didn't look that closely at your profile), but if there is one thing I've learned in my journey through life, it is that friends come and go out of our lives all the time. Today's friend is tomorrow's fond memory. A new friend awaits around every corner. Your old friends may be ahead of you, but you will make new friends--I promise. Not only that, but since you have some friends who are ahead of you, you've got some instant help with what you're going to have to endure when you get to those classes that they are now taking. That's a real advantage!

Chin up. I left bookkeeping because it was so incredibly boring. I still don't understand how auditors can get all hyped up at their jobs. Go back to your BSN program. You won't be happy in the ADN program at all. You will constantly regret not moving forward to get your bachelors degree.