In my feelings

[Shanella25]

Hello all,

I'm 22 yrs old and I just got into a nursing program at a college in my area. I got accepted as a transfer student and I will be starting as a sophomore this fall. It is a BSN program, so it will take me 3 yrs to complete. However, 2016 was spouse to be my original graduation yr. But I decided to switch my major to nursing and I got put back by a couple of yrs. And I feel as if I will be so old, compared to my other classmates and I'm also a little miserable because I'm not graduating this yr .

So I'm writing this to ask for some advice on how to deal with these feelings????

[Erythropoiesis]

I will be a month shy of turning 24 by the time I get my (hopefully) acceptance letter in the mail next month. I honestly like it this way. I tried to do college three years ago as an idiot teenager in music school and ended up dropping out with a 1.6 GPA. Thankfully, none of those classes were science classes and I've applied to my school with a 3.8 and a 96 on the HESI. Sometimes you just need to live life and grow up a little before embarking on a serious commitment like nursing. I wouldn't have done anything differently.

[BeachsideRN, ASN]

You're young! I decided to apply to nursing school at 35, will graduate at 37. My class is "older" if I had to guess the average age of my class of 120 students is likely about 27. We have the full range from 28-50+ in my class and I love it. Nursing schools and employers love mature students/employees that have gotten their $#!+ together already

[BeachsideRN, ASN]

My latest bottle of scotch is 3 years older than the OP.

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[BeachsideRN, ASN]

I try to truly remember what I felt like at that age when I read these posts. I don't necessarily think it comes down to feeling old, but feeling like your classmates are going to be way ahead of you in life by the time you graduate. You feel they will all be married, settled into careers, and buying big houses. You may be right on some of that, right now.

You are very young as are your classmates, and yes some if them will rush right out into the wrong marriages and wrong careers. So in three years or so they will still have the newness of everything and be all happy. Give it 5 years or so fit them to realize they made mistakes. I promise that will happen for about 50% of your classmates. The rest will follow scattered paths. Very few will end up how we think life will end up.

I'm much older than you OP and I graduate next week. I'm starting my life over with the man of my dreams, I'm closing on my new home today, and I start my official nursing position in two weeks. Just know as you get older, your perspectives and priorities change. I first got married when I was 23. I didn't go to college but saw all my friends going and getting married, I thought I did too. I was so wrong about that and many other things. I'm not even close to that same girl I was at 22.

This. Hit the nail on the head.

When I got my first bachelor degree, after 6 years of college and several academic major changes, I felt like I was way behind the curve. Life went on, I went on my path had a successful career in research. Was envious of what I *thought* my friends were doing with their lives. Little did I know many of their behind the scenes pains. Many of my friends were on their second marriages and 3rd child before I had even the desire to really settle down.

The point is - you do you, make yourself happy, don't worry about what everyone else is doing because chances are your perception of their reality is altered.