This is a blatant fish for support. I'm a third semester nursing student. My story is long, but I'll try to use as few excuses as possible.
I started out nursing school in the fall of 2013 with such enthusiasm and excitement. I met some great people and had an excellent support system. I was having a ball. Come summer of 2014, my path began to waver. My husband lost his job, and even with me working as many hours as I possible could, we narrowly missed foreclosure and had to sell our home. My husband moved away for a new job to support us, but I had already ended up failing a class in my summer semester. I was eligible to re enroll for fall, but with selling the house, lack of support, and my own withdrawing from my friends due to my embarrassment of our situation, I opted to take the semester off, and use the time to sell our home, work more hours, and search for a job and hopefully a program to transfer into that was near my husband.
I was able to find both, but, for a long list of reasons, in my second month of semester my husband demanded a divorce. Our relationship was falling apart, blah, blah, and neither of us could handle it. I withdrew to try to salvage my situation.
The program did not have a summer semester, and I re enrolled this fall of 2015 semester.
I failed, by exactly two points.
I've never been anything but an A/B student before "life" got in the way. I was granted an appeal to re enroll this semester, which will leave me graduating in December (a full year from now, when I could of been graduating this may, or even originally, this past summer)
I know I'm in a much better position then many. I'm very fortunate to be able to retake, and to have my instructors vocal, 100% confidence in my clinical skills, though my academics obviously suffered.
Anyway. I'm just feeling blah. I hate that I have to sit through these classes again, do these clinical rotations again. I feel like I'm getting jaded on school alone.
Any words of advice, encouraged, anything, are greatly appreciated.
p.s. anyone who feels like that have it worse then me and that I should be complaining: I know. Trust me, I know I am fortunate. But I am still so, so tired and needed a place to vent. So be nice :)
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Hi All-
This is a blatant fish for support. I'm a third semester nursing student. My story is long, but I'll try to use as few excuses as possible.
I started out nursing school in the fall of 2013 with such enthusiasm and excitement. I met some great people and had an excellent support system. I was having a ball. Come summer of 2014, my path began to waver. My husband lost his job, and even with me working as many hours as I possible could, we narrowly missed foreclosure and had to sell our home. My husband moved away for a new job to support us, but I had already ended up failing a class in my summer semester. I was eligible to re enroll for fall, but with selling the house, lack of support, and my own withdrawing from my friends due to my embarrassment of our situation, I opted to take the semester off, and use the time to sell our home, work more hours, and search for a job and hopefully a program to transfer into that was near my husband.
I was able to find both, but, for a long list of reasons, in my second month of semester my husband demanded a divorce. Our relationship was falling apart, blah, blah, and neither of us could handle it. I withdrew to try to salvage my situation.
The program did not have a summer semester, and I re enrolled this fall of 2015 semester.
I failed, by exactly two points.
I've never been anything but an A/B student before "life" got in the way. I was granted an appeal to re enroll this semester, which will leave me graduating in December (a full year from now, when I could of been graduating this may, or even originally, this past summer)
I know I'm in a much better position then many. I'm very fortunate to be able to retake, and to have my instructors vocal, 100% confidence in my clinical skills, though my academics obviously suffered.
Anyway. I'm just feeling blah. I hate that I have to sit through these classes again, do these clinical rotations again. I feel like I'm getting jaded on school alone.
Any words of advice, encouraged, anything, are greatly appreciated.
p.s. anyone who feels like that have it worse then me and that I should be complaining: I know. Trust me, I know I am fortunate. But I am still so, so tired and needed a place to vent. So be nice :)