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actually had a mother give me a long sob story in triage how she couldn't afford Tylenol to treat her child's fever, doc orders 8 free doses to send home with mom, while I'm in med room getting her free Tylenol, her boyfriend brings in breakfast for the whole family and coffee from McDonalds!!!

I just took the TEAS and it was harder than I expected. There were students in classes with me with 3.5 GPAs and above that failed the test. I used the study guide from www.atitesting.com. It saved my life!!! I only studied the math part thinking I would just need a little refreshing. phhhttt! Study the science part over and over and over!!! That part kicked my butt!

I feel you!!! You hang in there, it will be worth it. I am supposed to FINALLY start the nursing program this fall. It took me 6 semesters to get my pre-reqs done. I started only going half time and working Mon-Fri as a loan officer and weekends as a hospital registration clerk. That was taking too long so I took out a private student loan to pay off all my bills, sold my house, paid off my truck and quit the loan officer job to work midnights at the hospital. I make half of what I did but me and my husband moved in with my elderly father in law. He needed the help and living expenses are half what we were paying. Also what helps is, I took as many classes as possible online. Alot of your basics are offered that way and that way it makes your schedule a little more flexible. Where there is a will THERE IS A WAY!!

I still don't know yet.....Won't know till after June 15....Going to be insane from waiting by then...

To offer a little I been there advice........A private student loan may not be this best thing. By the time the loan gets approved and the papers are signed it's NOTHING like they promise in all the commercials. I have one for 18K that in 2 years has accumulated over $4k in interest. The payments on it by itself will be over $300/month not speaking of the rest of my regular financial aid. Just really research it before you do it and READ THE FINE PRINT THOROUGHLY!!!!

You don't have to have any experience!! All it requires is computer experience, typing, and a high school diploma. I actually started this job as a weekend 2nd job after the company I worked for closed down. When I decided to go back to school, they agreed to work with me on my schedule. So I quit my 34K a year job to work full time. The money is not all that but they offer the Baylor's program and tuition reimbursment which is absolutely PRICELESS!!

Sometimes working while going to school is not a choice. I just finished A&P I with a A and I worked 40 hours the entire time. If you have to have a roof over your head and groceries, then God will provide a way. I work as a an admitting clerk in the ER midnight shift so I can go to school during the day. I just put all my classes on Tues and Thurs and we work 12 hour shifts. So I work Thurs,Fri, and Sat's and a 6 hr shift on Sunday nights. This has worked out wonderfully. Fall 2009 when I hopefully enter the program the hospital will transfer me to the floor to work the Baylor's program. I will work 12 hr shifts Sat and Sun and I get paid for 36 hours at about $2.50 more a hour than I do now so the 4 hr cut a week won't hurt so much. The hospital doesn't advertise they even offer the Baylor's and its for existing employees seeking their RN only. You could try to get a clerical job that way you have a foot in the door when it comes time. Don't worry so much! Where there is a will, there is a way!!

I Have A&p 1 Starting In 2 Wks. I Have Heard Horror Stories!! Because A Class Was Full Last Spring I Am A Class Behind. This Is Going To Put Me Taking Microbiology During A 5 Wk Summer Semester. Everyone Says I Must Be Crazy. I Work Full Time But This Would Be My Only Class. Any Thoughts? Anyone Been There? I'M STRESSING.

Not Sure If I Can Offer Anything But I Has Some Serious Financial Aid Problems. I Applied To 15 Different Companies For Private Loans When Fafsa Wasn't Enough, Got Turned Down By All Of The Them Because Alot Of Them Are Need Based, I Made Over 30k A Year. Now I'm Quitting My 30k Job To Take A 15k Job So I Can Go To School Full Time, My Mom Had To Cosign The Private Student Loan For Me So I Could Pay Off A Whole Lot Bills. This Might Be Your Only Solution But Trust Me Try To Avoid Private Loans If At All Possible, My Payment On This One 18k Loan Alone Will Be Almost $300/mo Once I Graduate And That Doesn't Even Include Any Of The Gov't Money I've Received. But I Do Know The More Dependants And The Less Household Income The Better Chances You Have Of Getting "free" Money. So We've Decided For My Husband Not To Work, And Me To Continue To Work At A Local Hospital Because They Offer Tuition Reimbursement So Fall Of 09 I Ought To Rack Up In Grants.

I'm Kinda In The Same Situation Now. I Am Switching Jobs So I Can Go To School Full Time. I Intended On Taking All My Classes On Tues And Thurs So I Can Take Off Mon And Wed (midnights)now The School I Am Transferring To Won't Let Me Register Until I Go Through A Transfer Orientation And I've Been Keeping A Ck Online And Some Of The Classes I Was Planning On Taking Are Full And Closed But I Was Told If You Have Special Circumstances Even If The Classes You Need Are Closed You Can Email Your Instructors And They Will Still Fit You In.

I'm Amazed At The Number Of People Leaving Finance For Nursing. I've Been A Finance Manager And Worked In This Field For 7 Yrs Now. I Did Two Semesters Part Time And Decided I'm Too Old, (32) For This To Take 10 Yrs So I Took A Much Lesser Paying Job On Midnights So I Can Start Full Time Next Week. I Had Heard The The President Of The Bank Which I Work For Had A Habit Of Telling People To Go Ahead And Leave When They Turned In Their Notice So I Just Did It. Everyone Has Been Very Supportive And The 11th Is My Last Day.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS. I'VE COMPLETED TWO SEMESTERS PART TIME AND HAVE MANAGED TO KEEP A 4.0 EVEN THOUGH WORKING UP TWO JOBS. I GAVE UP MY MUCH HIGHER PAYING JOB TO ACCEPT A MIDNIGHT POSITION AND GO TO SCHOOL FULL TIME NEXT SEMESTER; I WAS REALLY WORRIED ABOUT WORKING FULL TIME AND GOING TO SCHOOL FULL TIME. YOU ARE PROOF I CAN STILL DO WELL BECAUSE I'M ONLY TAKING 4 CLASSES INSTEAD OF 6. THANKS FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT.

Well I've Finished Two Semesters And I Find Those 5 Subject Notebooks Wonderful, Its Easier Than Trying To Keep Up With Different Ones For Every Class Also Get You Some Of Those Little Colored Sticky Flags To Mark Pages They Are The Most Wonderful Invention Ever.

I Start Full Time On Campus This Spring. I'm 32 And Scared Too Death. I'm Taking 4 Classes Which They Won't Even Let Me Register Yet Because I'm Transferring And They Make You Go Through This Orientation And Talk To A Specific Advisor Before They Let You Pick Your Classes And I've Been Keeping A Ck Online And The Ones I Wanted Are Already Full And Closed And I Dont Even Know Who My Teachers Are Or Anything About Them And I Need To Get Textbooks And Will I Be The Oldest One In Class And What If I Cant Find My Rooms And What If I'm Late And Cant Find A Parking Spot AnD I'VE HEARD HORROR STORIES ABOUT A&P I ..and....i Think I Need A Nerve Pill And I Havent Even Started Yet

I Just Stop At All The Green Lights On The Way Home.

Well I Have Two Jobs, One Day Shift And Weekends Midnight Shift. This Is All Right Except On Friday's When I Work 8am-5pm, Then Go Back In 10:30pm-7am. One Sat Morning After Being Up About 27 Hrs, My Husband Tells Me To Pick Up A Sun Paper For His Dad, Not Only Did I Go To One Place Looking For A Sun Paper, I Went Two Places And Couldn't Figure Out Why Everyone Was Already Out Of Sunday Papers Till I Asked Someone At The Second Store I Went To If The Sun Papers Had Come In Yet, She Sd Not Till Tom, Today Is Saturday. Felt Like A Total Goob!!! My Husband Thought It Was Hilarious.

Well I Work Two Jobs, 40/wk At One And 16/wk At The Other And Take Two Classes A Semester. I've Got Really Good At Doing Two Things At One Time. My Second Job Is Midnights So When We're Slow I Do Homework. I Also Snuck In Time At My First Job To Get Something Done Last Minute. You'll Figure It Out.

I'm 31 And Started Spring 07. Can Only Take Two Classes At A Time Because I Work Two Jobs. Have A 4.0 So Far So I'm Hanging In There. I Don't Know About The Nursing Classes, Haven't Got That Far Yet, But In The Basics They're Alot Of Young'ens. Lol. Just Look At All Them And Remember You're Wiser!!

I'm Wondering The Same Thing. I Work Two Jobs 56 Hrs A Wk And Take 2 Classes A Semester. For Right Now It's Ok, I Struggle But Manage To Get My Homework Done. Univ Of Tn Offers Satellite Classes In The Town I Work So I Take Them At My Old High School, But Not Sure How Long I Can Milk That. Then I Will Switch To Another School Who Offers Alot Of Online Classes To Finish My Basics. Then I Have To Switch Again For The Actual Nursing Program To Find One Closest To My House. Still Haven't Figured Out How I'm Going To Manage To Not Work Full Time, (will Lose Health Ins) And Take Classes During The Day (only Time Actual Nursing Classes Are Offered)and Pay Bills But I Have Wanted To Do This My Entire Life I'm 31 And Not Getting Any Younger. Just Figure If There's A Will There's A Way.

I'M GOING TO UNIV OF TN AT MARTIN. CAN ONLY TAKE TWO CLASSES A TIME BECAUSE I WORK 56 HRS A WK. TAKING ENG 112 AND PSY 120 THIS TIME. GOING TO TAKE ME FOREVER TO FINISH BUT I'M TRYING TO PAY OFF AS MANY BILLS AS POSSIBLE SO I CAN GO FULL TIME. GAVE UP MY HOUSE AND ME AND DH MOVED IN WITH MY FIL TO SAVE MONEY. GETTING THERE SLOWLY BUT SURELY. WHAT ARE YOU TAKING THIS SEMESTER?

I KNOW!! I WORK TWO JOBS NOW THOUGH SO I DONT HAVE A LIFE TO MISS!! TRYING TO GET SCHOLARSHIPS THEY ALWAYS ASK YOU YOUR HOBBIES AND LIFE INTERESTS. WHAT'S A HOBBY? IS SLEEPING AND EATING A LIFE INTEREST? LMAO

I THINK I HAD MORE TROUBLE THAN ANYBODY I KNOW! TURNED DOWN BY 15 COMPANIES! STAFFORD LOANS ARE THE ONLY THING I CAN GET. $6625 FIRST YEAR $7500 SECOND YEAR. NOT ENOUGH FOR FULL TIME BUT THE AMOUNT INCREASES EVERY YEAR. JUST HAVE TO START OFF PART TIME AND WORK UP. GOOD LUCK TO YOU!

I Have Ok Credit, Know It Because My Primary Job Is A Loan Officer Right Now While I'm In Pre Reqs, And I Have Been Turned Down From Over 15 Companies For Student Loans. I Work Two Jobs So No Grants, Stafford Loans Are The Only Thing I'm Able To Get. But The Amount Increases Every Year You're In School, So Just Start Part Time And You Can Work Up To More. This Is What I'm Having To Do.

FINANCIAL AID HAS BEEN AWARDED!!! HAVE ENOUGH TO GET ME THROUGH 3 SEMESTERS PART TIME!!! STILL IN PRE REQS BUT I'M GETTING THERE!!!!:balloons::monkeydance:

OH NO, YOU'RE DEFINITELY NOT THE ONLY ONE. I'M 31 AND JUST NOW STARTING BACK TO SCHOOL. I HAVE WORKED MY BUTT OFF SINCE I WAS 16 AND I WATCH PEOPLE JUST OUT OF SCHOOL WHO DON'T KNOW THEIR BUTT FROM A HOLE IN THE GROUND GET PD TWICE AS MUCH AS ME. I ALWAYS THOUGHT WORK ETHIC AND EXPERIENCE WOULD BE THE KEY. WRONG AND WRONG AGAIN. LEARNED MY LESSON AND HAVE ONE SEMESTER OF PRE REQS OUT OF THE WAY. LUCKY ME I NOW HAVE A HUSBAND WHO DOES ALL THE COOKING, CLEANING,AND SHOPPING WHICH GIVES ME ALOT MORE TIME TO STUDY INSTEAD OF THE DRUGGY BUM I WAS MARRIED TO RIGHT OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL. FATE HAS A WAY OF WORKING THINGS OUT.