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i mailed off my first application monday, won't hear back on that one until may... the other 2 schools start accepting applications february 1st. i'm so excited to be applying!! i'm applying to three adn programs: los medanos cc san joaquin delta cc solano cc all in the sf bay area

aw thanks for the encouragment guys :) i'm finishing my last pre req this fall & then i begin the task of applying, i've got about 7 schools in a 60 mile radius. i feel so calm with the whole process of it until i come onto allnurses forums and i read about how excited people are, how they just got accepted, or how they've been denied for the third time and i just wonder what my fate will be. i knew from a very young age i wanted to be a nurse so it's hard to even begin to think of a back up degree, which this thread has certainly encouraged me to do. again thanks :)

it makes me so darn anxious! when i hear people talking about being accepted or having to wait 3 years to be accepted it just makes the butterflies in my stomach start a fluttering. lol. anyone else? sheesh how am i going to stand actually applying and hearing back?

MisStake... i don't even know you and i could almost cry for you. that is just so wonderful, congrats on getting IN!!!!!

one of the tougher subjects/chapters was on cellular respiration... be on the look out for that stuff.. i had to study VERY hard to get an A in micro, hardest class *for me* to date.. much harder then A&P imho.

Yay for sahm's.. I'm one too and I am in a similar situation to you. I go to school at night when hubby can stay with our two children. Money is a factor and so is daycare paranoia! lol. Okay I mean well here, so don't take this the wrong way.. but sometimes when people are ambivelent (sp?) about things, such as starting to go to school again , the significant other senses leeway to push the idea aside. Do you know his work schedule? Make yourself a school schedule and show him, tell him how HAPPY this will make you.

I'm taking: nutrition (online) prealgebra political science (us government) history (civil war to present) (online) Yay.. easy after taking all that science stuff. :)

So my micro final is tonight. I planned on selling my micro book back, but now I'm having second thoughts, my teacher had mentioned that some of the material would be on the NCLEX.. So I'm wondering if maybe I should just hold onto it.. Any thoughts? PS I'm going to fluff my feathers here and tell you all I'm well on my way to an A in the class, which has been quite an accomplishment for me, this class was HARD, well imo.

Not selfish at all. You're very lucky that your husband supports that!

Hi! Stay at home mother of 2 here, 6 yo boy and 13 mo girl. What you've described sounds do-able because it's online and they are not the real demanding science classes.(otherwise I'd say "are you crazy?") It's probably going to be stressful though. Good luck deciding. :)

Okay don't laugh,.. but there are fertility clinics around that pay 5,000 dollars for egg donations. For some reason that is the only thing that came to mind. But you are saying you can't get a personal loan? What about family members?

On Tuesday we began a three day lab unknown. One of the things we did was a streak plate. The problem is I blanked and didn't flame my loop in between streaking the 3 different areas.. Am I not going to able to get isolated colonies tonight when I go to lab? Or do you think I might be okay? To clarify I dipped my loop into the broth once and streaked 3 areas with that. Wasn't I supposed to dip and flame in between each streaking? Gah.. i'm not even sure I'm using the correct terminology.

On Tuesday we began a three day lab unknown. One of the things we did was a streak plate. The problem is I blanked and didn't flame my loop in between streaking the 3 different areas.. Am I not going to able to get isolated colonies tonight when I go to lab? Or do you think I might be okay? To clarify I dipped my loop into the broth once and streaked 3 areas with that. Wasn't I supposed to dip and flame in between each streaking? Gah.. i'm not even sure I'm using the correct terminology.

Hi Liz. Welcome to the group. I have gathered a lot of motivation and reconfirmation of my dream to become a nurse from these forums. So I hope that we can help you in your quest as well. Good Luck. As a mother I can totally understand your hesitency (sp?) about med school. While some women's personalities are hardier then others, I know that *I* would not be happy if I made that sort of time commitment somewhere other than my children. Either way you can make a sound decision that makes sense to YOU.. So search your heart. :)

woah..You are talking about college right? I read plenty of horrible essays in English as well. I figured it wasn't my job to make anything but vague suggestions that were not even close to criticism for that very reason.. Plus at the end of the day it didn't matter to me (for lack of a better phrase) what sort of grade they got in the class. I can't believe your lab classmates. Don't they know that copying is not going to help them anyway. Hope it gets better for ya :)

I just wouldn't rely totally on your notes. Try and understand everything in the chapters as well. Our teacher tested heavy on microbial metabolism.. Knowing the products of glycolosis, krebs cycle, and the eletron transport chain was big.. Knowing where they took place was big. Final electron acceptors was on there... Fermentation questions etc. Tape your lectures. Study with a classmate. Use any disks that came with your book. Understand it, so you can answer application questions. Leave no stone unturned, act like ALL the material is going to be on the test. (my micro teacher has given me a complex, on the first test I figured out not to trust what she says is going to be on the test). Best of luck :)

I got an "a" on the last test but I literally studied 2+ hours a day, taped the lectures, met with a classmate to study and used the cd rom that came with my book to do it. I was determined. If I can do it, so can you. I swear I thought I was not capable of actually understanding the material but sure enough, after reviewing as much as I did it slowly started to click. Better luck next time. You CAN do it.

I have to get back to you later tonight after class.. But I do have some tips. What chapters will be on your test?

I got an A on my second Microbiology lecture exam. It was on the Microbial metabolism chapter, a very challenging chapter. I am over the moon that my hard work payed off!! :) Sorry to brag. No time to relax though.. lab practical on Thursday. Lab seems a lot less dificult than lecture though.

Hey it's still early.. You CAN get an A in the class:)

Thanks.. We had our test on this last Thursday and we did, in fact, have a question asking for the various ways ATP is made. I don't think I mentioned anything about the electron transport chain in the explaination of oxidative phosphorylation, so I'm a little worried about that because she did stress that in lecture.. Otherwise I think I probably pulled a b on the test. We'll see.. Thanks so much for helping me :)

Yep it was one of the first things we learned too! Funny how important stuff can sometimes slip through the cracks! lol. Oh and is it normal to italicize while handwriting or just typing?.. Maybe it's just that I've never seen handwriten italics.

I know if I got that wrong on the test, others will have the same problem.. The teacher actually made a big deal out of it as we were handing in our tests. So I know I wasn't the only one.. I hope my mistake helps others in the future.. I know I appreciate any tips I can get. :)

Our teacher hinted at an essay question regaurding the various ways ATP is made. I am having a hard time differentiating between Subrate level phosporylation and oxidative phosphorylation. Can someone put it into laymans (sp?) terms so that this stuff I'm getting from google searches and the book will make sense?? Any explaination will help though. Thanks in advance! :)

I want to help someone from making the same mistake I did. We had a 10 point quiz in lab last night on the water tests we've been doing for fecal contamination. (you know the one where a positive result is when the bacteria ferment the lactose broth and produce acid and gas..) Well on the last question she said to name 1 of the possible bacteria we could find with this test. Here's what I did NOT do, I didn't underline E. coli... Make sure when you write out the bacteria you remember to make the first letter in the genus capitalized and underlined with a period, and make the species lowercase and also underlined (or italicized), also don't underine them both with one line.. it's two seperate lines. This is the first time I ever wrote the name of a bacteria and although I knew the answer I got it wrong because I didn't write it the proper form. One of my classmates wrote out the entire name of the correct bacteria but got the question wrong for not italicizing.. I didn't know that people actually italicized without a computer lol.. So just beware of the technicalities.