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I was born and raised in KY and have lived in both Lexington and Louisville. I enjoyed both of them. However, I feel that Louisville is the more laidback town. Lexington has more service-related business. Louisville has much more manufacturing. Lexington has more of a small-town feel and seems cleaner and prettier than Louisville. Louisville feels more like a big city. Lexington is more snobbish. Each has rush-hour problems. It's usually cheaper to fly out of Louisville than Lexington, but Louisville's airport is only 70 miles away from Lexington (and Cincinnati is not cheap to fly out of either). Another thing to consider is to live somewhere between the two - such as Midway, Frankfort, or Shelbyville. The cost of living can be even cheaper in those communities. If you're used to doing a lot of outdoor activities, you may find that it's too hot and humid 3-5 months out of the year. I lived in Colorado for 6 years and spent a great deal of time outdoors year-round. But in Kentucky in the summer you go from air-conditioned house to air-conditioned car to air-conditioned workplace. One of the biggest adjustments I had to make when I came back from Colorado was to get used to all of the cigarette smoke again. Kentucky is number one out of all the states for the percentage of the population that smokes - I think around 40-50 percent. I just started nursing school this fall (not in Lexington or Louisville) and close to 75 percent of the class smokes. I kid you not. Our state is very pretty and has beautiful state parks. There's a lot of places to hike, fish, and boat. It's much less expensive to live here and you can find property and homes that don't cost an arm and a leg. Another hospital to consider in either Lexington or Louisville is the VA hospital. My sister-in-law is a nurse practitioner at the Louisville one and loves it.

Hi, y'all. I'm from the Lake Cumberland area and started classes almost 2 weeks ago. We had our first test this past Thursday and will get the results on Monday. I check out allnurses almost every day, but usually only post in the current events or break room threads. I'll probably be posting in the student thread real soon. I usually only check the KY thread every 3 or 4 weeks because of the inactivity.

The website for Ashland CC is http://www.ashland.kctcs.edu. I would check with the KY board of nursing to see if ACC is NLN accredited because about half of the community colleges in the state are not. If they are non-NLN accredited you can still get your degree and you are qualified to sit for the NCLEX. But if you plan to go further than the associate degree (such as nurse anesthetist, management, teaching, etc.) it's best to go to an NLN accredited school. I was accepted to two of the community colleges and decided to go to the NLN-accredited one. Each school had different points systems for ranking for acceptance. But basically, you pretty much have to have all your pre-reqs out of the way to have enough points to get in. Also, most of the community colleges require you to complete a 75-hour training class and pass the exam to become a certified nurse assistant prior to being admitted. Since I'm in southern KY, I don't know much about the Ashland area or hospitals. Hope this helps some.

My brother is a UPS pilot and they no longer carry passengers. They did for 2 or 3 years in the late 90s (maybe into the 2000s), but then decided to get out of the passenger business. You will probably get better fares into Nashville since Southwest flies in there; but it never hurts to check Memphis or Knoxville.

Hi! I'm taking Micro this semester. There has been no math involved. We have lecture for an hour and fifteen minutes and lab for an hour and forty minutes (both twice a week). Lab has been a lot of fun, as we have had to identify different forms of bacteria through a variety of tests. Among many things, we've had to culture our own fecal swabs, urine samples, and throat swabs. Another thing we've done was brought in a water sample to test for the presence of E. coli. The water had to be from a spring, well, cistern, etc., as long as it wasn't from a municipal drinking water source. Lecture, however, is totally memorization. And lots of it. After a couple of weeks of class, several of my classmates discussed the fact that we thought the class was easier than we had been led to believe (of course, this was before the first test. ha-ha.). When we asked the teacher, his explanation was that the concepts are not hard - there's just a lot of info to be learned. And nearing the end of class, I completely agree with that assessment. We were required to take Anatomy and Physiology 1 & 2 before being allowed to take Micro.

My pre-reqs counted and they are over 20 years old! But none of them were science.