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I am working on Chronicity as well - test date is 10/29 and have just really started to get in gear. I find it kind of boring but wanted to get it out of the way!! Right now I am using Study Group 101 and the practice tests to get me through it all!

Congrats!!! I am scheduled to take Chronicity the day after you!! I wanted to take Repro but am having some difficulty with the financial aid and them accepting my financial aid for it so just went ahead with thr Chronicity instead!!

I had the books but honestly, the material was so dry that I just couldn't use them. So I used the StudyGroup101 and the EC Practice tests. And I am definitely going to use every second of time I can while I'm not working. It will be very tight for us, budget-wise, but worth every second of my sanity!

After rescheduling twice, because I was being a bum, I finally took transitions today. I studied for 2 days and got a B, so I am pretty happy with that! 6 more tests left to go! Recently I have resigned from my work in order to pursue school full time as well... have a few weeks left because I wanted to make sure everyone was taken care of before I left but I needed to focus on my exams 100% and I haven't even come close to doing that! Time to get ready to register for my next exams. Actually, I need to pay the registration fee first I guess.

Congratulations!!!!

Tasha - I just have the nursing course left to go. Was supposed to start my LPN-RN last week at my previous college but thanks to the military we moved instead! So, I had all my pre-reqs ready to go and just have to tackle the fun nursing stuff!

hahaha, I fell asleep too! I can't wait until repro but then ob/gyn is my main interest/career goal!

I have study guide 101 and the text needed for the exam and omg, it is so boring. So dry. I think I am going to cry myself to sleep studying for this exam! Can't wait to read up on topics that are a bit more interesting than history and HMO/PPOs/Medicaid/etc.

Good luck! I actually think that my degree from EC will be more "earned" than sitting through 2 semesters at a local cc. Yes, I may miss out on labs but I am pushing myself a whole lot harder than I ever had to know the material and seek out training experiences. Wishing you the best of luck!

Tasha - my game plan is pretty much the same as yours. That is if I can get through Transitions, lol.

I'm scheduled to take this on 9/10. I have the SG101 and ordered the texts but man is it boring. Totally fell asleep reading the 101 notes and I expect the text to be even more exciting!!

I wish I have been as diligent as you ladies but I haven't. I manage about an hour every other day - studying for H&S this coming weekend and then will push Transitions the next week. I am talking to my husband about quitting my job - financially it will suck for a bit but I am getting nothing done and am already stressed out to the max with my job. I mean so sad... my first year of nursing and I am starting to feel burnt out. My plan for once I've taken these two is to hopefully take 2 tests a month and get everything over with - which, if I'm not working, will give me at least 4 hours every day to get the studying done! Tasha made a great point to me earlier on and that was to really schedule out my time - has definitely helped!

Yeah, I was going to take my time on actually enrolling but it looks like I will probably be doing that soon and registering for as many of the exams as I can (I had planned on trying to be done with all 8 by January anyways...). It is still a bummer because my hubby is about to pin on E7 so there is no way I can use MyCAA after they switch it up. I could rant on and on but really my intention for the post was just to let the military spouses/members using MyCAA get a heads up if they needed to plan!

Just FYI, check out the new MyCAA guidelines. Not sure which rank your hubbies are but they just completely messed it up for me. Am trying to contemplate how I am going to get this done now.

Ok, so I am scheduled to take my first test for EC on Aug 7 and am giving myself until the end of this week to make my final decision between ISU and EC because I know I need to bust out the CSMs really quickly plus the TEAS if I decide to go through ISU. I have already been accepted to ISU and have all of my pre-reqs done so the CSMs are all I need to do. The thing that holds me back from ISU is the clinicals. It isn't doing them, it is setting them up. I would absolutely love some feedback from current students in regards to their clinicals (particularly if you go into Savannah - I live in SC but need to do my clinicals in GA since ISU isn't accepted in SC yet). Specifically I would like to know: Was it hard setting them up? Does ISU help you get at least the contact people for the clinical sites/hospitals? How many clinicals did you do per semester, how many hours per week/etc. Did you find the experience valuable? Any other info would be greatly appreciated since like I previously mentioned, I am giving myself until the end of this week to make my final decision. Edited to add: Also, I would love to know how long the entire program has take you to finish (or complete so far!) Thank you in advance!