punkydoodlesRN BSN, RN

Nicole, you have enough posts to send and receive messages, so maybe its a privacy setting? I've tried to msg you, but there's not a PM button on your profile.

Congrats on all of the new acceptances - so awesome!!

To the ones who didn't get the answer they hoped for: NEVER give up on your dream! It has taken me 13 years and though there was heartache along the way, I have no doubt that I ended up being just where I needed to be. So take a few days to cry and f...

The program is 4 semesters. You will attend Spring, Summer, Fall, Spring with graduation being April 2013, so long as you are successful in all courses the first attempt.

Hi, Graciebelle is right. There is a group page for your class, run by the UTMB mentors. However, we are not allowed to post the link in here - it's considered spamming :=

Hang in there - If nothing has changed on mystar, and you haven't received a decline in the mail, relax a bit. No need to hound admissions - they are working as hard as they can. No news is good news right now! I stopped by my favorite instructor's (...

"They are still reviewing applications. If you haven't heard one way or another yet, then you are still being considered for admission" - from an admission committee member :)

Congrats on the acceptances!! So exciting to think the new class is being formed! Only 4 months until it all gets started!

It really varies each semester, depending on the classroom availability, clinical sites, etc. But, for the most part, it is didactic courses 2 days per week. Health assessment lab is every week, while Adult I lab and clinical alternate. So one week y...

UTMB is a school that takes all things into consideration - not just GPA. I had a bad semester, and ended up with not one but FIVE F's, and 3 of those in major nursing pre-reqs (Micro, A&P2, and Nutrition!) I had a very ligit reason, but it still...

From a prof on the admission committee "The admission committee voted unanimously to discontinue interviews." She only eluded as to why - mostly that interviewers felt it a waste of time since their opinions on students weren't taken into considerati...

I know that suit is most appropriate, however, the temps for the day will be triple digit with 90%+ humidity, so I don't know that looking like a drowned rat is any less professional than slacks and a blouse. Would I be severely under dressed if I di...

I've been applying tirelessly for the past 8 months. I'm an LVN with 3 years of acute experience and currently a senior in a BSN program. I had mistakenly thought I would actually be competitive! I feel that I have a decent resume, but it just seems...

Thanks again for the responses, has been great food for thought! For whomever asked my intentions - I would ideally like to STAY ON once I become an RN, so I do have the info in my personal statement. I'm not far from graduation and I want stay put! ...

Thanks everyone, I appreciate the feed back. I had been thinking the same as writerRN. What I'm doing now isn't working, so it couldn't make it worse. Would anyone be willing to take a look at what I have, maybe it just sucks and it needs major fixin...

Thank you all for the great advice! I've run into a problem getting my info to HR as the only way to submit is online and there are not any openings for which I qualify for right now. However, the is a huge medical job fair next week, and they will b...

I'm going to just give the reader's digest version of the backstory and get to my questions! Last August, I was backed into a corner and forced to quit my job - I was a LVN working on a postpartum unit. I had been there 9 months. The manager who hir...

And walking into every exam feels like walking the Green Mile!

I'm a LVN returning to school in a BSN program. I've said that nursing school is like giving birth... Horrific and painful at the time, but soon after you forget the traumatic aspects and you are happy and in love with your new bundle of joy license....

No. This isn't really a typical campus... There are two places to purchase food on campus. One is Joe's, which is in the student center, and the other is the hospital cafeteria. Joes has burgers, chicken strips, pizza, pre-made sandwiches, and salads...

You can't cure stupid; therefore, I cannot help you.

ok, how did you do that?? I need this for my classmates who always ask questions that could have been easily googled themselves!!!

I'm job hunting - and bookmarking this!! Thanks & good luck!!!!!!!

if you accepted, then it turned to incomplete again, that is normal. It means that you still have outstanding information - such as transcripts from courses in progress, or left to take. You will receive a packet by snail mail in a few weeks where yo...

Nursevaldez,It's considered spamming to just copy and paste your post on every thread. The best way to get an answer (and not be annoying) is to start your own thread and then patiently wait for someone to answer you.