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  1. Help...I CAN'T fail nursing school!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    thinwildmercury replied to Ecpi Raleigh 07/09's topic in General Nursing

    i feel for you! i know everyone says to "stop blaming your instructor" and "take your learning into your own hands" but there is a reason we are PAYING these people to TEACH US. if we could do it all...

  2. Good clinical day.....

    thinwildmercury replied to CrunchyMama's topic in General Students

    thanks for sharing!

  3. Micro or AP1.... WWYD?

    thinwildmercury replied to Summers_Off's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    i find it interesting that some people say take a&p first. at my university, a&p is like the motherload, so you take everything before that class. i'm in micro now and it's not that hard. i...

  4. Nursing School Must Haves??

    thinwildmercury replied to Servingshots's topic in General Students

    a blackberry is a pda. i have one, same price as an iphone, i like it better but to each their own :) (a lot of my friends who have iphones think i am crazy though

  5. Renting Textbooks

    thinwildmercury replied to MiahMSN's topic in General Students

    renting is the way to go! they're cheap you get them for as long as you need and then they take it off your hands free of charge. well, chegg does, anyway. plus you plant a tree each time you rent and...

  6. No more free birth control in California

    thinwildmercury replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in California Nursing

    my school still offers familypact.... i mean even if they don't have AAAALLLLL the options familypact provides, i am sure most/all universities will still give out free condoms so hopefully the...

  7. Should I take a caregiver job?

    thinwildmercury replied to jlwerley's topic in General Nursing

    i didn't know you could be a caregiver w/o a license. i would do it if i had the opportunity :) also if you have time, you should

  8. California nurses and medical marijuana

    thinwildmercury replied to DirtyBlackSocks's topic in Pain Management

    last i heard, pashark is right. the two laws regarding marijuana - state and federal kinda disagree with each other. federal is supposed to override so.... it's legal and illegal at the same time. i'm...

  9. My Favorite Pen Has Been Banned! Help!!!!

    thinwildmercury replied to OldMareLPN's topic in General Nursing

    i don't like to get too fancy with pens. i don't know what mine are called. they are just the bic ones that are see through hard plastic. black ink. love 'em! plus i have a gross habit of chewing on...

  10. Things I Find Gross=Weird

    thinwildmercury replied to sj73201's topic in General Students

    i am with you on that! i am extremely arachnophobic. seriously, not just "scared of spiders" but ARACHNOPHOBIC. i can't even kill a spider when i'm babysitting and the kids are crying because they're...

  11. Have you ever had a reallly good looking professor?

    thinwildmercury replied to Lala27poodles's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    i did last semester! hubba hubba hehehe and yes it definitely made me want to impress him and learn the

  12. A&P1 & micro in 7 weeks? is it realistic

    thinwildmercury replied to mom2twinsplus1's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    just wanted to say at my school there are no pre-reqs for micro. i did take an into bio class and am finding it helped me some but we pretty much go over everything we need to know from into bio so if...

  13. Denied Financial Aid b/c of Traumatic Event

    thinwildmercury replied to scrappymom's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    oh, that makes me so mad! the government won't give me crap! every time i go talk to a financial aid counselor they look at me like i'm crazy and say "YOU denied your financial aid". um, no i didn't i...

  14. Can a 3.0 mean 2.98?!

    thinwildmercury replied to IwannaBeNP's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    if the minimum is 3.0 and you don't even have that, what do you think your chances are of getting in? here, the minimum is 3.0 but no one gets in below 3.4 and even that is VERY rare. i'm just trying...

  15. Would you take a bullet for your colleague?

    thinwildmercury replied to Katie5's topic in General Nursing

    Nope, why would anyone do

  16. What do you think about Ebooks?

    thinwildmercury replied to SL2014's topic in General Students

    at my school you can buy the book which comes with an e book or you can ONLY buy the ebook, which is like five bucks cheaper. i absolutely cannot learn form an ebook. i can't read and retain...

  17. Have you ever cheated?

    thinwildmercury replied to JustYouWait's topic in General Students

    true, i probably cheated at least once in every class. however, english has actually always been my strong point. well... writing has been. in fact, i chose two of my english teachers in high school...

  18. Have you ever cheated?

    thinwildmercury replied to JustYouWait's topic in General Students

    i cheated a TON in high school, never on tests, just homework. and like someone mentioned above, i had to do a lot of studying to make up for it for tests. i have zero guilt about it at all. i haven't...

  19. Microbiology: Spring 2010

    thinwildmercury replied to blueyesue's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    woo first exam back and got an 88% =) i know it's not the best but an 87 is the cut off for an A- in this class, so i think i will be okay. plus the class average was a 62 (yikes!) so i am pretty...

  20. I hate when my school ______

    thinwildmercury replied to guiltysins's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    has 200 spots in the lecture and only 90 for lab... simple math, here people!! send you an email saying "we just added 35 new class sections" then you check out the new classes and they are astronomy,...

  21. Am I to old to complete this?

    thinwildmercury replied to Sandpit3's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    i have to agree with the above posters. the time will pass, so how would you like to spend it? when 2014 rolls around, you will regret not having gone back to school. there are several older adults...

  22. Taking Notes - By hand or by Laptop?

    thinwildmercury replied to SerenePeach's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    i, like others have stated, remember best when i hand write my notes. when i write little memos for myself, i never even need them because i just remember. however, when i write them in my blackberry,...

  23. At the very last minute...

    thinwildmercury replied to sophie<3's topic in General Students

    there is no need to waste even more time and money trying to get into a bsn program when you could be on your way to getting your rn license already. you can get your bsn eventually, especially now...

  24. Microbiology: Spring 2010

    thinwildmercury replied to blueyesue's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    i'm taking this too! it's been a roller coaster ride trying to get in though. i was able to get into the lecture on first try and lab at second try. because i got my second choice for the lab, it was...

  25. Flu shots

    thinwildmercury replied to Aisha29's topic in General Students

    we were told, at the hospital i am volunteering at, that of we declined the vaccines, we would need to wear a mask for flu season and would not be allowed to work in peds, because it would scare the...