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I know in some schools people run IVs on each other, which are angiocatheters, which may explain the source of it – or maybe it's just a wacky urban legend. (I'm really glad I never heard it, even if I wouldn't have believed it.)

As a former pre-med student, I get plenty of people telling me I should just go be a doctor. And maybe someday I might go be a doctor, and maybe my RN is a step along the way, but for now, those people can shut up. Don't let them get you down. You know where you belong.

I've got my schedule now, actually, as of this morning -- I expected to be an alternate, but my TEAS score was actually 91% so to my complete shock I actually did get in right away. And am somehow only taking 8 credits after a year of overloads in my previous program; that's something hard to swallow! My micro class is also over the summer, though it isn't online -- considering how bad its hours are I wish it were.

I'm starting in Fall '10 too (and also very shy) -- and terrified so many people apparently already have their schedules! I want to be in the day class (read: I can not actually be in the night class, schedule does not permit) and am now concerned that despite my admission the class will fill up and I'll be forced into the night class. Which is probably absurd, but I've known people it's happened to in other schools ...

Even with my Danskos, my feet are killing me at the end of a shift (I work in an emergency department so there's really no sitting, ever, which might have something to do with it). Then again, I wonder if they don't fit me properly.

This has me, my MD father, my paramedic co-workers, my massage therapist boyfriend, my friend the medical student and my other friend the pre-med student/EMT all cracking up. Thank you so much; it's wonderful. (And sad how many of these things have happened to me ...)

I've got basically no sight in my right eye either (and am 20/20 in the left with corrective lenses as well), and got accepted into a selective program with the admissions committee well aware of the disability. On top of that I'm learning disabled -- if they'll take me, I'm certain it won't be a problem for you. Good luck!

The chemistry made me want to bang my head on a desk until my forehead was bleeding. I'm five years out of high school and haven't touched chemistry since 11th grade; there was no way I could possibly learn all of that stuff again. I didn't like that the study guide tests were so different from the real tests (there were more anatomy questions and questions actually relating to nursing such as things about reading blood pressures etc), but then again I did horribly on my practice tests and well on the real thing, so maybe it was better in my case. :) I guessed on a lot of the chem, though. Educated guesses, but still guesses. As far as scoring goes, my school just takes the top 128 raw scores of the people who met the prereqs to test. Every school is different.

I am! I just found out a couple of hours ago -- or else, I hope it's accurate, because the school's website says I've gotten in, but I haven't gotten an actual letter. I'm not letting myself think about the remote possibility of a computer error, though; my TEAS scores were good! This is what I keep telling myself because when I first saw it I almost fainted with that shock/glee combination. I won't be finished with my first degree until mid-August, and for a few minutes I actually contemplated quitting to actually get a summer break before starting. I know I'm only a few months and a billion big scary state tests away, though.

You're not. My biggest problem is that while I haven't even begun nursing school yet, I'm finishing up paramedic school right now (I'm on my field/clinical time, which basically feels like having a Real Job and not being in school anymore, except I've got to turn in paperwork weekly) -- and the relationship issues come from the fact it feels like we never see each other, and if we do, we're both tired. He finishes training in massage therapy in June, and I'm doing this until August, get a week off and ... then it's time to start nursing school! So I've managed to get him stuck trying to find a job in this area because I'm attending a school that doesn't involve any sort of moving, and that's a stressor. I'm also going to be always busy, always tired and never home for another four years while he's being the sole breadwinner. I can understand why these are relationship problems, and they're problems we're aware of and sticking through, but -- you're really not alone.

Chemistry. My test was unfairly skewed toward chemistry, which I haven't taken in six years! (I think I got a 53% on the chem questions, compared to a 100% on Biology.) People just out of high school will fare better than older folks, it seems, due to actually remembering these things.

91.3%, and I'm still waiting to hear, but my hopes have been raised by the "99th percentile" aspect. I was expecting to fail! That test scared the crap out of me.

I'm also a current applicant for Fall 2010 (just got my TEAS scores this morning) and am actually sitting here wondering why I haven't heard about these CPEs -- does it stand for "clinical proficiency exam," or am I completely off-base? I do have friends who are graduates and all they've said is that it's a wonderful program but STUDY. Heavy emphasis on study.