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Like everyone else that has applied to this post, I am worried about your tone, but sometimes feel the same way! I personally study better on my own because I get distracted in study groups. Yes, members of a group can help one another to bounce off ideas but in my experience group study almost always means not getting as much done that we plan to get done. Sometimes I agree to study in a group, just so I don't seem stuck-up or anti-social, but other times I don't because I feel comfortable with my routine on my own. Do I sometimes feel like an outsider, maybe even repulsive, since I see almost everyone grouping up? Yes. But then I see that there are some like me that are keeping to themselves and I feel better. I do have a few people (3) in my class that i talk with, sometimes study with, often vent with, and I have/had a few that I tried to talk to but didn't work out...that bothered me at first but little by little I don't let it. Yes I want more friends because this is only my second semester at the school, and I don't live on campus, but then again it is a blessing because I am almost always free of gossip, drama, and other crap that may come up. I also feel a little out of place because I don't live on campus and I am 27 in a pool of mostly 18-20 year olds ( yay to the older students!). Since the semester just started it may get better, you may find someone (or someones) that are feeling the same as you and make your own group. As far as a study group, sure I'm game but I only get on allnurses about once a week. What semester are you in? I'm in the first, taking Pharmacology, Fundamentals and Adult Assessment. Let me know

My orientation is August 24th, and fall Quarter starts the 25th. I'm excited and nervous and having "is this a mistake?" moments!

Disbdestiny, I'm in the same boat as you. I don't think there is a universal right answer. I also start my Nursing program in 2 1/2 weeks (on the 25th) and am wondering if I should continue working, or at all. I know that I have to wait and see how intense the program is going to be for me, but I am already freaking out from what I have been reading and hearing! Right now I only work 11-12 hours per week and don't make much at all, already struggling with bills, and just know that it will get worse starting this month with buying books, ATI testing stuff, the uniform and supplies....I'm hyperventilating! I'm trying to figure out a way to increase my work hours (either at the job that I have now or at another job) while also keeping time open for studies...working only on days that I don't have classes may work. I've been having help with the refund that I get from school (shame on me maybe, because it's money I have to pay back, but that money has been keeping me afloat) but this upcoming semester most of my refund will be going to books and supplies. So...I can't NOT work, but don't want a job to get in the way of my studies, but also want to be able to keep my car and apartment....what a catch-22!

My first day is Aug, 25 and I am excited, scared and nervous! Im there with everyone else.

I start my nursing program in a few weeks and I'm a bit nervous about this going on. I also learn better when I'm not in a study group, I guess you could say I'm a loner when it comes to studies. I'm going to give everyone a chance at first but I am sure I am going to encounter plenty of immature girls and boys at my school because I already have in my pre-nursing classes. I hope to find a few mature students that I can be friends with. I'm just going to stay out of the drama, be supportive and nice to those that will be the same to me and ignore all the rest.

At my school, for the people who were preparing to apply for Fall '10, we had to sign up for the block of classes (based on the clinical times) during the Spring quarter in a book that the CoN had in their office, and if you actually got accepted into the program you sign up for the classes online. They were supposed to have a lock on the classes online so people couldn't sign up for them until you got your acceptance but I was able to sign up early! Our orientation is on Aug. 24, and Fall semester starts on the 25th. I can't wait but I'm also nervous, summer is going so fast!

C-lion you are not alone! I too don't have any children and start NS at the end of August (the 25th). I work about 12 hours per week at a job that doesn't pay very well at all and is kind of aggravating, but I need the money coming in. I will be working that job and also a work-study position during the school year...I'm very worried about my finances! But I cannot wait to start the program! Good luck to all!

I also just got accepted to my Nursing program starting this Fall and complied a book list for Fall and just my Nursing books and etc are going to come to more than $1150! I am also taking a class for my minor to round out the credits I need to be full time and that book will be $40 so in total I will be spending almost $1200 for just ONE SEMESTER! This is just craziness to me. I'm most definitely going to check out online bookstores to save some money!

I applied to the BSN program, the undergraduate one ( and just got my acceptance letter!) but the school's College of Nursing website gives great info. Indiana State University : Nursing : Baccalaureate Degree : LPN-BS Track This will take you to the main LPN-BS track page and then on the left-hand side their are links to more info. Good luck on your studies and I hope you get in!!!

There almost NEVER seems to be any students/alumni on here from ISU (why is that..always Ivy Tech lol:rolleyes:), but I just wanted to do a shout out to any other students who are applying to the Fall 2010 BSN program at ISU with me! Good luck to all! It took me a while with all the hoops that I had to jump through with them (and now one more, I have to get a high school transcript to the Office of Admissions JUST for the Nursing program...no other programs makes it necessary if you have a previous degree oh well, I'm jumping I'm jumping!!), I hand-delivered all the necessary paperwork and made sure they checked it while I was in the office (all bets are off after the issues I had before!) and I cannot wait to (fingers crossed) hopefully get a letter that I have been accepted! So not just to the hopeful ISU BSN students, good luck to all that are trying to get in for Fall 2010 and to all that are on their journey:redpinkhe

I agree with your outrage...I cannot believe how people like that get jobs working with others, especially in caring occupations like nursing! You did the right thing, but I think I would have just gotten a towel or a sheet and covered the patients despite the snotty protests of the LPNs and STNAs/CNAs. You are there to put the patient's needs and care FIRST not what is convenient at the time or what you want (I don't mean YOU in particular, this is a general You . Craziness all around us, and it never ceases to amaze me how much foolishness is out there!

Oh I LOVE this thread!:redbeathe I'm in pre-nursing classes right now but I would like to add some to this (some, heck ALOT, will be repeats)... -To the girl in my Intro class that doesn't know the meaning of TMI: It's just WONDERFUL how you have no qualms about over-sharing the details of your life and how you think by doing so will make the rest of us throw a pity party for you or be in awe of you...I'm not, in fact, Shut Up and have some respect for yourself. The prof and the rest of us don't want to know EVERYDAY about your sex life or the fact that you have slept with 30+ boys/men since you were 12 (and you are now only 19), or that you have already had 3 abortions or the slew of antidepressants and anti-psychotics u r on....we are not the audience of your one-woman show. -To the people in my classes that are CNAs: once again SHUT UP and let the profs teach! CNAs have a different scope of practice than nursing. You are in school to learn how to be a nurse, not to wax poetic about how CNAs "should just be called nurses since they basically do the same thing" (this is actually what a student said in one of my classes...what?!?!) -To the male (pre) nursing students - goody for you, you're breaking the barriers of what the "typical" nurse is, but do you have to walk around like you have a stick rammed up your ***, acting better than us "lowly" (tongue in cheek) women? You are not superhuman or royalty, and even if you were, I still will not bow down to you because you are a man in nursing school ! Two words are on the tip of my tongue, oh yeah, SHUT UP! (note - this is not a generalization to all male nursing students, just the ones that think they are holier-than-thou. I am glad to see males in nursing school because there aren't a lot of male nurses out there.) -To the ones who laugh when we discuss bodily functions and sex organs in class: You're laughing and saying "eww yucky gross?!" REALLY?! Have we reverted back to elementary school? How do expect to be a nurse if you can't hear the word "testicle" without snickering or saying "That's Gross!" loudly when we talking about urine and BMs? I'm scared for you... -To those in school that have kids: That's great, no really it is, I want kids myself BUT don't look down at me and say my life and school is soooo much easier since I don't have them. We may not have the same life circumstances but we are all in school and it is hard for all of us. You don't know my personal situation so don't assume my life is easier. -Please stop talking about your Facebook/MySpace page and friends loudly during class and checking said pages during class and then getting uppity when the prof asks you a question and you don't know what we are talking about. The class is an hour and a half, can you NOT focus for that short of time? -To those that look down at students who give a damn: yes, we are don't go out every night and party, actually study (what a concept!), and come to class every day and NOT just on test day... don't get uppity because we are passing the class. -To the ones that only talk to certain people and act like all others are beneath them: silly rabbits, cliques are for kids! -To the know-it-alls: You seem to already know how everything there is to know about nursing and taking the classes is just a formality....how happy am I that I get to witness you crash and burn 99.9% of the time when you get that snippy attitude in your voice when you answer "obvious" questions and get them wrong! But boy you keep on going, rolling your eyes when one of us asks a question and you answer it for us before the prof can, subsequently getting it wrong again and again and again....you are persistent! How are you not running your own nursing program and sharing your knowledge with the rest of the world? And now a positive or two :): -Thank you to the senior nursing student I sit by in my English class for giving me great advice on what to expect once I get into the nursing program! -Thank you to the few students I can talk to in my pre-nursing classes that understand we are there to learn how to be professionals and good nurses!

I'm getting ready to apply to schools for Fall 2010 and although I would happy to get that acceptance letter, like the previous poster said, an "alternate" is still good because it is not a No. There could be people that do back out at the last minute for various reasons, do you know how high on the alternate list you are?

Thanks to everyone for your replies! The school is actually a public university in IN that is, and I quote from current students and graduates, "known for losing things!" Didn't know this until i started asking if my situation was commonplace for the school and sadly it is! Overall I have heard wonderful things about the program, the instructors are awesome, abut my excitement to apply to this particular program is waning. I knew I should have sent in my app packet via certified mail but thought Hey, it's not going that far and they ARE a major university...what could go wrong? I have learned my lesson though, when (and if) I turn in my app this time I am going to the department, personally hand-delivering it AND getting a signed paper stating they have received it..no benefit of the doubt for them anymore! My advisor seems sincere, but I also thought when I talked to the student affairs the second time around that they were sincere AND telling me the truth...not the case. And it seems that I will need the speech class for other schools, BUT with them they allow students to take the needed pre-reqs over the summer and it won't count against them. So I'm not sure, very cautious now, almost paranoid lol bc I too wonder what the hell it will be like once, if, I get into the program! I am looking at others schools around the area, those that are farther away. Thanks so much for the help!

This is kinda long, but it has a point I promise! I am working on a BSN as a second degree. Took about a year and a half working on prerequisites and a local CC that I didn't have from my first degree to better my chances of getting into the nursing program at the university that is 20 minutes away from where I live. Wasn't think of applying to the CC's program or any other program that due to the almost guarantee I was given that I would get into the university's program. During Fall 2009 I applied to the program's accelerated first-year program (where you get to schedule the two pre-nursing classes and the first three nursing classes of the curriculum [fundamentals, adult assessment, pharm]) that they were starting, got all of my papers in order sent them in way before the deadline...and they lost the application packet! :eek:And I'm not talking about a few papers, I'm talking ALL of it, a HUGE manila envelope thick with paper! I sent it in because at the time I was working full time and still finishing up pre-reqs and thought I could trust that a huge manila envelope would be noticed...boy was I wrong! I didn't even know it was lost until I started calling (and calling and calling and finally getting an answer about two weeks later) that they never got it...huh (yes I put more than enough postage on it). So meetings were held with the people from the office of student affairs of the department, I politely but forcefully told them that the situation was crap. I was angry beyond words and cried after meeting with them. They told me of course that it was too late to consider placing me in the accelerated first year or the program at all and that I would have to start the application process from scratch. I was also told since I had all of the pre-reqs done and have a previous degree I had declare a minor to fill out my schedule. So this semester I'm taking the 2 pre-nursing classes, the pathophysiology course, a class for the minor and an elective English class. Scheduling for Fall 2010 is about to start and all this semester I have been still a bit mad about the screw up but looking toward applying for Fall 2010. So I went to my advisement (with a faculty member that is now my advisor) appointment today and was told this time that....there is a good chance I won't get into the program...AGAIN!!! Apparently, the student affairs personnel told me wrong when they said I didn't have to do two of the pre-reqs (a public speaking class and a life span development class) because of my first degree and that some of the classes I took at the CC weren't needed despite them telling me so! And because I don't have the speaking class done before applying for Fall 2010 (the development class is a class that can be taken after getting into the program) I may not get in if they already have 60 students who have already completed the class and everything else! YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!!!!! The advisor told me to go ahead and apply, to take the public speaking class over the summer, schedule fundamentals, pharm and adult assessment, but to also plan for not getting in. She also said she was going to advocate strongly for me to the chairperson since I have been screwed over from jump but that it may not help..... I have been pushing against this tide of BS from this school because I really want to become a nurse but I am starting to get a peeved to the point of looking at programs at other schools! Should I boot them too the curb with their two strikes or just keep jumping their hurtles and hope there's an end to them?