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thanks sooo much for all the helpful advice! I think I know where I need to head from this point. I scare myself into thinking I'm not going to be able to do a good enough job or I'm not able to do it but I end up turning in work and am surprised when I get A's back...I guess you could say I'm too much of a perfectionist lol...thanks for the help! Also when forming a thesis/introduction what are the grounds for a quality one?

I have a topic it's....How we development morals over the life span......and my prof said specifically that we do not put any of our own knowledge in the paper, it's cite cite cite for the wholllle dang thing....we have to have 10 pages...and i guess I'm feeling completely overwhelemed! lol

Hey! My hubby is in the Military and we are possibly moving back to 29 Palms, CA Feb. of next year....how far is Loma Linda from 29 palms, or Yucca Valley....cause it's the closest nursing school I can find!

Hi my name is Megan, I am in Developmental Psychology and have a term paper that's due at the end of this semester and counts for the majority of my grade, I have never written a term (fact) paper before. I'm not really sure where I can find articles or better yet where to even start my paper. I have look at so many other students papers but I'm still stumped as to where I need to begin and where I need to look to find the articles that I'm going to pull facts from for my paper. Any advice would help, my professor is being super vague and I'm just totally stressed over this assignment, and I know I need to work on it starting now so I don't procrastinate!

Thanks so much! Yes it is hard to put my babies in daycare, but in order for me to be able to complete school and get us better off overall I have to! I will look into the Wonder Kidz and all of those prices mentioned are a lot better then what I've been finding other places, when I just had one child he was in daycare for $200 a week and when my other was born they wanted $550 a week for both... thats crazy and wayyy more then I could afford! I just wish they had more options as far as grants go and all that for helping military spouses get through school and or even people that are single moms trying to get through school. I have a friend with 2 very small children and she is having to take out all sorts of huge loans to finish up the 2 1/2 semesters of school she has left.

I can't say I have ever even heard of the program, so I don't know anyone who is involved in it, let me look at it and I'll get back to you!!

Yeah your name of 0402 is showing up now, last time it wasn't showing up at all it was saying unknown if I remember correctly....but thanks for all the info, there's so much to look in to!

Thank you Chrissy! I'm keeping my fingers crossed for Yuma! It will be the most convenient for the next 4 or 5 years of our lives. I don't want to end up back in 29 Palms, it grew on me in some ways but by no means would I ever choose to go back lol. You have 3 little boys!!! If I end up in Yuma we'll have to get our little ones together for a play date! I have 2 boys, one will be 3 next month and the other will be 1 in February! Do your children go to childcare out there? If so, if it's not too personal for me to ask, what are the price ranges I'll be looking at and have you heard good things about the childcare places in general out there. I'm really picky about who watches my children and so I have issues sending my child to somewhere that has a bad rep, I'm sure you know what I mean :) Take care!

@ Curiousme, there really should be a class on it!! @ the second response with no name, thanks so much for taking the time to respond on here for me! It's always nice to meet a fellow military wife! Especially one in the marine corps Who's in your same situation! As far as paying for child care goes you brought up a couple of options that I hadn't really looked too far into, how does the GI bill for the spouse work? Who do you talk to and what do you do to get it? I used my pell grant, which for one semester was not a lot, and I pulled out a subsidized loan in order to get by for this semester. To be honest the pell grant that I got pretty much covered my costs of the classes and after that the amount leftover would be no where near enough to cover child care. I told them the amount what our rent is but it seems as though they didn't compensate me on that, because if I was having to pay even half our rent I wouldn't have anywhere near enough. Maybe if I had pulled out a unsubsidized loan as well but that's a path I'm a little scared to go down since it's gains interest while I'm still in school. Anyways, I feel like they just assumed that my husband takes care of the rent. My dream lol (and I say dream) would be not to be head over heals in thousands and thousands of dollars in debt because of child care when I'm done with school, I'm well aware that I'm going to accumulate debt through out school. It just seems like there isn't as many options out there for help with child care as I thought there was going to end up being. I was surprised that they don't have more to help military wife's (esp. with children) get through school. And I refuse to send my children somewhere that I don't feel completely and utterly confident with just to pay a lesser price. Babies safety is always number one, you know what I mean? We were in 29 palms for our last enlistment and it was so weird how the desert grows on you. We're originally from Austin, TX so when I first moved out there (my husband had warned me) I was in culture shock and thought everything was completely ugly and hated it at first, in order to anything other then your daily life things (grocery shopping, gas, bank, and a couple of fast food places) there wasn't anything to do unless you drove an hour away. I was used to having everything at my fingertips and only having to drive about 5 mins. to get to wherever I might need to go. Over time it wasn't bad at all. About 3 1/2 years into last enlistment we got a rare opportunity that worked in our favor (as you know that's not something that happens very often in pretty much any branch of service lol). They told my husband he had the option to deploy or to move to Oceanside and attach to the artillery unit there since at the time they needed more Cpl's and Sgt's, so we OF COURSE jumped on it and moved to Oceanside and I absolutely loved it there, other then the cost of living and other nit picky things. We lived in base housing in Oceanside which in 29 palms we tried out for a couple months and ended up moving out in town, it was a bad experience with their maintenance and they were in the middle of remodeling, Oceanside's housing we were pretty impressed with! Thankfully we got one that was new and remodeled. Now that my husband has re-enlisted and changed his MOS we have 3 options it's either back out to 29 Palms,CA, Yuma,AZ, or Cherry Point,NC....I know from experience that in 29 palms the school is a drive to get to. I've looked at Cherry Point and from what I can tell all of the schools there are a long drive as well. In Yuma the school is about 10 min. away, so I'm rooting for Yuma! However if we end up in NC or back in CA they both have Community Colleges that are closer, in that case I'll definitely just do the ADN program and then later do a bridge program. LOL I've really rambled here, but it's 5:00 in the morning and my little guy is laying on the floor WIDE awake so I'm sorry you had to be at the brunt of my boredom and being up way to early lol. Take care and hope to hear back from you soon!! :)

Wow, I feel like an idiot, I didnt see those in the 8 semester layout, I thought it was the pre reqs then you go and do the 8 semesters...ugh sooo sorry about that! :)

CuriousMe..... You're going to think I'm the biggest pain in the butt lol, but I'm still a little confused....I get that they have the two years of the nursing pre-requisites but I'm talking about the other prerequisites they want you to have before even applying to the nursing school. (along with the ones listed in there 8-week layout, in the PDF you attached) Prerequisite courses are: Course Prefix Course Title Hours: ENG 105 OR ENG 101 & 102 Critical Reading & Writing OR English – 2 semesters BIO 181 & 181L OR CHM 130 & 151L Unity of Life & Lab OR Fundamental Chemistry & Lab MAT 110 OR MAT 114 OR STA 270 College Algebra OR Quantitative Reasoning OR Applied Statistics PSY 101 Introduction to Psychology 3 C PSY 240 Developmental Psychology 3 C NTS 135 OR NTS 256 Applied Nutrition and Food Selection OR Medical Nutrition BIO 201 & 201L Human Anatomy and Physiology I & Lab 4 C BIO 202 & 202L Human Anatomy and Physiology II & Lab 4 C BIO 205 & 205L Microbiology and Lab 4 C *STA 270 OR PSY 230 Applied Statistics OR Intro to Statistics in Psychology **Liberal Studies All NAU Liberal Study Requirements 35 http://www2.nau.edu/~nurse-p/docs/Trad_BSN_Application_new.pdf all of those along with the 8 semester layout that they have to get your BSN, that would take closer to 6 years wouldn't it?

Curiousme.... I have seen that same layout from NAU I'm wondering if it takes 6 years because they also (along with this course layout) have a bunch of pre-req's that they require.

Also I don't think LPN is even an option for me. I really have my mind set on either a ADN or BSN. Thank you for all the advice about it though!

WOW! Both y'all gave such amazing advice, THANK YOU SOO SOO MUCH! I have lots to look into and I really like the idea of doing ADN at one duty station and then the bridge program at the next. Having to move mid BSN would not be good at all. Really if I could just find a way to help pay for daycare (because oh lordy it's expensive) I would do as much school as I could handle! Right now I'm doing only night courses at a community college until we move at the very beginning of next year. So my husband is able to watch the kids. I know this won't be an option once we move because his schedule won't be as consistent. Samantha, with you being a military wife in school as well do you have any advice for helping bridge the costs of expensive childcare? (I'm just assuming you have children, if not then sorry about that!)

3-5 year wait list??? Wow!!! Also I think that NAU will take 6 years because they have all the pre-req's they want you to get ( i still need many of them ) and then they have an 8 semester program setup for nursing.