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Santa Monica College in...Santa Monica CA! :balloons: Go Corsairs!

I don't question my commitment at all. I used to, but then I thought about it some more. I never skipped any of my pre-requisite science classes, and except for this class I am normally an excellent student. I work full time while going to school - and I really do work my butt off in both places. I even took microbiology in a grueling 6-week mini-semester (also while working full time) so that I could get a jump on my spring classes.It's just that if the attendance was required in this particular class, I would go. I went tonight because I felt guilty after posting the original thread. And honestly, it was a total and complete waste of time. I could have stayed home and read the book and gotten more out of it. I could have sniffed glue and gotten more out of it. Community college courses are that way sometimes. To each his/her own I guess. By the way, I don't get a single penny from anyone so I pay for all my classes and books.

Right, I wasn't referring to nursing classes. This is the world's dullest and easiest class I am talking about...Psych 101. I really need help getting motivated. Does anyone have any tips? What do you do when you have a class that you can't bear to sit through? My husband is in my class too and he's a bad example because he never wants to go either. It's really tough because I work full time and am always so tired...

-I used to work at Taco Bell after high school, and one day a gentleman in a wheelchair was trying to use the walk-up window (only used after dark). He couldn't get to it to the window because the curb was too high and the sloped sidewalk was blocked by our delivery truck. Without thinking (and also without realizing the window was wide open so the whole world could hear) I eventually asked my co-workers, "He looks young and strong. Why doesn't he just get up and walk?" Unfortunately, I realized after that he had no legs. Oops. -Just last week I was helping a lady with her hotel reservation, and she mentioned she worked for Disney Studios. Like many others who have worked for Disney, I can't stand the Mouse House so I asked her if she was as happy as I was that Michael Eisner got the big boot from the Disney stockholders. She stared at me in disbelief and then stalked off. Turns out she is one of Eisner's personal assistants. Insert foot in mouth. :imbar

- When I worked in a posh hotel, a handsome guest came to the front desk to tell me he wanted to have the bathroom door removed to allow him to watch his wife take a bath and still be able to see the television. I thought he was being perverted, so after a pause I blushed and blurted helpfully, "Yes sir, I'll send the engineer up right away, and then just give me a call when you're ready so I can activate the adult movie channel in your room." He thanked me and left but never called. Later, after giggling about this to the engineer that removed the door, I found out the man wanted to watch the ball game, but his wife was very ill and needed supervision in the bathtub...:imbar - At college on the first day of an advanced geography class we were talking about a desert in China...the Gobi. Later I raised my hand to ask a question, and called it the "Gumby" Desert. They teased me about it all semester.

I can't stand it when instructors don't count attendance because...I get lazy. My Psych 1 class is like this. We only get graded on exams, period, and out of 17 class meetings this semester I'll have been to a whopping total of: 7 classes! And the first 3 were the ones before I figured out I could get away with not coming, the other 4 days are for our exams which are the sole basis of our grade. Sometimes I wonder why I wasted my money, because half the class isn't there on a given night and I truly am not learning a thing. Our instructor's teaching style is bad for procrastinators because she's always behind, and because she has us all read straight from the book and doesn't explain anything. Everyone knows you can study at home and save yourself the trip. We don't even have to swap notes...there's nothing to write down! I need more motivation! AGHHH! So glad this class is almost over...I'm getting a B with very little effort and feeling quite guilty about it too...:imbar This is a community college and I was wondering if anyone else out there had classes like this. On one hand I am happy because I don't have to work so hard, and on another I know I am shooting myself in the foot somehow... By the way I know I won't be able to skip any actual nursing classes so please don't flame me, thanks!

I love my job that I have right now. I literally mean that I am happy to go to work everyday....but the problem is, I work for a cruise line. Every hour of my day is spent making sure our guests get what they want: green grapes instead of purple every morning, caviar every evening, a table in the dining room that doesn't have any noise, a cabin that will not move in rough seas (yeah right), a pink carpet instead of blue, free upgrades left and right upon demand, etc etc. 1) So as much as a love my job, I can't help but be internally unhappy that I am doing very little to make a difference in this world. All I do is keep rich people happy. Sometimes their demands make me want to say "How can you be so upset about something so minor when there are people suffering and dying and being abused or tortured at this very moment?":crying2: 2) When my family members are sick I take care of them because I want to. 3) Also, another defining moment was when we had our infamous Northridge earthquake in 1994, I found it astounding that I was the only person on the entire block that kept my cool and didn't run around like a headless chicken. I was the one knocking down doors and going in to search for people in their apartments to make sure everyone was okay. I was the one gathering up their cats and dogs and taking them to safety. Everyone else, all 100 of them or so, didn't know what to do, even the doctor down the street was panicking. They were all asking me what to do, and counting on me to keep them safe during the aftershocks. Later, I was commended by the local fire station for my actions. I was only 16 years old at the time. **

I have to disagree with this. By this logic, every nurse should experience chemotherapy, defibrillation, catheters, etc and etc. Patients go through a lot of s***. That doesn't mean the nurses should too because we are giving the care. Where is the line drawn? Why does stripping down to your underwear in class make one a better nurse? I am wondering, but no one has quite answered that yet. We cannot and should not be forced to experience these things to be qualified as nurses. If it came down to it and I was required to do this in my program, I would walk and find another school that doesn't make you do it. Sorry. I will suffer for my craft but this is too much intimacy. I am very modest and religious, and no one but my husband is going to touch me/bathe me unless I am truly in the hospital and being given real care. It is a personal choice and should not be required.

I'm sorry, but I agree with the OP and the first couple of posts. This crosses the line. I will not let anyone sponge bathe me in nursing school under any circumstances other than fully clothed. That does not mean I will make a bad nurse, nor would it make me a "good" nurse afterwards should I chose to do it. JMHO

I have been looking for this everywhere! I saw it like a year ago. Thanks!:chuckle