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At my school there are no acceptance guidelines except that you have to pass your 4 science pre-reqs with a 2.5 and have English 101 and the Math placement test. At that point you go to the nursing office, they check your grades and if everything's o...

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

I do not understand me - I am the biggest mystery I know of. I have gone to four different colleges, six different majors, and have spent the last 3 years solely working and preparing to enter the nursing program. I was 100% sure this is what I wante...

Well I don't have kids yet and we've only been married for just over two years...but I can still sorta relate. My hubby feels resentful that we are going to have to move out of our nice (expensive) apartment and into a little studio or something as s...

Hey all, I'm over at SMC. I was wondering if there was anyone from CSULA, UCLA, Mt. St. Mary's, or anywhere on my side of the hill. I have some questions about clinicals in the area, as we are going to be sent anywhere and everywhere it seems. I am s...

Oh dear. This is quite the situation. Being her first teaching situation, she probably has a lot of self-doubts and doesn't realize she is just not helpful. I personally would firmly tell her at a discrete time that I require more help than just bein...

Oh, I cannot resist commenting on this whole whining thing, because I have a story or two of my own to tell. But I'll just tell one, the other is way too boring. In my night class for physiology we had soooo many whiners that I seriously considered w...

I had the same symptoms early this year and was scared to death. After two weeks of vertigo I was driving home one day from school and suddenly didn't know where I was. I took so many wrong turns but luckily happened to pass a hospital, so I went to ...

I had the exact same problem with every single one of my science pre-reqs. Couldn't get into chem one semester and had to wait until fall. In an anatomy class that only seated 30, we had 84 show up on the first day. About 40 people decided to waitli...

I'm 25 but have never partied or gone out on test nights, etc. etc. Actually I don't party, period. I'm very boring. But I definitely do notice that a lot of my peers party and go out, then try to beg notes and advice before the next quiz or whatever...

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 fi...

I have switched all over the place! But now I am settled. Here were my other majors (at my old university that I left 5 years ago) in order: Theater Music Geography Zoology Travel Management When I went back to school in 2002 I decided on Nursing an...

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 - a...

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 s...

-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...

- 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 a...

I got the exact opposite of this when I went into aircraft mechanics at age 17. I had a crush on practically every guy in the class (I was the only female out of the 40 of us - and had raging hormones!) People I had known for ages actually said aloud...

Oh my gosh...what a coincidence. I am at this very moment procrastinating and ignoring my Psych 101 textbook. It is the worst class ever. Do you have Wood/Wood book too?? Fourth edition?? Seriously I would rather read the dictionary. The book is writ...

I hope so Klone....I wish you the best of luck. But my health was ruined by keeping this kind of schedule, and I'm 25 years old, formerly felt like 18 but now going on 50.Sorry, didn't mean to sound so negative in my original post. I was just concern...

Best of luck! Remember, it's only as hard as you make it...study, study, study and don't give up. Geez, I wish I would take my own advice sometimes because honestly I barely scraped by - it was so frustrating.:)

I have no advice, I just wanted to wish you best of luck. This too shall pass. Practice, practice, practice that damn algebra. Get an "Algebra for Dummies" book or something. With any luck you'll be one of those right-brained people that just "gets" ...

.My advice is, set aside specific hours where they are told not to interrupt you. Or study somewhere else entirely. Do not feel guilty. You have to study in peace and you can always make it all up to them after school is finished!!

klone - this is too much. Your health is going to suffer, mark my words.

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 ever...