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Complete honesty is the way to go! If your NM was genuinely hurt you weren't going, then chances are she's a caring person who will completely understand if you explained why you didn't want to go.

Thanks! All of that did help, especially the extra information about community colleges. I wasn't sure if community colleges required ACT and SAT scores as well. My only concern is not knowing what university to go to afterward. Because the way some of you have worded it, only some classes will transfer to other colleges depending on which college it is. But I'll talk to somebody at my community college and find out more information from them! Also, I'm loving all of these success stories! haha I've always been told that 'GED is for dummies' (even from people who know the circumstances for me dropping out) and that the best I could do with a GED was flipping hamburgers.. so it's nice to know that that's far from the truth and there are other successful people who have gone that route! Thank you all so much!

I'm so sorry for reply to you all so late! I've tried to type my response 3 times, but for some reason my laptop finds it funny to randomly shut off each time! haha. Thank you all SO MUCH for all of this knowledge! I feel MUCH MORE confident in my plans now that I actually know what I need to do! I'm very serious about my goals, but not knowing what to do to get where I want to be can be very stressful and overwhelming. For now I'll focus on studying and taking the ACT's and SAT's. I was originally planning to go to a community college and transferring to a 4 year university afterward, but I wasn't sure what I should be studying there or how long to expect to be there, so y'all have helped quite a bit with that, and I think I'll do that route! :) I'm so happy to see that other RN's have come from this path or similar and have succeeded. It's great to know that hard work does pay off, no matter what kind of past you come from! Thank you all so much! God bless! -------- @opensesame: Thank you very much. I would be lying if I were to say that I haven't had it rough so far, but I'm far from the victim of the circumstance! :) Where I've lacked in a 'proper upbringing' I've been blessed beyond words by being able to see how God is working day by day in my life. He has crafted my life in a perfect imperfection to glorify Him in all areas of my life at any given moment! Thank you for your help, God bless! @MySonIsAdorable: Thank you! I've had some bad experiences when I've tried to ask for help in the past, which is why I was so worried about sounding stupid haha. I was afraid to say something TOO dumb and be criticized that I won't make a good nurse. I'm so happy that you all were able to understand where I was coming from, though! :) I didn't move around a lot being of the army either.. my family became very unstable after my dad's drug addiction began after my parents divorce. So I switched schools a lot moving between family members. I'm not very worried about bad influences.. I'm not exactly the leader but I'm far from the follower. I pick my associations carefully. I mainly meant the noise, LOL @czyja: Thank you SO MUCH!! That really means a lot to me. I hope I make a good nurse. I don't expect it to be an easy job, but I know it'll be worth it. Thank you very much! :) God bless you all! Thank you all so so much! I know I've said that so many times already, but once more won't kill y'all

Hello! Before I go on, I apologize in advance for so much text. I'm a very detailed person, haha. I also apologize if this is in the wrong section. Anyway! I'm 17 years old and I recently got my GED and I'm trying to get into college now to become an RN. I was moved between schools a lot 5th-8th grade and therefore didn't learn much, and in the first month of 9th grade I was forced by my parents and school to drop out. I'm a VERY dedicated and smart person, though, and within a month of attending a GED I was able to get my GED with a higher average than my teachers had ever seen (and these were elderly teachers who had been teaching a long time). I am POSITIVE I want to become a RN. I'm not worried about not being able to pass school, I know I can because like I said- I'm very smart and dedicated. What I'm worried about is getting in to school and knowing what steps to take (if that makes any sense, haha). I've tried to understand the whole process of college and medical school, but nobody in my family and none of my friends have gone to college so I really don't have anybody to advise me. Honestly all I know are the basics, so I really don't know HOW to get into a college that's right for me and my plans. I know it sounds stupid for me not to know, but I don't and that's why I'm here. I want to succeed and I want to know everything there is to know in order to achieve my goal. So a few questions: -What's the whole process of getting your BSN, from getting your high school diploma (in this case, GED) to actually having your BSN? -For nurses who got their GED: Did you having your GED and not a high school diploma effect your ability to get into colleges? -If you attended/are attending an out of state college for school, how did you decide which college to go to? I know I DON'T want to stay in my state for school, mainly because EVERY school here is an extreme party school, even the 'smart schools' and I'm NOT into that. I also would like to experience a new area. But I don't want to spend money to go and visit every school I have in mind without knowing if I can even attend it yet. But I also don't want to apply, find out, and then visit the school and possibly realize I don't like the atmosphere and don't want to go there. How did you decide? I think for the time being that's all the questions I have. I'm sure I'll think of more later. I'm sorry if I'm not making sense in this thread, if I wasn't clear on something just let me know. :) Thank you all so much! I love this forum, and I'm so thankful to have found a place where I can find out so much information!

It's funny, I'm not afraid of these stories as much as I am fascinated. This makes me want to work the night shift when I become a nurse LOL. I've had 2 experiences that weren't in a hospital, but were creepy nonetheless. The house my family and I moved into whenever I was around 7 had a family that lived in there before us. The man that lived there before us had died in the home, though I can't remember how exactly. Whenever I was around 8 or 9 I'd see him occasionally in my room. He'd sometimes walk up to my bed (I had bunk beds and slept on the top) and just hold on to the railing, then walk through the door and leave. Whenever I was a little bit older I was sleeping over at a friend of mine's house with my little brother. My friend lives in one of those old plantation homes here in the south (I believe his home was built in the late 1700's) and it always gave me a really weird feeling. Well one night I'm sleeping there.. since my friend is a guy and I'm a girl he slept in a different room and my brother slept in that room too. His mom slept down stairs for some reason, and I slept upstairs. All of the windows were closed, but in the middle of the night the curtains behind me started blowing and I felt it get really cold. The stairs to the attic passed right in front of the door of the room I was in and I had the door open. It was pretty dark, but it was light enough from the moon shining through the window that I would be able to see if my friend/brother/friend's mom passed by. As the curtains were blowing and I felt it get really cold I started hearing foot steps. I looked at the staircase and I KNEW somebody (something?) was there but my friend/brother/friend's mom weren't there. I could hear my friend's mom still snoring downstairs and I said out loud ""C"? "J"?" but neither of them answered. When everything got back to normal I GOT OUT OF THERE lol. I went downstairs and told my friend's mom what happened, we checked the boys' rooms and they were still asleep and my window was closed and the AC and fan weren't even on. We also checked the house for any intruders but nobody was there, all the doors were locked and windows secured.. It was really weird.