keoneal

I feel the same way. I'm 25, and a sophomore in the nursing program. There are a few people who are probably 30-ish, and one who I'd put at about 40-something, but everyone else is basically fresh out of high school. I had some of my pre-reqs with most of them, and I still don't really have any sort of connection with anyone. Hopefully since my clinicals group is small this semester, that might change.

That's not a bad idea! I'll definitely look into that. Glad to hear they get smaller, too.

Same here! I just printed off a 100-page syllabus for my first class. Granted, it contains a lot of policies and procedures from the nursing handbook, but still. I feel like I need a binder for that alone.

According to pretty much everyone in my micro class, including the professor, the class was incredibly difficult. The woman who sat next to me was in the class for her second time, and spent several hours a week listening to the lectures again (she recorded them) and rewriting notes. I didn't really spend too much time outside class studying, save a couple of hours the day before and day of the exams, and I got a B in the class. It IS a lot of info, but it all went together and made sense to me. I actually had a more difficult time with physio because of the lab reports, which for my professor pretty much were research papers.

When I first started uni as an undecided science major, I took science-major bio and chem at the same time, and passed both. Not with a stellar grade in either, but it was also my first semester of uni after breezing through school my whole life, and I never learned to study. When I started back at school a year ago for my BSN, I took anatomy and basic chem at the same time, and it was easy enough. Basic chem is a breeze compared to the science-major class--at least at my university. I think if you did well in your high school science classes, it shouldn't be a problem taking them together. If you've had trouble with sciences in the past, it might be a better idea to spread those classes out. Good luck!

Hello! I'm Kacie, and I'm also starting nursing school at Marshall in a couple of weeks. I'll be going into the sophomore year of BSN classes, since I've already got all of my core pre-reqs out of the way (I'm a returning student). I'm both very excited and very nervous.