phillycb

Stephalump, I hear ya! The people who are freaking out (myself included) have a lot going on like jobs, kids, money issues.... I know a few people with 2.5 GPA and they are not upset at all! I think it has a lot to do with personal style.

My friend is in an ADN program and she is so much happier. She second semester was 8 credits :/ Meanwhile, I am dealing with 15-17 credits per semester so I am a little fried right now. The silver lining is I have really amazing friends from school and I do look forward to see them.

Research papers, weekly care plans, more care plans, tests, exams, some sort of deadline to meet every week while operating on lack of sleep...I don't know, maybe I am too intense. Maybe I should be ok with mostly Bs. Some of my classmates handle the stress better than me but they all cried. Jessatkinson86, what are your strategies? I would like to be more relax but find it really hard in such an intense program.

I know you posted this awhile ago so I just want to know if you are happy with your decision? I am thinking about leaving nursing school because the longer I stay, the more I think this is not for me. The stress and insanity are just not reasonable to me. I don't know, I have two more semesters to go so it is kinda too late to quit. I do fantasized about a different path...

I am about to finish my second semester of nursing school. I thought about quitting a month ago and decided to gut it out. I don't understand why nursing school has to be so brutal and unpleasant! In what planet does crying and having mental breakdown are normal? My neighbors (ER physician and pediatric nephrologist) saw me cried so many times they thought someone had died in my family. I told them about nursing school and they chuckled at the absurdity and the intensity. They assured me nursing school is so different from the real world. I hope so. If nursing school is an indication of what I have to deal with everyday as a RN, I really don't know if I want to endure it.

To make things worst, I am tired as hell all the time and feeling inadequate. I am sticking it out though because I want to be a psych nurse

So glad to find these posts. I was thinking about quitting because I came in to nursing school with 4.0 and now I am a B student.