sabrina17

I'm really not a fan of the faculty or how any of the classes are taught. Also, I'm interested in ER nursing and I would hardly get a chance to work there during clinicals. I talked with a nursing professor I'm close with about transferring last semester, and he said that this school just didn't seem like the right fit for me, but I decided to just stick it out the rest of the year. I'm absolutely in love with the idea of being a nurse and will do whatever it takes to get there, but I'm not going to compromise my mental health for it. I know nursing school is hard, but all of my friends in other nursing programs ultimately enjoy their school whereas I'm honestly crying every day because I hate all my classes and how there is no support from professors or tutoring for almost all of them.

I'm a sophomore and I'm just not happy with my nursing school. I'm so excited to be a nurse, but I feel like the program I'm in is killing that. After having a major breakdown last night (which wasn't the first of the semester..), I realized it would be best to switch majors and then do an ABSN program after I graduate. Right now I'm looking into health science with either a focus in either health education or health administration. Which one should I do? Or should I consider a different major? I would really like to stay at my current college, but am willing to transfer if needed. I'm talking to my advisor today, but thought I'd turn here first to get some of your opinions. It finally hit me that I'm just incredibly unhappy with how this program is run and because I've worked very hard to get into college, I deserve to enjoy the rest of my time here :)

I'm a sophomore in a small, pretty competitive nursing program and a majority of the people in my class graduated near the top of their class. It seems like all anyone can talk about is grades, though. I'll get texts from people saying "tests are up, what did you get?" just so they can talk about their grade. I had a rough freshman year and ended with a 3.16 gpa and I'm working my butt off to get As and Bs this semester. My advisor and a few older nursing students all said that even though I'm not top of my class, I have the personality and empathy to make a great nurse, which is comforting. But that's not exactly helping me get through my assessments or anatomy classes. I guess my question is how do I deal with people who brag about their 4.0 or that their 96 wasn't a high enough A (that happened yesterday...)? How can I keep my morale up?