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  1. Sorry to hear....I will join you very soon. I don't expect to get in this semester because I still have 3 outstanding classes to
  2. One thing that will help is that I am so very involved in my A&P2 class that I barely have time to worry about anything but what is at hand. Registration is Monday and I am planning my classes...
  3. Has anyone gotten into nursing school with a low gpa?

    It's the same here, too. No repeats (also no falures) in the prerequisites and if you take any class more than twice you pay double the
  4. Discouraged

    You poor thing, just focus on your upcoming test for now....you have a high B you can still pull it up to an A....read as much as you can tonight and then get some rest. Tomorrow is another day....
  5. Taking 1 Class At A Time

    We have teachers of different degrees of quality and difficulty. For example one A&P teacher only teaches A&P1 but not part 2....he makes you remember crazy things, long passages which he...
  6. Ok, guys....I just callled the secretary and she said, yes, it is so.... all applicants will be notified by e-mail "in a couple of weeks" reagardless if you are excepted or not..... today is the 7th....
  7. Wow, they only send e-mail notification???? I didn't know that
  8. Taking 1 Class At A Time

    I am not saying it's everybody but MOST people that take too many of these classes at once don't get the competitive grades that they need in order to make it into nursing school. Most people that I...
  9. Texas Evening/Weekend Courses?

    I know that Central Texas College in Killeen has a nursing program but I am not sure if they also offer evenings....you may check them since it's
  10. Texas Evening/Weekend Courses?

    Yes, down here in San Antonio...at San Antonio College, it's a ADN and offers day and evening
  11. Hey there, fellow competitor Haven't heard a thing.....shouldn't be too long, I
  12. dumb question about GPA...

    The photography class shouldn't count towards your nursing degree since it is not a prerequisite, so I wouldn't worry about
  13. Biology 12 - notes help

    You are right, first we use glucose and glycogen for energy, secondly if we run out of that the body starts utilizing stored fats and if we run out of that the next thing our body does is is "eat"...
  14. Taking 1 Class At A Time

    Five years is not that long. Maybe the quality of your prerequisite classes wasn't that good and you didn't learn what you need to suceed in nursing school. There is a very self-defeating trend in...
  15. Biology 12 - notes help

    You may also invest in a good medical dictionary....it will help with definitions that may not necessarily be mentioned in your textbook. I purchased "Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing &...
  16. Biology 12 - notes help

    If you have a hard time keeping up in lecture it may be a good idea to invest in a
  17. Taking 1 Class At A Time

    Are you on drugs..... where have you seen such thing, according to your age you haven't even been alive long enough let alone be in the 'working' world long enough to come to such a conclusion. The...
  18. A&P II Club! Come on in!

    WEll, it wasn't obvious and I named the darn thing wrong. But I think I am allowed to miss
  19. Anyone afraid of not getting in?

    The ADN program at our CC doesn't have interviews, but the BSN program at UT Health Science Center started conducting
  20. Anyone afraid of not getting in?

    I'm not afraid either because I see the "competition" every day....I am currently doing better than a foreign MD in my class, makes me scratch my head. How some of those people in my class expect to...
  21. A&P II Club! Come on in!

    Sounds like you will be alright when the test comes around, good luck. I made a 99 on my lab test, missed one question by a few mm....instead of the subclavian artery on the pig I put the axillary...
  22. A&P II Club! Come on in!

    I hate it when professors cram and there isn't enough time for last minute material to sink in....you will do fine, I am sure I walked out with a good feeling on the bloodvessel test. My average is...
  23. Am I crazy?

    Just like you I started pre-nursing classes later in life. I had a large time span in between previous college classes. Initially I was quite "shocked" by the difficulty and workload in those science...
  24. Am I crazy?

    Now this is only my personal opinion.....but if you plan to make an A in all of those classes it may be a good idea not to take them all at once. As far as I know A's are pretty much needed in all...
  25. fat and miserable

    This problem is not just in nursing...unhealthy and overweight is EVERYWHERE!!!!! It's my understanding that 60% of the population is overweight. Small children are already victims of obesity, just...