Impossible_To_Tell

Of the people on the page, Im seeing 35-41, some with memos, some without. Its only a small sampling of the overall number of people though, and I heard that they were taking people with points in their teens.

Calls are going out! I got accepted as well! A lot of us are on a facebook page freaking out together, as of right now, 12/34 got their calls.

No, that's not part of the application packet. You'll need to complete them once you're accepted. I can't wait for phone calls to start going out. 40 points, full time, no waiver/memo. I've been scouring the boards and CSN website and every other random place I can find regarding the supposed CNA requirement for application. I decided to take a CNA course to fill in this empty semester between my last requirement and my (hopeful) first semester of nursing school, and one instructor insists that it will be made a requirement soon. The information on this thread says that requirement has been taken off the table entirely and today I am intending to drop the course. Good luck to all of us. ^^

Second set of clinical days coming up with my first day of being around patients/residents. I'm definitely trying to keep looking on the bright side of everything I possibly can! Learning experiences and not letting difficult moments stop me from learning or stop me from moving forward. We'll see how this weekend goes! Thank you all for the wisdom you've shared with me so far!

Not to sound harsh, but you need to take a step back. NO ONE PERSON is worth you feeling like crap about your future and yourself. In my undergraduate classes, I let a failing marriage almost stop my progress, and when I really needed them most, found friends slipping away as the direction of my life changed. People come and go in our lives. Be grateful for the friendship you had, and look forward to the friendships you will make later. But you have to do for you. You're the only one taking your tests, you're the only one walking in your shoes, and only you are under your own control. You have to do for you right now. It's hard to be alone sometimes, and not being in the "in group" can sting a little bit - even outside of high school dramatics as previously mentioned. But when your patients need care, they aren't going to ask if you had a lot of cool friends in nursing school, but are going to be relying on your abilities and education.

Well, the first week is done. Each of the instructors are older than me by a large margin and refer to even my oldest class-mate (A woman in her 50s) as "you kids". I can tell I'm definitely not too old after all! I do still feel kind of out of place, but for a different reason. I've completed all my nursing program requirements and even the stuff that was not required to apply but were required to complete the course like AP 1-2 and Microbiology, so I have a head start on a lot of my classmates who have either just started their biologies or are not intending to take any. I already got my ego bruised by doing the wrong thing - i.e. not being told the proper way to do something according to one instructor, so doing it in a way that made sense to me and being called out in front of everyone. I've always excelled at book work, but hands-on things leave me feeling kind of baffled. I guess I can expect this sort of behavior from here on out and just work on developing that thick skin I always wished I had. Some of you posters journeys are amazing and very inspiring! Thank you for your comments here!

Yesterday was my first day of classes/labs for an 8 week CNA program. A little background about me - I've been working on all of my prerequisites for the RN program and finally put my application in. This left me with a free semester in which I decided to take the CNA program and find something in the field to work in part time during nursing school. I am 36 years old, divorced for just over a year, living back at home with my family. I know this is a tough spot, and I am so grateful I had somewhere to go with people who could help me go further in life. However...I feel so old and out of place in my class. It is full of young, bright eyed and bushy tailed girls (two guys in the class so far) who just recently got out of high school. Lots of smiles and no one has treated me poorly, but I personally feel like I don't belong. I definitely have some issues with feeling like I wasted my life not making something of myself when I was younger, but at that time, being a home-maker was more important to me. This is a respectable field, and an excellent step in the path towards my ultimate goal of NP, but right now I feel like a total loser in every way. Has anyone else felt this way, or entered this field later in life/after a major life change/etc?