Hi, everyone. I don't really know how to really explain my problem that I'm having in the nursing program. Let tell you about myself so that it may help me to know my situation. I'm an international student from Saudi Arabia and I took an intensive English program so that I can study in a university in the U.S. I decided to be a nurse because I really love to help people and I'm going to save people's life so that I will feel proud of myself. When I started school, everything was okay, but I don't feel comfortable in my class because nobody talks with me. Although, I did talk with them and try to make friends, but it seems that it wouldn't work. Before I took the first exam, I made sure that I know everything that I read. Unfortunately, I failed the first exam. I thought that I'm the only student who failed and I found out that there are 26 students failed the exam. So I decided to make a study group with my classmates so we can study together, but they just make excuses to not study with me. Later on, I failed the second exam and I feel really sad because I studied really hard. I spent most of my time studying A&P, but not progress. The worst thing that I'm having is that I feel I'm not welcome in my class. No one talks with me. I feel lonely. I thought that because I'm a guy, girls won't talk to me, but there are a few guys in my class that girls talks to them and they're fine. I feel really isolated in my program and I'm thinking that if nothing change I will change my major. I really want to be a nurse, but I'm not welcome around my classmates. I started to not attend to class and I skip the third exam because I feel I will do the same thing like the other exams that I did.
I talked with my professor and told her everything that I'm having in my class and she told me that Americans don't know how to talk with international students. I also told my adviser about that and he told me let me think about that.†I really hated my life because of what I'm having now. I really need help.
I truly feel for you. I'm not a nursing student yet but working towards it. We all bleed red, we are all uniquely different. Keep doing what you love. Life to short to be worrying about friends. See if someone else has a group and you can join there. American people think life revolves around them. Just keep working hard, don't give up!
Seriously? Blame Americans because this guy can't make friends? The OP sounds like he wants life to revolve around him.
You are in Nursing school to become a Nurse, not make friends. The reality is, nursing is an extremely demanding job emotionally and mentally, and you will not have people there for you all the time to help get you through it. The point is you need to be self-sufficient. That starts now in nursing school. Once you become a nurse, you will likely come across some work cultures that are really venomous and you have to have thick skin to get through it without dire consequences. Nursing is a good job. It means good deeds. But no good deed goes unpunished. That is just my 2 cents.
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Seriously? Blame Americans because this guy can't make friends? The OP sounds like he wants life to revolve around him.