Social interaction in nursing school..

[JoshuaC]

My question is if there is a lot of social interaction among fellow students in nursing school (i.e., group work). I'm asking this question because I'm really looking forward to making new friends and I was wondering if there will be given opportunities to make friends through group work and things of that nature. More or less I just look forward to social interaciton with my fellow classmates. So what's it like in nursing school?

Thanks.

[Tweety, BSN, RN]

Spending two years, and many hours with the same people, it's hard not to socially interact.

I enjoyed nursing school, we had a good time, shared our frustrations, and made it through together.

I was a lone studier, and too busy to socialize after class with them. But it was nice to bump into some classmates in the lunchroom and have them ask me to join them. Several of us did a few days of clinical out of town and we had a blast.

I don't keep up with them today, so I didn't make any permanent friends.

I've heard other people say nursing school was full of childish catty cliquish gossips and it was just like "mean girls" in high school. Mercifully, that wasn't my experience.

Obviously you can't be friends with everyone, and people are going to pair up and group up.

Good luck!