any other students feel this way?

[stelarRN]

i'm in my 3rd and last semester of LVN school and i am just feeling completely burnt out. they told us things start to click in 3rd semester and that hasn't happened for me at all yet. (although i am only in my 3rd week of clinical). i feel like im sleeping, eating, breathing nursing and that it's become too much. it's overload: clinicals, trying to remember every disease process known to man, remembering steps to key procedures i have to do in clinical, feeling inadequate at times (which i know is normal), tired of having my teachers look over my shoulder every 2 minutes and judging me, feeling like my classmates know more than i do, etc. im scared to death to become a nurse because im starting to think im not cut out for it. but then i think, im just plain tired. mentally and emotionally. anyone else go through this in their last months of school, and does it get better once you start working?

[allele, LPN]

I graduated already, but I'll never forget the day I work up during the summer break between my second and third semester of school....I just woke up and thought about all the work that would be starting again in 2 or 3 weeks and I just cried for an hour straight. I thought I didn't want to go back. It's VERY difficult, and you DO eat, sleep, and breathe nursing. But I went back and took things ONE DAY AT A TIME! I didn't think about the fact that I had two semesters left, I thought that I just had to get through that day and finally I was at the end! Don't give up! It does get better and it's all well worth it in the end! Good luck!