The Frustrated Learner Thread aka "I HATE studying MORE THAN ___!" All rants welcome!

minnielynn · May 29, 2006

I'd rather clean the toilet with my tongue than study!

Now this made me laugh out loud:roll :chuckle :roll

I second that !!!! Hahahaha.....

getjock · May 29, 2006

I LOVED learning the how's and why's of the human body. I LOVE teaching pts about what is going on in their body, especially when you can see the light go on and everything makes sense. Studying just gave me opportunities to have the light go on regularly...although the books were overwhelming. I'm thinking of going back for an advanced degree...someday.

:coollook:

UM Review RN, ASN, RN · May 29, 2006

i loved learning the how's and why's of the human body. i love teaching pts about what is going on in their body, especially when you can see the light go on and everything makes sense. studying just gave me opportunities to have the light go on regularly...although the books were overwhelming. i'm thinking of going back for an advanced degree...someday.

boooo hisssss!!!

study geeks! repent! see the light!

:coollook: confessions of a former study geek

i too was a study geek. i read everything. it started with the ingredients label on cereal boxes. soon i was visually gobbling all the reading material in the house--scifi, great art, mad magazine, the telephone book. i went from the health column in the local newspaper and the "i am joe's ____" articles in the reader's digest to taber's in one astonishing year as a pre-teen.

i loved to study! in nursing school, we were given assignments of up to 75 pages a night per subject to "study" for a test the next day, none of which had any relevance at all to our future clinical practice. profs would single students out by virtue of their test-taking skills (i.e., were the students too exhausted to hold a scantron sheet and a pencil?) and their level of self-abnegation to the professor's magisterial prerogative.

hence, the prof was supportive of all students who absorbed one great truth of nursing school: the prof was always right, all the time, in any case. any students who questioned, who challenged test answers, who actually used their god-given brains, were summarily dismissed with a poor evaluation, and a "talk" that included the phrases "i'm seriously concerned about your performance with regard to nursing" and "i'm sure that you should explore other options for your career than nursing", "most males find themselves more comfortable in another area", and other equally astonishing leaps in logic that had absolutely no basis in scholarly evidence (or were even loosely rooted in reality).

i found that the higher up the educational ladder one climbed, the more prevalent were the brilliant profs who were horrible teachers, the more that each student, in order to pass, had to adopt a worshipful gaze toward the omniscience of the professiorial aura, and ask pointed questions that led to the gleeful reiteration of the prof's own political agenda, thereby reflecting the brilliance of his own eruditions.

one day, in a fit of pique, i quit the class i was taking, and picked up the taber's and had an epiphany such as no nursing school prof had elicited before--or since.

i realized that a clearly written, concise textbook had so much more to offer than the profs with the thousand letters behind their names. books were not elitist. books were not separatist. books were not emotionally immature and seeking a scapegoat for their past--or they would not be read. books could not afford to waste energy on pushing the author's personal political agenda. books were not tenured; if it was not well-written, if it could not stand on its merit, it was out.

unlike many profs in many nursing school programs.

i became a convert to independent study. i now read, i write, i investigate the material as slowly as a page at a time and thus, i learn the material inside and out. i have found a sane place where i now enjoy learning again.

but every time i have to attend a class, especially one in which a prof with a thousand letters behind his name, pushes an agenda which is his and his alone, and does not seem to care about whether or not his students learn anything else but that agenda--well, that makes me hate all classes, all profs, and all studying. call it guilt by association if you will.

therefore, i still hate studying....more than having a colonoscopy!

disclaimer: the intent of this thread is for both entertainment and therapeutic release, much like a primal scream or hitting a pillow. it bears no resemblance to actual people, living or teaching. :clown:

advanced degree --(n.)--verb forms, future tense: to go back for, to achieve: (def.): insufferable profs who really only want you to know how smart they are, have a personal political agenda to push onto all students, and have no intention of letting you pass--especially if you retain your intellectual devotion to "truth."

Retired R.N. · May 29, 2006

advanced degree --(n.)--verb forms, future tense: to go back for, to achieve: (def.): insufferable profs who really only want you to know how smart they are, have a personal political agenda to push onto all students, and have no intention of letting you pass--especially if you retain your intellectual devotion to "truth."

i have experienced only too many "inservice educators" with the same elitist attitudes. they may not have the alphabet soup behind their names, but they are just as inclined to rub your nose in how you deficient you are simply because you are merely what they so arrogantly define as "clinically competent." while proclaiming that their classes will automatically confer upon you the status of "clinical expert."

MMARN, BSN, RN · May 30, 2006

You know what? I'd rather lick the mold off my hot dog buns--which are sooo hard b/c I haven't had time to eat b/c I'VE BEEN STUDYING--than study!!!

UM Review RN, ASN, RN · May 30, 2006

you know what? i'd rather lick the mold off my hot dog buns--which are sooo hard b/c i haven't had time to eat b/c i've been studying--than study!!!

:rotfl:

ok mave, i just snorted powdered donuts at my computer screen --which i'm eating because i haven't time to cook because i'm

:selfbonk: still studying :selfbonk:

EMTandNurse2B · May 30, 2006

Oh, do I wish I had found this thread yesterday! I would have had much more to contribute. :clown:

For now, lets just say that over the weekend I actually hated studying so much that I (gasp) exercised! :pumpiron: Well, that made the problem worse, because the exercise involved my gluteus muscles... I think you get the drift, I could hardly sit down yesterday and today is no better (with five hours of sitting on a hard chair in class!)

So, I hate studying more than exercise! :cool:

rhapsodyRN · May 30, 2006

I hate studying more than the feeling of a small bug crawling down my leg while watching a horror movie in the dark basement. :)

And I really hate it right now because we only have 26 days off between Spring and Summer semesters, and we got our reading list and med sheets and I have to start studying NOW to be ready for clinicals next week Thursday. [EVIL]SOOO not fair!![/EVIL]

mad9 · May 30, 2006

I hate studying more than cleaning/changing a whole unit of patients after they've had liberal doses of Go-Lytely. :rotfl:

Isn't Go-Lytely an oxymoron?

:rotfl:

chadash · May 30, 2006

Do you hate studying more than wiping butts your whole life?

(I feel your pain, but study! It pays!)

or you will turn out like me.....

roses4mom · May 30, 2006

I don't htink anyone likes to study something that is not directly related to what they want to do when they get out of their pre-req's stage. Just try to remember how it WILL pay off some day, all of the hard work, studying, crying, screaming, and worry will all be like some really bad dream.

Good luck all, try to stay calme and hang in there!

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

The passion of rescue reveals the highest dynamic of the human soul - Unknown :paw:

StarGirl · May 30, 2006

ohhh...oohhh...i got one!!!!

i hate studying more than

snorting wasabi up both my nostrils! :redlight: :flamesonb

( i promise i don't really do that....but that is how much i hate studying)