First semester is over

My first semester is over. It was so busy that I neither had time or the brain to login here to write a post.

With no exaggeration my schedule for the first semester went:

Mon: quiz, Tuesday: quiz, Wed: quiz, Thurs: quiz, Fri: quiz...(followed by) Mon thru Fri Tests and it seesawd back and forth like that until finals. 

Many of my predecessors had said at about week 2 people would start to go crazy. I've been through some crazy things in my life and first career plus I already have a college degree so I figured it going crazy wouldn't be me. Ha!  Yes me. Week 2 day 2 or 3 I had a mental break. People close to me in class noticed and encouraged me to decompress that night. So, my break was one day. 

Our program made just about everyone break. Some longer than others but accelerated nursing school is no joke. 

The start of nursing school

I have just completed my first week of nursing school.

I'm in a unique program, some call it a bridge program, my school calls it "Entry Level." Simply, its 15 months of lots of units Pre-licensure and then an additional 2 year post licensure to obtain a Masters in Nursing.

My first week was all theory related. This quickly passed and I am getting ready to walking into my second week of class. This week I start my other classes and it is going to get real! So far, this week I need to complete 25 chapters of reading, 1 pharmacology concept map, a food study of my own intake and then my exercise.

It's particularly funny when speaking with my classmates through social media because we are all afraid of forgetting something. Either the Blackboard homework assignment over the weekend, or a specific dress requirement for different classes. It hasn't even gotten hard and we are all already stressed out.

In the end of my first week, I'm glad that I have a good group of people to learn with. There are very few in the group that drive me crazy.