Why Tests Suck.

1. You learn the book backwards and forwards and you only get tested on part of it, if that. So if you think about it, if you do really well, it may be because it happened to be the stuff you understood really well. If you do bad it could be because it was the stuff you struggled with and prayed it wouldn't be on there, but of course it is. So tests don't always test your full knowledge, just a matter of how "nice" your teacher is or a matter of luck. I really do get lucky on a lot of these tests. I'm sure that sounds comforting to future patients of mine...

2. There are no multiple choice answers to pick from in the real world!!! Of course I look "smart" on paper sometimes, but get me in front of a patient and it's like I have no idea where to begin.

"What will be your next intervention nurse..."
"Ummm... wait I know this.. just give me four choices to pick from and I know I can figure it out!"

Yea, I'm sure that's how it'll work.

3. I have no other reasons really except that I'm tired and annoyed and stressed and scared beyond belief. I have another test on Monday and add 12 hours shifts in between which takes study time away and it becomes not so fun. Our last test was just 2 weeks ago and I managed to get by because I studied everyday for 5 weeks.. yea this test should be really, really fun :/

Just needed to vent... Feel free to add to the list because I'm sure I could come up with a billion more, but I have to get back to the books.

Only 59 more days...

Ahhhh!!

I wish school was out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

13 more weeks.

Let the countdown begin.

Time Flies.

Third semester is over and done with. Things started to smooth out in the end.. especially because I ignored it all and was able to just drift on through without caring lol. Now I'm going to be starting my last and final semester!!! I am in shock. It has projects and clinicals and tests galore. Don't know how I'm going to be able to handle it, but I'm hoping that I can take what I learned from my first 3 semesters and not get myself into any major holes like I always seem to...

I remember my first few days of nursing school and now I'll soon be celebrating my last few days before I can blink an eye. Unreal!

So I have this whole week off and then 15 weeks and counting until graduation!!!

Hope everyone else with normal lives has a good summer! :P

Imbalanced

I'm finally on spring break and the semester will be over in about a month. I feel like I'm in another funk!! I hate these. Usually something horrible will have to happen to snap me back out of it and that's not a good way to have to figure it out.

I just want to be done already! I'm passing all my classes fine, but I'm having trouble in clinical to the point that it's stressing me out and I want to quit. There always has to be that "something" each semester I have to deal with and "overcome." I'm sick of overcoming. I just want one peaceful semester before the next chapter.

I guess on a good note, I have been more social... but I'd rather be doing that than studying so I'm getting thrown off there too.

Now I feel like I'm just being random. Ok, good night.

My Project

Just in case anyone was following my picture project, I moved it to another website because flickr makes you pay for it after a certain amount of pictures posted and then starts hiding them. And right now I can't afford that ... so here's the new link: Project 365

It doesn't show up as a slideshow like flickr did so if you want to see it as a slideshow you'll have to click the button in the top left side or you can just scroll to the bottom. I might still keep the flickr one updated, not sure. We'll see. Just want to keep the project going :)

Oh, the irony!

Wow, I had a weird feeling that if I mentioned my car like I did in my last post that something bad would happen to it. Well, sure enough on my way to clinical (which is suuuuuuper important that I get there on time because they are very strict crazy about time and could cost me to fail the class potentially) my car decided to break down!!

I guess a pulley broke off or something and my steering stopped working plus the car started to overheat. I was able to get my car to a bank and into the parking lot which was right off the freeway. I then called my dad first and luckily he left his cell on and answered at 6 in the morning! I was able to make it to clinical just in time.

Also, the best part is while I was away my dad took my car in and got it fixed!! I knew today was going to be good in spite of a stressful situation. I feel very blessed because my dad is amazing and I didn't have to deal with it and especially because it didn't cost me as much as I thought it would :)

Nothing's really new that I can think of...

Got my graduation application back, which is weird because I feel like I'm strugging AGAIN with another stupid class and it's frustrating so that packet doesn't seem real yet. Why can't being smart just come naturally to me??

But this semester has been pretty laid back compared to last semester so I've been able to see my friends a little bit more and I don't feel as stressed in spite of the annoying struggles.

Decided to work on my fitness and have been taking a spinning class at school.. and WOW. Definitely a work out. Hoping to fit in my jeans again by summer.

Heard about how you can travel anywhere in the world as a nurse, work there for a bit and still have a job when you come back home.. and they pay for your expenses!! I'll have to look more into that when I start working. Very excited about that one depending on how true it is.

And my car is still working! I'm just grateful and happy about that one. :)

Hope you're all doing well!