FOUR DOWN FOUR TO GO!!!

Well this isn't the happy, "I passed" post! Unfortunately, I didn't pass my exam today. I didn't think that I had when I left the exam room. There was so much information on the exam and I just seemed to keep reading and re-reading my notes and feeling like I was looking at it for the first time again. I was told earlier this week that this was the most difficult exam of the semester and I am praying that information is correct. I'm less than two points from passing at this point so I am not going to stress about this. I'm going to dig in deep and start on the next set of lectures and readings. Three weeks til the next exam.

When I started this journey in May 2010, I knew it would be a long road; I knew it would take a LOT of time; I knew it would take a lot of devotion and I will NOT quit when I am this close to the finish line! The light at the end of the tunnel is brighter and brighter each day!

There are four more exams, seven weeks, 49 days between me and my RN!!! This is my countdown on my phone at 11am each day!

THREE DOWN!!! Five to go!

I didn't get a chance to post after my second exam but I passed that! Many others did not. I 'just' passed but as I've been told many MANY times, C's get degrees! Once I finish school and pass my boards no one is going to ask what I got on my exams! So I have to remember that!

So that brings me to today! I just passed my third exam of the semester! This time with a B. I've not gotten a B in so long that I forgot what that looked like! Things are getting real. I had to put in my application for graduation! I'll be 'graduating' in December but my college doesn't have a ceremony until May. I was asked 'Are you going to walk?' and I said ABSOLUTELY! I've worked very hard to get through this, I feel I deserve to walk. This past week I had to get fingerprinted for my background check as part of the state nursing board and licensing.

Our school does have a Pinning Ceremony in December a week after we take our final exam. As I pass each of these exams I can feel it getting closer! I'm exciting about all that we are learning this semester, it is all 'clicking' more as we are seeing it in practice. My position that I have at the hospital has enabled me to see things that I don't get a chance to see in clinical (due to not having a specific patient with exactly the same thing); I am very grateful that I've have this opportunity to learn while I'm working.

The main focus right now is trying to pick up extra shifts to bring in additional money since my unemployment has run out. I'm working midnight tonight and tomorrow since they are the only hours I can fit in some weeks. Off to watch another lecture as I prepare for yet another exam!