GUESS I SHOULD HAVE WAITED A DAY!!

Well, last night I posted my typical after exam update. I shared with you the news of having done so bad on my exam and being extremely upset (I truly cried for hours yesterday). Today, after a student went over the exam with one of the instructors it seems there were some questions that truly needed to be thrown out. The exams had to be rerun! New grades were just posted and I PASSED!!!! I am so excited, thank you Jesus! I still have to work very hard to get through these final two exams (both the week of December 7th) but I am determined I will get through this! 

So with that news, I wanted to share with my friends and family that on December 18th at 6pm at my school will be our Pinning Ceremony. Any nurse will know the significance of this. We won't have an actual graduation until May (there is no winter commencement) but as a nursing student, we have our own ceremony. If any of my local family or friends would like to attend, please let me know and I'll provide the information. I am determined to be at the ceremony as a graduate!!!

Thank you to my friends and family who have been so encouraging along this journey. You kind words and supportive messages have kept me going for so many days.   

WELL, TWO EXAMS TO GO!!!!

I debated whether I should post an update today or not as I've sat here crying. I passed my exam last Thursday (and should have posted an update as I was feeling better than today), but I felt, I'd wait until this week. Well today was not good. I went into the exam feeling 'ok', not great, but I was sure I knew enough info to get through it. Well, I didn't.  

It's been the most difficult semester of nursing school. It seems the exams are each harder than the previous one and the questions seem to come out of nowhere. The required reading for each lecture is often the wrong chapter and/or page numbers so you aren't sure exactly what you should be reading. As a night time clinical student, I do not get the opportunity to attend 'live' lectures but have to view pre-recorded lectures (some of which are a year old). Previous semesters the lectures that were taught live in the morning were recorded and uploaded so that we saw and heard exactly what was taught to the day clinical group. We were told that there was no room if we wanted to attend the live lecture (basically a punishment for not being 'daytime' students). 

It's been a very frustrating semester and I can only pray and read and study what I can and hope that the final two exams keep me on the passing side. I go into the last two exams with a lot of weight on my shoulders. I have worked so very hard and truly just want to get done so I can move forward and start practicing all in the real world. 

I truly hope the next update I post will be me passing my next exam!