I am bouncing with ideas and energy. I feel restless and super-motivated. I could not keep this to myself any longer, so I decided to blog about this new nursing career I am going to embark on. Yet when it comes to actually writing about that restlessness, I am drawing a complete blank. I read so many nursing blogs, adore the way they are able to write a fun, informative and honest post without much obvious struggle. Atleast, it looks like that to me. But I am finding this seemingly easy task extremely overwhelming.
But let me try.
I start nursing school next month. I got accepted into a local community college's ADN program. It is a highly sought after and competitive program and it took me two years to finish all my prerequisites to get accepted. I am still finishing up my last two pre-reqs and since that is what is going on presently in my life, besides the restless wait for the actual nursing program to begin, I will start my very first post talking about this.
This semester I am finishing up Microbiology and a very dull Humanities class. No offense Humanities lovers, but this class as a prerequisite for nursing school just does not make any sense to me. I love learning new things and reading for pleasure, even though that has not happened in a long time. But to be graded for this class is just sucking the life force out of me. Microbiology on the other hand is just so darn interesting. All the organisms, their ubiquitousness, their virulence, the sheer luck that you, yes you, have somehow not been affected by Staphylococcus aureus despite your Walmart trip and how no matter the amount of hand-washing we do, it just seems like the cards are stacked in their favor- is just so, so interesting and eye-opening.
I will say, after being in this class for 4 months now, I do not judge germaphobes so much anymore. I also have developed a fear of eating out. I pay more attention to the local news segment that deals with restaurant ratings. That stuff is scary if you were to ever find out. Ignorance is bliss if you are lucky, if not, it is diarrhea, fever, vomiting and a messed up immune system my friends.
But let me try.
I start nursing school next month. I got accepted into a local community college's ADN program. It is a highly sought after and competitive program and it took me two years to finish all my prerequisites to get accepted. I am still finishing up my last two pre-reqs and since that is what is going on presently in my life, besides the restless wait for the actual nursing program to begin, I will start my very first post talking about this.
This semester I am finishing up Microbiology and a very dull Humanities class. No offense Humanities lovers, but this class as a prerequisite for nursing school just does not make any sense to me. I love learning new things and reading for pleasure, even though that has not happened in a long time. But to be graded for this class is just sucking the life force out of me. Microbiology on the other hand is just so darn interesting. All the organisms, their ubiquitousness, their virulence, the sheer luck that you, yes you, have somehow not been affected by Staphylococcus aureus despite your Walmart trip and how no matter the amount of hand-washing we do, it just seems like the cards are stacked in their favor- is just so, so interesting and eye-opening.
I will say, after being in this class for 4 months now, I do not judge germaphobes so much anymore. I also have developed a fear of eating out. I pay more attention to the local news segment that deals with restaurant ratings. That stuff is scary if you were to ever find out. Ignorance is bliss if you are lucky, if not, it is diarrhea, fever, vomiting and a messed up immune system my friends.
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