Everyone is nice, the instructors are personable, and they've told us flat out that it's going to be a lot of hard work. I already have 5 units' worth of reading to do by Monday, which is going to be tough this weekend due to significant family commitments. Also, looking at the calendar (they explained how to decode it), I'm going to have a lot of reading each day that needs to be done BEFORE class or lab. And oh yeah, I'll need to have reviewed all the lab skills BEFORE each lab too.
Oh boy. Welcome to nursing school, Meriwhen. This first class is going to be an 8-week rollercoaster.
I started reading and making notes last night. They told us about the Cornell Note-Taking system, which is kind of what I had been doing already...the big difference is that I usually end up rewriting all the notes on the computer before I end up summarizing and forming review guidelines, and the Cornell system if done correctly should let me skip that. With all this reading I have to do, I need to be as efficient as possible...but we'll see how I do on the first test on the 4th to know if this note-taking system will work.
I need to get more binders, looseleaf paper, notebooks and a ruler.
I'm also going to try (ha!) to get all of the week's reading done the weekend before, so then all I have to do is review each night. But this may be tough as each week's test (yes, a 90-question test nearly every week, of which I need at least an 80 to pass) is on a Monday.
Is it too late to go into teaching? :)
I'll get it done somehow, I'm sure. I have no choice.
They never mentioned anything about PDAs, so I'm guessing I may be able to hold off on upgrading mine for a while...though I'm going to ask my graduate pen-pal about it just to be safe.
