The Future

So now that school has started back across our area everyone is getting back into the swing of things including me. I have class lectures on Monday and Wednesday at UAB and then I have a clinical rotation for community health on Tuesdays. Where we go on Tuesdays varies because it is community so we go where ever the community needs volunteer nurses. So far it is has been a sort of boring experience but hopefully it will get better the more I get to volunteer!

But with schools starting and college classes beginning I can't help but think of Tuscaloosa and the University of Alabama. I miss it very much. I think to myself  what I wouldn't give to be a student on that campus again. I know that it is hard to understand and its even harder to explain. I feel like my heart lies there; NOT at UAB. I know that I am getting a wonderful education by very skilled and intelligent instructors but I can't help but wish I was at UA instead. I honestly feel that it was where I was meant to be. It is everything that I dreamed it would be in high school and more. I loved it. Sometimes I feel disappointed in myself for not trying harder while I was there. I thought I was doing the best that I could and maybe I was but today it feels like I could have done more and maybe I would have gotten in. That phone call from their college of nursing offering me a spot was one the happiest and saddest days of my life because I had to tell them no.

Don't get me wrong, I am very happy I got in at UAB and I have made wonderful friends and I know I am receiving a great education but doesn't everyone think about what might have been? What would things be like? What would it feel like to walk across the stage at Coleman Coliseum and get my diploma? I will only know what it feels like to wear an ugly green robe for UAB.

Its hard to fully explain how I feel and maybe it doesn't make any sense but lately it has been weighing on me and I needed to vent. Thanks for listening! ha

But one thing I can still look forward to from UA is football. This Saturday is our first game against Kent State and I couldn't be any more excited! RTR!

----post again soon

The summer is ending...

As much as it saddens me to say I guess I must face the facts: Summer is ending. Mallory will starting her senior year tomorrow morning at SCHS and I will going to back to UAB next Tuesday to begin my 3 semester of Nursing School.

Although the thoughts of wearing coats, boots, and sweatshirts seem so nice I know it will be long time before the state of Alabama cools off so I think I'm better off not getting excited about that part of fall. But I am SO excited that Alabama football will be beginning in less than a month! I'm so ready for some games and some football domination :))

This fall I will taking 3 lecture classes and 2 clinical rotations:

Community and Public Health Nursing- along with a clinical

Nursing of the Psychiatric Mental Health Client- along with a clinical

Nursing of the Older Adult

Although I am not especially interested in any of these fields I am hoping it will still be an interesting semester!

I will, of course, keep you updated as I go!

Here are a few pictures from a spur of the moment beach trip with Aaron's family to Orange Beach. We had a great time! :)

Love the view from my beach chair!



Much Needed Update

Hi, Everyone! It is way past due for an update so let me fill you in on the new in my life! :)

(Although there isn't much to share)

I completed my summer semester of nursing school and I couldn't be happier to have this one under my belt. It has been very hard to stay motivated this summer and to top that off I had one of the hardest classes I have ever taken in the line-up. Difficult is an understatement.

I had absolutely no idea how hard Nursing School was actually going to be. Yes, I had heard what upperclassman were saying about it, and yes, the prerequisite teachers told me it was going to be tough but there was no way that back then I would have gotten through my head what they were trying to tell me. Beware to those of you planning to take this path, just as everyone told me, I will tell you; Nursing School may be the hardest thing you ever do but it will be worth it in the end.

I ended this semester with these grades:

Maternal/Newborn    B

Maternal/Newborn Practicum    Pass

Nursing Informatics    B (an 89 I might add. UGH)

Pharmacology    C

These are not the best grades I've ever earned but they will get me to next semester which will begin on August 16th.

I will leave you with this picture of possibly the cutest giraffe in the world. I found this on pinerest.com and it has made me giggle for days!!!

 

Until next time......