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Yep, I’m doing it again this year. I had so much fun last October that a) I actually watched some horror movies in a non-Halloween-adjacent setting and b) I decided that it would 100% be worth doing a second time. Hell, it may become a yearly thing? Who knows? Plus, I’m needing a nice way…
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Theme: whatever the hell I want. Why? I’ll tell you why – it’s fucking finals week. I feel like never, ever in my personal history have I spent this much effort studying for exams. Or for, like, anything. I mean, it’s important that I know this stuff because I’ll be taking care of people, but…
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Nursing school is hard, in case anyone was wondering. One of my classmates came up with this idea for a Power Pose, a superhero standing position (with your hands on your hips) as some type of hype-up song plays in the background (we do this before tests because we are dorks), and honestly? I love…
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Nursing school is my entire existence. I wake up thinking about normal levels of various vital signs and lab values, walk around doing clandestine health assessments on people I see at Target, ponder nursing diagnoses as I sit in traffic, go to sleep reciting nursing considerations of medications … you get the idea. But somehow,…
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Y’all. This semester is only halfway through, and I am beat. BUT. I completed and passed my first class. Health assessment was extreme and frustrating and nerve-wrecking and just … so much. That being said, though, I learned way more in six weeks than I ever thought I could, and I know for sure that…
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So I’m competitive. This applies almost universally, even when it seems completely inappropriate, but I don’t think I’m more competitive with anyone more than I am with myself. Being a “gifted” kid was, obviously, wrought with struggles of realizing that, sure, I was smart, but I’m not genius-level smart, no matter how much my parents…
