I recently came across an article that said nursing is second on the list of most sleep-deprived college majors in America. This week alone, I think that I have only gotten around 10 hours of sleep while waking up between 5 a.m. and 7 a.m. every single day. Nursing school isn't easy and please don't ever say these things to a nursing major:

1. *Procrastinates until the night before a paper is due* "I have a 10-page paper due tomorrow and all I want to do is go out tonight."

Please. Nursing majors are doing work every night of the week and there's a rare chance that we can actually go out on $2 Tuesday because we have clinical tomorrow.

2. "Ugh, I only got an 80."

Many of us will pull all-nighters on the regular to study for a test only to find out that we got an 80 on it. We're allowed to be disappointed because failing for us is below a 77, not a 65. Some of us would kill to get an 80.

3. "I'm so tired."

We have to wake up between 5-7 a.m. everyday, go to class, go to clinical, shower, study and do other homework and somehow eat. You don't know "tired."

4. "This is so hard."

Do you know every muscle, organ and facial nerve in the body and all of their functions? Please memorize all 206 bones in the body and then tell me your simple math problem is hard.

5. "You should be required to take a language all 4 years."

Although I think being a bilingual nurse is super beneficial to a nurse's practice, please don't tell me that I should be required to take a language on top of trying to learn the anatomy and physiology of the human body or pathophysiology and pharmacology.

6. "I need a break."

What's a break? Nursing students don't know what that is.

It's frustrating to us when our peers say these types of things to us. Until you are in our shoes, see our workload and how may hours of handwork we put in throughout the week, it is then that you will realize it is said that nursing majors are the craziest.