Nursing School As Told By Alice In Wonderland
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Nursing School As Told By Alice In Wonderland

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Nursing School As Told By Alice In Wonderland

Nursing school is something that only very brave people should try to endure. You study all the time, have countless exams, and still have to find time in the day to be able to eat and sleep. Sometimes it's a mystery how nursing students get through it all, but somehow we are able to survive the long journey it takes to become nurses. Here is nursing school as told by Alice in Wonderland.

When you're in nursing school:

1. You relax and sleep every chance you get.

Even if that means you find a cozy corner to nap in between your classes

2. Your school work comes all at once and with relentless force.

One day you don't have any work at all, then before you know it you have four tests, six quizzes, nine chapters of various books to read, and a three page paper all due within one week.

3. You can never find your lab goggles (or anything else you need) when you need them.

It's hard to find time to clean your room between classes, homework, clinicals, and sleep so sometimes finding what you need for the day ahead can be a struggle.

4. You practically have to learn a new language.

You thought that was your cheek? Wrong. It's the bucca. And asking for someone's digits will result in them showing you their fingers or toes not their phone number.

5. You eat at weird times during the day and it isn't always the healthiest.

Friend: "Do you know how many calories are in that bagel?"

Me: "Do you know how much I don't care?"

6. You will always run into people who try to tell you that they "don't think nursing is really that hard."

If it's not that hard, you try learning all the symptoms to the 300 most common diseases in the U.S.

7. You always end up with that one gen ed that starts in 10 minutes and is on the other side of campus.

So you end up running because if you get there late the professor will mark you absent.

8. Exams are more difficult than you ever thought possible.

And no matter how hard you study, there's always at least one thing on the exam that you still don't understand.

9. All the answers are correct, but they might not be the most correct.

Which is when the whole world seems completely upside down.

10. You get those seemingly easy exams back only to find out that you practically failed.

Even though you studied for what seemed to be years.

11. But then the professor adds a curve and you realize your grade got bumped up to about an 80.

And you realize that you cried for no reason.

12. You come to a point when you realize that what the professor is saying actually makes sense!

This is when you see that there is some hope after all and you feel as if you can conquer anything life throws at you from here on out.

13. You realize that at the end of the day you can do this and you're going to be one really awesome nurse some day.

Give yourself a hand because it's not easy getting through nursing school, but you're going to be just fine.

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