Here is the sad truth about pre-nursing majors and two typical lifestyles that go along with it.
1. You spend countless hours studying in the library.
2. Your roommates think you are never home, but you are actually cooped up in your room studying whenever you are there.
3. You dread the idea of school, but realize it is all you do.
4. If you do have any social life, you often use the phrase “I hate my life.”
5. The nights you do go out, it is because you needed to get out for the sake your sanity, not because you just wanted a fun girls night and all your homework is done.
6. You never actually have all your homework done.
7. You often find yourself at the bar stressing over the fact you have an assignment due soon.
8. You take all these science courses that, ironically, you actually hate taking.
9. You have to keep a high GPA during the years when most college kids are partying the most, so you miss out on living the typical college life.
10. You dream of blood, injections, and medicine. Sounds creepy, but these are the people who will be saving your life one day.
11.You have mastered living exhausted 24/7, or at least we pretend we can do it.
12. The all-nighters you heard about from your parents in college, are not from partying so late at night, but from you studying in the library from the time your last class ends, until the next one begins -- the next day.
13. All-nighters occur at least once a month (for me usually once a week).
14. But that's okay, because if you do end up becoming a nurse, you are already prepared for the time commitment and living with the lack of sleep.
15. Out of your friends, you tend to be the one with the most on their schedule.
16. You will often go home and cry while looking at the schedule.
17. You probably have a huge addiction to coffee.
18. Your eating habits suck because you don’t have time to eat healthy, so you find yourself either not eating, or eating the closest thing to you while you head to class -- usually Chick-fil-A or cookies from the vending machines.
19. Your first two years of classes are often harder than most people’s major classes.
20. You realize you kill your body, mind, social life, and sanity just to, hopefully, get accepted into the nursing school. If you don’t get accepted you will feel as if two years were completely wasted.
