Today while waiting to enter into Chemistry lab, I heard girls talking about how hard nursing is. Some of them were talking about switching majors just so they wouldn't have to take more chemistry, but when the going gets tough, do you throw in the towel?

Nursing is considered one of the hardest majors. Before you actually get into "nursing school" during your first two years (UA refers to it as "lower division") you take all your core classes, but a lot of chemistry. Two semesters of it, including organic chemistry. Then the next year there is human anatomy (that in itself should be considered its own major), microbiology and keeping your GPA nearly perfect, at a 4.0 or higher. Then comes the fun part: applying for nursing school (UA refers to actually getting accepted into the program as "upper division".)

The road only gets harder from there, starting to actually learn how to be a nurse, how to save lives. That's where the road gets hard, but right now it may seem hard but its "easier" than what is to come. Nursing may be a difficult major to make it through with in college but the field itself is so complex, you can go into any type of it. Trauma, Cardiology, Surgery, General Medicine, Pediatrics, Intensive Care Unit, Oncology, etc., the list goes on. The next time you are ready to give up think of that, think of the lives that you have the potential to save.

There will be plenty of people that will drop nursing and change their majors to something easier, but in the end, to be able to say "I stuck with it, I made it through," there is nothing better than that.