You Know You're A Pre-Nursing Major When...
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You Know You're A Pre-Nursing Major When...

The struggle is all too real.

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You Know You're A Pre-Nursing Major When...
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If you are a pre-nursing major, you can definitely relate to all of the below.

The library is your second home.

"Where are you? I never see you anymore!" At this point, you just need to put up a sign in your room that says "if lost, please check the library" because it's guaranteed that you can be found nose-deep in a biology book with stacks of notebooks scattered across the table.

Stress and anxiety are your primary emotions.

Whether you're stressing about a test or anxious about checking your grades, it seems like there's always something to be freaked out about. There's such a strict timeline for nursing, and one bad grade in a class could mess everything up, but no pressure, am I right? WRONG.

Making your class schedule requires extreme precision.

Because of all the science classes with labs that you have to take, making a class schedule can get really annoying really fast. As soon as you think you've made the perfect schedule, you realize that one lab interferes with another, and you're back to square one. Can I pay someone to do this for me?

Questioning your major is a daily occurence.

"Am I going to make it?" "Am I smart enough for this?" "I can't do this." Some days when we've reached our breaking point, our mind takes over and we worry we won't be able to make it through. Times like that are when best friends and ice cream really come in handy.

Coffee is your beverage of choice.

You didn't even know you liked coffee (hell, you still might not even like it), but now it's basically all you drink. Without it, there's no way you could function on the few hours of sleep you get. Can someone please tell me why coffee IVs aren't a thing?

Having to enjoy your social life while you can.

You're not even in the nursing program yet and it's already getting hard to do the things you want to on the weekend. You've heard enough horror stories from current nursing students that it's only going to get worse, so you have to enjoy your freedom now. For 2 years, your idea of fun will have to be late-night study sessions in the library. #turndownforwhat

You realize that this is only the beginning,

The nursing program hasn't even technically begun yet, and this is supposed to be the easy part. Sh*t's about to get real and real fast.

But you know you're going to have a career in one of the most rewarding fields.

Nursing is a great field to go into because of the variety of specialties and the high demand for nurses. Nobody said it was going to be easy, but I can promise you it will all be worth it. So to all my fellow nursing students out there, we got this.

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