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Wow, I have finished my first Nursing Course. I passed with an 87. I am sooooo happy about that. So I have eight more courses to take before I graduate. We had orientation today for our next class. Then I'll take another one during Maymester.

The orientation was interesting. I love our faculty. They really do try to make boring things exciting or funny. Today one of the younger instructors came be-bopping into the lecture hall after the orientation had started. She had on skin tight red scrubs. She was smacking gum. Had lots of makeup and jewelry on and her cell phone keep going off. She was demonstrating all the things we should not do. It was funny. There were a few others dressed funny too. Then there was the funny power point they showed with pictures of boar hogs on it. All this to entertain us and make us laugh. I greatly appreciate all their efforts.

We are off school Monday and Tuesday. So I technically have four days off, right? Or do I??? We have almost 100 pages to read by Wednesday. We have our first quiz in lab on Thursday. This is something they have just started this semester. Before this, they had a practicum. I have heard lots of horror stories about that. The class shows up in the lab, they have stations set up for performing skills. You don't know which skill you will be asked to do. If you screw up, you get one more chance to do that skill over plus another random skill. If you still fail, you fail the entire course. Now what they are doing is we will have a quiz at the begining of each lab. The grades will be averaged together. We need to get 71 in order to pass. I think that is alot more fair. I say that now, before I have taken one of the quizzes. I wonder if I'll be saying that after Thursday????

There are fewer students now. Some of them didn't make it through the last course. It is sad. But, hopefully they will take it again in the fall and make it through. We started out with about 150 students in the class. Now we are down to about 120. However, we have about 10 students who are new to us. They are the ones that failed the course last semester and are now joining us to take it again. One of these students has been added to my clinical group. That is going to be strange for us and her. We all get along so well together and help each other out all the time. Hopefully she will blend in with us.