I'm a Graduate
Well I thought once school was over I could relax a little but not so. I mean anything is better than having to go up to that school, but I'm studying like 6 hours a day.
My day is basically wake up and lay around for a little while, hit the books about 10-10:30 AM and then quit around 5-6 PM. I say 6 hours or so because I have a few breaks in between. I can't wait until I can read books for fun again. I just can't after all the studying.
I'm so glad I don't HAVE to go to that school anymore. My pinning was Friday Dec. 9th. I was supposed to be completely done with school the day before, but because the school is in danger of losing their accreditation, our class is having to do a bunch of extra stuff.
Forgive if I'm repeating myself. I can't remember if I posted about this, but basically the last two classes that graduated from there did not get at least an 80% pass rate on the NCLEX exam, which is the exam you take to get your license. So now the school is on probation and can't admit any new students. If we don't get an 80% pass rate or higher, the school WILL lose their accreditation and could possibly close their doors. I'm not sure exactly on it all, because we can't get a straight answer from anyone.
This really worries me for Rob for two reasons. He has two more semesters before he graduates. If the school loses it's accreditation he will either be able to finish and graduate from an unaccredited school, which isn't good, or the school will close and he will basically have to start over somewhere else. The other schools around here don't accept credits from this school because it's a technical college. So anyway, I hope for his sake our class pulls it off.
So last Monday, Tues., and Wed., I had to go up there ALL DAY 8-3PM for the first two days and sit through lectures to refresh us on subjects. Then Wednesday we had to take ANOTHER exit test (usually you only take the one, but we took two) and had to make a certain score on it for her to mail our application off to take the NCLEX. That's a whole other story in itself in that she threatened all this stuff and isn't following through on ANY of it. But I went to everything like I was supposed to so hopefully it will all help me in the end.
So Wed. morning before the exit test we were supposed to have graduation practice...the actual graduation with cap and gown. My pinning which was the previous Friday was all I cared about. We dressed up in these white nursing dresses and had this whole ceremony thing and we walked up on stage and got our nursing pin showing we were an LPN. It's a big thing when you're a nurse. So it was really like my graduation and I really had no interest in walking in the whole school's graduation.
I got talked into doing it and so I was planning on it, but Tues. night the thought of getting up that morning and having to go to graduation practice, and then having to go up there AGAIN Thursday night for the graduation, was just too much for me. I just didn't want to step foot in that school again. If they had let us have that week off like we were supposed to, I would have probably gone ahead and done it. It was just all too much. I was just so burned out. And I was SO ANNOYED that 3/4 of the class didn't come to those two days of lecture even though it was REQUIRED and I just really didn't care to see the director's face.
So my pinning was really nice. My mom, dad, sister, her husband, and Rob were there. I wish my nephews could have come but the young one had soccer and the oldest one is married and has a job now, and my middle nephew in college was still in school. It was at 12:30 PM you see. Why they have it then and not at night is beyond me. I know more people could come if they would do it that way. They just don't care because I tried to talk to them about it.
But anyway, it was nice. My family, Rob, and I went to eat at the Blind Tiger after that, which is one of my favorite places. My sister gave me $100.00 and my mom and dad got me a little necklace of a scottie. Now I would never tell my mother this, but scotties are like one of my least favorite breeds LOL. If you concentrate really hard you can kind of make it look like a chihuahua LOL. It was the thought that counted and seriously, I didn't want them to get me anything because they have basically been paying my bills for months now. It's going to take me forever to pay them back and pay off all the money I've had to put on my credit card when the cash ran out every month.
I can't wait to get a job and make some money.
My day is basically wake up and lay around for a little while, hit the books about 10-10:30 AM and then quit around 5-6 PM. I say 6 hours or so because I have a few breaks in between. I can't wait until I can read books for fun again. I just can't after all the studying.
I'm so glad I don't HAVE to go to that school anymore. My pinning was Friday Dec. 9th. I was supposed to be completely done with school the day before, but because the school is in danger of losing their accreditation, our class is having to do a bunch of extra stuff.
Forgive if I'm repeating myself. I can't remember if I posted about this, but basically the last two classes that graduated from there did not get at least an 80% pass rate on the NCLEX exam, which is the exam you take to get your license. So now the school is on probation and can't admit any new students. If we don't get an 80% pass rate or higher, the school WILL lose their accreditation and could possibly close their doors. I'm not sure exactly on it all, because we can't get a straight answer from anyone.
This really worries me for Rob for two reasons. He has two more semesters before he graduates. If the school loses it's accreditation he will either be able to finish and graduate from an unaccredited school, which isn't good, or the school will close and he will basically have to start over somewhere else. The other schools around here don't accept credits from this school because it's a technical college. So anyway, I hope for his sake our class pulls it off.
So last Monday, Tues., and Wed., I had to go up there ALL DAY 8-3PM for the first two days and sit through lectures to refresh us on subjects. Then Wednesday we had to take ANOTHER exit test (usually you only take the one, but we took two) and had to make a certain score on it for her to mail our application off to take the NCLEX. That's a whole other story in itself in that she threatened all this stuff and isn't following through on ANY of it. But I went to everything like I was supposed to so hopefully it will all help me in the end.
So Wed. morning before the exit test we were supposed to have graduation practice...the actual graduation with cap and gown. My pinning which was the previous Friday was all I cared about. We dressed up in these white nursing dresses and had this whole ceremony thing and we walked up on stage and got our nursing pin showing we were an LPN. It's a big thing when you're a nurse. So it was really like my graduation and I really had no interest in walking in the whole school's graduation.
I got talked into doing it and so I was planning on it, but Tues. night the thought of getting up that morning and having to go to graduation practice, and then having to go up there AGAIN Thursday night for the graduation, was just too much for me. I just didn't want to step foot in that school again. If they had let us have that week off like we were supposed to, I would have probably gone ahead and done it. It was just all too much. I was just so burned out. And I was SO ANNOYED that 3/4 of the class didn't come to those two days of lecture even though it was REQUIRED and I just really didn't care to see the director's face.
So my pinning was really nice. My mom, dad, sister, her husband, and Rob were there. I wish my nephews could have come but the young one had soccer and the oldest one is married and has a job now, and my middle nephew in college was still in school. It was at 12:30 PM you see. Why they have it then and not at night is beyond me. I know more people could come if they would do it that way. They just don't care because I tried to talk to them about it.
But anyway, it was nice. My family, Rob, and I went to eat at the Blind Tiger after that, which is one of my favorite places. My sister gave me $100.00 and my mom and dad got me a little necklace of a scottie. Now I would never tell my mother this, but scotties are like one of my least favorite breeds LOL. If you concentrate really hard you can kind of make it look like a chihuahua LOL. It was the thought that counted and seriously, I didn't want them to get me anything because they have basically been paying my bills for months now. It's going to take me forever to pay them back and pay off all the money I've had to put on my credit card when the cash ran out every month.
I can't wait to get a job and make some money.