Am I chopping my own head off??

[FoxFireEMT]

I need your opinons & thoughts!!

I'm thinking of taking 2 sciences next semester so I can have the "summer" semester off before starting my Nursing clinicals in the Fall (September). Here some back ground: I am a decent student (straight A's NO!) but with a lot of hard work on my end I am carrying 96's in both my A & P and Applied clinical math this semester. Learning does not always come easy to me but I can carry my weight when I put my mind to it. My A & P class is a 5 credit class and my Applied Clinial Math is a 3 credit class. Next semester I'll attempt to pick up Microbiology which is 4 credits and A&P II which is 5 credits.

Thoughts, opinions, experiences......

You may ask : Do I feel like I can do it ~ yes, Can I carry a good grade in both ~ yes but my thoughts are... Am I adding unneeded stress I don't need all in one semester when grades do count & make a difference if you do well or not?

[livaward]

you are CRAZYYYYYYYYYY

Here.......let me knock some since into you :whack:

[AUEquine]

My first semester of my freshman year of college I carried an 18 hour load (max allowed) with both Biology 1020 and Chemistry 1030. In addition I had Honors Writting, Auburn Experience, Trig/Pre Cal, and Animal Science. I made C's in both sciences, B's in the labs, and A's in everything else... and that was with fairly minimal effort! I was a freshman in college at a state school and pledging a sorority... there wasn't much studying going on!

So if I could pull that off... you can pull this off!

[FoxFireEMT]

LOL I think I am crazy!!

Au: I work full time 24 hour shifts straight. I run a household full of doggies, kitties & horsies and of yeah a boyfriend! It's a lot!! I think I can do it, but grades are important. They bring you in to the program by points based on your grades... so making no less then a B is NOT good!

[alittleoffkey]

I know you can do it, but I agree to seriously weigh the benefits with the stress - I'm taking a serious load (for me, especially in the spring) next semester too. :doh:

[ProvenPaint]

I can't really relate, but I will say that we'll be here for those times you just want to pull out your hair! ;) And if you think you can take it on, and your b/f is also supportive, I bet you could do it!

[cowgirlup@idaho]

We have a very good nursing school here in town. The A&P is used as the weed-out class. Most people take just A&P and maybe a super simple class like speech. I have several RN friends who graduated here, and that is their advice to anyone who is planning on nursing. If you get a C in A&P you become the bottom of the list when trying to get accepted into the nursing school when you are a junior. :2cents:

[FoxFireEMT]

We have a very good nursing school here in town. The A&P is used as the weed-out class. Most people take just A&P and maybe a super simple class like speech. I have several RN friends who graduated here, and that is their advice to anyone who is planning on nursing. If you get a C in A&P you become the bottom of the list when trying to get accepted into the nursing school when you are a junior. :2cents:

Yep its the same way here. So far I'm carring good grades in A & P I. But they say its the weed out class too. We started out with "double" rooms when the class first started over 40 people in the class. We are down to maybe 20???? and I know ALOT of them are struggling.

Proven: I have a VERY supportive MAN. I'm so lucky, its like he stands up an waves a flag (Go Leah!) everytime I tell him about a grade I got.... Great guy for sure!! Probably because he knows he will reep in the benefits. :p *Take all my money* ha ha.

I'm gonna go sit with my advisor tomorrow & see what she says. That was her suggestion at the beginning of this semester do one or the other (it was my choice obviously) but I need some serious direction. It's a tough decsion. I think in the end I'm gonna just take one in the summer. :mad: Bye bye summer! LOL.

[FoxFireEMT]

OOOO forgot to add!

Thank You Everyone for your help & suggestions!

[JackieB]

LOL I think I am crazy!!

Au: I work full time 24 hour shifts straight.

So how does this work? You work a 24 hour shift twice a week for a total of 48 hours? How many of these do you have to work in a week?

Do you get called out often (at all) when it's not your work day?

[FoxFireEMT]

My normal work schd. is SUPPOSE to be: 24 hours on 72 off. Usually works out to 2 days a week sometimes it's only 1 day depending on how your days fall. Usually pay checks are for 88 hours, 80 regular time & 8 OT. HOWEVER, we have been very short handed (long story) that it left us with only 4 working employees when we usually have 6. :( And out of those 4 only 2 of us are willing to pull OT shifts. Needless to say I've been working close to 3-4 days a week and class is twice a week. Needless to say I'm wearing out FAST this month... Hopefully our schd. goes back up to full staff soon. We do have part timers (list) that we can call but most of them you can't really count on either.

When I'm working if we are not running calls and we are done with our "station duties" (i.e. cleaning bathrooms, taking trash etc etc) then we can nap, do school work, play on computer, watch tv/movies, shop whatever as long as we stay in our district. :cool: So most of the time its a cake job... There's a saying in our job that our lives revolve around many hours of calm followed by 30 minutes of sheer terror. ( A normal call takes to run from start to finish 30-60 min. long).

[FoxFireEMT]

Oppps I forgot b/c you asked :) It really depends on the day if we are called out often. It's a hit or miss. We can sometimes be very very busy and run up to 20 calls in a 24 hr shift to slow where we run none in a 24 hr shift. It varies. Were I work has a high rate of crime, mixed in with a lot of older generations on the outskirts we are a fairly busy company.

[carla]

Personally, I took Micro and A&P (I and II) all separately. But I was also working pretty much every day, and I also had a three-year-old, lol. So with your schedule, it may or may not work. I just knew I'd rather take them one at a time than to take both and have to repeat one- or both! :D

edit: I wouldn't necessarily say you would be "chopping your head off," though. It would just be more work/stress with both. But, you'd have them both done! And I'm sure you could handle it. :)

[FoxFireEMT]

Personally, I took Micro and A&P (I and II) all separately. But I was also working pretty much every day, and I also had a three-year-old, lol. So with your schedule, it may or may not work. I just knew I'd rather take them one at a time than to take both and have to repeat one- or both! :D

edit: I wouldn't necessarily say you would be "chopping your head off," though. It would just be more work/stress with both. But, you'd have them both done! And I'm sure you could handle it. :)


You had a 3 year old I have a 30 year old that has a hard time picking up after himself. And two labs! LOL. I win! I win! LOL kidding!:p