YKYW - Nursing Student Blog

Although my lack of new entries doesn’t make it obvious, we did make it home safe and sound from California.  California is such a gorgeous place that I can understand the motivation for a song advocating “Go West.”  I was going to wait and write up a grand post, complete with pictures, but we have over 300 photos from the trip!  So, I thought I’d give a quick update while working on the sorting, cropping and resizing.

We made it home late Saturday night, and spent Sunday doing laundry and trying to adjust to the time and temperature differences.  Sunday evening we got together with SK’s family for her birthday dinner.  I got up bright and early Monday morning to register for my fall classes.  I signed up for Microbiology, US Government and Texas Government.  I will probably only take Microbiology, but I wanted to reserve my seat in the government classes since they are online.  Depending on how things work out, I might go ahead and take them because I will need them to finish up my core program.

Today I went to the downtown Dallas campus to take the NET (nursing entrance test) and get my second hepatitis B shot.  Going into it, I was a little worried about taking the NET because I wasn’t really sure what to expect (not to mention my general test anxiety).  I wasn’t too worried because I only needed 50% and it just covers basic math and reading comprehension.  I shouldn’t have been worried at all — I made a 95 on the math and a 92 on the reading and ranked in the 99th percentile nationwide.  Now that I can cross these two things off my list, I am almost ready to apply for Spring admission to the nursing program.

Now it’s time to watch So You Think You Can Dance, and play some poker.