School and Not Having a Life

I really shouldn’t be on here making an entry right now, but I haven’t updated in awhile. Reason why? I have been super busy with school. Basically, I thought my last semester of college would be a breeze/I’d actually have nice long breaks without much to do. However, I was dead wrong. I’ve been crazy busy since school started in January! Every time I think I’m done with an assignment/project/studying of some sort, I have something else that is due in the next few days or so, which has kept me busy. In the last few weeks I’ve had team leading, team leading presentation, a research paper, exams, simulations, clinical, practicum, nclex questions, etc. Basically, I haven’t really had a life much outside of school. =/ Even my weekends aren’t weekends anymore because if I don’t have clinicals, I have practicum to go to. I’m not going to complain or anything because it’s really not all that bad, but it’s just really overwhelming.

I had my team leading presentation this past week. Although I’m SUPER glad I got that over with now instead of later on in the semester, I kind of wish I was able to see a sample powerpoint ahead of time because I definitely left a major part off the presentation, which I know will get me points deducted from my grade.

I had my first serious exam about two weeks ago, and I was really worried about it just because I had heard from my professor and other students that she RARELY gives A’s on her exams. This scared me just because I knew that if students normally get low A’s or high B’s, I thought it would bump my grade down because in my mind, I’m very much average compared to other students in my class. However, I studied my butt off… even taking the effort and time to meet with Hang to go over everything together the day before the exam, and what do you know, I got a high B on it, which meant, 1) studying paid off and 2) I didn’t have to see her because I didn’t make an 80 or below! =)

I’ve been having simulations for lab, which if no one knew, I HATE simulations because you are put in a situation where you have to take care of a fake dummy simulator which is always in the worse case scenario. I had to be an RN taking care of the dummy with another girl, and it was very nerve wracking because not only is that just scary to know your teacher is the dummy, but also to have another student watch you because they are the “family” member of the dummy, and they are watching your every move. Luckily for me, this simulation isn’t that bad, and because I got to be an RN this time, I won’t have to next time during our “Death and Dying” simulation. THANK GOD. I get so uncomfortable when it comes to death… I think I would break down right then and there. It makes me so uneasy and even if one of my friends’ family members died, I wouldn’t know what to do or say. So I’m just glad I don’t have to be the nurse dealing with that next time.

Clinicals are going great! I only have two more, and I’ll be done with all my adult health 2 clinicals. It’s crazy to know this because some students have only gone to one or two clinicals as of right now, while I’ve already been through half of mine.

I started practicum last Saturday, and my day did not go well at all. I absolutely hated it. BUT, not because of where I was at. It was because my nurse was a horrible teacher. She didn’t teach me anything. She treated me like I had never taken care of a patient in my life! I did more on my first clinical day I’ve ever had then I did last Saturday. I had to spend 12 hours with her, and I was literally counting down the time when I could leave. Ugh. She did not follow any safety protocols, which also really bugged me. I’m just glad I won’t be back there tomorrow… basically, I was on the wrong section of OB/Gyn. So hopefully, tomorrow will be more fun and I’ll actually learn something.

Nursing school has taken so much money from me. I spent over $100 this past week for a nursing pin, NCLEX application pictures and composites, and my Neonatal Resuscitation Program class. Ugh. The worst part? I didn’t even realize that we were suppose to get all beautified for the pictures! Picture day just happened to be on the day of my team leading presentation so I wore my suit and didn’t make myself look all nice or anything… I wish my teacher would have warned me ahead of time so that I could have put some makeup on. Lol. But oh well.

NCLEX questions are slowly killing me one by one. I have to answer 700 questions by Tuesday, and it’s just draining all the energy out of me. Lol. This is basically why I haven’t been online much. I have been trying to get it done. I still have about 150 more questions to complete, and it takes a lot of your time just because if you continue to make low scores, our professor will want a visit with you to see what is going wrong.

I also have a lovely book report due on Tuesday, which I haven’t started on because of the lovely questions I need to answer. I desperately want to take my Tuesdays with Morrie paper and retweak it, but I can’t do that. So I’ve been trying to alternate between taking my NCLEX questions and reading the book. It’s been very hard. I kind of wish I didn’t have to go to practicum tomorrow so that I could just finish the book tomorrow, but sadly, I can’t. Apparently, my professor for this class has been really strict on us and deadlines because I’ve heard from other students that their book reports aren’t due for their professor until either end of April or mid March. WHY DO I ALWAYS GET THE BAD END OF THE STICK?!

I also finally got my final research paper grade back, and I’m just so proud of myself! I was nervous because the research paper took a lot of time and effort and spending HOURS trying to find legit articles. Anyways, I walked into my professor’s office and she asked me what my name was. When I told her, she was like, “Oh yes! You had an excellent paper! I remember all the students who did.” She showed me the points I earned, and basically, she said my paper followed all the guidelines and answered all the questions that she was looking for. She only took off 3 points for APA formatting. I left her office feeling great because it just means that four years of writing research papers have finally paid off! YEAH!

However, even with all this going on, I’ve managed to take some time for myself. Basically, I have this really pointless class on Thursday mornings, so Rachel and I have made it a routine to get lunch a go see a movie almost every Thursday after class. It’s sort of a way for us to get through the class because in our minds, we keep thinking that we have something exciting to do afterwards. We went and saw Beauty and the Beast the other week, and it was only the two of us. LOL. But it was great because we just sang along to the movie. Then this past week, Rachel, Jasmine, and I went to see This Means War and that movie was FREAKING hilarious! I absolutely LOVED it. I’m probably going to get the movie once it comes out because it definitely was worth the pay (well for me at least!)

Next week is SPRING BREAK!!!! YAYYY!!! I can finally relax (sort of) and LOOK FOR JOBS.

So basically, that is what I have been going through for the last few weeks. I hope everyone’s life hasn’t been as crazy and hectic as mine has!

Happy Valentine’s Day!!

This is just hilarious and catchy!

Happy Valentine’s Day to all the couples and singles out there! I’m happy that I did not have to hear anyone complain or yap about how they are single today or have been… Instead… I actually forgot today was Vday and went about my day like any other day. However, I did wear a pink sweater today so I guess I took part in this day in some way, shape, or form!

Abandoned Places

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/75-abandoned-theaters-from-around-the-usa

Stuff like this catches my eye all the time. It’s so intriguing. UGH. I wish I could go urban exploring and take tons of pictures of abandoned buildings, but sadly, we don’t really have any where I live. I’ve tried googling it, but maybe one or two places come up, and one of the places ended up turning into a Walmart!

But still.. there’s something so eerie yet fascinating about abandoned places.

Have you seen the one about amusement parks? It’s so creepy, but so amazing! I would love to travel around America just to go to these places.

Would you go urban exploring? Or do you already do this? I bet it would be a great hobby!

Code Blue

Today in clinical, I got to see my second code. It wasn’t my patient, but it was still really sad. Unlike my last code, the team was much more calm. We spent two hours trying to revive the patient from ventricular tachycardia, but in the end, nothing helped. It was so devastating seeing the resident come back from talking to the patient’s family because she was crying. Then after doing all that the team could, it was over. With no such luck, the patient was going to die in a matter of minutes. The family came in crying, which made my heart break. I started crying. It gets me so sad because my dad almost died when I was younger, and though it doesn’t relate in any way, it is still sad to know that someone’s family is about to die. Sad day.

House of Anubis

Okay, so since the semester has started again, my school schedule normally runs until about 3 to 4 p.m. Normally, I come home and go upstairs and just stay in my room all night. But recently, I will come home and eat and watch t.v. So there are two channels that I normally watch when I get home, TLC or Nickelodeon. TLC because, no lie, that channel has some really addicting/interesting shows… like Toddlers and Tiaras! Hahahha. I know.. I’m so lame. I actually really like that show. But anyways, if nothing I like is on that channel, I normally turn to Nickelodeon to watch Victorious at 5. And yes, I am a 21 year old who watches that show. I never did before, but it’s actually really interesting and.. yeah, sort of lame, but there are funny parts! But recently, if I leave Nickelodeon on, another show I’ve never heard of before comes on right after Victorious, and I remember doing homework one night while it came on, and surprisingly, I actually really liked it. It’s called House of Anubis, and it’s like this mystery tv kid/teen show. The whole mystery aspect to it is what caught my attention because I had no idea what the heck was going on… plus, the cute scenes with different characters is always an added bonus. But I feel so lame for saying that I like this show because I feel like someone my age shouldn’t be watching it yet I do. I have tried to continuously watch an episode every night, but it’s pretty impossible because I am either not home or am busy doing something more useful with my time. The thing that sucks is that I’ve tried to catch on to what is going on, but I’m still so lost and confused because there is a new episode EVERY SINGLE NIGHT, which makes it impossible! I tried finding the episodes online because I’m one of those people who have to watch a show from the beginning (especially these mystery/thriller shows), yet I can’t find it anywhere. The only place where all the episodes are available is itunes, and I’m not attempted to purchase $14 of episodes. LOL.

So to anyone who reads this really unnecessary post, is there any websites you guys use to watch t.v. shows? Are there any shows you would never think you’d ever watch that you do watch?