So I decide to start again. I've been reading all these blogs over the last year, just about all of them being someone I don't know or have never met. I've been prone to think that online blogging is somewhat a narcissistic concept, but after looking at these blogs, I've found that people blog on just about anything. I've joined several on cooking, some on mission trip updating, some on style and popular cultural decorating, others are the typical blog of someone's day to day life. But I've realized that blogging can be informational and entertaining as well as a release. So with this said, I've decided to give this whirl and try again. When I last updated, I was going through one of the many steps and changes in life. I won't go into detail of what exactly that was because it's pretty personal, and I'm sure you can guess if you really tried, but it was quite an experience to say the least and one I'll never forget. And so now I begin a new year and new chapter to the "Mary Chronicles". After a semester of killing brain cells while expanding them to learn Microbiology and Anatomy (mostly Physiology) II, I have been accepted to Lincoln Memorial University to begin my completion of my second degree, this one an ASN in nursing. As I start this, I'm terrified. For one, I'm not a good student. I have to work hard for what I get grade wise and though I know I'm smart, I don't test well. So with this I am embark on a whole new challenge, not able to get anymore C's in classes and learning to study and test in a whole new way, in applying what I know when it comes to testing, not spouting off learned material. This will be hard, but I do believe God has me on this Nursing path full force, which is humorous to be as I never saw myself in he medical field nor did I ever think I could be on it. I should be starting this spring semester, going through the summer, next fall, and then my final semester being next spring. Graduation should be that May, and then I'll take my nursing boards, and if I pass them I will be a nurse and able to practice this in any hospital. To do this will cost me more money then I ever had to spend for Johnson, and it's all for just a year and a half of classes. So I've applied to a nursing recruitment center in Johnson City to pay for my education at LMU (plus a $1500 stipend each semester, definitely not sad about that) for the simple price of working for them for them in one of their facilities for 3 years after I have finished my degree. Many say, "that's crazy you're stuck with them for 3 years", but I say, "hey, I've already been at Peninsula for three years, and it's $30,000 I'm not going to be in debt with once I graduate". So with this said...it seems to be that my near future is pretty well planned, just like that. Of coarse right now it doesn't seem daunting, it seems secure, but ask me about it again in a year or two, lol. Still pending for sure acceptance with the Nursing recruitment place...but I'm pretty sure it's a "go".
I would like to add more of the upcoming and past year's events, but I must meet a work friend to study for her EMT boards...which is good, it makes me learn and gets my brain ready for what's to come in the following weeks. Until later...
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