Everything is A ok!

So I had my clandestine meeting with my instructor (kidding, it wasn't clandestine at all, it was scheduled & very nerve wracking) & everything went just fine. WAY better than I was expecting it to, thank God!! Can't really say what that's all about, but just happy that it went well.

School is trucking along nicely. Can you believe I only have ONE more week of Med/Surg clinical left??? Then it's 6 weeks of OB & then summa time!!! I am SOOO psyched! Surprisingly though, I'm kind of liking this semester. I mean to go from 6 classes in first semester, to 3 classes plus a clinical last semester, to only having 2 lectures & one clinical at a time this semester. To me, this pace is soooo much easier than what we've had previously.

Now getting up at 5:00 am to make it to clinicals. I have to say that hasn't been all that great, especially 2 days in a row, whew have I been tired. But so far so good on my tests. In OB I've pulled 2 B's & unfortunately in Med/Surg I landed a stupid C. What really sucked about the C was that it was only ONE FREAKING POINT away from being a B!!! Ugh!! My next Med/Surg test is this Monday & I see LOTS of studying in my immediate future (meaning this whole weekend).

Anyhoo, just wanted to check in after my last post & let you know that I'm still here & I'm still going...

Hope everyone else is having a great week!!

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