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A small relief...

So today was our first unofficial study group. Basically it was just me & another student. Our morning class was cancelled so we went early before our 2nd class & studied patho for 2 hours. I feel a teeny bit better after studying with him. As I said before, I ALWAYS do better when I group study. So we're planning on doing this every Tuesday. I also sent out an email to everyone else in the class to see who else would want to meet.
What I do find fun though is meeting new students every day. I love the way we're all going to stay together through the whole 5 semesters, I think that will create some great camaraderie.
It'll will be interesting to see how many of the 65 of us actually make it to graduation. We actually already lost one. A girl whose husband was transferred. One down....


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  1. The friends you meet in nursing school tend to be friends for a very long time after its over. I still talk to and get together with my clinical group friends for lunch, even though we are all in different stages of our careers now.

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  2. That is so nice to have someone to bounce ideas off and study with.

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  3. It really is. I do so much better when I group study. It's always great b/c if someone understands something you don't then they can explain it to you & vice versa. I always remember something better if I've had to explain it to someone else.

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