School has begun!

I just finished my first week of school and am breathing a HUGE sigh of relief. I had heard so much online from other sources about Anatomy and Physiology being the nightmare course of nursing, so I was understandably very nervous to be going into it while simultaneously taking a second lab science, chemistry. I'll just let you know how they went from the top:

Monday:

I started out with Algebra 2. I'm not that great with math, so this will certainly prove to be a rather challenging course for me, but my professor is wonderful! He fully explains things and makes them super easy to understand. I don't really foresee any issues arising from this class, hopefully! The only thing that will take some getting used to is the fact that the class meets once a week for 3 hours and 45 minutes! ugh! It's enough to drive ANYONE insane!

From there I went to the lecture portion of my Chemistry class. I'm taking basic inorganic chemistry. I never took it in high school, opting instead to take advanced biology. I kind of wish I did take it in high school, but my professor I have for this course is awesome. He's a no nonsense kind of guy and doesn't believe in memorizing stupid things, like the periodic table and metric conversion tables. All those things will be provided for tests and quizzes. It's going to be a bit of a challenge, but I really feel confidant about this class. As long as I keep up and don't slack off I should be fine.

Wednesday:

I started out the day bright and early with Anatomy and Physiology 1. This class is a HEAVY memorization class. if you aren't so great with that, then I would highly suggest you either look into something else or get your study skills engraved in gold for this. For me personally, I've never really had issues with memorization, especially when it's something I enjoy. This class, for me, is something that I would love to learn anyways. The human body just fascinates me (which is why I decided to take Biology in the first place). In our first class, I was the only student to get our quiz 100% correct on material we just went over. I'm taking that as an excellent sign, since almost everyone in there (about 20 students) are hoping to get into nursing, or are in nursing now.

After lecture, I went to the lab part of my chemistry class. It was AWFUL! It wasn't hard or anything, just time consuming as hell! We are in there for 2 hours and 45 minutes and we needed almost ALL of the time! We were doing a lab on density and we had to weigh 9 blocks, each made out of a different material, then measure their length, witdth, and depth to get their volume. Then we had to weigh 5 metal cylinders made out of different materials and weigh a container of a metal block and a small medium and large block. Then take the cylinders and use displacement to find the volume. Not so difficult, except we had to do EVERY measurement 3 times with 3 different instruments. Needless to say, I had awful nightmares about a giant box of rulers and a container of blocks, attempting to measure them all before time ran out! lol! All in all, though, it'll be a fairly easy lab class. Our professor is pretty lax about lab reports and how they're written, which is good.

I also have a psychology class online, but it'll be a breeze, or so I feel. So far all I've done is take a few quizzes on the first chapter and am working on the application question, which is super easy. I suppose this may get tougher, but we'll see what happens as the semester progresses.

All in all I'm very happy with how this semester is going. I left my final class on Wednesday breathing a sigh of relief! Everything is as it should be!

~THE Future Nurse Chelsey!