Busy! Busy! Busy!

Blog from my online class:

How realistic do you think it will be for you to adhere to a schedule in order to devote the time necessary to complete the required work in your online courses? What measures will you take to ensure that this happens?

I haven't blogged in months but it's a way for me to get my feelings out there. Being a nursing student, sometimes I feel really isolated from the world. My time for my family and my friends goes down considerably. And I live and breath nursing. When I'm not in school, I'm working on assignments or I'm the hospital or I'm a work. I even dream about nursing for gods sake! My whole world revolves around this and sometimes I feel like I loose myself. But summer was great. I spent lots of time with my family. But sadly summer has come to an end and I'm back to school for my last two semesters of nursing.

I cannot begin to say just how busy I am right now. I think they say for you to be successful in a class that you need to be spending two hours at home studying for every hour of lecture. So for me that's 12 hours a week! Scary! I know! Plus I have my first day of clinicals tomorrow and I won't be getting home till midnight on Thursday and Fridays till the end of this semester.

I'm scrambling to get everything done and it's hard. But for me it's never a question on if I can handle it. It's how. Failing is not an option for me. I always work my butt off to make sure all of my priorities are met. It doesn't make it any easier though. I make a lot of to-do lists. This helps me stay organized and helps me remember what it is I'm suppose to be doing that day.

If you chose to take an online course then you have to know that it's not going to easy as pie. I was realistic in knowing that this was not going to be an easy 'A' because my schedule is already packed with nursing. But I made a mental commitment to myself that I wasn't going fail and that I would do well. So it's possible to be successful in an online class. You just have to be motivated and organized. If you have those two traits then you're on the right track. So I will keep making my to-do lists and stay motivated to keep moving forward.