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Seems to be my theme lately. Just feelng very BLAH.. about school, life, everything. Life is really interesting how it comes in peaks and valleys.
Anyway, another quick update...
I had my first exam.. scored an 89! Woohoooo! I was really nervous going into the exam, but I passed, which is really amazing. The class average was a 70 (not passing), so that's pretty scary. :/ Maybe I needed to get an 89 to make up for what's coming?? Who knows... Next exam is 11/1.
I had my first rotation in Pscyh on Wednesday. It was VERY interesting! Some of the people there are very, very sick.. and others are starting to recover. I thought it was really interesting to sit down and talk to a patient for a while, then go look through the chart/history only to realize what they told you was basically not true at all. Pretty weird. It's very mentally challenging and I'm pretty sure I never want to be a psych nurse, which is funny because I used to think I would love being a psych nurse. HAHA... No thanks. I spend 2 more weeks there, so I'm sure it will be interesting... Then I move on to oncology.

I got hooked up with a nurse mentor! Her name is Jayme and I actually met her today. She works in long term acute care but has lots of experience in intentive/critical care. She's extremely nice, and really enthusiastic about being a mentor! I was so happy to meet and talk to her and just hear about life on the other side... REAL life as a nurse!
We were supposed to get mentors in 1st semester, and here I am now in 3rd just finally getting one.. So that was weird, but it's really good I have one now. She's happy to help me and asked me to call, txt, email whatever anytime I have questions or just need a friend to hang out with. I'm excited to know her and hopefully I'll get to know her better!

That's about it for now.. Off to bed and preparing for class tomorrow. Monday always comes around too fast..