A Monday peek into my brain

Otherwise known as…stream of consciousness.

I don’t have any Meet a Reader submissions in the queue, so here we are. 😉

Six more weeks!

My classmates and I are definitely counting down to the end of the semester; as of today, we have six more weeks of school left before SUMMER!!!!

This week is gonna be a little crazy for me; I have clinical on Monday and Tuesday, a four-hour OB lab seminar on Wednesday, a five-hour OB lab on Thursday, and a two-hour OB simulation on Friday followed by a three-hour lecture.

I’m pretty sure I have to be in uniform for all of those days, which means I’m gonna need to be on top of my laundry. I have two uniform scrub pants and two tops, which usually works out fine because I have two clinical days each week.

But if I need to show up in clean scrubs five days in a row, I will need to do some extra laundry!

My frugal decision to buy only two of each has been fine up until now, so I don’t really regret my decision. 😉

If a rectangle became a shirt…

…it would be a student scrub top.

I understand that most shirts resemble a rectangle to some extent, but man, these student scrub tops really are like rectangles.

Once I graduate, I’m sure I’ll have some more options for scrubs that fit a little bit better.

Two more semesters of rectangle shirts after this. 😉

I got my two ATI practice exams done

We have these tests each semester which basically help us practice for the NCLEX, our RN licensing exam.

We have a non-proctored practice one for each class, and also a proctored one for each class.

And for each question we get wrong, we have to write down three bullet points of information about that topic and submit them.

I tackled both of my non-proctored ones this weekend and also got all my bullet points done and submitted.

We typically get a lot of questions wrong on these exams, since they’re meant to be a test of whether we’d pass the NCLEX and obviously, right now, we would probably not pass it!

I got 16 wrong on each test, so I had to do 96 bullet points, and I am so glad that’s off my back now.

They’re not due until the end of April, but I always prefer to get things done and out of the way early if I can.

(The proctored exams will happen in early May and then…more bullet points. BOO. I hate doing bullet points.)

Can we appreciate the absurdity of this gate?

This one cracks me up every time I see it, because there are well-worn tire tracks to the side.

They need to rethink this design. 😉 Or just give up and take the chain down.

I’m gonna miss the eclipse

And honestly, I don’t care.

I’ll be at the hospital, which is decidedly not a good eclipse-viewing spot. 😉

I feel a little like I should care about viewing it, but I just have a very take-it-or-leave-it kind of eclipse attitude.

I rolled out of bed this morning for a walk, and I got to see the sun above the water. That’s perfectly good enough for me!

And I did that yesterday too.

speaking of sun and water…

I love the way sunlight sparkles on the water.

So beautiful!

And also, I love to look at the way the water makes little ripple marks in the sand.

They’re so tidy, it almost looks like a person made them on purpose!

I know grades don’t matter that much…

The important thing in nursing school is passing, and being competent in practice when you graduate.

But there is a little part of me that still wants to get an A.

In my maternal/newborn/women’s health class, I would have to absolutely tank to end up with something less than an A (my grade is currently 99.4%).

So I haven’t been sweating that one.

However, Med Surg has been more of a challenge. I got a 46/50 on last week’s exam, though, so I’m holding steady at around 94%.

That means I just gotta maintain that for one more regular exam and a final exam, and I’m starting to think that I can pull that off. 

(We do get points for other things too, but the exams obviously have the biggest impact on your overall grade.)

Here is a random duck (or some sort of water fowl) from this morning.

And I wish I’d gotten down lower to take this next picture but…it always amazes me to see plants growing out of things like this railing.

That little plant is making the best of where it’s landed.

I want to be like that plant. 🙂

Alrighty. I’m starving. Time for some breakfast for me!

Wanna join me?* You can do a little stream of consciousness in the comments if you’d like.

*not for breakfast! I’m unprepared to serve a crowd. 😉