Thankful Thursday | 57? Yes, please.

This week, I am thankful:

for how beautiful the weather has been

It has been delightfully cool and not-humid here. SO LOVELY.

I know next week’s forecast is full of humidity (boo!), but this week has just been perfectly wonderful.

In fact, I have not driven to class once this week; it’s been nice enough for me to walk and not show up at class dripping with sweat. 😉

that I got an A on my first exam

Last semester, my grade on the first exam in med-surg was the lowest I’ve ever gotten in college.

Soooo, I was a little skeered for the first one this semester (mental health/med-surg 2). But it wasn’t as hard as I expected, so I got just a few wrong. Yay!

It’s verrrry nice to not start the semester out in the hole this time.

for my clinical group friends

We get put into different groupings for clinical each semester, and I like the way it helps me get to know a new group of people really well.

And it’s nice to have a little group chat so we can text each other if we have questions or we want to commiserate about things like the nursing school workload.

that we have more time to prep for exam #2

Our exams are every two weeks like clockwork, so we don’t technically have more time to study for exam #2.

But it feels like we have more time because during the first two weeks we had orientation, the math exam, and competency testing, and three labs, plus all the lectures.

This time around, there’s less of all that extra stuff going on, and I think that’s gonna make it easier to keep up with studying!

for a solid anatomy and physiology background

Blood-tracing assignments from anatomy

I know I have said this over and over, but I am so grateful for my two great anatomy and physiology classes. I worked hard in those classes, yes, but I also had two very good professors, and so a lot of my A&P knowledge has stuck in my head even three years later.

I use the info from those classes all the time in nursing school as I’m trying to think through disease processes and treatments.

I will never, ever understand why people think those classes are a waste of time as a prereq!

that it’s easy for me to chat with new people

My mental health rotation has made me especially thankful that I have a chatty personality because a lot of what we do involves just having conversations with people.

I really enjoy sitting with patients, asking them questions, and getting to learn about them!

for the way my Hungry Harvest boxes make me eat more produce

Since these boxes arrive every two weeks without fail, my fridge is always stocked with some kind of produce, even on weeks when I don’t get to the grocery store.

asparagus soup, which I made to use up Hungry Harvest asparagus

This means I eat a lot more produce than I would otherwise, and as we’ve already talked about, eating more produce is an almost universally-agreed-upon way to improve your diet.

(I know the carnivore diet people would disagree, but they are a minority.)

Someone asked in the comments recently if I track things like vitamins and minerals and the answer is…nope! I just eat produce with every meal and often in between meals too, and I figure that has me properly covered.

for the beauty in each season

Fall colors haven’t really started to show up yet, but they’re coming! And in the meantime, there are beautiful late-summer things to see.

What are you thankful for this week?