I must be insane!

[la tortuga]

I got my school schedule today. I'm going to be a junior in high school and, quite frankly, I have no idea what I was thinking last year when I signed up for these classes. This is what it looks like:

1-2: Clinical Rotation (You dress out in scrubs and follow people around the hospital and take notes, then write a report and move on to a different area of the hospital. It takes 1/2 of a day.)
3: Physics AP (College credit with a test at the end of the year.)
4:Pre-Cal Dual/ aka Trig (College credit no matter what.)
END OF DAY 1
5: U.S. Hisotry (No explanation needed, basically my blow-off class for the year since it's the only one not considered "Honors".)
6: Latin 3 Dual Honors (3rd year of Latin, honors college credit.)
7: English 3 AP (3rd year of English class, college credit with AP test scores at the end of the year.)
8: Computer Science AP (Computer programming, college credit with AP test scores at the end of the year.)
END OF DAY 2

These two days with alternate, so there will be 4 classes a day, 90 minutes long. So long, love/social life and hello Books. :( Somehow I got to get into these classes with minimal effort last year. I will never be bored again. My only comforting thought is that, if I work at it hard enough, I will be able to graduate from nursing school before I will have reached the legal drinking age of Texas.

Any words of comfort about college-level workload? My mother gasped when she saw the schedule, so I'm scared to death since she basically didn't leave the house (Not even to go visit family on Thanksgiving!) while she was in college.

[lednevir]

You are on a path to create healing! When you feel bogged down think about the sick people that you are going to help when you become a nurse (...ae... you will be a HERO)

blessed be!

[la tortuga]

You are on a path to create healing! When you feel bogged down think about the sick people that you are going to help when you become a nurse (...ae... you will be a HERO)

blessed be!

Thank you! That's much, much more help than my mom provided. She suggested going to the school and dropping something!!! I called her crazy, since it's almost too late to change anything and I'd feel like I failed if I dropped something.

[flesh canvas]

Don't drop any classes, especially not before you've given it a good go! You can do it! Give it an entire semester... half the school year. If by the end of that time you feel can't handle the workload, don't feel bad-- at least you gave it your best shot, & you should be proud of yourself for even making it into these classes at your age!

Good luck!

[acorn elf]

Geez! You have some nice classes available! I can't take physics and AP classes until I'm a junior and I'm in all the honors classes here!

But anyway.. It's easier if you don't stress about them. You don't have any More classes than anyone else, do you?(maybe you do, but don't say and ruin the speech^^) And remember, if you've gotten to your 3rd year of Latin and English, you can certainly do it again.

[Xander67]

the sacrifices you make now will yield the many blessings you will have in the years to come...

yeah I know, it sux not being able to party and have a love life... but you will have plenty of time for that later on, and will be wiser and alot more wealthier than the girls that dont work as hard and just party and merely get by...

[Fane Ayuma]

4 classes a day, hour and a half each???

You lucky Thing yea.i would love to have had that much time off when i was in college!!!!

Christ, thats 6 hours.6 hours and your complaining?!?!?!?!



try 1 hour classes that start at 9am and finish at 9 pm.Every day.Then you'll apreciate what youv got.

[wolf]

Good luck.

As you do your clinical rotation look at some of the other positions there in the hospital ... if you are sharp enough to do AP Physics, you might want to look into Physician Assistant School ... or at least a BSN program rather than being a diploma nurse.

Or if you can swing the loans and what not ... hit the MD/DO track.

Don't get me wrong ... I really, really respect people that want to be nurses, and there is a severe nursing shortage, at least in the northeast, but I know some awesomely dim nurses.

[Happy Shrew]

You'll be extra ready for college with an arrangement like that. Just think, when AP season rolls along you'll know how to handle college finals without an actual dead week!

Trust me on this, this will help a heck of a lot more than it hurts. Having college credit, even when it doesn't count for anything specific in your degree, is a big bonus. I came in with enough to bump my status prematurely (I was a sophomore after one semester, then turned junior last spring) and that helped get me better picks for class registration.

[spooky]

make sure your school gives your weighted GPA out to colleges.

i had a similar schedule, with mostly honors and accelerated courses. at the end of high school they gave out everybody's unweighted GPA, which let my C's and D's in math bring down my overall GPA to about 1.9, when weighted it would have been about 3.5. so i busted my A** for absolutely nothing.

DON'T LET THAT HAPPEN TO YOU!