What Did I Get Myself Into?

After two weeks of nursing school I am E.X.H.A.U.S.T.E.D! I know it was going to be a challenge but I am so overwhelmed! There's so many outside school work that I can't even fit some of it on the space of my agenda!

My fellow student bloggers and I have numerous  blogs about tips on how to stay on top of school, be organize and stay motivated. However, sometimes all the hard work doesn't seem to be worth it when we lose ourselves in the chaos we call college.

I have always had this yearning to help people and with this drive, I always have wanted to be in the medical field. After years of schooling, especially the first years of college, I knew I was working towards my goal to become a nurse... but it has become a vision to get a degree. I realize that I have been so consumed with the commotion of college that I have somehow put aside the reason why I wanted this RN title in the first place.

Easter-Sunday-Going-Home-itis

My coworker T.J wrote a blog about Spring-break-itis. Which I think I may be suffering from similar strand. It's Easter-Sunday-Going-Home-itis. The anticipation of going home has made me suffer from a lack of motivation.  The essay that I have due tomorrow seems more like a 500 page essay on the Korean War rather than a 1,500 word essay about my major. The Accounting test I have Wednesday feels like Organic Chemistry final exam. Every little thing I have to do feels like it's so ridiculously hard to do. When it's not. At all. Truth is i'm about 200 words short on the essay with two paragraphs left. The Accounting test will be easy.
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Maybe I just need some sleep
that sounds good
actually quite awesome..
I think I'll do that in a couple hours. Yeah. that sounds like a plan.
Bye! zzzzzz

                               

Beating the Freshman 15... So Worth it!

When we enter college for the first time we are given many types of new freedom. We no longer have our parents telling us what to do, when to do it, and how we should do it. In many ways this is AMAZING, that is until you miss your first homework assignment, or you realize just how tired you really are after only three hours of sleep, or you gain your freshman fifteen. For those of you are currently thinking to yourself, “self, what is the freshman fifteen?” let me enlighten you. The freshman fifteen is a wonderful little thing which many freshman in college fall victim to. After high school many people are, for the first time in 6 plus years, no longer participating in competitive sports nor eating meals with their parents. This means that many freshmen no longer work out and begin eating more of what they want, which in some cases is that person’s favorite food repetitiously until they become sick or fat. The fat part is what is known as the infamous “freshman fifteen”. This extra weight comes from eating unhealthy food and failing to live an active lifestyle. Unhealthy food includes all that stuff that your mom always avoided cooking because it was ‘bad for you’, so foods which are fried, high in sugar, greasy, and or covered in cheese. An active lifestyle does not include your walk across campus to your class either (although sometimes the hills at UT Tyler make me feel like it should). Instead an active lifestyle includes actively choosing to participate in physical activity. Don’t get me wrong, I love all of those wonderful foods and sometimes I would much rather sit at home than go to the gym. But, once I started realizing my own weight gain in my freshman year I decided I should probably put down the microwavable brownie and take a step back to look at what kind of decisions I was making in regards to food and exercise