The Chronicles of a Student Nurse, 1.2

Today was our first big test in theory class, and man was it a doozy (sp?). I hadn't really studied much for it, which worried me a lot. I had done a few practice problems that were similar to the critical thinking ones that would be on the test, but other than that I think I had read three or four chapters out of a total of like 100 (ok, maybe it was 19. No seriously, it really was 19 chapters).

Anyways, it is needless to say that I was a little freaked and anxious. I knew that whatever score I got I was stuck with for the rest of the semester and couldn't shluff off any more. I got on campus plenty early and saw all my friends frantically cramming. Now, I need to say something here about test-day cram sessions.

Honestly, how much can it help? Say you studied 5 hours the night before, trying to cram as much information into your already crammed-full brain, drinking two or three cups of coffee, until you passed out on the couch from overload of info. You woke up and rushed to school, only to grab the exact same book with the exact same info that you had read 2 hours before (amount of sleep pending). I just don't see how looking over the stuff some more that didn't change over a night that has caused you to lose countless hours of sleep can help. Logic says it would hinder you.

I obviously didn't bring my book.

We were all uptight as could be, just wanting it to all be over. Most of us expected to fail even though we put on a happy face and told each other "I'm shooting for the A." Who knows how many people had already cried over the fact that this test , and the four or five following it, could make or break how far we made it in the program.

Now, it may seem like this whole thing is a complete over-exageration. But keep in mind that we were still in the dark. And the mind plays tricks on you in the dark, making you think things are a certain way, which they aren't, and making you see things you think are there, which they aren't. So, even though we may have had a chance to redeem ourselves on a later test, we were just seeing the current crisis and nothing more. Sound like our society at all? Maybe, maybe not...

...long story short, I passed along with the rest of my crew. We went to celebrate at Pei-Wei. The end (for now).