Sorry.... It's been a super long time. My life is boring in case you can't tell. The semester is officially over and most of you know its been a little rough to say the least. All in all I ended with 4 As and 2 Bs and a successful play. In one year of nursing we have lost 9/30 students. That is a lot in my opinion. Some dropped out and switched to the Practical nursing program. One decided Nursing wasn't for him. One is in the middle of a messy divorce and she couldn't handle everything all at once. The rest failed. Two were some of my favorite people in the class. One was not. This puts them in a tough situation. They cannot progress in the program until they retake the class they failed NEXT spring. So they are one year behind now. They will graduate with the incoming first years (who start next fall) if they don't fail anymore. The other thing that is rough is in any normal class they would have passed with a C. Nursing is skewed. I don't know if I have put this up here before but in order to pass you need a C. Not just any C. An 80% C. Anything lower than 80% is a D or F. 94-100% is an A, 85-94% is a B, 80-85% is a C. We don't know WHY they do it this way, but they do. Anyways... other than that..... I've got a friend visiting from California May 31st-June 8th and my summer pharmacology class starts June 8th. So i'm trying to get all my relaxation in before that starts again. The itinerary for my friend is this:
Sunday: plane arrives at 6 AM so we are ganna hang out in the cities for the day, any suggestions on where we should go? I was thinking the Mall (of course) and maybe Como park/zoo/gardens! Sunday night will be spent at my parents house.
Monday and Tuesday: we will explore southern MN. My friend has never been here so we will go to some local monuments.
Wednesday: We are heading up to my family's cabin to hang out with my friends.
Thursday: We will come to my apartment and take in the local "colors". LOL
Friday-Sunday afternoon: My sister is celebrating her birthday at the cabin so we will be going there to join in the festivities!
Sunday night: back to my place because I have class from 10-12 in the morning!
Monday: after class we will head back down to the cities and hang out until the flight leaves.....
Hopefully my friend doesn't get bored! Small town MN isn't the most exciting place in the world! If you have any suggestions on what to do let me know!
As you can all hopefully see I've updated the blog again. Cut me some slack as I'm still deciding where to go with it. I'll add more as time goes on and I run out of books to read and catch up on. Thats about all that has been happening in my life. I'm a pretty boring person. Hope all is well with you! I'll try to start posting pictures.....
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8 years ago
Grades are so arbitrary. Some in our middle school use 94% as an A- cut off. And yet they are not ready... expect to get to redo tests and assignments...expect to turn in things whenever...no matter how late.
ReplyDeleteI hope that my nurse and doctor do things correct 100% of the time - unrealistic I know. I don't expect the pharmacist to get my perscription right only 90% of the time.
Thoughts from the teacher.