i am going to be in pediatrics this semester! we just found out where our clinical placements are and i'm at the children's hospital! i'm super excited to be working with kids and their parents (and rae and i are together, too). only a few of us get to be in peds, so we're pretty lucky.
we have our first exam on monday. i'm a little nervous. okay.... i feel like i don't know anything. i'll be sitting in class, and the prof will ask questions, and i'll be following along, sometimes even working up the courage to answer out loud. but then suddenly, the topic shifts and i have no idea what's going on. aldosterone is responsible for the reabsorption of what? what are signs and symptoms of hypokalemia? i don't know!!and we have a calculation test on tuesday, that we have to get90% on to pass. if you don't pass, you get kicked out of the course and have to try again next year. (if you fail that, i think you're forever kicked out of nursing at the u of m - no joke).
but besides that, things are going alright. clinical starts next week and i think i'm gonna stop helping at junior youth when it does. it's just too much. and people are encouraging me to let it go. i could easily do 6 hours of homework a day and still have more to do. of course, i'm not one of those people who can do 6 hours of homework a day, so i settle for less.
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i, as well, fully endorse you letting go of junior high. as a youth leader myself, it totally makes sense. you wouldn't be able to be all there, and that's pretty important. i respect you making that decision to bow out gracefully and focus on your school work...which...by the way, you can do because you are smart, and bright, and able to do it, as thousands of people have done before you and thousands of people will continue after you have completed it!! rock rock on!!
Hey Jules-
I think a while ago you mentioned how you loved the David Crowder band. I saw them (him) last night with HyperStatic Union and.... THIRD DAY!! You are right- he is pretty darn good! I kept thinking of you and Ryan and how fun it would have been to have you there with us! Christina Guenther told me she has a class with Ryan... small world! Sorry it didn't work out to see you this last time when I was out. Are you heading this way at Christmas at all? We won't be going home this year so I am not sure the next time I get to the homeland!!
Get back to studying now, slacker.
Julia, i thought you were going into teaching? I think you'd make a great nurse.
I hear you on classes and exams. I am so glad we don't have an exam in our seminary class that Trev and I are taking.
thanks!!
ya, i was going into teaching. i took a year at u of w in education, and decided it wasn't for me. so now here i am, in 3rd year nursing!
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