dab_20
09-23-2011, 12:04 AM
This is just a rant thread :o
So, I have been going 15 credit hours every semester, working thirty hours a week, never took the summer off, all so I could apply to the nursing school at the University of Utah in January. They require you finish 6 of the 10 prerequisites before you apply. Then, you have to finish the other four and your generals before you enter the program. ( I would have applied January 2012, kept going through Summer semester, and started nursing school in Fall 2012)
Anyways, when I got the chance to register for classes, my BioOrganic Chemistry class was full. They were only teaching THREE classes in the whole school. Theres 60,000 students at my college! That's ridiculous. Even the waiting lists were full. I talked to counselors, head of the chem department, everyone, and I didn't get in.
SOOO, now I can't apply until January 2013!! That means I won't get into nursing school until Fall 2013, and that's if I'm accepted the first year I apply! (It's incredibly competitive)
I'm just so frustrated. I've worked so hard so I could get this done in a timely manner, and not take 5+ years to get my Bachelor's degree. Now I have to sit and wait to apply, and by that time I will have been out of school for 6 months and will have to start paying my loans back. Making 9 dollars an hour doesn't make that easy.
SIGH. Everyone tells me "well your only 19, I didn't apply till I was 21" or something along those lines. Well I chose to take a lot on so I could finish faster but now it's for nothing. Blah. lol
I just am tired of being a CNA. It's such hard work for such little pay. It's practically impossible to get a job at a hospital, because there's a gazillion other CNAs applying for those positions who have done it for years. I LOVE my residents, and my job is truly rewarding to me, but I just get TIRED of working so hard for so little! I make 8.75 taking care of Alzheimer patients completely unable to care for themselves, and my bf makes 14.80 working at a darn grocery store!! How fair is that?? (Of course I'm happy he makes good money, lol)
Sorry for the rant. LOL
So, I have been going 15 credit hours every semester, working thirty hours a week, never took the summer off, all so I could apply to the nursing school at the University of Utah in January. They require you finish 6 of the 10 prerequisites before you apply. Then, you have to finish the other four and your generals before you enter the program. ( I would have applied January 2012, kept going through Summer semester, and started nursing school in Fall 2012)
Anyways, when I got the chance to register for classes, my BioOrganic Chemistry class was full. They were only teaching THREE classes in the whole school. Theres 60,000 students at my college! That's ridiculous. Even the waiting lists were full. I talked to counselors, head of the chem department, everyone, and I didn't get in.
SOOO, now I can't apply until January 2013!! That means I won't get into nursing school until Fall 2013, and that's if I'm accepted the first year I apply! (It's incredibly competitive)
I'm just so frustrated. I've worked so hard so I could get this done in a timely manner, and not take 5+ years to get my Bachelor's degree. Now I have to sit and wait to apply, and by that time I will have been out of school for 6 months and will have to start paying my loans back. Making 9 dollars an hour doesn't make that easy.
SIGH. Everyone tells me "well your only 19, I didn't apply till I was 21" or something along those lines. Well I chose to take a lot on so I could finish faster but now it's for nothing. Blah. lol
I just am tired of being a CNA. It's such hard work for such little pay. It's practically impossible to get a job at a hospital, because there's a gazillion other CNAs applying for those positions who have done it for years. I LOVE my residents, and my job is truly rewarding to me, but I just get TIRED of working so hard for so little! I make 8.75 taking care of Alzheimer patients completely unable to care for themselves, and my bf makes 14.80 working at a darn grocery store!! How fair is that?? (Of course I'm happy he makes good money, lol)
Sorry for the rant. LOL