There I was, about to get permission to register into the last classes that I need for the Nursing program at my university. I was all happy and joyful until my academic advisor told me the harsh truth.
Before I walked into the meeting, I was 100% cool with the idea of taking a Human Anatomy & Physiology I course for the 1st Summer semester, but I wasn't too fond of what I had to take for the 2nd Summer semester.
Summer 2 is the only semester that is offering the last 2 classes that I need to get into the Nursing program. These last two classes add up to 8 credits in total. The maximum amount of credits that you're allowed to take for Summer 2 is 6. I need special permission from the Dean of Students to do this.
Sure, I can go to the Dean and ask him for permission with ease. However, the task of dealing with the actual curriculum for Summer 2 is very daunting. The 1st and 2nd Summer semesters are only a month long. However, the classes are arranged so that you spend as much time for one course as much as you do for many courses in one week of a normal semester.
I guess that's because it's unfortunate that the classes I need require lab work. I'll let the schedule speak for itself. Summer 1 isn't too bad. Human Anatomy & Physiology I takes up Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, but each class is close to 5 hours long. 15 hours a week? That's not too bad.
Well, let's go into Summer 2 now. This time, I have to take two courses with lab. Realize that I said TWO. Double the time that I would spend in Summer 1. The courses are on the same day as well, which makes it a lot worse for me. So now, I have to take two courses on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. That is 10 or more hours in a single day. Notice that I said MORE because you never know how long a lab would be.
In a single week, that's 30+ hours. In an ideal world where I am amazing at everything I do, I would humbly laugh at that. But we're in a reality based world where you never know what's going to happen. Even I hardly have any confidence to believe that I can do that. Is it really possible for me to juggle two lengthy courses?
I constantly have to go to the first course's lecture and lab, then I have to go to the second course's lecture and lab. I'm sure that when I return home after 10 stressful hours, I'd probably not even reach the minimum amount of time necessary to study for both classes because they're so tightly packed together. You seriously have to have great organizational skills and luck to pull this off.
I'm running out of options. One of them is to go to the Nursing department tomorrow so I could beg them to let me in the program, despite not having one course required in their prerequisites. If they don't let me in, then I have to wait a year to get into the program. Yes, I said a YEAR.
You will probably ask, "Why can't you just wait a semester to enter the program, Sherr?" The problem is another truth that I was told by my advisor. Supposedly, the Nursing department only admits new students into the program in the Fall semester. They do not admit new students in any other semester other than the Fall semester.
Well, let's be a bit more optimistic. Here's what I'm hoping for tomorrow. I hope that my academic advisor was totally wrong about the Nursing department only admitting students in the fall. I hope that the Nursing department admits me in the fall despite not having a required course. I hope that I don't have to be stuck for a whole year doing nothing.
I have nothing else to say. Just hope that things go well for me tomorrow. Tomorrow is the day in which I get the answers from the Nursing department.
