1st Semester: CHECK!

Well I'm not sure if I'll be blogging in the next few weeks, because my friends, I am done! I have finished my 1st Semester. I have done it! I have finished the race! Oh there is still so much more to go but I need to bask in the glow of the fact that I have actually made it through one quarter of the nursing program!!! Many times there were doubts that I could do it. I've cried, laughed, screamed, wanted to quit, felt like I could actually do it, felt that it was impossible and had every other emotion imaginable up to this point. Until January 10th I'll be enjoying my laziness. Watching TV, sleeping, reading novels and not textbooks, regularly exercising, working, and anything else my heart desires. I can now enjoy Christmas and New Years. There's not much to say about the week but here it goes:

• Monday was my Birthday! It ended up being a really great Birthday. I took my Pharmacology Final and ended up with a 90%! Not my best score but it meant I still got my A for the semester!!
• I also found out on my Birthday that I got switched from clinical group ABC to group DEF which is now just group DF and I'm in the D section. One entire section of clinical was dropped cuz that many people have dropped/failed. That really sucks. I'm so thankful I'm actually getting to go to 2nd Semester. I will now have clinical at St. Micheal's Hospital and I won't have to go to St. Joseph's until the Middle of April. HUZZAH!!! I get to save some gas for the most part this semester!! The best part? No driving to Marshfield in January!!!
• I have been stressing and freaking out about my final final which was Fundamentals. The bane of my 1st Semester Existence. I was hovering at an 82.5% exam average and you need that solid 80.00% to pass, 79.99% is not good enough. That's failing. Well I was basically shaking all the way up to it this afternoon and I knew that this was the make it or break it part of my semester. Pass this one and I move on, fail and I stay behind. Hearing things about it from it being easy to being difficult I began taking it. It wasn't so bad. After going through the 80 questions I had 11 left blank. I filled them in and stared at 2 questions and finally decided and went to hand it in. I had to ask my prof what the answer to that one was and she told me. Damn, that one was wrong. Now time to sweat. Grades were to be posted by 6pm.  One of my classmates texted me around 4:30 saying that grades were posted. I was shaking, my heart was pounding, I was literally crying cuz I knew my fate was posted on a simple computer screen. I looked at my final grade: B-. Okay, but what's my exam average? OH. MY. GOD! I got an 89% on the Final. I not only passed that beast, but I did better on it than all my quizzes and my midterm. I had shown tremendous growth in that class. I have absolutely no idea how I did it but I passed that test. Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!!!!!

17 Weeks (but it sounds better as 1 Semester) down! 3 Semesters to go!!!!