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When your long anticipated wait for your Fall clinical schedule ends and you find out the ONLY student you never want to see again is assigned to the same group. FUCK MY LIFE. I can only hope she throws another one of her fits and demands to be moved. I will be my normal grateful [...]

You know, at least the miserable student lets me know where I stand by throwing a fit in front of everyone if we’re assigned the same group. Not so for fellow students. Yesterday they reacted in sympathy to the miserable student for having to spend all of an hour with me, yet today they are [...]

Finally finding yourself in the program that will help get you to your final goal only to have to share the experience with a person so hateful it sucks any pleasure you might have in it. I’ve dealt with abrasive people in my life, but who hasn’t?  What I’ve never dealt with is a person [...]

I attended two births in one day, almost exactly 12 hours apart.  One was due last month, one was due this month.  One boy, one girl.  One woman surrounded by family, the other with only her husband.  One noisy, the other quiet.  One totally uncomplicated, the other almost completely complicated.  One born in the water, [...]

When I went to the mandatory nursing school orientation back in May as an alternate, I sat praying that some fool would forget to show up and lose his or her spot in the Fall class so that I might get in.  Only two fools did so and I was back in limbo until the [...]