Nursing Sisters Bringin' Sexy Back: Testing, Testing 1 2 3.........4

Test days are the worst... there is so much tension in the air, every second of the day leading up to the test you feel like you have to be studying, and you just feel like "this is the test I am gunna bomb, I just know it."

In nursing school you have to get a 75% in the class in order to move on. In nursing 1 we had 16 tests during the semester (usually about 1 per week) so it was okay if you "bombed" a couple, because you would still have a good grade in the class. In nursing 2 we only have 4 tests that make up 75% of our grade in the class, and one final that makes up about 25% of the grade in the class. So needless to say, one bad day and you are screwed.

Last Friday, Natalie and I mapped out our plan to study for the weekend. It looked a little bit like this:

Friday:
330-500pm Clean the house
500-600pm Make Dinner
600-800pm Study
800-900pm Give Aaron/Cassidy a bath and put to bed
900-1200am Study

Saturday:
700-800 Wake Up
800-1100 Study

You get the picture....

So we pretty much had zero time over the weekend to do anything but care for our family's and study. Its pretty exhausting when you know for like 4 days you will have no life. :(

We pretty much stuck to our schedules with a little bit of change here and there.... we had a horrible time studying on Sunday. We were distracted at Chipotle, starbucks, the comfy bed in my mom's house, and then of course... my mom's chicken tacos. Instead of studying at my mom's house Natalie and I took fat pictures... lol. None of which I will be posting!!

Studying on Friday

Natalie just couldn't help herself.

So Monday morning, bright and early started with me waking up 50 minutes late (why do Monday's always SUCK). I got to school around 6:50am and Natalie and I had our typical test morning conversation....

Natalie: "Are you ready sister?"
Me: "No, not at all, are you?"
Natalie: "NOO, I feel so jacked!"

So then the cramming began.

We studied for about 3 hours, went to pre-clinical, and then came back home and had lunch with Corey, Natalie's husband. Well, I more gave the stank eye every time Natalie would make a peep cause I was trying to study. My favorite part of lunch was Meka driving up saying, "Who's this guy?" Probably thinking we had another stalker on our hands.

2:00pm was testing time, and as we walked in the room I could feel my heart beating in my throat. We sat at the front of the room, which I hate because I get so distracted with everything that is going on around me. I said my prayer, told the girls good luck and started the test.

15 minutes later Natalie is done... lol. Okay, maybe not 15 minutes but DAMN she is always done so fast.

1hr and 30 minutes later I am done. I don't know what my problem was but I could not focus during this test at all and it took me forever.

We went home and I was in such a funk all night, cause I wanted my score and I was dreading clinical the next day.

Received texts that grades are up....... ugh.

Me: 87%
Natalie 87%
How do we manage to do that?

YAY!!!!!!!!! We are very proud of these scores considering it is so hard to get a high B on these tests. Finally we can relax for the week and start studying for the final next week!!!

Here are some more pics of nursing school!