Free Time ? What's That ? ?

I have waved goodbye to free time. I am halfway to my BSN and things are really heating up now. I have classes and/or clinicals 5 days a week and hours of reading and homework. I don't think they were kidding when they told us at orientation that we would have about 14.5 hours left each day for "free time". ("Free-time" = time away from school to sleep, eat, shower, drive, play, etc.) I am exhausted and my house is a mess and it's only Tuesday!

These are my books for this semester. Yes. All 11 of them are for this semester. Yesterday I fell asleep on the couch with my nose in one of them and I can tell you for sure--there is no such thing as learning by osmosis!

Our clinical uniforms aren't the greatest, but they beat the old solid white scrubs. If you've never seen those hideous things you don't know what you're missing! (Just ask my friend Jeff who recently enrolled in a different Nursing program in town.)