Team Sport

You know that feeling you get after you've changed into clean underwear, ran a marathon, or been found after 40 days lost at sea?  It is the same feeling I now have after completing one year of nursing school...relief.

The main take-away lesson learned from my time thus far has been the following: nursing school is a team sport.

Just as in any program, there are classes you love and digest effortlessly while others are as palatable as a ball of earwax.  But as with any adventure or journey in life, it isn't the place that makes the difference; it is indeed the people you share it with.  To this I must say that I've been one funky lucky ducky.  My schoolmates, whether in either of the Traditional Classes or the Accelerated Class have been an all-in-one gift...a support system, informational resource, study buddies, advisor's, meditation partners, and an overall lifeline.   So I tip my hat, raise my glass, wipe my brow, and dance a jig to each person that has made this trek so flavorful.

Now thanks to Hopkins alumni (i.e. see above paragraph) I have landed a summer job in Denver at a Hospital as an intern on a med surg floor doing things that will surely make for good writing fodder.  Splitting my time between nursing knowledge and mountain mounting will bring the necessary balance needed to polish off that last year of nursing school.  Bottoms up!