Preview to how the rest of the semester is like.

Guess what Miss Cee is doing this weekend before school start on Monday?

Studying!

JOY!

Not.

My Women's Health class has its first test a week after it starts, the Pregnancy Unit, which I believe covers about 10 chapters. The notes are up on the student page. Yes, already. I know, school hasn't even started yet. Those instructors are really dedicated on starting us up early, I tell ya.

So we have been told by various senior students that Junior II is supposedly the hardest semester and it's supposed to be the semester where they weed out the kids who aren't strong enough to make it. It is well known that most drop outs from the nursing program at this school have done so during their Junior II. With that looming over my head, I am determined to make it out--alive, preferably, so I'm off to have a date with my textbook this weekend. It came in the mail this morning, red and shiny--heck, with the price tag, it better comes to me shiny.

Oh, the mentor thing went well this morning. Those new kids, they want to know everything, I mean everything. Which prof. is mean? Which prof. gives freebies? Do we have to be naked for head to toe? Which shoes are the best to get? Which cafeteria sandwich is the best?

Heh.

To be honest, I was a little bewildered by some of the questions and even had to resort to the infamous critical thinking to answer those. YES! Critical thinking! I remember something from last semester, woot! Do I tell them that prof. appears mean but she's a softie at heart if you know how to talk to her? Do I tell them this about the hospital or that? Ya know, you want to be as much as a help to this youngins, but without giving too much information because they've got stuff to figure out on their own. Overall, we had a great time and my mentees wished me goodluck's as I told them I was going to study this afternoon. Aw, aren't they sweet.

Hi, I'm your mentor and I'm a little bit crazy.

I have just received the official list of advisers and mentors for the incoming Junior I class. It is official that I am on the rosters as one of the mentors, woo! This mentoring program in my school is designed to help the incoming nursing students who undoubtedly have a lot of questions and fears and in need of a support system, so as mentors we are available to answer their questions, advice, listen, and encourage the best we could. I'm just so excited to be one because this program has helped me so much before I even began last semester, just knowing from the beginning that I have 2 mentors that I could go to for help was a great reliever, so I'm hoping that I could do the same for the new kids.

I'm meeting my group of 4 mentees this Friday during their orientation, yay! And I'm so glad to have find that I am actually co-mentoring with a friend who was in the same clinical group as me last semester and the adviser for our group of mentees is one of our Pharmacology professors, who is one of the nicest-I'm not kidding-NICEST instructors on campus.

However, come to think of it, I'm a little nervous about saying the wrong things to these mentees, because that would be um, bad. "Yeah, I didn't really read the assigned chapters for that class, nah, that's too much, oh oops, not suppose to say that...." or "Yeah, I skipped her lectures sometimes, 'cuz ya know, didn't get anything out of her, I'd rather read the chapter later. Oh oooops...." So yeah, bad. It's like Joey on Friends when he didn't want to say the wrong things on a magazine interview so he invited everyone to stop him just in case, and he did good until the very end when he blew it, except that I'll be on my own on Friday and hopefully my friend doesn't say the wrong things either because having been in the same group, we kind of did these "bad" things together.....

So either we'd be the worst mentors, or we'd be the coolest mentors ever. I'm pulling for the latter.