Who Would Have Thought?

Yesterday was a good day!  I took my first nursing exam.  I was only one point away from passing.  Yep, just one point.  I know you are probably saying... "She got a 69%?" No, I got a 75.  See in nursing school a passing grade is a 76.  

I was actually very pleased with my results.  I did way better than I thought I would.  But, I do have a few gripes.... 

This story starts a long way back... probably about 2 months or so ago.  I floated (at work) to another floor and was talking to a few of the aides.  We were discussing nursing school and one of them was telling me how she was starting the same program that I was on the alternate list for, in the fall.  She then proceeded to tell me how she had gotten her pervious associate's degree in Liberal Arts and wasn't interested really in the sciences.  I was a little shocked and thought to myself..."How did she get in with a LA degree and I didn't, but I have a Pre-Nursing degree?"  So I asked her what her GPA was and she said "3.0" Aha! Mine was only a 2.6.  So I get it.  They let her in over me because of GPA.  

This made me really mad.  I was like  "SERIOUSLY?! They are going to let some girl in with no background in science whatsoever, besides Bio? "Of course she has a 3.0!  How hard are humanities classes?" 

Fast Forward to yesterday.  This same girl is sitting one chair over from me during the test.  I have become some what of friends with her and another girl, Anna.  Ironic huh?  So we take the test, and afterwards we are allowed to do a "walkthrough."  The walkthrough is designed for us to look over the test questions and correct answers to see how we did.  It also provides the rationale for each question.  So I asked her how she did and she said " I missed 20."  20 questions.  Wrong.  On a 44 question exam.  She them exclaimed, "I'll never be able to make this up.  I think I'll have to drop out." 

See this is the kind of situation that bugs the heck out of me.  Here she is,  a Liberal Arts major and after the first test, is already going to give up.  That spot could have gone to someone like me.  Someone who worked their butt off to take the really hard sciences, and tried desperately to raise their less than stellar GPA.  It just goes to show you that some things in life are flawed.  Just like this application/admission process.  

I am so thankful that God allowed me a spot.  I am so thankful to be a apart of this program and I'm not complaining, I just feel like fairness really plays no part.  There is way too much emphasis placed on strict academics.  But, oh well.  At least I am here, and I know I WILL NOT GIVE UP.  I will finish this programs if it kills me.  

I told her not to give up.  To press on and make it through.  I hope she does, for the sake of all the other "me's" out there.