Wow, how time flies. I promise that I had EVERY intention of updating you with all of the yummy food I made in the fall. I also promise that even though I didn’t update you on here, I still tried a ton of stuff and even experimented with creating my own food. However, here I find myself in the middle of January with another semester of college underneath my belt and only one more to go. Part of me is super excited to enter life outside of college and the other part is scared crapless. I’ve spent this last semester with four roommates who are all working full-time jobs. I’m not saying that they don’t all love their jobs….but they really don’t all love their jobs, at least not every day. I feel like this is going to be the biggest adjustment for me: going from class, break, and maybe class again, to the same job every day (or maybe not if I get a job in a hospital!).
A couple of exciting things are happening in the spring in relation to Nursing. I finished up my LAST super hard semester in the fall and from what I hear, life is pretty sweet from here until graduation. But what I’m REALLY excited about are my internship and externship placements for this semester. For my internship, I was placed on an OB/Labor & Deliver floor at a hospital that I just love, Abbott-Northwestern. This means that I get to spend six weeks with about 4-5 other students, welcoming new babies into the world!!!! How can a person not be excited! For my externship, which is where I am tied to one nurse and work when she works, I was placed on an Adult Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at United Hospital. This was my top choice and I cannot express the excitement that I experienced when I found out I got it.
So, here’s to my last semester of school of my undergraduate degree. Let’s hope I can actually stay on top of blogging every once in a while.
