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whitewriterI keep telling him to send me his assignments so I can read it over and have a squiz at it. I wan't to see what kids are learning these days (he's a mature age student). I bet the assignments haven't changed since I was there. In fact, I wonder if I've thrown them out. I had a crisis of "stuff" a few years back and tossed a bunch of papers (whups). They weren't very good.
Hi Rita,
It's *name* - guy doing the masters of Nursing.
I don't have an assignment to send you just yet, but I will if you want when I finish one 😁.
I want to ask you a question from when you did your masters? I find the workload rediculous! I don't see how it can be possible to complete all the reading and do assignments and study for exams at the same time without studying 24 hours a day. Did you cover all the weekly recommend readings, or drop some so you could focus on assignments etc?
Don't worry if you can't remember, just thought I'd ask 😄
Thanks,
My reply?
Oh yeah, it is ridiculous.
It was ridiculous in my Science degree too.
But I just followed the principles my clever friends would use.
Make the most focus on your lectures. Pay strong attention to whatever they said in the lectures (like ridiculously close attention) cause at the end of the day, their the one whose setting the questions and the answers in exams and etc.
I think I was super lazy, and barely did any readings unless they were required for a tutorial.
If I had spare time, sure I'd read something (never).
But I took loads of notes from lectures.
Other than whatever is in the lectures, then all the effort was poured into the assignment.
Do you have to get 50% in everything to pass? or is it 50% overall. Because that might bring you some comfort.
I have a feeling it's 50% in everything.
Have you had the "how to open a dressing pack" class yet? I failed that one because i touched something ?? (so hard to tell) or when I dried my hands it was like 5% still wet or something before I moved to the next step. I passed on the second attempt.
The first semester is the most stressful whilst you figure it all out and then after that it should get heaps easier.
Rita.
I left out the part where, i was sitting in a tute once, and the 60% assignment was due yesterday -
and the lecturer (at the time our head of school) was talking about something. And for some reason, in that moment, whatever he was saying sounded *exactly the opposite* of what I had written in the assignment.
And I freaked out so bad. I cried in front of him whilst he tried to calm me down because I was so sure that I failed the 60% thing.
It turns out I got confused- and managed to pass. (I think I got a D, the only one that whole time probs)...
But that first semester is so ... full of content. And we're all mostly kids on our second degree doing this one because we don't think our previous degree was useful for work. So the pressure is there. It's not like your 18 and just got there from high school and lah de dah it's your first year and you just want to make friends. And if you don't do so well, oh well, you tried- right.
No. This is nursing. It's not that freaking hard - nursing used to be a TAFE thing with hospital training. It's supposed to be preparing you for the real world and your getting freaking old so you wanna move on and out of uni-life.
But it feels like lecturers make it "fake hard" so it can earn its place at university? Perhaps?
Fake stressful.
The real test is when your a grad, and you realise every assignment you ever did isn't going to help you when your trying to memorise policy at the same rate as do the actual work.
Hi Rita,
It's *name* - guy doing the masters of Nursing.
I don't have an assignment to send you just yet, but I will if you want when I finish one 😁.
I want to ask you a question from when you did your masters? I find the workload rediculous! I don't see how it can be possible to complete all the reading and do assignments and study for exams at the same time without studying 24 hours a day. Did you cover all the weekly recommend readings, or drop some so you could focus on assignments etc?
Don't worry if you can't remember, just thought I'd ask 😄
Thanks,
My reply?
Oh yeah, it is ridiculous.
It was ridiculous in my Science degree too.
But I just followed the principles my clever friends would use.
Make the most focus on your lectures. Pay strong attention to whatever they said in the lectures (like ridiculously close attention) cause at the end of the day, their the one whose setting the questions and the answers in exams and etc.
I think I was super lazy, and barely did any readings unless they were required for a tutorial.
If I had spare time, sure I'd read something (never).
But I took loads of notes from lectures.
Other than whatever is in the lectures, then all the effort was poured into the assignment.
Do you have to get 50% in everything to pass? or is it 50% overall. Because that might bring you some comfort.
I have a feeling it's 50% in everything.
Have you had the "how to open a dressing pack" class yet? I failed that one because i touched something ?? (so hard to tell) or when I dried my hands it was like 5% still wet or something before I moved to the next step. I passed on the second attempt.
The first semester is the most stressful whilst you figure it all out and then after that it should get heaps easier.
Rita.
I left out the part where, i was sitting in a tute once, and the 60% assignment was due yesterday -
and the lecturer (at the time our head of school) was talking about something. And for some reason, in that moment, whatever he was saying sounded *exactly the opposite* of what I had written in the assignment.
And I freaked out so bad. I cried in front of him whilst he tried to calm me down because I was so sure that I failed the 60% thing.
It turns out I got confused- and managed to pass. (I think I got a D, the only one that whole time probs)...
But that first semester is so ... full of content. And we're all mostly kids on our second degree doing this one because we don't think our previous degree was useful for work. So the pressure is there. It's not like your 18 and just got there from high school and lah de dah it's your first year and you just want to make friends. And if you don't do so well, oh well, you tried- right.
No. This is nursing. It's not that freaking hard - nursing used to be a TAFE thing with hospital training. It's supposed to be preparing you for the real world and your getting freaking old so you wanna move on and out of uni-life.
But it feels like lecturers make it "fake hard" so it can earn its place at university? Perhaps?
Fake stressful.
The real test is when your a grad, and you realise every assignment you ever did isn't going to help you when your trying to memorise policy at the same rate as do the actual work.
