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I'm finally getting around to that face lift. I will be changing content regularly. If you have any suggestions feel free to drop me a line or use the AIM widget below. To contact me via email click here I was is shock when I first learned that I had first, passed the tests, and was accepted into nursing school. I am in awe as to what I am learning, and even amazed with the grades that I am earning. For a guy who almost dropped out of high school years ago, it now looks like I am heading for the Dean's List. I could not have planned this if I had wanted to. This was planned from above. zygotes, chromosomes, gametes, haploid, cytokinesis, mitosis, meiosis, pulse deficit, dyspnea, apnea, orthopmea, bradypenea, timpanic, hypertension, orthostatic hypertention, kortotkoff's sounds, depression, withdrawal, Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, compliant, noncompliant, apical, brachial, blood pressure, abuse, addiction, brain death, clinical death, cerebrospinal, kidney, ureter, bladder, AMA, BAC, decibel, dilation It's amazing that this "stuff" is not "foreign" to me anymore. 2. Be prepared to work hard. You will have to do a lot of reading, and it will be very confusing at times. Do the best you can to get through it, and highlight anything that might sound important. 3. Find a few classmates you get along with, and stick with them through the whole program. At times when no one else in your life fully understands what you are going through, they will. I can't emphasize enough how important this mutual understanding is, and I guarantee that these people will talk sense into you every time you are 100% sure you are going to quit. 4. Be prepared to feel lost. I was so scared I was shaking. It is normal to completely forget how to do everything (even the most simple tasks) when you are nervous. So don't let this make you feel stupid or inferior- it is NORMAL!! CYA! |
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J. Dolan careersearch@tomdolan.com Summary: It's out with the old and in with the new. I am well seasoned high end stage lighting,sound and video technician. The industry has been good to me, but like everything else in life, all good things come to an end. I've had a calling for quite some time that I can no longer ignore. Thanks to God, my family and friends I am switching careers and goals and am now in school full time, focused, and following a calling that I can no longer deny. Awards: ·
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Tom Dolan  Create Your Badge All those rules and formulas that I had learned in Sacred Heart and Thomas A. Edison, which should have come back to me quickly were laying there comatose among other unwanted memories in my head. I was getting angry as I prepared tables of formulas from long ago and started to again put them to use. I started thinking about the wasted hours that I spent trying to arrive at the correct answer; the frustration in thinking that I will never get this. I had myself convinced that I was doomed to fail and even worse, in having to repeat this all over again. This was the last straw. As I started to use my head,(imagine that) and figure things out manually, all of those math formulas and memories started to slowly awaken from their coma. It was pointed out to me that I was getting it right. I started to knock out that homework assignment that was kicking my butt. My once friend (the calculator) lays hidden in my desk drawer and I am determined to rid my dependancy of her. I now realize what my instructor meant when she told the class that we can use our calculators, but we need to end that affair with them. You should have seen the look on my oldest daughter's face when she read this story and I said that I just couldn't get it because of my "affair". She was hysterical laughing. Thank you Sherry for all of your patience and help.
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