pov : you get accepted into nursing school🥹🎉👩🏾‍⚕️

Attempt #4 to go to school to become a nurse & im finally in there!!!! In 2017, I decided I would go to school to become a nurse, helping people has always been my passion so I figured I would do some good in the world. I started school at the community college in my hometown in January 2018, I was doing well. I was passing all my classes & pre reqs. February 28, 2018 I got into a bad car accident and I missed school for a whole month. I wasn’t able to finish out the semester. Fast forward, after I recovered I enrolled into a 4-year school in the same town (idk why I would go from a 2 year to a 4 year), but I flunked out of my fall semester. This was attempt # 2 & I was unable to receive financial aid, so the only choice I had if I wanted to go back to school was to pay out of pocket. I sat out of school for about a year, and then I finally went back. I paid for my whole semester to bring my grades up so that I could be able to get financial aid again & guess what I did???? 😅 I FLUNKED OUT AGAIN. Not because I wasn’t smart enough or the work was too hard I simply didn’t want it bad enough. At this point, I owe the school money and I can’t get financial aid so I gave up on it. That was in 2020. In July of 2024, guess what happened??? they started to release the transcripts of students regardless of if they had a balance or not. I went to my old school after the 4th of July and they gave me my transcript. 😭 I was finally able to do it this time, but the only thing stopping me was I had baby and I didn’t really have a lot of options for child care. So I started asking family members for help to watch him while I did my 3 pre-reqs and to my surprise everybody I asked was willing to help. I went back to my community college, enrolled, and started my pre-reqs in August. I studied and studied and worked hard to pass my classes, I brought my GPA back up, I was able to get financial aid, and I had the help I needed for my son. At the beginning of October I had a minor setback because the college I wanted to attend originally for the LVN program closed their deadline Oct 1. On Sept 26, I tried to schedule the TEAS online, but for some reason the service was down and I couldn’t do it. I cried and cried and cried because I missed the deadline, so I started looking up other schools. Finally came across Galen, learned they started their program 4 times a year and applied. In the process of all of this, I packed, I moved, I planned my son’s 1st birthday, I bought birthday gifts, I studied, I did hair to help pay for extra expenses, and MORE. I finally attended a Zoom meeting with advisors and student advocates from the school, they scheduled me a FREE exam for the ATI TEAS, I moved back to Austin, Texas with my son’s dad and I passed the TEAS on the first try. 😭 This morning I got the email that IM GOING TO NURSING SCHOOL!!!!!! #futurenurse #lemon8challenge #Lemon8Diary #college