KevinMD June 22, 2023
I remember the day clearly – sitting in a convenience store parking lot after buying a pack of pencils on my way to my first day of nursing school. I had no idea what I was getting myself into. Or, perhaps more realistically, I had no idea how ill-prepared I really was. As a mediocre high school student who got by with the bare minimum, I was rudely awakened when faced with the realities of nursing school. During my first semester, I was placed on academic probation and was dismissed from the nursing program I was enrolled in until I improved my GPA and became eligible for readmission. In one semester, I managed to raise my GPA from 2.1 to...