Thursday, April 23, 2009

As if this wasn't hard already...

Ball State seems to enjoy making it as hard as possible for me to start their nursing program...thoughts of transferring...again...have definitely crossed my mind but right now I'm too far into the process to go back.  The first big obstacle was convincing the director that I could handle clinicals....she tried putting me in the fall nursing class several times and each time I firmly said NO...I could do it this summer.  Then I find out that I need two classes as prerequisites for the fall that I have not taken...they waited until NOW to tell me this?  So I frantically went looking for online programs at BSU so I could get them done (way more expensive, but at least they'd be done).  BSU doesn't even offer one of the classes that I need during the summer...not online...not on campus.  SO...with my FRESHMAN advisor (because my nursing advisor is never of any help) I searched schools all over Indiana and Ohio for an online nutrition course that would satisfy the requirements for the course at Ball State.  I found one.  Phoenix University.  $1600 for one class.  So I signed up..it was my last option.  Now I can't get my nursing advisor to approve the class in a decent frame of time and I am now falling behind in the class at Phoenix because of it, and my chances to get my money back if it will not transfer are slowly drifting away with each passing day.  

Physically, the worst is over....but all this is actually proving to be more of a challenge than dealing with the pain in my leg ever was.

5 comments:

Charity said...

I feel your frustration, Marfin! Don't you sometimes wish God would just make it easy and lay out his 3-year plan for you in a dream, or spell it out in the clouds? :) He WILL show you - in HIS time, and He will work out every single detail according to His perfect plan. The way He's healed your leg is nothing short of a miracle and He's sovereign over your classes, too. Praying for you!

~~anna~~ said...

oh my! That does sound very annoying and frustrating. But as Charity said it is still the same God who has healed your leg that is also in control of your nursing classes.

Praying for more understanding on the part of the Nursing Advisor; also, contentment and wisdom on your part.

Is there a reason why you can't continue with the Phoenix course, even if you don't know if it will count? It's already paid for. If you're not going to get your money back, and it doesn't count, if you have this one completed, it will make another course on the same subject easier perhaps. Obviously not your plan A, but if ou can't get the $$$ back, it can't hurt you.

Anonymous said...

and don't forget, mom is ready and willing to march into that woman's office and help her see things a little more clearly.... :{

~~anna~~ said...

I say Go for it, dee! ~~with Marissa's permission, of course :^)

marissa finch said...

yes..go for it mom!