I love college!

Well, I finally am a college student! I am loving my classes so far! I know they'll probably get harder, but I really enjoy them! I'm even ahead of schedule with my English & Ethics classes! I am fully prepared too :) I had a weekly quiz in The Human Body yesterday and I got a 6/7, 85% which is a solid B, but I'd really like to get an A for the class, that would be awesome.

A little bit of a damper on my parade though... apparently UNH & the tech schools run a transfer program which usually, is a good thing...but not in my case. In order to transfer into UNH they like to see english comp, a science class with a lab, and a college level mathematics, and you cannot have a grade below a C.... none of which I will have! But I am a special case, which really no one gets! This is my first ever semester of college, so it would be like applying as a freshman... I'm still applying, although I probably won't get in. We'll see I guess. UNH is extremely competitive.

So really, I have a few routes here:

--I could apply to UNH for Fall 2010 and get in... then I would just take my freshman year there...more expensive, but it's easier to transfer into their nursing program (Fall 2011) if you already attend UNH.

--Or, I could continue on at Great Bay for a few semesters and apply to UNH for the Spring of 2011, by then I'd have my transfer admission requirements out of the way. And then just apply to transfer into their nursing program for Fall 2011

--Or, I could continue on at Great Bay and apply for their nursing program for Fall 2011. I would graduate in May 2013, and would have dual admissions to UNH to get my bachelor's degree.

I've come to the conclusion that it would take longer at Great Bay, but would be cheaper. UNH is 12k a year... that's a lot. And thats NOT including books & what not. If I were to go to Great Bay for Nursing, It would take 3 years to graduate, and another 2 years to get my BS in Nursing... so 5 years. Then I'd have Graduate school to attend, so theres another 2 years. And my Nurse Midwifery program is about 2 years... so theres 9 years. YIKES.

If I were to go to UNH to get my BSN, it would take 4 years to get my BSN, another 2 for my masters, and another 2 for my Nurse Midwifery program... so 8 years.

I continue to receive letters from the CNM's I wrote to, I think I've received 5 letters back...and about 5 that were "undeliverable"...that really bites! All of the Certfied Nurse Midwives I've hear back from were very nice, and told me to go to the ACNM website for more information. I shall do that.

Progress!

I cannot explain exactly HOW excited I am to start school! My American Studies teacher Erica sent this in an email yesterday, about her reccomending me to attend the University of New Hampshire (I've ALWAYS dreamed of going to UNH).

"Of COURSE I will recommend you. Wholeheartedly! Enthusiastically!"

That was the first email, I absolutely beamed! I sent her my resume that I made up and she sent this back...

" To be honest, I wrote a recommendation for you when you were in my American Studies class. I went back to that, cleaned it up, and informed admissions that you are one thousand times better than any student currently enrolled at UNH."

STILL BEAMING FROM THIS! I adore her, she is an awesome teacher! I actually won an award in her American Studies class, I had a solid A in her class :D

In other news... I emailed my two high school teachers that I sent evaluation forms to, Mrs. Hippern (Health) and Mrs. Stone (Geometry) asking if they had received my eval forms... Mrs. Hippern shipped her's off to UNH yesterday and Mrs. Stone said she would work on it this weekend :)

I need to get to my highschool to fill out some paperwork about requesting an official transcript and pay a dollar. I think I will do that tomorrow since its supposed to be a little warmer. That way my awesome guidance counselor from High School Mrs. Humphrey can fill out my forms and write a recommendation for me.

I also need to get a letter out to Mr. Little who taught my independent study in English 11 and pushed for me to take AP English 12. He has a lot of faith in me, and I'm glad he does :) So yeah, I need to get an eval form out to him to fill out. Still waiting to hear back from Dan Gordon (Upward Bound director) about my recommendation, but he has an in with UNH, so I'm sure he's on top of it :)

In current college news... I start in 5 days! I will be taking English, ethics, the Human Body and the Human Body lab. yesterday, my Human Body professor put a welcome message on blackboard for us and to explain how class will work. OMG, I am so excited! I picked up my books for my classes on tuesday annnnnnd... GOT A NEW LAPTOP! Our computer died last week and so my husband applied for a Best Buy card and we got a laptop for me :)

I'm in a state of Euphoria, I truley am. I need to get over this hurdle and get into UNH. After that, I can attend my "freshman" year and apply to transfer into their Nursing program. And I will be a graduate of the class of 2014!!!! Which sounds awful because I have friends who graduate THIS year :-/ But oh well :)

My fears about not getting into UNH

So lately I have been getting together references, evaluations, and my application ready for UNH. I recently found out that no matter what, I must apply as a transfer student... Gahhh. But oh well, I just have to fill out a different app & have 2 of my college professors submit forms for me. I'm still going to include my teacher evaluations because my college professors won't know me very well. And there's this stupid form I have to have the college rep fill out... The same my high school guidance counselor had to fill out... Except Mrs. Humphrey knows me extremely well and really wants me to get into UNH. And I'm worried that the college rep from GBCC won't give me a good reccomendation simply because they don't know me. What if thry sabotage it because they dont want to loose a student to UNH?? Im paranoid, can you tell? That means I really need to step it up a notch and work my ass off in my classes. I'll be taking three online classes, ethics, English comp and the human body (and the lab that goes with it). 11 credits total. I want to get into UNH incredibly bad. I am praying that the references from Dan, Erica, Mrs Humphrey and Sue will help. UNH is becoming a hard school to get into, but Dan and Erica have SERIOUS connections.



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