[TheLastChapter]

Today has just been awful for me. I found out that even though I have worked hard all semester to get a passing grade in my anatomy course, I got a 67% as a final grade. If I got 3% more I would have been able to go on and apply for nursing school in April. Even though I have passed all of my other classes with flying colors, I feel like a complete disappointment to everyone. I feel so worthless in the sense that if I cannot pass the basics of a nursing degree, then how in the world am I supposed to do something more with my life. It just seems like a stupid dream to me now. The worst part is, I know that I have disappointed my family. Especially my mother. Everyone knows that disapproving mom look. So for the past six hours or so that is the only look I get from my mother. Which does not help the situation at all. I now have to regroup and try to figure out what to do. Everything inside of me says to quit and give up. That I will never amount to anything in my life. But there is that one little whisper trying to get through to me saying that there might be a reason for me not passing it, even though it is the second time I have taken it. Maybe I am not meant to be a nurse. But the thing is, that voice is just a whisper and all the other worthless thoughts are basically screaming at me. I just want to make something of my life, but it looks like right know I am just a major failure that will never amount to anything.

[green0cake]

Listen to that small voice

You are not worthless... and never will be.

[Clara22]

You are not worthless

[Pastel Kitten]

I know you feel like you are the biggest failure, but honestly some people are just not good testers. That doesn't mean you are unintelligent. Tests are typically designed for your "average" person. They don't take into account different learning styles, which vary from person to person. I know this is obviously much different from your average high school exam but the same principle can still apply. I know it's hard, but try not to beat yourself up for it so much. You did your best and there are always more chances and more options out there.

[Cat_Lover_58]

True story, back in 1979 I enrolled in school to become an LPN. My mother went through the same school in '72 and got "Student of the Year" So...

It just was totally not me. I could do the class work, got average to good grades, but was a total wreck when it came to know what to do first in a clinical situation. Do I feed someone? Do I assist a patient to the bathroom? I had a ward of 4 and just froze...I was most definitely written up.

The finale, I quit within ONE week of graduation. I felt awful. I felt like I let my family down. I felt like a failure.

Knowing what I know now almost 35 years later, I would have made a lousy nurse. I enjoy people, but nursing is not my thing! And, looking back, I think I had some twisted competition going on with my mom. I was lost and thought I'd try being a nurse.

Do what's good and right for you. Don't think of yourself as a failure! Cat

[waterknob1234]

Listen to the little whispering voices, not the screaming negative ones. You are not a failure. Perhaps take a little time and see what works for YOU. You cannot go to school, study, and get into a career for your mother. You have to do what works for you.

Is there a career advisor at your school? If so, see that person and/or take a career aptitude test to see what you would enjoy doing and what you would be good at. That's a start.

I was like the person above. I went to nursing school and graduated but found it was not a proper fit. Everyone has a talent, gift, aptitude. The trick is finding that talent and developing it. We are all different. Some people are meant to be doctors, nurses, others teachers, others accountants, others computer workers, builders, craftsmen. That's what makes the world work. We all have different talents and put them to work. If we were all nurses who would teach and do all the other great stuff?

Don't give up on yourself. You are a special and beautiful person. You are not a failure.

[TryingToMoveForward]

If its just that course, its probably not you but the course material. Take it again. But this time get a tutor or join a study group (if you didn't before). I failed an Art History course, took it a second time with a tutor and got a 4.0. Never imagined that could possibly happen, but the tutor made it possible. Please don't give up because you failed on that one course. I bet you would make an amazing nurse. And honestly? Nursing school is TOUGH. My bf in grad school was a nursing major, and it was insane. That you've done as well as you have speaks volumes. I personally could never do it.

Don't give up.