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[ocelot]

I really don't want to go back to school tomorrow. It's starting to hit me that, though I finished one semester, I have three more to go which are going to be more difficult than the first.

In one year I'll be done, which seems like both forever and no time whatsoever.

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[dymphna79.livejournal.com]

Unless it's common knowledge that at your school the later semesters are harder, because of the way it's structured... I would say for me and most people I've talked to from other schools, it was harder at the beginning--even in semesters where we were technically busier. Clinical stress definitely started to lessen after my first two semesters of clinical, and the academic work was less focused on memorization, perfection, etc. Lots of people failed out of my first semester, a few out of the second; after that, pretty much everyone did just fine.

[therealocelot.livejournal.com]

It's relatively accepted that third semester is the hardest, but opinions on the other semesters seems to vary. Some people do find the adjustment of first semester to be the hardest part. Hopefully that will be the case!

I'm feeling a little better today. It's become clear that my clinical instructor last semester was pushing us harder than was strictly necessary. Not necessarily a bad thing, because I'm not feeling completely intimidated by the changes (so far) this semester, but it did add extra anxiety last semester, when the rules were changed on us every time we started to get used to things.

Only one person (disregarding a person or two who dropped out within the first few days and were replaced from the alternates) didn't finish first semester. Everyone else passed. Apparently 49 of the original 55 in the class above us graduated. (That's a good thing about the program being so hospital-funded. They have a real interest in wanting us to succeed.)