Jennifer Vitti

Hi everyone,

Welcome to my first blog entry! This site was set up for me by my lovely boyfriend, Samm (Thanks Baybee!) so that I can tell you about my life… how vain of me!! But I promise to be entertaining. So feel free to read entries and leave me comments!

So first introductions. I am a 21-year old senior, Biochem major and Italian minor, at Skidmore College and am starting my last semester of college this Tuesday. It’s surreal. In just 4 short months I will be graduating from college!! Then comes the real world. My plans after graduation are to go straight into graduate school to become a pediatric nurse practitioner. I am wicked excited about my future plans and can’t wait to get to that part of my life. Now just one more semester…well and acceptance letters…stand in my way! I could hear from graduate schools as early as beginning next week. So yay for all of you who get to experience those ups and downs (hopefully mostly ups!!) with me as I get those letters. I applied to Northeastern, Mass General Hospital Institute for Health Professions, and Boston College. These are all direct entry programs and therefore I don’t need to have my RN license or a Bachelor’s in nursing. I will become an RN in about a year-to-a-year and a half into the programs (depending on which one I go to). My top choice right now is MGH, but I’d be ECSTATIC if I got accepted into any of them and would be very happy at all of them. Over the coming weeks and months I’m sure a lot of posts will be about Grad school, just because I’m so excited for it and it’s a huge step in my life. I know it’s going to be tough–I’ve never heard anyone say direct entry MSN programs are easy–but I still can’t wait. I know this is what I want to do with my life.

So yes I’m heading back to Skidmore tomorrow and we have Monday off for Martin Luther King Day and then classes start on Tuesday. I’m not thrilled to be going back (you can tell from my previous paragraph that I’m kinda ready to move on), but I’m ready for it to be over. Not to mention this semester is not going to be fun. I am taking SEVEN classes…that’s like unheard of. I am taking Statistics, Anatomy and Physiology II, Physical Chemistry II, Senior Seminar, Peer Health Educator, Italian Cinema, and Italian Language and Literature Discussion, for a whopping total of 18 credits. CRAZYYY!!! I also work for the Art History Department (I’ve never taken an Art History class in my life, the job is courtesy of my lovely old roommate Jack Quellin) 6 hours a week, babysitting once a month, and after spring break I will also be shadowing a pediatric np in Glens Falls. So this semester will be busy busy busy, but I’m up for the challenge.

Anyway…I’ll end the first post there! I’m hoping to be able to make a post a few times a week even if it’s sometimes a little shorter than this first one.

~love always~

Jen