Jennifer Vitti

So I finished my classes. The beginning of this week was INSANE I had soooo many exams and papers and presentations I don’t know how I got through it all…but I did. Now I just have 1 paper and 3 finals left before I am done with school. Everything will be done by next Wednesday since senior grades are due on Thursday. It’s going by so fast…crazy, but thank goodness because I’m ready!

After my last class/exam on Wednesday I drove straight home, unpacked my car in like 5 minutes, and then drove to Regis where I attended their Ice Cream social they were holding for us. I had the best time. First we listened to a student who is finishing up her first year talk–she was really interesting and honest and gave me a great impression of first year. I can’t wait. Then we heard a couple of people talk about different things and what should we be expecting. So we should be getting Financial Aid stuff in a month or so, but it sounds like we all get the same amount, which I’ve heard from other schools too. It’s expensive though, but I already knew that. I got to talk to the woman about my summer class stuff (because turns out that I can’t go to “summer” orientation [note this is not for students starting in the fall it's just about people who need to finish up pre-reqs in the summer]) but it turned out to be no big deal, which was a relief. So that was for the first hour. Then for the second hour I ate icrecream and got to talk to the other students. They all seem really interesting and nice! I know it’s the beginning, but I really hope to make some great friends from this program. There were a lot of people who were easily 40-50+ in the group, which I was actually surprised, but that’s probably me being naive and coming from the younger end of the class (I actually might be THE youngest in the class because there are only 5 students who are graduating from college this year–everyone else graduated a while ago–and I’m at the younger end of my year anyway so it’s a definite possibility). There are also 6 guys…and I guess 54 girls since we have a class of 60. But yeah it was soooo great to talk to them and now be able to see some familiar faces at orientation (August 18) and the start of classes

Now I’m home working and studying. It’s been good to get away from school for a few days and give myself a break. I go back on Sunday.

I hope everyone is enjoying the updates to my blog. I added the “mini about me” section (that’s my senior portrait) and the Ask a question feature (Thanks Samm!). I still need to add the disclaimer. I have read a lot of blogs and was really questioning the lack of anonymity of mine. I mean come on the blog is my full name, you know what school I go to, etc. But I’ve read plenty of blogs that aren’t anonymous also. And mine is not going to be just a nursing student blog (although that is the trend and probably going to be a lot of my posts–as it will be a lot of my life!) it’s going to be about whatever I feel like discussing. But as mentioned in previous posts HIPAA and medical disclaimers are still important. So that should be coming soon (I haven’t started actually doing anything with patients obviously since I haven’t started school, so I have a while to get it up there, but that’s my next project). I want to make it clear that no clinical facilities will be named nor will the city/town where they are located and obviously no patient information will be given out per terms of HIPAA. Again I’ve also mentioned this, but I will also be changing little itty bitty creative things so that the individuals/facilities are unidentifiable–so if you think it’s you…trust me…it’s not!

So yay look forward to the disclaimer so I can stop talking about it and just have it there and feel comfortable about it. Also look forward to more frequent posts from me as I finish finals and graduate. This summer I will be working and taking classes for a few weeks, but it should be much more low key and should be able to blog more. Maybe I can actually start to get some loyal followers and !GASP! a comment or two?

Sorry for the rambling… I also think that after I start blogging more I won’t be trying to fit in SO MUCH randomness into each post.

~love always~

Jen