Jennifer Vitti

So as I get ready for school I have started to pick up some suggestions from other nursing students. Some of them I’m going to give a try and some I have no interest in, which I think is fair. For example I will NOT be debinding my books because I think I would just feel too disorganized and I would hate to accidentally bring the wrong section to class or need more than one section. I also will NOT be getting a rolling back-pack. I have heard great things about these, but it is just not for me. I have a very simple over the shoulder backpack, which is fine to get around my little campus. Some things I did learn about that I am trying out and am a big fan: getting a little ID tag for my stethoscope (apparently these go missing quite a bit and no way do I want mine to if I spent $50 on it) and Microsoft OneNote.

Now I have only played around with Microsoft OneNote a little, but so far I am in LOVE with it. I set it all up for school already. First I have a little intro page with some Regis general info and my fall schedule. I also put some cute inspirational quotes on there for me because that’s the type of girl I am Then I set up different Tabs within the Regis Notebook for all my classes: Professional Nursing, Lab, Clinical, Health Assessment, and Clinical Pharmacology. I think I also have a to-do list tab as well. Then within these tabs you can make other tabs for individual assignments and such. I also like that you can click and write anywhere, you can make diagrams, and you can record while you take notes (although I probably won’t be using it for the last thing). My laptop is pretty monsterous and I use it more like a desktop computer, so I doubt I will be taking my laptop to classes (I’m more of a notebook + pencil kinda girl), but it will be great to come home and go over my notes and type them up and get organized within this program. That is how I will plan on using it–see how it works for me. Have any of you ever tried it? If you want to give it a try I think you just need the Microsoft 2007 package. It gives a nice tutorial if you want step-by-step instructions or you can just play with it–pretty easy to figure out as long as you’re familiar with Microsoft in general.  I will let you know how it ends up working for me once my classes start!

~love always~

Jen

p.s. 15 days until orientation!!