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    So....I HAVE to take a certain math class in the spring semester. If I do not take this class next semester, it will set my entire graduation back by a year. Because in order to get admitted into the bachelor's nursing prorgam, I must have all the pre requesites completed by a certain date for admission. I need a ton of math's and chemestrys, and they all ride on this math class. I can't get into any of the chemestry's withotu the math pre req. So it is vitally important I get into this stupid math class next semester.

    Unfortunatly, In order to get into thatmath class, I must have the pervious math class pre req. with a passing grade, which means I can't enroll in thatclass until final grades are erleased for thius sesmter. Well, my fears were recognized today. All of the math classes are full. My final grade for the math I'm in now hasn't been released yet, we just took the final today, but I know I passed the class with a B. None of that matters because I can't getinto the spring math class i need. I can't take just any math either, it has to be an online class, as none of the classes offered on campus fit the rest of my class schedule. All of the classes are full...and it's very hard to get accepted into a full online class. I emailed the instructos and the math department and begged them to accept me....But I am freakign out cause what if they don't??

    I will seriously drop out of college over thsi one dumb class. As it stands right now, I won't graduate from nursing until 2010. Because of all these damn stupid pre requesites. Nevada school system sucks ass. I didn't need all these pre reqs for nursing school in PA. Nevada requiers soo much extra stupid dumb ass shit. Like the US consititution. Why the fuck did I have to take a class on the US consitution for nursing school? So now, if I can't get ito 1 dumb ass class, I won't be graduating until 2011 because I can't get admitted until a year later than planned. So yeah. I'm already frustrated that i cant graduate until 2010. I erfuse to wait a whole extra year on top of that. Origionally, I planned on graduatign in 2009, but these stupid math pre reqs held me back a year, so that made it 2010. Now stupid math is gonna hold me back again until 2011?? No fuckign way. I'll drop out. This isn't suposed to be this fucking hard. I was already IN nrusing school, goddammit. It pisses me off I have to take all these dumb ass classes to begin with.

    so yeah. I'll fucking drop out before I am in college until I'm 30 fuckign years old. I started college at 18! This is getting absurd. I hate nevada. HATE IT. If they have such a fuckgn nursing shortage, then why the hell do they make it so damn hard to go to school for it??

    I wish I could just go back to PA and finish what I need to finish in less than half the time it's gonna take out here. I hate nevada. I hate las vegas and i hate the school system in nevada. And while I hate thigns. I also fuckign hate the fact that I have to pay $250 for 1 book, use it for 3 months, sell it back for only $50, and then they turn around and resell the fuckin book for anothe r$175. Hell of a profit. Colleges expolit poor college students so bad with book costs.

    I'm done.

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    Ok...breathe. IF you can't get into any of the online classes, is it a class you could possibly test out of? If not, what about taking it summer semester, that should keep you on track, right? If not, is there another class you're taking next semester that you could switch out for an on campus class? Or, if all else fails, can you take it at one of the community colleges as a concurrent enrollment class?

    There should be a way around this, it may not be easy, but it's doable. Don't freak out, and don't drop out of college. That won't help anything, it'll just make you more stressed.
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    ^ tried to test out, didn't score high enough. Checked all the other colleges, and they all have the same dumb ass pre requesite requirments. The stupidest thign is it's college algebra. I had to take 4 other classes just to get into college algebra, but luckily, I tested high enough to skip 3 of them. The dumb thing is I already took college algebra, back in PA. it didn't transfer here though.

    Summer won't keep me on track, if I dont get it spring, I'm screwed. I have all of the classes I need planned out for the 4 semesters, and I have to take each one on the planned semester or I will get set back a year. Also why I'm so anal about my grades, because I can't afford to flunk out of anythign, there is no time for retakes.

    vegas is ruining y life, in soo many ways. It's seriously trying to kill me, I swear. I wish Vegas would just get nuked. To hell with this fuckign city that I am stuck in.

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    ^^ What she said.

    But also-sell your school books on Amazon. And then use the money you get from that to buy the next semester's books off Amazon. They have A LOT of school books, even nursing ones. You might end up having to get some at the school bookstore, but it saves a lot of money. I spent less than $150 on my books last semester (okay, no math or sci, but those big lit anthologies and weird french texts can be expensive too!). You have to be a smidge responsible-sending your books out right away when someone buys them, etc, but it's easier than Ebay.

    And I feel you on the math pre-reqs. Because I switched from comm. college (where I took the placement test, passed, and took a semester of Statistics) to another school, I had to re-take the placement test. Now I have to take Algebra 2, for no credit.

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    Also, Kaylinn, it's likely someone will drop one of the maths and you can jump in their space. Happens here all the time. Or maybe you can get permission to get into one of the classes. If no one emails you back, bring your final grade to the math department people and plead your case. I have to do that sort of thing almost every semester.

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    ^^^That's good advice. Don't worry, if you're persistent you will get in. People drop classes all the time. Talk the professors teaching the class and explain your situation to them.

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    ^ That is good advice, I'm probably overreacting. If anything, once the classes start there will be some drops, so I can maybe ask them if they have any drops to call me first and allow me first chance to get in. I may have * slightly* overreacted. I'm just fed up with Vegas, and everythign about it right now.

    Also..i didn;t know I could sell the books on Amazon. That's awesome. I NEVERresell my books. I will let them sit in my garage and rot for the rest of my life before I resell a book to a college. It's such a rip off. I once had to pay $700 for a nursing book. That is extremly crazy. Well, it was a book that was used all though nursing, not just 1 emester, but still.

    the vending machines at the college. A pop tart is $1.75 out of the vending machine, but at a gas station, thery are only .50 cents. Don't colleges know students are poor? Why do they try to rip off poor kids?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kaylinn View Post
    ^
    Also..i didn;t know I could sell the books on Amazon. That's awesome. I NEVERresell my books. I will let them sit in my garage and rot for the rest of my life before I resell a book to a college. It's such a rip off. I once had to pay $700 for a nursing book. That is extremly crazy. Well, it was a book that was used all though nursing, not just 1 emester, but still.
    Yeah, I was sooo happy when tried doing that one year. It seemed like every freaking semester they would come out with new editions and weren't buying the old ones back. I had FOUR years worth of books and listed them all. Sold them all too!

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    Oh damn. Yeah, schol won't buyback outdated editions. That was another bitch I had, LOL. How hard it is to even buy used books because they bring out new editions every semester.

    Hm. I realy wish still had all my old nursing books. i would list those. To bad they got lost when I moved. I will have to list all my books on amazon from now on. Thanks!

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    If you could seriously finish school in half the time in PA...would it be worth it to move? At least temporarily, until you finish your degree? Especially if you hate Vegas. What's keeping you there?

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    ^ My bf and his job. I can't leave.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kaylinn View Post
    Oh damn. Yeah, schol won't buyback outdated editions. That was another bitch I had, LOL. How hard it is to even buy used books because they bring out new editions every semester.

    Hm. I realy wish still had all my old nursing books. i would list those. To bad they got lost when I moved. I will have to list all my books on amazon from now on. Thanks!
    Sometimes Amazon doesn't have the newer editions, but usually they do, and for less. You can even sell your stuff and request to be paid with Amazon gc's, so you can buy your own stuff sooner (money into account takes longer). I need to list the rest of my school books now!

    As for the poptarts and stuff-yeah they do know! They still want every penny, If I had a meal plan, it would be something like $7.50-10.00 a meal! I'd rather carry around a bag with my sammich in it! For $7.50 you can pack a hell of a lunch!

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    Aw, Kaylinn, I'm with ya. Schools are making it so hard to get through the program. I (finally) have all my prereqs and there's no room in the upper divisions AND all three classes I desperately need are scheduled for the same time slot. Wtf? All that and the biggest tuition increase in history. I just want it to be over.

    You can't give up hope, though. Even if it does take until 2010 for us to get through this, it'll be over! I would rather take years to get it done than have it hang over my head for another decade.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hardkandee View Post
    Aw, Kaylinn, I'm with ya. Schools are making it so hard to get through the program. I (finally) have all my prereqs and there's no room in the upper divisions AND all three classes I desperately need are scheduled for the same time slot. Wtf?
    WHY is that? All the classes in a department are at the same three times. Once, I was told by the French department that two classes were supposed to be taken together. Oh yeah? So why are they scheduled at the same time on two different campuses then?

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    ^I really don't understand it. It's so unbelievably difficult to get things done lately. So I'm supposed to get one class a semester and take an extra year an a half for three lousy classes? Ha, my advisor just told me to sign up for a second minor. Yeah, thanks. I'd like to eventually leave school one day.



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    Quote Originally Posted by hardkandee View Post
    ^I really don't understand it. It's so unbelievably difficult to get things done lately. So I'm supposed to get one class a semester and take an extra year an a half for three lousy classes? Ha, my advisor just told me to sign up for a second minor. Yeah, thanks. I'd like to eventually leave school one day.
    Haha, yeah. That's how it goes. I reaaaallly wanted to do a certain minor, but they never have enough classes-maybe 6 a semester. Maybe. All at the same time. As it is, I have 5 classes on Tuesdays 9 am to 9 pm, with 2 breaks. Because all the classes are Tues/Thurs or Tues/Fri.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hardkandee View Post
    Aw, Kaylinn, I'm with ya. Schools are making it so hard to get through the program. I (finally) have all my prereqs and there's no room in the upper divisions AND all three classes I desperately need are scheduled for the same time slot. Wtf? All that and the biggest tuition increase in history. I just want it to be over.

    You can't give up hope, though. Even if it does take until 2010 for us to get through this, it'll be over! I would rather take years to get it done than have it hang over my head for another decade.

    If you need to talk, pm me.

    Grrr. See, that's why I need to take this math online instead of in a classroom. It was incredibly difficult for me to schedule all of my classes this semester, and the math just isn't offered at a time I am able to take it. My schedule for spring is class only Mon and wed. from 10am-8pm. That was the only possible schedule that i could getall my classes in, but math just wouldn't fit. math was only offered wither mon-fri or mon and wed. for 3 hours. Neither of those work.
    Fuck college. I love learning, I love being in school, I hate the way colleges are set up. I wish I could take everything online. I took my first distance ed class this semester, and I loved it. Yeah, it's harder and requires more mork, but I love doing it on my own time, when I want. That's theonly class I got an A in. The rest, it turns out, I finished with B's.

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    I hated school too. Well if you move to PA we can be one state away from each other again.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kaylinn View Post
    So....I HAVE to take a certain math class in the spring semester. If I do not take this class next semester, it will set my entire graduation back by a year. Because in order to get admitted into the bachelor's nursing prorgam, I must have all the pre requesites completed by a certain date for admission. I need a ton of math's and chemestrys, and they all ride on this math class. I can't get into any of the chemestry's withotu the math pre req. So it is vitally important I get into this stupid math class next semester.

    Unfortunatly, In order to get into thatmath class, I must have the pervious math class pre req. with a passing grade, which means I can't enroll in thatclass until final grades are erleased for thius sesmter. Well, my fears were recognized today. All of the math classes are full. My final grade for the math I'm in now hasn't been released yet, we just took the final today, but I know I passed the class with a B. None of that matters because I can't getinto the spring math class i need. I can't take just any math either, it has to be an online class, as none of the classes offered on campus fit the rest of my class schedule. All of the classes are full...and it's very hard to get accepted into a full online class. I emailed the instructos and the math department and begged them to accept me....But I am freakign out cause what if they don't??

    I will seriously drop out of college over thsi one dumb class. As it stands right now, I won't graduate from nursing until 2010. Because of all these damn stupid pre requesites. Nevada school system sucks ass. I didn't need all these pre reqs for nursing school in PA. Nevada requiers soo much extra stupid dumb ass shit. Like the US consititution. Why the fuck did I have to take a class on the US consitution for nursing school? So now, if I can't get ito 1 dumb ass class, I won't be graduating until 2011 because I can't get admitted until a year later than planned. So yeah. I'm already frustrated that i cant graduate until 2010. I erfuse to wait a whole extra year on top of that. Origionally, I planned on graduatign in 2009, but these stupid math pre reqs held me back a year, so that made it 2010. Now stupid math is gonna hold me back again until 2011?? No fuckign way. I'll drop out. This isn't suposed to be this fucking hard. I was already IN nrusing school, goddammit. It pisses me off I have to take all these dumb ass classes to begin with.

    so yeah. I'll fucking drop out before I am in college until I'm 30 fuckign years old. I started college at 18! This is getting absurd. I hate nevada. HATE IT. If they have such a fuckgn nursing shortage, then why the hell do they make it so damn hard to go to school for it??

    I wish I could just go back to PA and finish what I need to finish in less than half the time it's gonna take out here. I hate nevada. I hate las vegas and i hate the school system in nevada. And while I hate thigns. I also fuckign hate the fact that I have to pay $250 for 1 book, use it for 3 months, sell it back for only $50, and then they turn around and resell the fuckin book for anothe r$175. Hell of a profit. Colleges expolit poor college students so bad with book costs.

    I'm done.
    um..what kind of shitty school system are they running?

    in most schools registration for classes begin roughly a month before classes end. This means that you have a seat safe for you until your final grade is determined.

    honestly, I'd just go talk to a counselor because that simply doesn't make sense

    If there is no time, then wait until the last minute for registration. Some students will get dropped for not paying.

    ..they do offer online registration don't they?


    also don't drop out of college..college algebra doesn't even begin to scratch the surface

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    ^ Yep. I registered for all my other classes abotu a month ago, but for any class that has a pre req, you have to wait to register until after your grade is released. which means there's a good chance the class is full. I talked to a counselor and even got a note from my math teacher saying my grades were good, and I would probably pass with a high enough grade for the pre req, but that wasn't good enough. They can't admit you until final grades are erleased.

    They told me today wait until the purge date ( when the kids who haven't paid get kicked out) probably have an opening then.

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    K, don't drop nursing, even if you have to wait until 2011. Think about it this way: nursing will take you anywhere in the world you want to go

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    If you've already put yourself on the wait list by emailing the teacher(s), you should be fine... you'll be top priority if you even need to crash. If your school does the online registration, just keep checking it.

    Don't drop out of school because of one silly year! I had to pay $1,500 because I was short one class... and it took me that extra semester... but you can't just let all that work be for nothing!
    If you think school is hard, try being stupid.

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    Quote Originally Posted by muhuwahaha View Post
    um..what kind of shitty school system are they running?

    in most schools registration for classes begin roughly a month before classes end. This means that you have a seat safe for you until your final grade is determined.

    honestly, I'd just go talk to a counselor because that simply doesn't make sense

    If there is no time, then wait until the last minute for registration. Some students will get dropped for not paying.

    ..they do offer online registration don't they?


    also don't drop out of college..college algebra doesn't even begin to scratch the surface
    My university does all online registration and I had to register the second week in October. I've already forgotten what I've signed up for. And yes, all classes are full, full, full.



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    Are you at CSN or UNLV? CSN took forever to review my transcripts but finally accepted my College Algebra credit from Chicago. How long ago did you submit your transcripts? It took them way longer than the 6 weeks they claimed to give me the ok to take a higher math class.

    I was just looking in the CSN class schedule & it says for the math placement test "scores are good for one year; tests can be taken every four months." That does apply to new students, but the second part of that phrase makes me think that you can take it again. Call & see if you can take the placement test again.

    You mentioned that you lost some of your books. I also keep all of my textbooks because I refuse to sell them back for so much less than I paid. So I still have my College Algebra book. If you wanna borrow it so you can do some reviewing & take the placement test again, let me know. I'm in the area.

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    ^ Thanks. Unfortunatly, I submittied my transcripts 2 years ago. Some credits just did not transfer. This math, A&P 1 & a general biology all need to be retaken. My placement test was taken 2 years ago as well, but when this fiasco started, I retook them, I apparently scored to low to test out tho. Their placement test seems to be set rediculously high to me. I also for the hell of it took the eng. placement test and apparently etsted into an eng 100 class. I said that's funny, cause I'm currently in an eng 102. Ad I KNOW my english is strong. Math may not be so strong, but my eng. is strong. The placement test can only be taken every 4 months, and since I just retook it a week ago, I have to wait another 4 months to try again....
    CSN sucks ass.

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