Nursing Student needing advice/helpful thoughts

People will probably disagree with me, but I'd say go with your gut.

I'm so conflicted right now it is ridiculous. I basically went and talked to advisers and while I didn't exactly get talked into staying I was met with a weird response as far as I was concerned. They seemed shocked I was thinking about dropping out. I felt like I was breaking up with someone. It was just weird. So I stayed in and did well the rest of the semester. I pretty much told them I don't like class. I don't like the material nor do I understand it. I just don't feel like the class is geared to me. I am repeatedly going what do you want me to do in my head. Teach me what do. That is why I'm there.

I'm a type A perfectionist. I'm working on it. I think for the most part the teachers are pretty good.

HOWEVER, I (nor any of my classmates) shouldn't be seeing something for the first time when I'm doing my eval. where one thing causes me to fail the comp the flipping comp. I lost 2% points on my overall grade because I failed my first comp (still got an A so HA!). On my next clinical comp. I did not have the right supplies. The adjunct said I did. The adjunct was wrong. I went back in after they left and snapped a photo in case I was failed on it. I passed but I used the wrong thing. I talked to my main instructor after the end of the class and asked about it. She is the adjunct said I had the right supplies. I was like ok but I would swear in a court of law I didn't. I left out the part I have a photo proving I didn't have the right stuff. I'm a bit crass but I don't lie.

In training again. I have one professor tell me on thing and then the next professor tells me not to do it that way. So I'm getting flashbacks again to last semester. It's more the perfection level on some stuff which I get, but I've corrected errors on a few assignments. I'm very detailed oriented.

I just feel like some day if I'm borderline close to passing it is going to come down to a coin flip. I don't feel like I understand the tests, at least to the degree I want to understand them.

but if you truly don't like what you're doing, it's not worth it.

I don't like a nursing school. I've been told it is nothing like being a nurse. I've got a few weeks till the drop date. I just am not sure I see a future. I'm to old to packup shop while I'm employed at the gig I got. I'm also very discouraged everyone wants a BSN. I'm further discouraged my and another program I know of have now decided to not except credits over x numbers of year old if you are just starting out. So I'm like great. More pointless classes to get a BSN and they might not even except my old credits. So I'll be wasting more time taking bio 1xx which is laughable. My grad level stats won't transfer because I don't have the right stats. Not sure if I can argue that or not but for now it doesn't matter. A person I know had to argue with her BSN program to take calc because she didn't have whatever remedial math was required for the BSN.

I just don't get it. I'm frustrated. And more so than anything else I'm not enjoying class which is very disappointing to me. I'd never been so excited to start classes and instead of liking them I left not knowing what to think. Thanks for the input. Worst case I drop or flunk out. I'm so glad I didn't quit my job to purse this. I don't know. I'm just really lost right now.

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