Letters and Voodoo Dolls

This week was kind of a rollar coaster when it comes to nursing school applications. It seems like that is all I ever talk about anymore. I think my mother and I have not had a phone conversation since November that has not centered or somehow gotten to a discussion of my stressing about nursing school.
So last Wednesday I got a email from Johns Hopkins letting me know that they were missing 2 parts of the 5 parts of my application. I freaked of course and did everything I could to fix things. But I was freaked out and tried to email to get an idea of what was really going on. This was followed a few days later with another email...since I hadn't had a reply from the first. This one also went unanswered. So I tried to call....its much harder to ignore a person on a phone than in a computer. Apparently this is not the case with Johns Hopkins. Though the person I wanted to talk to was in the office, they couldn't take phone calls and I needed to email...though I had. So I was given another person to email.

So during this frustration I got a letter in the mail....containing my current two favorite words... Congratulations and accepted! Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions was "impressed with my credentials and is confident that [I] have the potential to make significant contributions to both MGH Institute of Health Professions and to the nursing profession at large"
BEST ACCEPTANCE LETTER EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So at this point I was 3 for 3...still waiting on number 4. But number four was giving me fits! There is a lady in our home ward that my mom is good friends with that sometimes jokes about making voodoo dolls of those she is angry or frustrated with. And I was sooooo ready to give her a call and have her make me one for the admissions office of the Johns Hopkins school of nursing!!!!

So the next day I sent a very long email to my new contact at the admissions office. It was full of concern and anxiety...and I told my whole story from the beginning....literally I went back to my senior year when I first wanted to go to this school.
A few hours later I checked my email again....and found a very apologetic email. Thank goodness I did not ahve that voodoo doll made :).

So I am still waiting to hear from them...but at least I know that they are at least going to consider me! And that I obviously have made the cut enough to be considered and contacted. So now it is all just up to fate....or the admission counselors....or someone.

I am Actually Gonna Do It....YIKES!

So it is official...I am going to be a nurse!

I have been accepted into the Barnes Jewish Hospital Goldfarb School of Nursing in St Louis MO as well as Missouri University's Sinclair School of Nursing in Columbia MO.

I am still waiting to hear back from two other schools, but I have two possibilities....so no matter what really...I am going to be a nurse.

Its a really comforting feeling this fact. I have wanted to be a nurse, pretty much since I was 15 years old. I have wobbled back and forth with other professions; doctor, lawyer, therapist, public relations or advertising, politics and public policy, early childhood education, even photography. But even while I considered all of these other careers, nursing was in the back of my mind. They all came and went....but nursing stayed.
And now I have an opportunity to finally fulfill that dream. It only took me 7 years to get it together..and then it will take another year to get it done............but I'm gonna do it!

Better keep your kids healthy...cause pretty soon you are going to be putting them into my "capable" hands! ;)