Take a deep breath...

I just checked my pulse and it is going at a high rate of 110. Literally, I feel like one of those old school cartoons where the heart is pounding through the chest like 4 feet in a perfect heart shape (although since I am a soon to be nurse I am inclined to tell you all that that is in fact not the shape of an actual human heart!). I am thinking about the NCLEX and driving myself crazy. Tomorrow is the big day and I am scared out of my mind. The last few days have been nothing short of a cram session. I am relearning a lot and I think this is the first time in a year I have been excited and inspired about nursing care. My last year of nursing school was horrible and I started wondering if I would ever regain my passion again. Well I have and I am ready to put it to good use. (Now if only someone would hire me!)

I have learned a lot of rules that I think will be very helpful for me tomorrow. I am going to list a few that are fun:

1. If two answers say the same thing, neither is correct
2. If two answers are opposite, one of them is correct
3. Sesame Street Rule: "One of these things is not like the others; one of these just doesn't belong."
4. Right answers are different from wrong answers because they are right!

and

Three expectations I am not allowed to have:
1. Do not expect 75 questions (this is lowest amount we can have, the highest is 265which = expectation)
2. Do not expect to know everything
3. Do not expect everthing to go right

Phooey, I really want everything to go right, to know everything, and only 75 questions!!!! :)

I am pretty sure I am going to go in singing the sesame street rule.

I guess I should get back to studying, and then off to bed for me by 10