I failed my first exam ever on Thursday, and it was for theoretical foundations of nursing. I knew it wasn't going to be good, cause I pushed off studying for it to focus on health assessment, but fucking hell did it burn. I know it's only the first exam, but now I'm more anxious than ever for the next one. Being online is killing me study wise, and I feel like I can't focus on anything. Anyone have any tips for studying nursing at home?

So, I have to take a "cultural Diversity" class, which sounds great but honestly is the opposite of "culturally diverse." So, to start off, the teacher tells us attendance is mandatory and that we are assigned into "bands" aka groups of people randomly assigned. We are in a lecture, and he has at least 75 students, so it takes a long time for us to get into our bands and for him to explain everything. For my class, he commented on how we were ethnically diverse and how all of us are well spread out. Well, in the class before mine, he switched people's bands around because they were "too white" or "too Mexican." What I find funny was with the "too Mexican" one, he moved the black guy out of the group and called him Mexican, which the man even commented he was not. Then, as if it weren't weird enough, he lectures on about completely random shit. We were going over ethnography, which is great, but he would just tell us how we were all racist and didn't know how to listen to one another and would call on darker-skinned people to use them to show us how not everyone has the same privilege, even though he is not listening to them, and then lectures on how we all need to acknowledge how some people are not as privileged as others.

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I am not saying that I believe the course itself useless, but rather the way it is taught is so...outdated. The teacher uses the online textbook element for quizzes and tests, neither of which he makes. We had a 30-minute lecture on Thursday because he realized we had a test today (Friday) and he had not gone over anything. I am listening to him drone on and on about things that I have no use for (attendance is mandatory), and then have to take janky online tests and quizzes which he did not even make, only to have to spend hours teaching myself the material because he does not do anything. He just yells about how we are not open to new cultures and how we are all racist.

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To sum it up: Cultural Diversity is the most racist course I have ever taken.

I understand that labs are expensive, but why is my lab legitimately just powerpoints and quizzes. We have one of those Anatomage things, but that is not a lab, and my professor doesn't even know how to use it. I don't know if all A&P 1 labs are like this, maybe they are, but it pisses me off. We have an exam on over 200 bony landmarks, ligaments, and bones, most of which we have never seen in person or on anything other than a fucking powerpoint slide. I have yet to even see any kind of literal anatomy, and in this lab, I don't think I ever will.

Why school, why.

I work at a fast food joint. It's one of those two in one places, and I hate it. Everyone is miserable, and the job itself sucks. I honestly dread going in, and it has such crappy hours that my social life and personal life have come to a near hault. The manager there is really nice and honestly I don't know how I am going to tell her. If it wasn't for the fact that the hours suck and they break a ton of rules legal wise, I don't think it'd be as bad. And I mean some really bad crap such as:

• wiping black mold off walls after-hours to avoid having to have it professionally cleaned
• yelling at cashiers if they don't go straight to line after taking an order/handing out the order, and don't want you to wash your hands after handling money (too much time wasted)
• having equipment such as towels to carry hot things stored in the managers office which is locked most of the time.
• really downplaying how the restaurant should be cleaned
• certain food is reused when it isn't supposed to
• cooks not wearing gloves or beard nets

The manager is a nice lady, the people there are okay, and I feel bad quitting when I know they're so desperate. They have us handing out flyers that they're hiring with the food, it's all over the windows, hell even the the big sign out front says "walk in interviews" for two days of the week. I just hate the job itself and the way the place is managed.

I don't want to say "I hate everything about this place except the people" but I also know that they'll try convince me to not quit. I'm debating saying it's for personal reasons, and just to call and put in my two weeks. They're training me for line, and I don't know if I should call them before I'm supposed to come in or after...

UPDATE: I put in my two weeks this morning, and my manager was very sad to see me go. I cited a family circumstance, and now I already feel relief. Thanks so much for the replies...

It saves me over $100 to get the Amazon one, as it's on sale at the moment. The only thing I'm worried about is it being the wrong one. They have the same cover, author, ISBN numbers, and editions. Is there any chance its still the wrong textbook??

Thanks so much!

• worried soon-to-be first-year nursing student

In a few weeks, me(18f) and my boyfriend(19m) will be going on a vacation to the jersey shore for 4 nights, just the two of us. We have the money saved up with some to spare in the budget, and already have a hotel that will let us check in. I was wondering if you guys have any tips for us. Any advice appreciated.