hang out with them - I shouldn't feel like I need to justify my particular reasons for not going out as much as a normal college student would, but I think it's important to let people know where I stand.
I think it started when I was looking at a group of college student stereotypes on Facebook - "Summary of 99% of the people you will ever meet in college." Now, most of you know that I'm taking my prerequisites to get into nursing right now, so when I saw "Nursing Student" on the list, I was interested in seeing what it had to say. I was a little surprised to see this:
OMG BUSY! These girls (invariably) are incredibly busy with their nursing school workload. Despite this, they get shit faced constantly with their fellow nursing school students, only to wake up at 5am for their OB rotation. Often incredibly attractive, these girls typically are still attached to the same guy they knew in high school, who they will marry.
Incredibly busy? Check. Marrying highschool sweetheart? Check. Attractive? Hopefully, check. Get shit-faced constantly -
Hold on a minute there.
I paused to think, and I realized that it was true. A lot of the people who share my major like to get out, party, drink until they have more alcohol than blood in their bodies.
And then I realized how absolutely STUPID that is.
I mean, honestly - being a nurse means taking a position in the medical field. It means you're taking responsibility for other people's health and well-being. How can you expect to do that for either people for a living when you can't even do it for yourself? And don't think I'm being a hypocrite who does it too - I don't smoke, and I only drink at family events/special occasions, if ever. I don't drink socially, and I don't drink in large amounts. I have no tolerance to it, and I don't want to develop any tolerance, either. You can call me a goodie-goodie, but I'm doing what makes me happy.
Now, don't think that I'm saying that nursing students who like to party and have a good time are bad people - but the ones who smoke and drink, in my honest and humble opinion, shouldn't be nurses. I don't know, maybe some people can rationalize it and justify it, but personally, it just seems wrong to me. You're studying to be a nurse, meaning you should already be learning and practicing skills that the profession requires: responsibility, health-consciousness, and the like. It's just disappointing - I wouldn't trust someone who acted that way as a nursing student with a sick or injured patient's life.
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