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So after leaving the nest and heading off to college you are now responsible for yourself. There are some very important things you must to do stay healthy. They are eating healthy, getting enough sleep, exercising often and making sure you clean your clothes and room. Some good ways to eat healthy at Lewis is the great salads that are offered at both Charlie’s Place and the Courtyard Cafe. At every place you eat on campus their are healthy choices, just make sure most of the time you are picking the right foods that are good for your body.

All college students at one point will brag about the time they stayed up all night or how they go to bed a three in the morning. You should not follow in those foot steps so you should get the recommended 7 to 8 hours of sleep every night. In the end and after a long day of school it is great to get some school so that you are well rested for another long day.

Lewis offers a great Recreation Center that is filled with lots of activities such as the cardio room that has treadmills and ellipticals. The Rec Center also offers a very well equip weight room, and they also offer fitness classes that are run by very good teachers. The class come in a variety from Cardio Jam to Yoga. Along with working out the Recreation Center also offers many club teams and intramural sports. Sometime there is even open gym so if you wanna shoot the basketball around you can.

Living in a clean environment is always a good idea. Make sure you regularly wash your clothes. Lewis has washers and dryers in every dorm hall and it is free to use the facilities - you just need to bring your own laundry detergent. Also cleaning your room is a good way to stay healthy, vacuuming or sanitizing the surfaces of the room would help a ton.

Make sure as a college student you stay healthy it will only help you in the end!

Hey Guys!!!

As I stated in my welcome blog, I am a nursing major here at Lewis. I haven’t really written about my nursing experience before mostly becase I had not actually started classes that related to nursing as I was finishing most of my general education classes. But now that I have officially started them, I can share with you how the begining process of entering nursing classes goes and express my feelings about it.

The last week before finals first semester, the nursing department sent me and my peers a packet of information about preparing for classes and what needs to be completed, bought, and read before we returned for our second semester. I was a bit suprised at this because I really had no idea there was so much that that had to be done, and I was a little upset honestly because they were giving us all this information right before finals, and naturally I was already overwhelmed. We were told to buy many books (close to 15), and then were given the reading assignments for some of them, which were to be completed before classes started in January. We were also instructed to buy scrubs, shoes, and other fun nursing ‘toys’ for our labs. I was very excited about this part and went ‘shopping’ with my friends to get our stuff. A physical and TB tests were also required and needed to completed over break. Like I said before, I was a little upset that they didn’t give us this information earlier but was still very excited about the upcoming semester and the new classes and curriculum. I got everything completed and it really turned out to be fine.

The Friday before we were supposed to return for spring semester, the nursing department had all of the sophomore nursing students come back early for a Success Day where they talked about dos and don’ts for the upcoming semester. They also had a student panel talk about their experinces with their sophomore year. I was encouraged to buy a recorder to tape classes, which I had never done before, and given the syllabi for my classes. All of the professors were really nice and so caring. It was obvious that they really did want us to succeed. Though this was all very intimidating, I was still pretty excited to get into my classes. I left Success Day with mixed emotions, but was glad they offered it because it really did explain some important information.

My first day of class was fairly easy. One four hour theory class that will usually be a two hour lecture and two hour la, was all I had along with a Pathipysiology class. I realized that this was going to be OK when I was talking to a girl who transfered from a different college where she had teacher assistants who didn’t speak English teaching her classes of 500 students. I felt very releived that I had chosen Lewis when she told me this. For a first day, I really did not think it was all that bad.

I hope by including all this information in my blog, I don’t scare anyone who is thinking about nursing away but can give you a heads up on what to expect. I really am excited about my classes and look forward to many others that I have in the weeks to come. Clinicals will start in March, and that will be a whole different experience to write about. S, I hope that if you are thinking about nursing, you will be just as excited as I am and not let the scary stuff get to you. As people have been continuing to tell me, ‘It will be ok!’