In this monologue, the speaker warns nursing students that unconscious comparison with peers can lead to harsh self‑judgment and distraction. She explains that nursing school moves at a breakneck pace, and falling behind quickly spirals into extra workload, heightened stress, and anxiety because the material must be mastered in a short time. To avoid this trap, she recommends a steady, daily study habit rather than intermittent cramming, noting that consistent small study sessions helped her stay on track and reduce overwhelm.
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So if you find yourself getting distracted, it might actually be a comparison problem when you're like, maybe just unconsciously looking at other people and being more hard on yourself than maybe you realize. I know that that has been the case for me, so just might be something to think about now. The next thing that I wish that I had been more prepared for when I started nursing school and even when I was going through the program, because every term is different, is that getting behind will absolutely take. Take you out. Like, you cannot get behind in nursing school. Nursing school is so fast. There is so much information that you have to learn in such a short period of time. So if you get behind, if you take a few days off from studying, then you have to play the catch up game, right? So it's like double the effort that you have to put in over the next few weeks, but that's double the effort on top of everything else that you had to do. On top of that, you have like the stress and the overwhelming anxiety that can go on top of it because you are behind. So it just makes everything worse. Like when you, when you get behind, you still have to make up that work and catch up with your studying or your assignments or whatever, but you also have the stress, like all that added stress on top of it, not worth it. So really, here's my recommendation. I tried to study a little bit every day in nursing school and that honestly worked well for me.
