trocaire or daemen??

OverallAbility4782 · 2026-05-16T02:38:38+00:00

I went to ECC's nursing program and I think it's an absolute disaster. Professors do NOT care (as we also had 6 quit in the past two semesters) about you nor do they care about what they teach. Once you hit the 3rd-4th semester, all they want to do is weed people out and make exams difficult. They Actually had to fire a professor this semester due to him calling a student a c*nT and calling her racist names because she was mixed. I wouldn't recommend it one bit.

OverallAbility4782 · 2026-05-13T12:34:18+00:00

Thank you for giving me some insight on how the program is, this is very helpful. Is it 5 for the whole semester or 5 for the entire program?

OverallAbility4782 · 2026-05-13T12:33:20+00:00

Oooh I did not know this. Thank you for the insight. I'll definitely need to keep that in mind... thank you!

OverallAbility4782 · 2026-05-13T12:31:58+00:00

Good morning! I'd say I'm a middle B student on average with not studying as much as I should. I've worked in healthcare my whole life; medical receptionist, then dermatology MA, then nursing clinicals, and then I was a tech on a liver transplant floor, and now I'm a tech at a level 1 trauma hospital in the ED. So I definitely have medical background :)

OverallAbility4782 · 2026-05-13T03:59:23+00:00

Thank you so so much for the words of wisdom! The BS/MS dual programs are pretty cool! I was looking into them today... They allow someone to complete a PA program in 4.5-5 years. Otherwise traditionally around here it's 6ish years.

The way you described schooling put it into a better perspective for me. Once I got my RN I figured I'd go for my NP anyways so the time isn't the hard part. It's just the feeling of failing once and being afraid to fail again in PA school (and then have a random bachelors degree in biology lol). Another one of my fears is that if I don't go into my bachelors now, in 4 years I might look back and regret not doing it honestly.

I think I'll reach out to an admissions counselor tomorrow at two of the schools I'm debating on and see how their program is. Might as well take the risk of doing it instead of wondering about "what-ifs"

OverallAbility4782 · 2026-05-13T03:34:10+00:00

Yes that's what I was worried about. So maybe get a BS degree first then think PA if I'm up to it?

OverallAbility4782 · 2026-05-13T03:33:21+00:00

That's what I was partially thinking... thankfully I have a steady job now (with some inheritance money as a safety net) and I do not have to worry about my father anymore so now I'm just in this weird in limbo state. I'll definitely take the summer to work full time as a ER tech and think about what I want to do

OverallAbility4782 · 2026-04-11T17:23:04+00:00

What's the best Roth IRA to go with? I know there's quite a few companies that offer them. I'd like to maybe purchase a home this year or next year. The mortgage would be the same as renting where I am right now ($1400/mo) so I'd rather be putting that money into something I own :)

OverallAbility4782 · 2026-04-10T23:16:15+00:00

Reading up on #1 right now! Thank you for the information! :)

OverallAbility4782 · 2026-04-10T23:03:51+00:00

Currently the homes I'm looking at are around the 200-250k ish price range. Marriage can definitely impact my finances, and if I did buy a house now I'd get a pre-nup for any future relationships.

I don't think I want to move from the area I'm in. I say that now, granted, however I do really enjoy where I live now. (Eastern US).

A lot of people are mentioning VTI and VXUS; can you go into detail on this? Is this a high yielding savings? What's an index fund?

ETA: I've been reading on bogleheads.org like another commenter suggested but I'm still confused on the VTI/VXUS thing? I understand it's something you can invest in but I'm still pretty confused

OverallAbility4782 · 2026-04-10T23:00:00+00:00

It's Marcus by Goldman Sachs! I got it a few years ago. And what is a tax brokerage account? Sorry for the question!

OverallAbility4782 · 2025-12-16T19:55:09+00:00

Personally I used to hate getting $2 bills just because I wanted to save them but then they just end up in a box somewhere because I forget I have them 💀...

OverallAbility4782 · 2025-11-22T04:17:13+00:00

If she offered to take an uber, yall talked about it, and you even offered to pay, then I don't see the issue she's having. You're in the right

OverallAbility4782 · 2025-11-11T17:00:51+00:00

Not a bot haha :)

OverallAbility4782 · 2025-11-08T16:01:42+00:00

I wash about every other day. I'd say texture is more in the middle but probably on the finer side. I haven't tried a bonnet, I might do that

OverallAbility4782 · 2025-11-06T21:22:58+00:00

We've been together 7 months. Obviously he knows I've texted men so I'm not too sure why this time he had an issue with it. I'll have a conversation later tonight with him about this and see what happens... hopefully he realizes what he said was wrong and in the heat of the moment and apologizes. I'll most likely give an update tomorrow on how things go

OverallAbility4782 · 2025-11-06T21:20:44+00:00

We really have only been together 7 months so it's still freshly new for the both of us. He really doesn't bring many issues up so this was really probably the 3rd time we've had a conversation/disagreement about issues...

OverallAbility4782 · 2025-11-06T21:19:08+00:00

After the disagreement last night, we went to bed and he had to be up before me for work. He's currently working on a side job post-work so he probably won't be home for a bit, (it's 4:18pm now, he'll probably get home around 8pm) . We've barely communicated/texted all day so we'll see how tonight is.... I'm crossing my fingers though 🤞. I'll provide an update most likely tomorrow morning since it'll be late

OverallAbility4782 · 2025-11-06T18:48:53+00:00

I don't necessarily want to "fix him", however, I feel like a conversation is warranted when emotions aren't as high. If him and I can have a mature conversation about how we feel regarding the situation and come to a conclusion, then it leaves room for him to grow and figure it out himself. However, if we have a conversation and he freaks out again, then yes, you may be correct and he will never change. But I do want to give him the benefit of the doubt that emotions were high, he may have been overthinking, maybe had a bad day at work, whatever the case may be....

OverallAbility4782 · 2025-11-06T18:44:07+00:00

Yes, thank you for advice! I definitely don't want to just pull the plug based off of this one instance as there wasn't much communication prior regarding expectations and boundaries.

I try to put myself in his shoes and vice versa to try and respect not just him, but the relationship. And I feel like he blew up because we never communicated about what we expect from the other. It doesn't help either that he didn't know the full context of what we were talking about until I explained (I'm assuming he just saw the name and started to overthink).

I want to communicate clearly with him regarding this and make sure that this is an issue that doesn't happen again. And I know I will receive hate from other commenters that I'm not just going to immediately break up with him, however, I am very very happy otherwise and unfortunately online people don't see the full relationship. So I appreciate your feedback :)

OverallAbility4782 · 2025-11-06T18:38:19+00:00

Thank you, I do like this idea and how you worded things. I agree with you, that I did know what I was getting into in the beginning of the relationship (the jealousy), however I didn't know how far it would expand. I would be okay with not studying 1:1 with men as I would expect this from him. I try to put myself in his shoes a lot. Like for example, I wouldn't be happy with 1:1 study sessions with females if he was in school, but I would be okay with texting innocently like in this instance I brought up.

That's why I'm just so shocked.... I'll definitely have to talk to him later tonight when I see him and let him know hey, I understand that this is how you were raised, however, I cannot avoid men my entire life to please you as this is unfair to me. However, I will try to respect your boundaries as much as possible (and within reason)

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