“You don’t have what it takes to be a nurse. You should seriously consider dropping out now.”
Ouch. Those words cut deep. I was at the end of my first semester of nursing clinicals, and those were the words spoken by the professor who was supervising my rotation. I cried. A lot. But, I did not let her wash me out of the program. I graduated three semesters later and passed nursing boards on my first try. I was 19 years old.
I was reminded of her biting comments on a recent thread on Twitter asked for people to share some of the awful comments made to them on their college work.