College is the best four years of your life. Well, that is if your major isn't nursing. Nursing school is one of the hardest undergraduate majors in the country. Programs are often difficult to get into and once accepted, they're difficult to stay into as well. If you've ever had the experience of being a nursing student, this struggle will be all too familiar. Here are a few things that all you nurses will be able to relate to.

1. The amount of work you had to do before your first semester started.

Blood titers? MMR? Flu shot? Eye exam? Physical? CPR Certification? Liability Insurance? Seven different facility orientations? But the semester didn't even start yet.

2. The first time you had a patient at clinical.

You will always remember the first patient you took care of. You'll remember their name, their face, their diagnosis and the entire backstory of their life that got them to the hospital/nursing home in the first place. However, one of the biggest thing you'll remember is how scared you were that your instructor was trusting you with someone's life for the first time.

3. When you realized nursing exams were not the same as regular exams.

"I've taken tests before, I'll study for a few hours before the test. It can't be that hard." Oh how naive we were our first semester. Between all the big words, trick questions and the dreaded "select all that apply" questions, you quickly learned that nursing exams were nothing to mess with and you were happy to get anything higher than a 65.

4. Explaining the grading to regular college students.

"Yes, I got a 68 on the test!" is not something you commonly hear in a liberal arts major, but for nursing students it can be a huge relief. Hey, it might not sound like the best grade, but when the class average on the test was a 43, you might as well celebrate.

5. The infamous all-nighter

All-nighters are typically performed by college students who spent the past week getting lit and forgot their project was due at 8 a.m. the next day, but for nursing students the all-nighter is a way of life. Staying up to the early hours in the morning trying to remember that last EKG pattern before the test. Yes, we've all been there.

6. When what the professor tells you what is going to be on the test vs. what is actually on the test doesn't add up.

Thanks, I studied hypothyroidism for three hours for one question but you neglected to say that cirrhosis was on the test and there were 35 questions on it. Wonderful!

7. Fluids and electrolytes.

One of the hardest topics for students to grasp is the concept of fluid and electrolyte balance. What was the potassium of the patient again? Is that high or low? What is the difference between a hypotonic and hypertonic solution? Even when you feel like you grasped the concept you'll still never know how to properly study for a fluid and electrolyte test.

8. When you didn't realize you signed up to learn a new language.

If you asked me a few years ago to "administer 500ml 0.9% NS Q4H PRN. Pt Hx FVD, DM, AFIB." I would have no idea what you were talking about, but after nursing school I already have the IV set up and the drip rate set and documented.

9. Nudity doesn't phase you anymore.

At this point you've seen more naked bodies than a pornographic website. You've become so used to seeing other people naked that absolutely nothing can phase you or make you uncomfortable

10. Care plans.

Only in nursing school are you required to type up an eight-page paper each week for a patient you cared for that includes their medications, care instructions, assessments, oh and their life story. You're basically required to learn an entire patients life story in a day. Gotta love Maslow.

11. You begin to relate more and more to Christina Yang

You've watched "Grey's Anatomy" for years and all of a sudden the sarcastic yet serious manner of Dr. Yang all makes sense now.

12. There is never a day where you get "enough sleep."

"Wow, I'm well rested" is something you will never hear a student nurse say. We're constantly deprived of sleep, whether it's waking up at 4 a.m. to get to clinical for a 12 hour shift or it's sitting through eight hours of class just to leave to study all night. This doesn't even include normal life tasks we have to do like eat or clean.

13. The mess that comes with another semester.

As a nursing student, you have to make sacrifices to your normal life in order to pass. One of these sacrifices is the lack of time to clean. Any nursing student who has a spotless car or has their house completely immaculate is clearly not human.

14. ATI.

If you thought nursing exams were hard in your medsurg or maternity courses, try taking an ATI exam. Whether you're struggling with trying to connect to the Internet, or forgot about the 24 hour lockout, ATI will always prove to be one of the most frustrating part of any nursing program.

15. No matter how much you complain about your major, you wouldn't change it for the world.

Come on, no other major will ever be as rewarding as nursing. That's the only reason we suck it up to begin with.