where to go/what to do?

So right now I am starting the process of studying for my finals that I will have both this and next week. I am not too excited about it, but who ever is?
Next semester I will be transferring to the Nursing School here in Spokane run by WSU. That is exciting, but will be a TON of work.
Also I just got some news last week concerning my intrest in serving next summer w/ Mercy Ships. I applied to serve on the Africa Mercy Ship which will be on the coast of Ghana and Liberia next summer. However, since I don't yet have a degree in Nursing/medicine, the only medical work I could do is and Operation Room Sterilizer, but I just found out that there are no posistions open for that next summer on the ship I want. So now I have the option of working in the dining room or kitchen on the ship, and during my free time I could go help out in the wards on the ship. However I am realizing how large a time and financial commitment it would be for me to spend the summer serving there, and how it would put everything on hold here, such as housing for next school year, and I would not make any money. So I emailed back and said that I will give them a final answer in the beggining of January, because right now I don't have the time to sit down and think this through like I need to.
If I stayed in Spokane, I would try and find a job in a hospital, and if I couldn't then a job somewhere else, and also would have time to find a house.
In other news, a very close friend of mine, and an old room-mate is getting married in about two weeks, and I am going to be one of his groomsman. That is very exciting, but again it brings up the issue of how to be happy for someone else, yet not compare myself to him. Something I shall struggle with the rest of my life.