What a great gift! Congrats on your accomplishment,Nursing school is very stressful.I always feel bad for the young girls I work with.
I have no clue bout the machine and can't imagine trying to decide lol. I did see a great looking Huskavarna/viking? at jo anns last week, it was about 1,000 bucks off till the end of the month,making it right at 1,000 I was very tempted.lol But For now I would rather buy other stuff like fabric, my old kenmore just chugs away, it is going on 30 lol, When I bought it ti was on the "fancy side, I have done no more than piece and occasionally zigzag something. it can do 30 diffrent sticthes and I have never even tried them so spending all that cash would be overkill for me.
I have been in nursing bout 30 years, aide, LPN,then RN, Currently in critical care .