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Bumping this thread up...surely there are more things to say now that most of you have spent at least a week in classes...
Hope everyone's having fun!!!
Hope everyone's having fun!!!
Y'all get to do rotations your first year?
tonight everyone in my class is going out to the bar with their big sibs, but i can't go because i'm not 21 and the bars around here won't let me in. so that sucks =\
Our first week at Illinois was pretty interesting, and we all had quite different experiences. My first rotation was Farm Animal Husbandry and Techniques so we got to do physical exams on goats, cows, horses and sheep. They taught us how to draw blood from pigs and cows, and we even got to do the infamous rectal palpations-in our first week! We got to be involved in seeing some cases that came into the large animal teaching hospital. pretty exciting stuff. i'm digging the new Illinois curriculum so far. my next rotation is Ophthamology, and so you have an idea..my other class mates are in rotations like:
Diagnostics, Oncology, Imaging, SUrgical skills, anesthesia, equine medicine and surgery, exotic pet management, rehabilitation medicine, small animal ER, dentistry and wildlife medicine, to name just a few.
Had a party on Monday, Wednesday was initiation/hazing night for the first years, and Friday was Beer Night (burger + all-you-can-drink beer for $4 from 8-10pm), but I was kinda partied out by Friday so I didn't go.
I know how that feels. I don't mind not being able to buy alcohol, but I find it a little frustrating that my age prevents me from joining in on some social events. How about trying to initiate gatherings in other venues? Dog playgroups at the park are always fun.
Dog playgroups at the park are always fun.
completely agreed. I'm the youngest one in my class and I knew it would be a problem coming in, but I thought that I would just deal with it for the first semester (I turn 21 February 1...not that i'm counting down or anything.) but at this point, i feel like i'm really missing out on making friends and that everyone is going to already have found people to hang with by the time classes start on monday =\
i know i'm probably over-reacting, but for the past 3-4 nights people have been going out to the bars and i've been at home by myself.
oh well. i would love to do a dog playgroup at the park but my dog is dog-aggressive so that doesn't work out too well =\ hopefully after this weekend people will have less time to party so it won't be as bad. until the fall semester CVM bar-crawl in 3 weeks, that is...
Developmental bio was all new stuff for me so i need to read up on that.
So I had the first super tough test in vet school. It was the last one in my immunology class. I can't believe we are already done with 2 classes!! (they are like half semester classes). Has anyone else had a test? How do you think it was?
Our first test is Physiology on Sept. 10. I'm a little nervous, mostly because I don't know what to expect!
So far, I like all of my classes, especially the more hands-on ones like anatomy and Physical Diagnosis (bovine labs for the past 3 weeks!). However, we have bacteriology at 8 a.m., and it's so hard to stay awake!
Whoa. Y'all must have had a **** load of anatomy to study then!
It'll be the thoracic limb (muscles [origin, insertion, action, names], bones and bone topography, and...other bits [features like the transverse humeral retinaculum, lymph nodes, palpations, stuff like that) and maybe a bit of the hind end.
I really really wish our anatomy class was like this. We finished the thoracic limb and there is a lot of stuff to memorize already. I can't imagine doing the whole body for one exam. Whyyy whyyy can't the test be split into sections?!?
startingovervet-i almost fell asleep in biochem yesterday. i hate biochem.
Yeah - we have our first anatomy exam/practical in a week covering the thoracic limb - all of the bones (not hard), muscles - all origins/insertions/actions, nerves - innervations/sensory vs. motor, arteries - including most branches, and veins - including most branches. On top of that we have a whole written test write before the practical. Ughh!!!!
In Minnesota, we just finished up our three days of orientation. I'm really pumped to start classes on Tuesday. We have an AWESOME class and the current students and professors we have met so far are pretty fantastic.
And the trust and communication and team building exercises were actually fairly useful and quite fun.
you are lucky, dont take this for granted! good luck!!!
Quick, someone tell the site admin that Nyanko's account has been hacked!
We finished three days of orientation/team-building stuff and now we have a day and a half more of orientation next week, optional high ropes course, then real classes start next Friday.
Our class is great too!
And the trust and communication and team building exercises were actually fairly useful and quite fun.
Quick, someone tell the site admin that Nyanko's account has been hacked!
* and thanks for the nudge from TT. Temporary falling off the SDN earth has ended
I can't wait to see opinions 6+ months from now...
Beyond academics, school feels irritatingly like high school. Maybe it is many of our classmates are barely HS graduates. Ok, that may be a bit dramatic, but it sure feels that way somedays. Unlike some of the other schools that seem to have a number of nontrads, OkSU does not. I think our oldest classmate is 32. They actually had to discuss appropriate attire this week- as in, if I can see your a** cheek sticking out of your shorts, they're too short. I just think she's confused about what profession she's in- maybe that is her version of professional attire. If you can ignore all the social annoyances though, it isn't bad.
I think those who say "vet school was the best time of my life" are actually right. Granted, it's just the end of week two, but I already feel that way. Yeah, it is tough being without the hubby, dogs, family, or friends to go to school.
P.S. I hope (and think) you all know this, but not all of us 21 year olds are wild and immature. Well, not all of us.
Of course! I didn't mean to stereotype. Although don't many stereotypes have some basis in reality?
I don't care what your age. Maybe I'm just old fashioned or something, but I have this silly idea that individuals in professional school should act accordingly. I know, it's a crazy idea.
Three weeks into the semester, and the beginning of the the drama is budding (if not blooming here or there). I'm sure that there is more than what I'm aware of, but I'm not in and amongst all of the social extracurricular stuff going on.