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I wanted to rip my hair out through most of today. Such a **** show. This damn rotation can't end soon enough.

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I am having so many issues with this last rotation place and I want to scream. They just switched it so im doing six weeks of just path instead of three of path and three general stuff. That's not what I want to do nor what I think with ld be best for my overall education. Should probably just bite the bullet but ugh!

Six weeks of path? I think I'd just go ahead and kill myself.
 
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Six weeks of path? I think I'd just go ahead and kill myself.

We do 6 weeks here... 4 anatomic, 2 clin. We have 2 hours of lecture each day while on the rotation.
 
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Six weeks of path? I think I'd just go ahead and kill myself.

Don't encourage me :yeahright: I'm just so mad they sprang this on me - not so much as a "how do you feel about this" or "sorry something happened." Grr.

I wanted to rip my hair out through most of today. Such a **** show. This damn rotation can't end soon enough.
Surgery was my least favorite by a very long shot. Great people and all, but a giant mess most of the time. Hang in there.
 
We do 6 weeks here... 4 anatomic, 2 clin. We have 2 hours of lecture each day while on the rotation.

Ugh. I guess when she said 'path' I only thought of necropsy. We do 1 rotation in clin, 1 in necropsy (4 weeks total). Still. 6 weeks is 33% more pain. But I did learn a lot on both rotations - definitely good teaching rotations.

Surgery was my least favorite by a very long shot. Great people and all, but a giant mess most of the time. Hang in there.

For sure, surgery was one of the two lowest ROI rotations I've had. Dentistry was probably the other, but that was because of some unfortunate timing circumstances that left us with almost no cases for half the rotation. Otherwise it would have been fine.
 
6 weeks of pathology sounds like my worst nightmare. We only have to do 1 week anatomic path and 1 week of diagnostic/clin path here, and that's plenty enough for me. Then again, I'm doing 7 weeks of surgery (2 weeks core, 5 weeks elective) and some might think I'm crazy for that haha.
 
I need WTF or someone in here to help me spread pathology love. We have one required path rotation (you do both necropsy and clin path), but I'm doing 12 weeks of path electives.
 
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I need WTF or someone in here to help me spread pathology love. We have one required path rotation (you do both necropsy and clin path), but I'm doing 12 weeks of path electives.

Don't get me wrong, I really enjoyed the application, but we had lectures, ICU shifts, homework assignments, and like 8 different tests to keep track of, all of which made the rotation less enjoyable than it otherwise would have been.

Last surgery day at Humane Alliance and I saw/surgerized my first pyo!
 
Dear classmate, do not "idly" point out that you think you've seen the most appointments if you won't let someone else take your next appointment even though you were busy with another.
 
Hello Canadian (PEI) friends, one of our interns from Hong Kong/Taiwan is moving up north for an IM residency this summer. She is looking for place to live that is extremely cheap (her only restriction is cost) because her residents salary is very little once she pays for graduate school fees. Thought I'd ask and see if anyone knew of places to recommend :)
 
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Hello Canadian (PEI) friends, one of our interns from Hong Kong/Taiwan is moving up north for an IM residency this summer. She is looking for place to live that is extremely cheap (her only restriction is cost) because her residents salary is very little once she pays for graduate school fees. Thought I'd ask and see if anyone knew of places to recommend :)

PMed you.
 
Well Humane Alliance is over :( My last spay of the externship ended up being a pyo. Pretty awesome because I'd never even seen one before and my plan for how to handle it as soon as I realized that it was a pyo was consistent with the Dr's. She looked great the next morning too, happily wagging her tail and acting much brighter than the morning before!
 
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Hey @Coquette22 and @that redhead -- Have you heard anything good or bad about AVC's chiropractic and acupuncture rotations? There's a flyer on my bulletin board about it and I was curious. :)

The general feedback I've heard has been pretty positive. No, it won't make you an expert, but it's a good start. And the prof is a little spacey, but does generally know his stuff.

DVMD: It's scary, is what it is. Though right now, my biggest headache is actually finding a place to live and getting my stuff to the next city and coordinating that with my start date.

Happy moment: I had one final task on surgery and that was to discharge my patient. He came in 5 days ago, recumbent with a massive bone tumour. After a successful amputation, he went home, wagging his tail, chasing his ball and running on three legs. He may have metstasis, but at least he'll have a few more good months. I teared up when he was reunited with his owner.
 
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First day of necropsy. Everything was going well, until clean up. Three of us picked up a horse's GI tract and tossed it into the hazmat dumpster. I stepped back, slipped, and slammed my head into the floor. Safety glasses left me with a 3 cm gash above my right eye that took 3 internal and 7 external sutures to close. Instead of lecture, I got to spend the afternoon in urgent care with a pathology professor. At least no one can say I was slacking off.
 
First day of necropsy. Everything was going well, until clean up. Three of us picked up a horse's GI tract and tossed it into the hazmat dumpster. I stepped back, slipped, and slammed my head into the floor. Safety glasses left me with a 3 cm gash above my right eye that took 3 internal and 7 external sutures to close. Instead of lecture, I got to spend the afternoon in urgent care with a pathology professor. At least no one can say I was slacking off.

Haha - we were definitely told in surgery lab this afternoon not to gash ourselves because a fourth year had already been off to urgent care after "slipping in horse goo." Hope you feel OK!
 
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First day of necropsy. Everything was going well, until clean up. Three of us picked up a horse's GI tract and tossed it into the hazmat dumpster. I stepped back, slipped, and slammed my head into the floor. Safety glasses left me with a 3 cm gash above my right eye that took 3 internal and 7 external sutures to close. Instead of lecture, I got to spend the afternoon in urgent care with a pathology professor. At least no one can say I was slacking off.
hope it feels better quickly. What a way to start path
 
First day of necropsy. Everything was going well, until clean up. Three of us picked up a horse's GI tract and tossed it into the hazmat dumpster. I stepped back, slipped, and slammed my head into the floor. Safety glasses left me with a 3 cm gash above my right eye that took 3 internal and 7 external sutures to close. Instead of lecture, I got to spend the afternoon in urgent care with a pathology professor. At least no one can say I was slacking off.
and i always thought you were hard-headed. :shrug:
 
First day of necropsy. Everything was going well, until clean up. Three of us picked up a horse's GI tract and tossed it into the hazmat dumpster. I stepped back, slipped, and slammed my head into the floor. Safety glasses left me with a 3 cm gash above my right eye that took 3 internal and 7 external sutures to close. Instead of lecture, I got to spend the afternoon in urgent care with a pathology professor. At least no one can say I was slacking off.

No fun. This must be why @WhtsThFrequency says pathology is the "dark side"...
 
Thus far, I've muddled over whether or not that purple circle is an astrocyte or if lots of purple circles near a blood vessel really is perivascular cuffing or just lots of purple dots having a get together. To make it extra fun, the government-sanctioned internet access won't let me access my school notes because they're on a Canadian site so I'm relying on textbooks and websites that are not as helpful as I need.

And I still don't have a job or anything close but hopefully I can go to my one interview this week and applying to some more places.

:help:
 
And I still don't have a job or anything close but hopefully I can go to my one interview this week and applying to some more places.

:help:
Huge bummer. You're looking in MD, right? Have you looked in DC or NOVA? I'm very nervous to apply for jobs next year. I'm hoping to find something in central VA..
 
TRH, I'll keep my ears open for you. Haven't heard of any job openings in this area, although I'm starting to think my clinic could use a 6th doc. We are BUSY.
 
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Huge bummer. You're looking in MD, right? Have you looked in DC or NOVA? I'm very nervous to apply for jobs next year. I'm hoping to find something in central VA..

At this point I've applied to a bunch in MD, NOVA and even a few more closer to central VA. Essentially anything I'm even remotely qualified for that will allow my husband to get to DC everyday with an hour or so of traffic. I'm considering looking at PA and DE close to the state lines at this rate.
 
At this point I've applied to a bunch in MD, NOVA and even a few more closer to central VA. Essentially anything I'm even remotely qualified for that will allow my husband to get to DC everyday with an hour or so of traffic. I'm considering looking at PA and DE close to the state lines at this rate.
can he afford amtrak to commute? It expands the radius.
 
Have you tried the maryand VMA site? I think most of them are cross listed from VIN or AVMA, but might be worth a shot

Yup :( I just keep checking all the sites I can think of every few days. I have another interview lined up (date tbd) at a place that sounds super dreamy, so my fingers are firmly crossed!
 
i want a magic fairy to pay off my loans, not so much because being debt free would be amazing (it would!), but because then MAYBE my father would leave my finances the heck alone and stop guilting me about everything and blah, blah, blah. i dread the conversation thats going to occur if i apply for a residency next fall, i've already been told previously how irresponsible and stupid i'm being for heading the internship/residency route. and yes, i get it. have a job that pays bucket-loads more than an internship would be better for my financial rest of life, but if i go crawl in a cave and cry for the rest of my life because i'm so miserable, i suspect my earning potential is going to really suffer.
 
i want a magic fairy to pay off my loans, not so much because being debt free would be amazing (it would!), but because then MAYBE my father would leave my finances the heck alone and stop guilting me about everything and blah, blah, blah. i dread the conversation thats going to occur if i apply for a residency next fall, i've already been told previously how irresponsible and stupid i'm being for heading the internship/residency route. and yes, i get it. have a job that pays bucket-loads more than an internship would be better for my financial rest of life, but if i go crawl in a cave and cry for the rest of my life because i'm so miserable, i suspect my earning potential is going to really suffer.

Oh man, that's really rough. I hope he can come around and respect that you're doing the best thing for you professionally :\
 
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Ugh, good luck TRH! Fingers crossed you find something soon!

I was supposed to do an externship at a clinic near my undergrad town for the next few weeks, but my housing fell through. At the last minute, I was able to set up an externship at a clinic nearby, and arrange housing so I can go to the original clinic, just a few weeks later than planned. I'm so glad things worked out. I'm doubly excited because they are both predominantly food animal and somehow I managed to schedule them so incredibly last-minute during a crazy time of year :) I am close with people who know both doctors so I'm confident they are not lunatics that drive students away ;-)

As I was driving to the new clinic to make sure I knew where the heck I am going come Monday morning, I couldn't help but smile and think that in a few months, I'm going to a friggin food animal vet. I'm getting so excited for the upcoming year!
 
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I know this is a really petty rant given the job woes/financial woes some of you guys are dealing with but... I hate trying to find housing when I can't actually get to the city to look at anything.
 
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I know this is a really petty rant given the job woes/financial woes some of you guys are dealing with but... I hate trying to find housing when I can't actually get to the city to look at anything.
i'm definitely nervous about signing on for an apartment i've never seen (and no one i know has either). i just cross my fingers and hope for the best though
 
i just cross my fingers and hope for the best though

Same. I'm looking at a place that's willing to lease to me at 2-3 months at a time, so I'm hoping it's good enough for short term, and in that time, I can sock a bit of money away for a downpayment and find a place to buy.
 
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the NCSU IS kids just got their acceptance letters on Friday, and one of the c/o 2015 kids posted that we are officially old. someone else astutely pointed out that by the time these kids graduate, some of us will be boarded specialists, and others will be finishing residencies and taking boards. how crazy is that??? :oldman:
 
the NCSU IS kids just got their acceptance letters on Friday, and one of the c/o 2015 kids posted that we are officially old. someone else astutely pointed out that by the time these kids graduate, some of us will be boarded specialists, and others will be finishing residencies and taking boards. how crazy is that??? :oldman:
I think it really hit me when I realized that when the "How ya doing c/o 2019" thread starts blowing up at the start of the school year, we won't be in vet school anymore :eek:

I hate trying to find housing when I can't actually get to the city to look at anything.

That's how it was coming up to PEI for me (well, minus the feet upon feet of snow). I got my landlord's info from an SDNer, actually, and it all worked out, but it was scary to rent a place without seeing it in person or meeting the guy. When do you actually start?
 
That's how it was coming up to PEI for me (well, minus the feet upon feet of snow). I got my landlord's info from an SDNer, actually, and it all worked out, but it was scary to rent a place without seeing it in person or meeting the guy. When do you actually start?
Yeah I did the blind renting when I moved to PEI too and the place was fine, but well, you know about the roommate issues! None of that this time, luckily. Only roommates from here on out are non human.

I haven't officially set a start date. I'm aiming for May 19 (cause I have $0 to float me and need to start earning a paycheque ASAP) but that's dependent on sorting out my provincial licence and finding a place to live.
 
Yeah I did the blind renting when I moved to PEI too and the place was fine, but well, you know about the roommate issues! None of that this time, luckily. Only roommates from here on out are non human.

I haven't officially set a start date. I'm aiming for May 19 (cause I have $0 to float me and need to start earning a paycheque ASAP) but that's dependent on sorting out my provincial licence and finding a place to live.

I still can't fathom how you survived that situation...good plan on the non-human roommates. Yours are pretty cute too ;)

Wouldn't it be nice if vets got multi-million dollar signing bonuses like NFL players? You could be like, "Eh, I'll start in August after I get back from my yacht vacation to Europe."
 
I still can't fathom how you survived that situation...good plan on the non-human roommates. Yours are pretty cute too ;)
I briefly took up kick boxing. When asked why I hit so hard, I replied, "I really hate my roommate."

Wouldn't it be nice if vets got multi-million dollar signing bonuses like NFL players? You could be like, "Eh, I'll start in August after I get back from my yacht vacation to Europe."
I'd settle for multi-hundred, just enough to cover my rent...
 
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this is what eating spiders looks like!
 

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