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All the more reason to share it!ahhh, Neopets. My username (from 4th grade I believe) is extra embarassing...
All the more reason to share it!ahhh, Neopets. My username (from 4th grade I believe) is extra embarassing...
tigger_my_kitty I had just met my new kitty, Tigger...All the more reason to share it!
Is it as bad as pinkpuppy9, to which I still use to this very day?ahhh, Neopets. My username (from 4th grade I believe) is extra embarassing...
Finished some projects today I've been dragging my feet on. Bought a new houseplant and a really nice looking ceramic pot that will add some much needed color to my condo. Bought some wood moulding to make a frame for my bathroom mirror. Sewed some fringe onto my boring white curtains to make them less boring.
I'm waiting for one of the craft stores to have a really good sale on frames so I can get started on my faux entomological collection triptych thing I'm going to put on one of my big empty walls.
What is a Christmas pterodactyl and are there photos. I demand photos.you sound way more put together than me. Last time I decorated my wall it was adding a giant paper mache christmas pterodactyl...
you sound way more put together than me. Last time I decorated my wall it was adding a giant paper mache christmas pterodactyl...
@orca2011 too.
I guess the deal is I have 14M NP and no interest in using it for anything. Silly as it is, it seems wasteful to just let it sit around.
Somewhere between a rave and a rant: I have a phone interview for a seasonal zoo job tomorrow. I really wish they'd call at a time when I wasn't at work, but whatever, I'll just duck out and take the call when it comes in. I like the idea of working at the zoo again but when I got the e-mail yesterday and saw what it pays (they never post the pay in the job announcements for whatever reason) I was a little disappointed. I might get to work with friends though so that's a plus. Still, I full on cringed when I read "$8.50 an hour." That's a full $1.50 less an hour than what they were promising people working at the food stands so I'm a little disappointed. Technically though, the last time I worked at the zoo I was getting paid a weekly stipend that came out to less than $2 an hour so $8.50 is a considerable improvement.
Getting a paid job in a zoo at all on the animal side of things is an accomplishment on its own haha. Took my friend 4 unpaid internships to get to $8.50 an hour (and she still only got part time). It's rough.Somewhere between a rave and a rant: I have a phone interview for a seasonal zoo job tomorrow. I really wish they'd call at a time when I wasn't at work, but whatever, I'll just duck out and take the call when it comes in. I like the idea of working at the zoo again but when I got the e-mail yesterday and saw what it pays (they never post the pay in the job announcements for whatever reason) I was a little disappointed. I might get to work with friends though so that's a plus. Still, I full on cringed when I read "$8.50 an hour." That's a full $1.50 less an hour than what they were promising people working at the food stands so I'm a little disappointed. Technically though, the last time I worked at the zoo I was getting paid a weekly stipend that came out to less than $2 an hour so $8.50 is a considerable improvement.
While I was in college, I needed a summer job and applied to my local fast food joints. The word "overqualified" was used several times.I make $8.50 / hour at my clinic job, after almost three years there. In the past six months 3 employees have been hired at an hourly wage higher than mine (they're coming in with previous experience/degrees, so it makes sense . . . but still.) It kind of sucks to see new hires make nearly $2 an hour more than me, when I've worked my way up through two raises to be where I am.
My local McDonald's had a starting wage of $9.50. It looks so tempting sometimes.
I hate that. If someone is willing to accept the wage, why does it matter? Obviously a college student isn't prepared to be looking for careers...While I was in college, I needed a summer job and applied to my local fast food joints. The word "overqualified" was used several times.
didn't matter to themI hate that. If someone is willing to accept the wage, why does it matter? Obviously a college student isn't prepared to be looking for careers...
That's good. I've been lucky, but some of my friends have been turned down for being "overqualified."didn't matter to them
That's a lot to be proud of! Good luck defending!I just finished my thesis today!!! Thirteen pages and one year of writing later...I'll present it shortly before graduation!!!!
Thank you!!!That's a lot to be proud of! Good luck defending!
Not only did I get to experience my first snow storm, but it was apparently the second worst blizzard Nebraska has had! Oh, it's been so much fun! We had a couple snowball fights, particularly when all the students gathered outside to take a picture together. I built a snow man today, with friends, and we made snow angels! A friend I were even brave enough to trek the 0.5 mile to the gym in the middle of the blizzard. I was shocked how deep the snow was -- it was up to my waist in some places and I got stuck! I think I'm in love with snow.
Clay Center. We're like 2-3 hours away from Omaha. People talk about Grand Island a lot here so that must be close. We had enough snow that we couldn't go to the feedlot but we just had replacement lectures. Still went to the Hormel packing plant today and got some free Spam at the end of our tour!Where you at again? We barely got an inch where I'm at in Nebraska, but Grand Island got two feet from what I heard. My friends from UNK were stoked for the snow day cause they never happen. Lol
YES GOOD LUCK!!! The initial screen is the biggest cut in the entire process....the vast majority of apps they receive don't meet the qualifications. Your pool is much, much smaller now. I'm rooting for you!A while back I submitted an app for a Disney veterinary internship that @pinkpuppy9 posted in another thread, annd today I finally got my first real correspondence from them (a questionnaire thing I have to fill out elaborating on interest in vet med/the necessary skills and experience). It really only means that I passed the initial screening and am moving on to the next steps, but still, the idea that I just might get to do this--EEP
omg, that is so great to hear!! I searched SDN for more info (unfortunately most of the relevant posts are pretty old) and was getting worried because a lot of them mentioned the professional internships being "extremely competitive, perhaps more so than vet school"YES GOOD LUCK!!! The initial screen is the biggest cut in the entire process....the vast majority of apps they receive don't meet the qualifications. Your pool is much, much smaller now. I'm rooting for you!
ETA: Not sure if you're in undergrad still or not, but this is the point in my last semester when I completely checked out and started looking at the Disney World website every day and reading the restaurant menus....
Considering numbers, yes, it is more statistically competitive than veterinary school. If you have any questions about the process at all, shoot me a message!omg, that is so great to hear!! I searched SDN for more info (unfortunately most of the relevant posts are pretty old) and was getting worried because a lot of them mentioned the professional internships being "extremely competitive, perhaps more so than vet school"
I've been out of undergrad since December 2013 but was luckily eligible since I'm still enrolled in a university (for all my post-bacc prereqs and retakes, this semester I'm taking just Ochem lab ) Oh my gosh, I'm just so excited for the possibility. It'd also be rather convenient since my family's already planning a Universal trip for my brother's high school graduation summer, I'd be right there to join them on my off times
Ouch!Finally got my eyebrow pierced today.
Eh, not really. I once jabbed myself in the thumb with a 14G needle during a cow lab. That hurt way more.Ouch!
Eh, not really. I once jabbed myself in the thumb with a 14G needle during a cow lab. That hurt way more.
And the guy that did the piercing was a client of mine. I vaccinated his kitten. LOL
Mostly haha. Besides the big difference in gauge sizes - 25g for the kitten vs 16g for me.Bahaha. Needle for needle!
Bless other vet schools that share their PDFs for difficult to understand classes -> I wouldn't know what to do without UMN's radiology guide
Same! I had no idea that such awesome guides existed haha. Don't get me wrong, I don't enjoy when a professor has three 7-front paragraphs on a slide, but I also don't enjoy when there's just an image and literally no explanation of what you should see and how you should differentiate it from something else, which is how our current prof is teaching radiology and is a bit... overwhelming, to say the least.And bookmarking. I suck at radiology.
Meh, my Public Health prof seemed to think that a commercial egg itself (after you get rid of the shell of course), doesn't pose AS big as a risk as the media hypes it up to be. I mean there's always a risk, but how big of one is the question. But then again I LOVE cookie dough so I probably heard what I wanted to hearAs someone with a public health background, I really should know better than to eat raw cookie dough, but damn, it's so tasty, especially the kind I just bought on a whim at the grocery store. It actually tastes better raw than baked in my opinion. Food-borne illnesses be damned!