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Hey just checking in to see if the nerves are starting to set in for the fall for anybody. I'm starting to realize that I'm going to be in vet school in the fall and it's a little scary! Yikes!
P.S. I just read If Wishes Were Horses by Dr. Loretta Gage and it scared me even more, I wouldn't recommend reading it at this point. It's a really good book, but it makes vet school look really scary, and it's kind of depressing.
You're telling me! I have 20 hours and two jobs this semester and getting ready for vet school now is killing me! Haha. Not that I'm complaining, of course.My advice for people applying next year: make your second semester easy! It's ridiculous trying to balance a heavy class load, interviews, writing a thesis and getting ready for vet school.
It's not that far offI read that book too. I think it's important to remember that it was written in the 70's (if I remember correctly), so probably a lot has changed.
Sidenote: Speaking of books, I'm currently reading The Jungle and I highly reccommend it! It's not a short novel, but it's great! It really gives some insight as to how far the meat packing industry has come, and even just the advances of the country in general. I'm about 3/4 through it and I love it!
I am definitely nervous about finding an apartment and moving and paying for all the related expenses. I will be moving to Columbus, OH which is a huge city compared to where I live now, I have never lived in a city before so I am slightly anxious about the changes that come with that. Most of all I am nervous about my wife finding a good job.
I think that no matter what I worry about something, but every once in a while it hits me again that I am really going to go to vet school this fall!
Now that I got in, will I be able to handle it? That sort of thing.
I think that my brain hasn't made it's way past the admissions stress yet. Heh. I had a nightmare last night that I had to go interview at Penn, even though I don't want to go there, and in my dream they clearly didn't want me. I got there and was wearing nice pants, but somehow was also wearing a t-shirt and flip-flops, had to go find my car to change shoes, then buildings started moving so I couldn't find my way back. Ugh.
I had a nightmare a month or so back about interviewing at LSU, too. I didn't apply there, either. Stupid brain stressing me out about schools I never even applied to.
I try to tell myself that the adcoms know what they are doing and that I wouldn't have been accepted if I couldn't handle. That makes me feel a little better. But then again there is that little voice of doubt that says 'Oh no! What if I'm the one or two people per class that don't make it!!!!'
I know that I've never attempted to stuff as much information and retain it in my head before. I hope my little brain is up for the task. The part that seems the hardest is that you have to actually really remember this stuff. In many classes I have taken the test and after the test is over you can practically hear the psssssss as the info leaks out of my head never to be retrieved again. But now we have to learn this stuff, retain all the while jamming more stuff in there!!!!! Sorry, just running with my insecurities there.
I'm feeling so anxious about moving. I still don't know where I'll end up (still waiting to see if I get off the CSU waitlist) but either way I know I'll be moving cross country. Never done that before! Even growing up, we never moved.
My parents completely understand my need for an apartment, but they have no way to help me. They can't help with money, they don't have the time to help me look, and they have very little advice as to what I should look for.Me too. I have never done that either. I'm a little bit stressed about that, and about finding an apartment. It seems to be a sore point between me and my parents. They're thrilled that I got in, and are great people, but don't seem to see how an apartment is necessary. They keep asking about on-campus housing. They think it's crazy to take out these loans, etc.
Good luck, claws, and congrats on Western. Is CSU your first choice?