CLASS OF 2013....how ya doin?

[Truth74]

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Hey there peoples. I've had crazy hours so didn't check the forum for a long time. We had clinical rotations for the past 8 weeks, so we're just starting the didactic portion of the curriculum, right now. I spent the past 8 weeks finding out just how much I don't know, so it's gonna be great getting to learn a minor fractition of what I'll need to.

 

[IHeartGoldens]

Yes I am amazing, but I just use my metal telepathy powers to will the structures out.

The Chuck Norris of veterinary medicine.

 

[Lechatnoir]

Hey there peoples. I've had crazy hours so didn't check the forum for a long time. We had clinical rotations for the past 8 weeks, so we're just starting the didactic portion of the curriculum, right now. I spent the past 8 weeks finding out just how much I don't know, so it's gonna be great getting to learn a minor fractition of what I'll need to.

Truth, are all semesters going to be broken up into 8 week quarters or just the first one?

 

[Caninerepro]

The Chuck Norris of veterinary medicine.

OK it is getting a bit deep here, and I am not the only one contributing to the build-up!

 

[TurtleLover]

Hey there peoples. I've had crazy hours so didn't check the forum for a long time. We had clinical rotations for the past 8 weeks, so we're just starting the didactic portion of the curriculum, right now. I spent the past 8 weeks finding out just how much I don't know, so it's gonna be great getting to learn a minor fractition of what I'll need to.

Wait a minute....you had clinical roatations as the first thing you did coming into vet school? We don't do that until halfway into our 3rd year and then that's all we are in until we graduate...that's really werid!!

 

[TurtleLover]

I agree, not necessary at all to take any prior anatomy. Those who did in our class didn't turn out any better/worse. Plus the undergrad anatomy is watered down compared to the vet med stuff - at least that's what it seems like here.

About the use of lab time - I wasn't thrilled with how our second semester LA anat lab was setup so my lab attendance was low and I and studied on weekends. I'm not sure about your school but attendance isn't usually necessary. If you don't get much benefit then find better use of your time.

I don't think it is NECESSARY....however....I think it will be very HELPFUL later on to have a background in all the crazy terminology and dissecting techniques. Because they just throw you in there with a dog, a book, and a lab partner and say follow the book! So it definitely helped having taken a comparative anatomy class before where we dissected a cat, a dogfish shark, and a mudpuppy.

But I know plenty of people in my class who never took anatomy and they are doing just fine. They just had to take an extra step to learn what foramen meant versus fovea, vs fenestra, etc...Knowing terminology beforehand will definitely be HELPFUL.

But like I said, not having taken it won't make you get a worse grade in anatomy in vet school than people who did. 😀

 

[Caninerepro]

Wait a minute....you had clinical roatations as the first thing you did coming into vet school? We don't do that until halfway into our 3rd year and then that's all we are in until we graduate...that's really werid!!

While not to the same levels as the PBL schools, here at MN we did physical exams on horses and cows our first week in, I had my arm up a cows butt by week two (that was optional but hey!). We do our first spay spring of year two. Also of course from day one we are welcome to walk wherever at the VTH and can observe anything as long as we ask first. That is pretty standard everywhere I believe.

 

[Truth74]

Truth, are all semesters going to be broken up into 8 week quarters or just the first one?

The first two years are split up into 8 week blocks for the fall semester of the first two years. The rotations are on the first 8 weeks of First year, and the second 8 weeks of Second year. Third and Fourth years are like everybody else. (Summer of third year into clinics, etc...)

 

[Truth74]

Wait a minute....you had clinical roatations as the first thing you did coming into vet school? We don't do that until halfway into our 3rd year and then that's all we are in until we graduate...that's really werid!!

Hey there TurtleLover,

Yes, we had clinical rotations for the first eight weeks. It was mostly shadowing, but I was definitely covered in pee and poop, ... and I was TPRing a lot. 👍 If you didn't participate, you didn't do well in the rotation.

We are the guinea pigs for the new UIUC CVM curriculum. It promises to be like this from now on. The rotations definitely gave me more of a respect for what I don't know and that I need to be on top of the studies.

Edit: I also have had exposure to different specialties that I didn't have access to before.

 

[sumstorm]

Just out of curousity is anyone having any issues with their lab partners? Mines not going so well and completely clueless on how to approach it I've worked with 1000s of people under different contexts and even if people in the group didnt like each other we were still a functional lab group whereas here its just completely awful where I feel like I'm not even aloud to open my mouth in lab because it'll be against what she believes in or gets offended (all of our convos are strictly related to vet med or our classes)

With permission of the instructors, I switched lab groups. I like the people from my previous group, but our learning styles are so vastly different that it was torturous for all of us! I am much more comfortable with my current group and definitily learning more information with less time in lab.

Out of curiosity, where is everyone in anatomy? We have completed (on cats and dogs) forelimb/hindlimb/neck/back/thoracic/abdomen/pelvis nerves, vasculature, and muscles. We just started the head. Next semester is LA.

Also, I got the CSU cd and was pretty disappointed. Even on the views available, the covereage on muscles was only about 1/3 of what we need, and the vasculature and nerves are about 1/5. I do like the online carnivore anatomy site and images4u for basic illustrations. I also found some supplemental books in the library that were useful.

I took human and neuroanatomy and haven't found it as helpful as I would have hoped.

 

[No Imagination]

Out of curiosity, where is everyone in anatomy? We have completed (on cats and dogs) forelimb/hindlimb/neck/back/thoracic/abdomen/pelvis nerves, vasculature, and muscles. We just started the head. Next semester is LA.

Wow... we are going slower... So far we've done the hind limb of the Dog, Cat, Horse, and Cow (Osteology on cow only).

Working on thoracic limb now. Finished dog, on to horse (only noteing differences in cat this time). We will finish up with that in 2 weeks, then neck/vert (I think) - then that is it for semester

 

[DVMorBust]

We had our first exam on the entire musculoskeletal system, and our second is coming up (yikes!) on (excluding only head) nerve, vessel, thoracic and abdominal cavities. We take anatomy and radiographic test together, so we also covered all of those in radiographic.

Our 1st semester focuses mainly on the dog, with a few cat differences thrown in, and is a 'fundamentals in anatomy' course. 2nd semester is 'comparative' which is basically LA, with cow, pony, sheep, etc.

 

[vnair2]

The different structures to the Anatomy course are interesting. Our structure seems almost identical to DVMorBust's, except we dont take separate exams on musculature/nerves/arteries. We just get one big one. We pretty much finished up the dog, all musculature, nerves, arteries, veins, viscera etc. We didnt do the head or spine though, which we do later in the year. We just started up the horse / goat, which we do side by side.

I kind of like the idea of doing the forelimb of all species side by side. I think I would have become sick of learning musculature quickly though, busting into the abdomen/thoracic cavities is much more fun.

 

[Shanomong]

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[TurtleLover]

At LSU, we've already done the dog's Thoracic Limb (bones, joints, muscles, ligaments and tendons), Pelvic Limb (bones, joints, muscles, ligaments and tendons), Axial Skeleton (bones, joints, muscles, nerves, ligaments and tendons), Thorax organs, vessels, and nerves. And now continuing on the Autonomic Nervous System.

The bovine and equine we've learned comparative bones along with the dog of everything above and the horse's fibrous support mechanisms of the thoracic and pelvic limb.

Oh and for the dog, we had to learn the "running dog" model of the thoracic and pelvic limbs to know which muscles were contracted or relaxed and for what purpose, in the 6 different stages of a running dog.

We don't do the head until the Spring along with our large animal dissections. I don't think we do any cat dissections...but that's ok with me, I did that in undergrad, lol.

 

[turnandburn]

We have ONE semester of anatomy- carnivore, horse, and ruminant.

We start dissecting large animals in a couple weeks.

Holy crap!

 

[starlene45]

Hey sdn friends! Long time, no obsessive thread-watching!
Actually I have just transferred all my obsessive internet activity over to facebook and Gmail.... LOL

So here in the land of Davis, things are PRETTY FREAKING AMAZING. I love it here. It broke my heart to have to choose Davis over Penn, but (no offense penn-we's 😉) I know I've landed in the right place. Classes are fun and interesting for the most part, our Anatomy and Radiology profs are AMAZING, and we got to do a bunch of handling labs during our first month where we learned how to safely handle and examine cats, dogs, ferrets, guinea pigs, rats, hamsters, rabbits, horses, cows, sheep, and goats. I'd never done real food animal or small mammal (ferrets etc) handling before so that was pretty cool. A lot of my classmates have already started their nursing experience rounds in the different sections of the VMTH: equine, food, exotics, and small, but mine don't start for a couple more weeks.

There are a ton of fun clubs, free lunches, interesting speakers, and of course TG's every other Friday where we eat BBQ and drink beer on our quad, lots of dogs running around and generally very fun and relaxing. I've made some 2012 and 2011 friends and <3 the upperclassmen a lot.

We started later than pretty much everyone else, so are not too deep into things yet but have already had midterms in: Physio Chem, Histology, and Anatomy (more on this in a minute), and we have already had a FINAL in Behavior.

There is some controversy going on between students/faculty over whether or not they should hand us back our exams - I guess overall the class avg's have been extremely high (93% on 1st anatomy exam!!! 85% I think on P Chem!!) and they feel like we are studying too much from our famous test files or something. However, to give the University credit, they were NOT going to hand back the anatomy exam, but were also unable to schedule an exam debriefing session that all students could attend, so we WILL be getting our exams back (this time) after all.

In Anatomy we've covered: skull, spine, and thoracic limb osteology (dog, some cat, and some horse) as well as intrinsic and extrinsic muscles of the thoracic limb (dog). we're now moving on to nerves and blood vessels of the thoracic limb, as well as the deeper muscles of the spine and abdominal wall.

OH YEAH VERY IMPORTANT: everyone should mark your calendars for March 2011 because the SAVMA SYMPOSIUM is going to be at UC DAVIS AND GUESS WHO GETS TO HELP PLAN IT?!?!?!

yeah, that's right. gonna be freakin' SWEET.

so I'm going to try to go to the 2010 symposium in MADISON so that I have a better idea of what we need to put together when it's our turn to host-- all you UW folks out there hit me up in the spring, okay?!

okay, that's all, pchem midterm next tues. gotta catch up on all those lectures.

xxxxx

starlene.

 

[IvyLynx]

About the use of lab time - I wasn't thrilled with how our second semester LA anat lab was setup so my lab attendance was low and I and studied on weekends. I'm not sure about your school but attendance isn't usually necessary. If you don't get much benefit then find better use of your time.

I think we would lose professionalism points if we skipped labs 🙁

OH YEAH VERY IMPORTANT: everyone should mark your calendars for March 2011 because the SAVMA SYMPOSIUM is going to be at UC DAVIS AND GUESS WHO GETS TO HELP PLAN IT?!?!?!

I wanna come! Except that I'm still bitter about not getting in. Might be awkward, the not-so-secret fuming. I want to go to the SAVMA symposium in Madison as well. Is it common for first years to go?

 

[sumstorm]

Yes, we lose professionalism points...and I need every point I can get! That professionalism grade is twice a quizes worth!

We also include palpations and radiographs and some other stuff in with anatomy. I guess I include ligaments/tendons under musculature. And we have to know the groupings and such for movements. Oh, and bones and every bump, dip and divet on every bone. I think my top frustration with anatomy is that the testing seems so random. I can't even decide what is important anymore; everything mentioned by any instructor in lab, everything in the book, everything in the notes, and everything presented in class.

And then, you go to histo and physio and they say something that contradicts anatomy! Joy and fun! 3.5 weeks till selectives. Is everyone's exams for anatomy cummulative?

 

[Ben and Me]

Our's isn't, but we were tested on the entire dog (minus the head) a few weeks ago. We started the goat/pony this week, and we'll have a test on those 2 in December. In February we have our last exam on the head.

 

[No Imagination]

Is everyone's exams for anatomy cummulative?

About 15% of all of our exams are cummulative... so it pretty much prevents you from getting an 'A' if you don't remember everything. You would think the cummulative stuff would be a soft ball... no so

 

[sumstorm]

About 15% of all of our exams are cummulative... so it pretty much prevents you from getting an 'A' if you don't remember everything. You would think the cummulative stuff would be a soft ball... no so

Yeah, same here. I thought cummulative stuff would be 'big ticket' items..but at least half of it wasn't. Silly me! How many schools do cats? It apparently aggravates our instructor that other schools don't do cats. As we say all the time 'why can't the cat be a small dog?'

 

[VAgirl]

As we say all the time 'why can't the cat be a small dog?'

Because they're spiteful that way. I love cats, don't get me wrong, but the fact that they're so different from the other species we study in so many ways just validates the rest of their personality--they do it to spite us. 🙂

 

[No Imagination]

We do cats (well, sort of) - We are responsible to know everything in them, we each have one to dissect, but in truth, we are only tested on the differences in them as opposed to dogs.

Basically, we concentrate:
40% Canine
40% Equine
15% feline
5% bovine (really just osteology on bovine).

Now, this will probably change once we get into organs next semester, I am sure there will be a lot on the ruminants that we go into detail with... but limbs, thats the break down so far.

I really like the set up.

We have a dog and a cat (1 per 4 people) to do what we wish with
Everyday, they wheel out 3-4 equine legs, and the 4 profs., dissect it out in front of us, going ever everything as they do it. Then they leave the last out to review.

You can wander from prof. to prof, each have their own strengths and different teaching styles.

BTW, do any of you guys use "Stick Figures?"

I LOVE them - basally its 2D representation of a limb, and it allows you to really visualize the muscles, insertions, and understand the actions.

 

[Caninerepro]

I really like the set up.

We have a dog and a cat (1 per 4 people) to do what we wish with
Everyday, they wheel out 3-4 equine legs, and the 4 profs., dissect it out in front of us, going ever everything as they do it. Then they leave the last out to review.

You can wander from prof. to prof, each have their own strengths and different teaching styles.

QUOTE]

That sounds really cool. Here at MN we work in 3's. each week we rotate male dog, female dog, cat. We will start pony/goat in about a month. Test 2 is Monday: abdomen, thorax and vasculature/innervation of above and legs. We have head/neck after that for the next unit.

 

[starlene45]

I wanna come! Except that I'm still bitter about not getting in. Might be awkward, the not-so-secret fuming. I want to go to the SAVMA symposium in Madison as well. Is it common for first years to go?

No no, you will have way too much fun to have time for fuming, secret or not-so-secret.... I don't think it's too unusual for 1st yrs to go to the SAVMA Symposium, the upperclassmen are really really encouraging us to go, althoughhhhh it IS right before a set of finals for us, I think. But I think I will go anyway. I study better when I've got the fun outta my system.

Anyway, hope to see some of you at UW-Mad in March 2010, and hope to see ALL of you in Davis in March 2011! 😀😎

 

[HopefulAg]

Yes, we lose professionalism points..

You've caught my interest. What are these? I have an idea from the context but what all do you lose them for aside from skipping lab? Can you gain them?

 

[sumstorm]

You've caught my interest. What are these? I have an idea from the context but what all do you lose them for aside from skipping lab? Can you gain them?

In the grand scheme of things, it is something like 5% of the grade, 60 pts worth (quizes are 30pts, tests are 280 or something like that...6 quizes, 3 tests with one test divided into 2 sections, quizes are written, tests are ~60% practical ~40% written....those are estimates, I don't have a syallabus with me!)

You start out with the points, and then lose them if you skip lab, don't help with clean up (group cadavers and groups take turns scrubbing down the lab), create disruptions, damage things, etc. Also, your lab group (we are in groups of 3 per cadaver, then at each set of tables are 3 cadavers so 9 students) evaluates each other several times a semester, issueing grades to each other. Those are part of the professionalism points (I guess if you got all A's in that part, you wouldn't lose points, but that less than A's would lose points....not terribly clear on that part.) Can't say that I am fond of that part of the course. Especially since with my first group it meant I couldn't just come in later and use my time more productively.

We are tested during practicals on cats, dogs, prosections, radiographs, palpations, and bones this semester (pretty sure every cadaver in lab is used) and next semester will be the blend of all hte large cadavers. So for schools that are doing limbs comparatively; do you not dissect out the whole animal?

 

[No Imagination]

So for schools that are doing limbs comparatively; do you not dissect out the whole animal?

Not sure i understand the question. Dog and Cat - we have a 'dog' or 'cat' and we start cutting.

For the Horse, we have a FRESH specimen... wow - Fresh is SO MUCH BETTER then preserved... not sure why, but the muscles just seem so much more, I don't know, powerful?. Anyway, they just wheel in a horse leg on a cart (cut off the horse) - and we dissect away. i think they use the bodies of the horse for Equine Med (a second year class).

After 3-4 weeks, the non-preserved starts smelling 'funcky', but not at all 'bad'.

Did I answer your question?

 

[cuitlamiztli]

I agree, it's interesting to see how different schools are handling anatomy.

Fall semester here is dedicated to the dog... our first test was over bones, muscles, and joints; second was over the organs; and third (coming up next Thursday) is over the cardiovascular system and lymphatics. Then we move to nerves and I think the ear and eye. Each test is also partially cumulative. We don't touch cats at all, except that we learned that cats have a hamate and suprahamate process rather than an acromion and that they don't have a nuchal ligament.

We'll do large animals (comparative) next semester, but as far as I know each group will only dissect a cow, horse, or goat. The instructors will handle the pig for us.

 

[david594]

At OSU we are on the quarter system and our first quarter is strictly canine anatomy. Each group is 4 people and a dog. We started with the thoracic limb in its entirety(extrinsic and intrinsic muscles, nerves, arteries and veins, bones and joints). We then moved on to the thorax and did everything on it and this week we just moved onto the head. Last will be abdomen and then pelvic limb(not sure of the order off hand).

Winter quarter we will do equine anatomy at which point each group will then get its own horse. And then spring quarter we have I think farm animal anatomy which is mostly pro-sections already prepared for us. No real dissecting in that one.

Our canine anatomy mentions the occasional feline thing like them having supracondylar foramen with the brachial artery and median never running through it. We also have an elective we can take later on specifically on feline anatomy.

 

[sumstorm]

No Imagination, you did answer it very well! Thank you. my understanding of ours is that we will be working whole LA cadavers, but I don't know if they are preserved or not. I know the suspension system for them is pretty impressive. Our cats and dogs are, but we have also had unpreserved specimens for some things (like detecting crucial ligament injuries.) Also, the wetlabs are almost always fresh cadavers. We are responsible for a couple hundred differences between the dog and cat (both written and practical.) Makes the cat dissections a bit more stressful (really, seriously, you want us to find that nerve/artery in this muscle that wants to shred if we even breath near it?)

It is amazing how different the schools are. I wonder what the differences are between other classes?

 

[IvyLynx]

No Imagination, you did answer it very well! Thank you. my understanding of ours is that we will be working whole LA cadavers, but I don't know if they are preserved or not. I know the suspension system for them is pretty impressive. Our cats and dogs are, but we have also had unpreserved specimens for some things (like detecting crucial ligament injuries.) Also, the wetlabs are almost always fresh cadavers. We are responsible for a couple hundred differences between the dog and cat (both written and practical.) Makes the cat dissections a bit more stressful (really, seriously, you want us to find that nerve/artery in this muscle that wants to shred if we even breath near it?)

It is amazing how different the schools are. I wonder what the differences are between other classes?

Nope, the LA stuff is NOT preserved. Couple of people in our class were told to wear scrubs or something next semester, because it gets so messy.

 

[sumstorm]

Nope, the LA stuff is NOT preserved. Couple of people in our class were told to wear scrubs or something next semester, because it gets so messy.

Thanks for the warning...but now I can't imagine the lab...then again, with those large of specimens, as much as my eyes sting now, I would probably cry all through lab! See you back in class tomorrow!

 

[eventualeventer]

Wow, I can't wait to get in and get to dissect large animals. Sorry SA people, but the equine body is absolutely amazing to me. I'm sure I won't be quite as enthralled when I'm stressing about remembering everything, but it is just incredible to see the tendons and ligaments that are subject to so much force and the seemingly endless GI tract. </geek>

 

[rileyroo]

Sorry SA people, but the equine body is absolutely amazing to me.

agreed!!! 😀

 

[Shanomong]

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[OnceBitten]

I don't think I've seen any Mizzou 2013ers chime in. They keep you all locked away in the basement all day. Almost never get to see you all. 😉

LOL It's true. The shackles are cozier than expected, however. 🙂

We're just over two months in at Mizzou and I'm having the time of my life.

Yes, it's hard. Want to know how hard? Think of having finals week in undergrad every single week and finally reaching a week where you only have ONE exam scheduled, when you think you have time for a mental break (ha!), and then a professor announces mid-lecture, "By the way, we're having a quiz in two days!" Studying for quizzes is no different than studying for exams, and it is a little depressing to lose that long-awaited break with what you thought was going to be only one exam LOL. All of us in the class feel like we're constantly playing catch up, and we are, and we always will be. The vast majority of the class has come to accept and embrace it as much as possible, and we are a wonderful support system for each other.

We are also wonderful drinking buddies. Yes, you WILL have time to have both school-appropriate and non-school-appropriate fun. Just plan your weekends (and week days and nights and lunch times and...) wisely, and you won't have a problem getting enough social interaction to keep you going until your next night out. That's not to say that you don't have to make the time to do it, along with making time for significant others, family, and pets, but it can be done. I've had enough spare time so far to add a 5 (now 12) week old kitten and a job onto my plate, although I'm only doing the latter to gain residency lol. No one that I know of is working more than 12 or so hours a week, but that is doable, as well.

The classes are occasionally frustrating, but are enjoyable overall. Our professors are passionate about what they're doing and, with few exceptions, are willing to joke around with us and don't take themselves so seriously that they've forgotten what it's like to be in our vet student shoes. I do wish that they would tie in more clinical cases to their lectures, but I'm very pleased with the ones we are exposed to and am already training myself to stop thinking "I need to know this for the exam" and, instead, think "I need to know this for my career."

We have at least one exam per week and are coming up to a week very soon with three exams back to back to back just before Thanksgiving that we're all dreading. We've all learned to hit the ground running after each exam to minimize the pain of the next exam day, but it's not easy. Particularly when everything is cumulative, save for one class, and when some classes like to quiz you on material from OTHER classes.

Aside from all of the serious business up top, I can't imagine being anywhere else right now. I love it here. I love the town, I love the people, and I know now why so many vets say that they met their best friends in vet school. Mizzou also hands us opportunities right and left to gain more experience, go see conferences, get our feet wet in our future career, and network with people who just might be our future employers on top of encouraging us to not give up our entire lives in order to get an A over a B. Yes, they want us to succeed, but they know (and we do, too) that none of us will make it out of this alive if we don't have an outlet for friends, family, pets, and fun that is totally unrelated to veterinary medicine.

I know this will be useless, just like it was for me when I was applying, but to all of you who are in the middle of this application season, relax. Have fun. Develop new interests, see new things, and don't worry about what books and supplies you'll need for your first block. The school will tell you everything that you need to know when you need to know it (and feel free to PM me if they don't 😉). Everything will fall into place and everything will be all right.

Enough out of me for now lol. If anyone wants to know anything more specific than that about Mizzou, send a PM my way and I'd be happy to help you out! We're all anxious for the new interviewees to come pouring in this winter and spring, and good luck to you all!

 

[Caninerepro]

Well stated, and a really accurate painting of what first year has been like for me as well. 👍, yet at the same time 😛😱

 

[flyhi]

Great post OnceBitten...thanks! Sounds like you are having an awesome time and balancing everything really well. Good for you!

 

[MAbovines]

I found this forum right about interview time last year, so I haven't posted too much. Just wanted to jump in here and let you know how much I love it at Prince Edward Island. Classes are definitely hard, and it can be stressful, but like everyone says, it's all about the balance. I've managed to still have fun, get a job, and still stay on top of things for classes. We just got done midterms, which included some sleep deprived nights and frustration, but I feel pretty good about them overall.
My favorite parts are wet labs, such as doing bovine full physicals, etc. Large animal rounds are also awesome, you start to put some of that stuff you learn in class into use thinking about weekly cases. And we also get assigned a teaching beagle to walk during the semester, so it's nice to have some live animal handling instead of just staring at our cadavers all day.
For me, I also love the area here. I'm from MA, so PEI is not to different, and it sure is beautiful here. Anyways, if anyone is interested in the AVC, feel free to pm me. I just wanted to let everyone know that I'm enjoying it here, even if it is windy almost every day!
(it's late, so I'm not spell checking so hopefully i didn't make too many spelling errors🙂)

 

[Shanomong]

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[sunshinevet]

We're currently in final exams for first year. Yesterday, I took my last physiology exam. Ever. On friday, will be my last anatomy exam (thank god)!😀

 

[dgm]

Yikes, I don't even want to think about finals yet!

 

[TurtleLover]

Seriously? As of today, I just took my radiology final exam and that makes the 5th completed class of the semester (we started mid August). We have 4 more to complete by Dec. 11....but we aren't just starting them, that's for sure, they have been on going and staggered throughout different parts of the semester.

Just wanted to say that we're a few months in, and as of today we've completed an ENTIRE class (yaaayyyy!), and I"m still having "oh ****, I'm in vet school, this is so awesome!!" moments 😀

Gl to everyone this application cycle!

 

[dgm]

We started all six classes for the semester at the same time (first week of September), and the two shorter ones (one was 11 hours of lecture + 6 hours in lab, the other was 20 hours of lecture + 10 hours in lab) wrap up before Thanksgiving. The rest continue till mid-December. And of course, Anatomy won't end until about March.

 

[Shanomong]

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[dgm]

lol are you in denial about the fact that we've completed one final already?

Nope, just lumping the week before Thanksgiving and the week of Thanksgiving together. Although I would like to forget all memories of that final.

 

[starlene45]

I am putting these on the UCD 2014 thread but thought I'd share here as well...

This is what a few of us have been up to over the last few weeks, inbetween studying for histo, epidemiology, anatomy, and physiochem exams...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnSnfDitQPw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJem_nOhbJE

The big event is this Saturday night... hopefully we'll make a buttload of money, and I won't fall down in my high heeled girly shoes...

vet school rules. in the 1st video you can see one of our anatomy profs, dr. meyers, doing a hilarious slow-mo-dance move...and yes, in the 2nd video, those 3 dudes walking down the hall are 3 of our physiochem professors, and the guy you can hear singing is dr. cortopassi, you can see him in the phantom mask. yup. davis rules.

 

[sumstorm]

We have anatomy final completed, physio tomorrow, then Monday is histo, Tues is Bact, and Wed is TAU (teaching animal unit, food animal) Then we are done for the semester, except for selectives (1 week courses on special topics.)