Class of 2015... How ya doing?

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Bearby said:
School is still a week and a half away and I'm already falling back into the routine of not being able to fall asleep and if I do fall asleep, having nightmares that wake me up and keep me from going back to sleep.

My anxiety has gotten ridiculous and it's so funny to me that I can work all day and apply my knowledge of vet med without stressing myself out. Why is it that sitting in a classroom and exams of my knowledge cause me such panic? Idk
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I'm already worried too! I don't miss having precious little free time, stressing out over exams, and being back in Philly. Blahhhhhhh
 
Bearby said:
School is still a week and a half away and I'm already falling back into the routine of not being able to fall asleep and if I do fall asleep, having nightmares that wake me up and keep me from going back to sleep.

My anxiety has gotten ridiculous and it's so funny to me that I can work all day and apply my knowledge of vet med without stressing myself out. Why is it that sitting in a classroom and exams of my knowledge cause me such panic? Idk
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Sorry to hear this Bearby - I doubt you are alone. Still 5 (very short) weeks till we go back, but I do feel slightly anxious. I think that vet students put a lot of pressure on themselves to be perfect when it comes to classes and exams. Maybe it stems from the difficulty of actually getting into vet school.

Enjoy the rest of your summer!!😎
 
Packen said:
Sorry to hear this Bearby - I doubt you are alone. Still 5 (very short) weeks till we go back, but I do feel slightly anxious. I think that vet students put a lot of pressure on themselves to be perfect when it comes to classes and exams. Maybe it stems from the difficulty of actually getting into vet school.

Enjoy the rest of your summer!!😎
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Don't remind me about how short the next 5 weeks really are... We have exams then... :scared:
 
A little over two weeks left in the summer for us. I have one week off (next week, yay!), then one more week of day camp work, then classes start. Plus, in all of that, I have to pack up my current place and be ready to move into the new place for September 1. Too much! Ack!
 
We start on Monday! Time flew this summer!
 
PetPony said:
I totally thought you were Dandy and was a bit confused.. :laugh:

I'm starting to get used to the messed up avatars.. 🙄
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Personally, I think everyone should have different pictures of my horse as their avatar. Who wants 'em?? 🙂 lol
 
I'm in denial that classes start on Monday. I have downloaded some notes, but I haven't gotten my parking pass nor have I gotten a new ID to reflect my name change after the wedding. Oops.
 
First week and first exam in the bag!
Cardio is awesome but a lot to learn in a relatively short period of time so definitely not a "soft" start in to the year.

There has been some seat shifting. EVERY SINGLE DAY. I don't like not knowing where I'm going to sit. 🙁 (yes - that really does stress me out. I know some people don't care but having a regular seat is something that really helps with my anxiety. Strange..I know...)
 
heylodeb said:
There has been some seat shifting. EVERY SINGLE DAY. I don't like not knowing where I'm going to sit. 🙁 (yes - that really does stress me out. I know some people don't care but having a regular seat is something that really helps with my anxiety. Strange..I know...)
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We had a major class blowout over the whole seat thing last year. It amazed me how unprofessional people can be. It's not that complicated: people who value having the same seat ought to be given that courtesy because hey, it's important to them. Even if it seems strange to the people that don't care. People who don't should feel free to move around amongst themselves to their heart's delight.

No reason everyone can't just respect each other. It was so frustrating.
 
anyone have Dr. Mittal for viro at purdue? he's visiting for lectures at SGU and no one has any clue what is going on in class! test in two weeks :scared:
 
LetItSnow said:
We had a major class blowout over the whole seat thing last year. It amazed me how unprofessional people can be. It's not that complicated: people who value having the same seat ought to be given that courtesy because hey, it's important to them. Even if it seems strange to the people that don't care. People who don't should feel free to move around amongst themselves to their heart's delight.

No reason everyone can't just respect each other. It was so frustrating.
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👍👍👍

On the other side of things, today I caught myself looking in the mirror in my sweatpants and t-shirt (which were also my pajamas) and thinking to myself, "No one will know I'm in my pajamas if I just go to school like this?!"

It's only week 2. :laugh:

(and for those who are worried - I was slightly horrified at how quickly I decompensated this semester so I forced myself to not only get changed but to also do my makeup and hair, lol)
 
jmo1012 said:
anyone have Dr. Mittal for viro at purdue? he's visiting for lectures at SGU and no one has any clue what is going on in class! test in two weeks :scared:
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We don't have Dr. Mittal this semester, but I think in the spring? Thanks for the heads up that we have a lot to look forward to... 😛
 
I just realized we may need stethoscopes this week. I have one, except I've already packed it for the move and I'm not sure which box it's in... 😳 I'm trying to leave school stuff out, but I never considered that I'd need my stethoscope the first week until I saw the Clin O schedule.
 
Ok, I'm freaking out a little bit. To everyone who has started classes again, do you feel like you got back into the swing of things pretty easily? The beginning of last year was pretty rough for me, but after a full school year of proving to myself that I can do it/learning new study habits/getting used to living alone/etc I'm hoping this year won't be so fraught with drama. I'm nervous though:scared:
 
goldnretrivrgrl said:
Ok, I'm freaking out a little bit. To everyone who has started classes again, do you feel like you got back into the swing of things pretty easily? The beginning of last year was pretty rough for me, but after a full school year of proving to myself that I can do it/learning new study habits/getting used to living alone/etc I'm hoping this year won't be so fraught with drama. I'm nervous though:scared:
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Fell back into the norm ridiculously quickly. It helped that we had an exam the first Friday to get the panic started early. 🙂
 
Off we go, Year 2 kicks off 8:30 tomorrow morning with Clinical Orientation II. Followed by Pharmacology/Toxicology, Bacteriology, Public Health, and two hours of Diagnostic Imaging.
 
jmo1012 said:
two hours of any class should just never be allowed. ever. period.😎
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I took biochem last semester and we only met once a week for three hours at a time. Worst class was the time we powered through two and a half hours of lecture straight through. And this was starting at 6:30 PM. I don't think I remembered anything from that lecture the next morning.
 
LetItSnow said:
Amen. I could even handle two hours of a class if it were split up with something else in between. But by the second hour of lecture, I'm pretty much gone.
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nope, not a fan of this either. we had this for histo a few times. its lame, lame, lame.

the worst we've had was 4 hours of physical diagnosis II on day one where we did equine and LA med lectures with a 10 min break every hour. ugh! we were stuffed into a med lab too because we only have 3 classrooms for 6 terms and rotate use with labs on the other half (so i have labs am and lectures pm now)
 
jmo1012 said:
two hours of any class should just never be allowed. ever. period.😎
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I have a feeling you wouldn't be a fan of Davis's curriculum them. We regularly have 3-4 hours of the same material and almost ALWAYS have 2 hours in a row. Yay for block learning!
 
heylodeb said:
I have a feeling you wouldn't be a fan of Davis's curriculum them. We regularly have 3-4 hours of the same material and almost ALWAYS have 2 hours in a row. Yay for block learning!
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That makes me want to cry.
 
Thought I liked pathology until I had to look at histology slides.

I cannot see anything in these. This is worse than histology itself ever was for me🙁.

I feel muy estupido.
 
StartingoverVet said:
Thought I liked pathology until I had to look at histology slides.

I cannot see anything in these. This is worse than histology itself ever was for me🙁.

I feel muy estupido.
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That's better than me in gross path. For some reason fixed lungs and livers look sooo damn similar... esp when I'm already confused because there's something seriously wrong with it.

I'm one of those people that will absent mindedly blurt out answers when asked questions and looks veeeery stupid all.the.time I think any semblance of my ego has gone poof!
 
Minnerbelle said:
I'm one of those people that will absent mindedly blurt out answers when asked questions and looks veeeery stupid all.the.time I think any semblance of my ego has gone poof!
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Yes, vet school does this to us. And then last week when I was on clinics and the faculty were giving feedback, they were like "We know that you know what you're talking about, and you ask resident-level questions and have a well above average knowledge base, but why do you sound so hesitant when you present a case at rounds? It's like you have no confidence..."

*glare*
 
I'm not sure how to feel about special path, although it is interesting to see what all tends to go wrong in different systems. I do like virology right now. The lectures have been easy to follow, but she has assigned a few homeworks, and the first one has actually been challenging.

I do really want my husband to come back though. He's been on an away rotation for a couple of months now, and normally I talk to him every night, but I haven't gotten to talk to him in 4 days because I've had tests and he's been on call. I miss having someone to bounce ideas off of and relate vet med to human med (which helps me out a ton).

I have a job in the equine ICU at school, and that's cool. I worked my first real shift last weekend, and that was great because the student who's on the rotation that I was paired with was awesome and we just clicked. She explained all the current cases to me, and showed me how to do a ton of stuff I couldn't remember (it'd been 2 months since my training shift). I can tell I'll really like doing that this year, even though I won't have a ton of shifts.
 
classes start in 9 days... I had grandiose plans of reviewing anatomy and other parts of first year over the summer..... did not happen.... I was a drunk bum..... yep......

my schedule for the year looks daunting and I have to take an elective each semester.... my elective for first semester is Large Animal Hospital elective where I will take on shifts in the hospital assessing large animal cases mostly equine - the shifts will vary - the elective sounds super interesting and right up my alley, but of course will take up some of my free time/study time......

excited for 2nd year, but also enjoyed the time off....
 
I had so much trouble with the closed-gloving technique today that the surgeon took pity on me.

I didn't know surgeons *felt* pity.
 
Trying really really hard to ignore the fact that classes start in 4 days..

Not ready for immuno the first day back ugh.
 
It's crazy to me that some people haven't even started yet! We have our first exam on Friday. Somehow I'm not freaking out yet. I started back on my anxiety meds when I stopped sleeping at the end of the summer and they seem to be doing a good job. I'll take it.
 
that redhead said:
I'm not sure such a thing exists. Dishes, laundry, cleaning...I think last year I even spent a chunk of time cleaning up dog poop in my yard instead of studying 🙄
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omg that part made me :laugh: in my room by myself hahahahahahahah 👍👍
 
This week has been tough. Parasitology test on Wednesday, special path (repro and respiratory) test today, and virology tomorrow. I'm so glad tomorrow is the big "hey you survived your first anatomy exam" bash that we're having for the first years, because I know most of my class needs it as well. It's not that any of them on their own are awful. Okay, path might be. Our professor sounds like Forrest Gump and his slides are walls of text so it's easy to not pay attention, and he likes to ask those questions that are like:

What causes wool blankets to be soft?

a) The diet of the animal
b) The talent of the person behind the spinning wheel
c) The fabric softener you use
d) a and b
e) a and c
f) b and c
g) a, b and c

And about half of his questions are like that so it's a pain in the rear because there's always one you're not sure about.

I'm just glad I didn't spend any more time on it than I did. I made the conscious decision to let my mom come into town on Monday and spend the night, so some time was gone there. I also worked on Monday in the equine ICU, which was great, but I didn't study at all. Then I had a horseback riding lesson on Tuesday and had a blast, and then went on equine rounds on Wednesday to learn more about the patients I had seen on Monday. That was certainly the most time I've spent around horses in a given week in my life, but knowing that I could do that and survive these tests was probably good for me.
 
scb44f said:
he likes to ask those questions that are like:

What causes wool blankets to be soft?

a) The diet of the animal
b) The talent of the person behind the spinning wheel
c) The fabric softener you use
d) a and b
e) a and c
f) b and c
g) a, b and c

And about half of his questions are like that so it's a pain in the rear because there's always one you're not sure about.
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Our physiology professor was like that last year, and there was a skit about it where it was like, "Dr. Physiology is having a lunch lecture and wants to know what kind of pizza toppings everyone wants. a) cheese, b) pepperoni c) mushrooms d) peppers e) pineapple f) extra cheese g) black olives h) sausage i) chicken j) a and b" etcetc. It was pretty funny 😀
 
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