Class of 2016....how ya doing?

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Trilt said:
Our first final is on Saturday. Saturday. I really feel like vet school is just an elaborate torture that I'm paying a lot of money to go through. :laugh:
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WHAAAT?!
We have finals this week and start a brand new set of classes Monday. May 17th is our last day. (The 18th is my bday) Best present ever vet school!!!!) :woot:
 
I don't get done until the end of May... Have exams April 22nd- 26th. Then an in course assessment essay due on May 6th, then exams the week of May 27th.... So much work to do.

Then I have to do 6 weeks of EMS over the summer break... sigh. I will finally have a day off sometime in mid-July, when I have to move to a new flat. So basically no time to relax until August.
 
My last final is May 22nd I think and then I'm either starting work the following week or two weeks later.

However, right now I'm just looking forward to next weekend when I'll get to neuter my first cats!

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Last final, May 2. We start back in mid/late July, so we still only get 12 weeks off.
 
Last day of finals is May 7.

Thaaaaank God. I need summer so bad.
 
Last final's April 19th, then two weeks of electives afterward... so last day of classes is May 3rd. A week later I'll be in Africa. 😀
 
Trilt said:
Last final's April 19th, then two weeks of electives afterward... so last day of classes is May 3rd. A week later I'll be in Africa. 😀
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I bless the rains down in Africa...😎

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Had our first midterm today, two more to go. Last final May 10th, can't wait for summer! :banana:
 
I am starting to feel a little anxious about my summer plans. I will be returning to my clinic to work as a tech full time, but I feel like this just isn't good enough. I've heard many times from upperclassmen not to waste summers. I know I will get a lot of great experience and will make a lot of money, but I feel like I should be doing more. I think I am going to send my resume to a few of the local referral hospitals to see if they will let me shadow their specialists, particularly in the fields I am interested in- radiology and emergency med.

Is there anyone else just going back to their clinic at home? I really hope the veterinarians will be more interactive with me and allow me to help with their cases (one of them was really proactive about this over winter break, she was great and let me work up a bladder stone case with her, all the way to completing the surgery).
 
I haven't gotten a job yet, so I am really anxious too. I have a part time research project that will be really fun (cold laser on rattlesnake bite dogs!), but nothing to pay the bills yet. Our upperclassmen have been telling us that we don't need to do anything during the summers. Everyone in my class has really cool summer projects/ conferences/ externships, so I worry that I am not being active enough.
 
I am going back to the emergency clinic part time and rehabbing all summer. Summer is a time to take a break from the vet school craziness! The way I see it is I only have 2 more summers to rehab as much as I want then I won't be able to rehab at all 3rd year, so I'm taking advantage of that and enjoying rehabbing this summer 🙂.
 
psilovethomas said:
I am starting to feel a little anxious about my summer plans. I will be returning to my clinic to work as a tech full time, but I feel like this just isn't good enough. I've heard many times from upperclassmen not to waste summers. I know I will get a lot of great experience and will make a lot of money, but I feel like I should be doing more. I think I am going to send my resume to a few of the local referral hospitals to see if they will let me shadow their specialists, particularly in the fields I am interested in- radiology and emergency med.

Is there anyone else just going back to their clinic at home? I really hope the veterinarians will be more interactive with me and allow me to help with their cases (one of them was really proactive about this over winter break, she was great and let me work up a bladder stone case with her, all the way to completing the surgery).
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I thought it would be better for me to close the book on employment at the clinic I worked at to summer 2016, and try something new, so I'm not going back. That said, it wasn't a calculated decision. Shadowing at an emergency hospital and an externship, while adding solid experiences, will leave my wallet empty. There's a slight tradeoff to making a lot of money (which you'll have) to unpaid learning. Our upperclassmen were all over the place. Some relaxed for 12 weeks, a bunch traveled to SA or Africa volunteering, a few did cool research in fields they're interested in, others externed/interned, a few returned to clinics where they'll be working when they graduate. In other words, I don't think it matters much what you do/don't do during your summer after first year. Our summer is only 12 weeks, and we're back for 2nd year in late July. There isn't really a "to do" list appropriate for all. After 4 years making sure we're a competitive undergrad for vet school admissions, it's so nice not to have worry about that nagging competitive edge driving our decisions.😀
 
Bleh. Practicals are starting to piss me off. I feel like I'm studying well and know a lot but my grades never show it. I'm constantly at the bottom of the distribution. I'm passing so its fine, but its still uber frustrating to know that tests don't reflect how much I know.
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Done with my last written half of an anatomy test... just the practical in half an hour and I'll be done with anatomy FOREVER. 😀
 
Uh, trying to get through renal physiology lectures is like watching paint dry. Moved to anatomy to spice things up and tried to memorize a gazillion foramen = unsuccessful study day.
 
bbeventer said:
Uh, trying to get through renal physiology lectures is like watching paint dry. Moved to anatomy to spice things up and tried to memorize a gazillion foramen = unsuccessful study day.
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Renal seriously almost killed me. By far the least interesting and worst taught class of the semester. It seems like it should be SO interesting but man, it isn't. 😴
 
Camelidcrazy said:
Renal seriously almost killed me. By far the least interesting and worst taught class of the semester. It seems like it should be SO interesting but man, it isn't. 😴
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The second I seem to have a concept it flutters away from me like a little butterfly. All these annoying calculations for GFR aren't helping either.
 
DVMDream said:
I feel like the odd vet student all the subjects others don't like, I do... I liked renal physiology. 🙂
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Haha, me too! It was by far my best test grade in phys as well. But to be fair, we didn't have to do any GFR calculations.
I also love anatomy-feel free to hate me, I understand.
 
CanHardlyWait said:
Haha, me too! It was by far my best test grade in phys as well. But to be fair, we didn't have to do any GFR calculations.
I also love anatomy-feel free to hate me, I understand.
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We didn't have to calculate GFR either, but he went over what is involved in GFR calculation and then told us it is kind of pointless to calculate it, since it changes constantly depending upon what is going on at that particular time.
 
we were taught GFR in renal phys and pharmacology. I think the pharm professor said it would be on the NAVLE, so that's why we learned it....twice.
 
Bleh to renal physiology. Only reason I did well on that test is because the professor pretty much uses the exact same exam questions every year.

Yay to neutering my first cats yesterday!!! And yay to class bar crawl!!

Boo that I am now hungover and have to study for radiology. 🙁
 
DVMDream said:
I feel like the odd vet student all the subjects others don't like, I do... I liked renal physiology. 🙂
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I liked a lot of phys once I stopped being tested on it (but that was mostly due to our phys professor's testing style...). I tutor for it now to the first years. Cardiac, renal, acid-base, respiratory... A lot of it is very elegant once you get it. But I know not everyone gets it, and I totally sympathize with them. Like me and o-chem. Some people just get it. My brain firmly rejects it.
 
This is our last week of classes and we have a pharm final on Thursday. 5 finals the following week. Our last final is May 3rd! My boyfriend is flying up on the 1st to help me pack and drive home with me. I cannot wait to be at home with him for the whole summer!😍
 
I actually enjoy most of the physiology we have covered so far... renal is just confusing... but that can be because our normal patient is a 70kg male human 🙄
 
I was stupid and waited until the day before the exam to really start studying... ok maybe it was because I was working a lot with lambing, but I could have tried to study before lambing right after completing my other exams, but I just wanted some time off away from vet school. Ugh. Now I have exams all this upcoming week and I have barely studied anything... I am through exotics and moving onto horses, but still not holding out much hope for passing.

Tomorrow is horse and exotic animal handling exams. Have to handle animals safely while be asked questions about the husbandry of the animals. 10 minutes for exotics, 10 minutes for horses. Tuesday is cat and dog handling.. same thing safe handling and questions (not worried about this really). Wednesday is sheep and cattle handling (Have I mentioned how much I hate sheep? I do, I really do, after these last two weeks, I am ok not seeing sheep ever again.) I guess the good news is that I am quite comfortable with handling them, but I am expecting to fail the cattle handling... I can't get a mouth gag in the cow to save my life. Then Friday is the written exam on animal husbandry, welfare and food safety... someone shoot me now. :bang:
 
DVMDream said:
Tomorrow is horse and exotic animal handling exams. Have to handle animals safely while be asked questions about the husbandry of the animals. 10 minutes for exotics, 10 minutes for horses. Tuesday is cat and dog handling.. same thing safe handling and questions (not worried about this really). Wednesday is sheep and cattle handling (Have I mentioned how much I hate sheep? I do, I really do, after these last two weeks, I am ok not seeing sheep ever again.) I guess the good news is that I am quite comfortable with handling them, but I am expecting to fail the cattle handling... I can't get a mouth gag in the cow to save my life. Then Friday is the written exam on animal husbandry, welfare and food safety... someone shoot me now. :bang:
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I am sitting here thinking how much fun that sounds 😳...more fun than any of my exams.
The most immediate of which is intestine phys, which I waited to study for until the last day before the exam, then procrastinated by going to an awesome alpaca necropsy this afternoon. Looks like we're in similar situations, DVMDream. Procrastination always seems like such a good idea at the time.
My solution: drinking wine while studying, cuz it seems like a- an awesome way to make the time go faster and b- an awesome tribute to GI fermentation, which I am studying right now :laugh:
 
Yay! I get to be an Orientation Leader for the incoming class!

And we took our radiology final this morning and at like noon they had already emailed us telling us we'd have them back this week and posted the class spread online...wayyyy too on top of it for me.
 
orca2011 said:
Bleh to renal physiology. Only reason I did well on that test is because the professor pretty much uses the exact same exam questions every year.

Yay to neutering my first cats yesterday!!! And yay to class bar crawl!!

Boo that I am now hungover and have to study for radiology. 🙁
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I loved renal physiology.... different strokes for different folks I guess.
 
3 finals down, 3 to go and done with 6 of my 9 courses. Musculoskeletal is tomorrow though, and I still have 60 pages to read through- for the first time 😱. I'm not sure how I let myself get so far behind, but it's not gonna be pretty. At least I'm gonna pass (at least I hope so!) since I did well on the midterm, but definitely not gonna be my best work. I started off liking the course, but towards the end it became so tedious and boring 😴. Have fallen asleep so many times while watching the podcasts. This time tomorrow and it'll be over though 😀
 
Had an awesome night with professors and my classmates.... Funny stories, sing-alongs, yummy food... And I won a scholarship! I was super surprised, as I was the only first-year to get it. Nights like this help make vet school more enjoyable.
 
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Well, two things today: Had an exam this morning... .that was umm... we won't talk about that.

Also got my grade back on the exams that we had before Easter Break: I PASSED!!! 😀 😀 (I actually felt that I did better than the grade that I received but who the hell cares... I PASSED!!! 🙂)

Now just waiting for the results of the handling exams and today's exam. Then AB4 exams at the end of May and I should be free for the summer, minus animal husbandry EMS. 🙂

ETA: Animal handling exam scores back in: I PASSED!!!! I am pleasantly surprised. Really, really :xf: that by some miracle I passed today's exam as well, but it was really bad.
 
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DVMDream said:
Also got my grade back on the exams that we had before Easter Break: I PASSED!!! 😀 😀 (I actually felt that I did better than the grade that I received but who the hell cares... I PASSED!!! 🙂)

Now just waiting for the results of the handling exams and today's exam. Then AB4 exams at the end of May and I should be free for the summer, minus animal husbandry EMS. 🙂

ETA: Animal handling exam scores back in: I PASSED!!!! I am pleasantly surprised. .
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:clap::clap: Yay!
 
Jamr0ckin said:
Had an awesome night with professors and my classmates.... Funny stories, sing-alongs, yummy food... And I won a scholarship! I was super surprised, as I was the only first-year to get it. Nights like this help make vet school more enjoyable.
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Congratulations! We got to enjoy the leftover food in clinics today haha. It was devoured in no time. Remember that you snooze you lose when it comes to food in the clinic. :laugh:
 
Yay! Congrats, Jam! You definitely deserve it!
 
No motivation for my anatomy lecture final exam tomorrow. I don't even have to take it and will still do well in the class. I wish I could just go the exam, answer one question, and then leave. But my crazy psycho brain will not let me do that. So now I am frantically trying to learn equine and ruminant limbs. Major 🙁😴
 
skittles12 said:
Congratulations! We got to enjoy the leftover food in clinics today haha. It was devoured in no time. Remember that you snooze you lose when it comes to food in the clinic. :laugh:
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Thank you! Glad you got some food!

And thank you, Emiloo!

Finals are coming... Uggggghhhhh
 
Two finals left. Two finals left. Two finals left.

Curse you, pharmacology. There is no reason (that I can fathom, anyway), that I need to learn the actions of 7 different drugs on the pupil diameter of the eye, and what would happen if there was a lesion in one of four locations. You see, this is NOT an ophthalmology class! Grrrrrrrr...

Thank goodness my final on Tuesday (path/immuno) is a group final. Woohoo!
 
NStarz said:
Two finals left. Two finals left. Two finals left.

Curse you, pharmacology. There is no reason (that I can fathom, anyway), that I need to learn the actions of 7 different drugs on the pupil diameter of the eye, and what would happen if there was a lesion in one of four locations. You see, this is NOT an ophthalmology class! Grrrrrrrr...

Thank goodness my final on Tuesday (path/immuno) is a group final. Woohoo!
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A group final?! That sounds awesome!! How does that work?
 
Working on a case study for a dog with horizontal nystagmus and hypermetria of the left forelimb. Have to come up with 3 differential diagnoses, additional diagnoses if the onset was more gradual, the prognosis of each one (not the hard part) and then what would be different about them on an MRI...

I don't know this stuff yet. I might have successfully located the legsion, but that doesn't mean i know what causes it or what it would like on an MRI...different shades of black, grey and white??
 
orca2011 said:
Working on a case study for a dog with horizontal nystagmus and hypermetria of the left forelimb. Have to come up with 3 differential diagnoses, additional diagnoses if the onset was more gradual, the prognosis of each one (not the hard part) and then what would be different about them on an MRI...

I don't know this stuff yet. I might have successfully located the legsion, but that doesn't mean i know what causes it or what it would like on an MRI...different shades of black, grey and white??
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it depends on what your differentials are. typically, you see mass effects on MRI, changes in the uniformity of organs, or dis-symmetry. You will sometimes see changes in color/different shades of black, grey and white.
 
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