Class of 2016....how ya doing?

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I got an older version of the book for my group on Amazon for $6 and we're just gonna use that and I don't care what it looks like by the end because I'm just gonna pitch it.
 
Today has been much better than yesterday. The lecture hall was cooler and more comfortable. Lectures were interesting, too. I have an hour and 40 minute lunch break. Studying anatomy in the reading room right now...I've got all of the anatomical terms down for the thoracic limb bones. I've got my first histo lab and clinics lab this afternoon.
 
Yesterday I finally got home and got right to studying since I had a meeting for a club at 5:30. So I had gotten up at 5, studied from 6-7:15 went to class all day, came home and studied for an hour and a half then went back and then find out that the "meeting" was a lecture on trauma. The lecture was very good and the presenter was a board certified critical care vet and an excellent speaker, but I was just like 😱 not another hour and a half of school, I thought I was done with that for today. Then proceeded to think about all the studying I should be doing, got home after the meeting and read the rest of my articles for a group project I thought was due next Tuesday, but then they changed the date to the following Tuesday, which is good since we haven't covered most of the stuff we need to know to get it done. So, then went to bed at 9:45 and got up this morning at 5 again and now will repeat yesterday, minus the "meeting" from 5:30-7. I do have to go to anatomy lab after class, though, since we're behind again so probably won't get home until 5. I'm remembering now why I never joined clubs in undergrad (I took crazy courseloads then too with like 23-25 credit hours per semester). I really like the clubs and everyone else is like going and joining like everything, but I'm sticking with surgery club, Zoo and Wildlife Club, and Christian Vet Fellowship club. Plus the ones we pretty much have to join. If I decide I want to join more, I will next year. Well, better get studying.
 
Listening to pig husbandry lecture. The lecturer is really soft spoken, hard to start awake. She also reminds me of someone who would have run away from home as a kid to go to the country fair with her pig.
 
DVMDream said:
Listening to pig husbandry lecture. The lecturer is really soft spoken, hard to start awake. She also reminds me of someone who would have run away from home as a kid to go to the country fair with her pig.
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I feel like she would be my best friend.
 
Tco87 said:
BB and I had our blue coat ceremony tonight! $h*t just got real!

Just about everybody's rotations start tomorrow, except for mine. Mine starts Tuesday. I'm going to feel so left out!
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I was in on that ceremony! At least your rotation is way more exciting then the one I get this week......
 
I am actually feeling pretty good about everything today 😀. Feeling focused and my lab group for anatomy has come up with a plan that I think will work 🙂. We have a really good group! My group for epidemiology seems pretty on top of things too and we have a game plan going 🙂. Not too bad of classes and I survived two hours of Clinical Pathology today and didn't feel completely lost and hopeless 👍. Lab on Friday on PCV and TP and making a blood slide which I've done before 😀 and we get points for it! So, feeling much better than the other day, plus one more day closer to Friday and the long weekend 😀.

OK, the reason I came on: my phone came back to life a little today 🙂. Just got a white screen, but it was able to dial and actually connect the call and I talked for about 5 minutes before it cut out and died again. Hoping it is coming back though 🙂.

Back to Anatomy. I actually enjoy Anatomy despite how much work it is because it's a chance to get out of the auditorium and actually do something!
 
Filling out EMS Exemption forms right now. Each one is about 16 pages long, I have two of them to fill out. Then I have to make copies of them because we have to keep the copies for our portofolios. I am really only typing this because I am trying to procrastinate talking about the welfare/health risks involved with the ventilation/temperature/lighting/etc of the horse facility I volunteered at.
 
Well, I am glad these are due Friday because I can't keep my eyes open anymore...

Off to bed. I shall finish during my breaks tomorrow then come home and copy all of them and turn them in first thing Friday morning. (Ok, this is how it is working in my mind right now, we shall see what really happens.)
 
jessejames23 said:
I was in on that ceremony! At least your rotation is way more exciting then the one I get this week......
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Yes you were! I thought you were done with SDN so I didn't include you. My bad.

And I'm really glad that I don't have any of the lecture based rotations. I will definitely NOT be requesting that one next year.

I'm super excited for wildlife clinic! We signed up for teams today and mine seems pretty awesome!
 
class today from 9-5, rabies booster, then happy hour/dinner...didn't get home till 9. read for anatomy lab tomorrow and briefly reviewed today's anatomy stuff. now i'm tired.....yet i feel like i haven't done much today 😕
 
sunnex3 said:
class today from 9-5, rabies booster, then happy hour/dinner...didn't get home till 9. read for anatomy lab tomorrow and briefly reviewed today's anatomy stuff. now i'm tired.....yet i feel like i haven't done much today 😕
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You're not alone. I haven't really done anything today. I'm forcing myself to do a little bit now so I'm not a completely wasting the day.
 
and also.....even though i was a bio major in undergrad, kinda wishing i had a stronger basis in some bio classes 🙁
 
sunnex3 said:
and also.....even though i was a bio major in undergrad, kinda wishing i had a stronger basis in some bio classes 🙁
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Which ones in particular?? I'm sure histo and developmental will end up being challenging for me because I have no background in those. We can struggle together if those are one of them!
 
orca2011 said:
Which ones in particular?? I'm sure histo and developmental will end up being challenging for me because I have no background in those. We can struggle together if those are one of them!
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didn't have either in UG! instead i took stupid required courses like animal behavior and ecology....no idea why those were required for bio.

anyways, dev bio is definitely seeming more challenging to me right now than histology....histo wasn't too bad today i don't think.
 
First anatomy practical today. I'm feeling pretty good about it. Not 100% on everything, but enough to feel confident going in. :xf:
 
Emiloo4 said:
First anatomy practical today. I'm feeling pretty good about it. Not 100% on everything, but enough to feel confident going in. :xf:
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:xf: for you! Know you'll do great! 😀

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Tco87 said:
Yes you were! I thought you were done with SDN so I didn't include you. My bad.

And I'm really glad that I don't have any of the lecture based rotations. I will definitely NOT be requesting that one next year.

I'm super excited for wildlife clinic! We signed up for teams today and mine seems pretty awesome!
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Nope, I would never be done with SDN! I just forgot to check it in awhile. I don't know why anyone would request this one, but in all fairness I did get to stand on a horse 😀

My wildlife team looks amazing as well! I can't wait for all the exciting procedures and patients we get to do already!!!!
 
SUCK IT anatomy practical! Sorry your arse hurts from all the kickin it just got 😛
 
Emiloo4 said:
SUCK IT anatomy practical! Sorry your arse hurts from all the kickin it just got 😛
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Good job Emiloo! 👍 That is awesome!

So after much deliberation, I've decided to start my own blog so my family and friends can keep up with my exploits from half a country away. I've even written in my planner to remind me to write in it! 😎 That way, hopefully I'll actually keep up with it instead of just writing once and forgetting about it! If anyone happens to be interested, here's the url: http://vetstudentadventures.blogspot.com/

I hope it goes well! I enjoyed writing in it last night (you can tell because the first entry is huge 😱), so I want to keep it up. Ideally I'd like to write in it throughout school.
 
Met with the Army recruiter today to start my application for the HPSP scholarship. I thought the application for VET school was annoying! This is even WORSE! No idea how to keep up with vet school and start, let alone finish this application :scared:
 
Emiloo4 said:
Met with the Army recruiter today to start my application for the HPSP scholarship. I thought the application for VET school was annoying! This is even WORSE! No idea how to keep up with vet school and start, let alone finish this application :scared:
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I hear the app alone is like 50 pages. I also thought about that scholarship, but have heard mixed reviews, so I'm gonna wait and see how things pan out for me.

Oh and nice job kicking some arse in anatomy today! 😀
 
zanydogz said:
I hear the app alone is like 50 pages. I also thought about that scholarship, but have heard mixed reviews, so I'm gonna wait and see how things pan out for me.

Oh and nice job kicking some arse in anatomy today! 😀
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Thanks 😀. Don't have my grade back yet, but I felt pretty good leaving.

And yeah, I think it's 60 pages. Pretty sure it's not gonna be worth my time in the long run, but with this threat of OOS tuition, I'm definitely gonna try. Btw, update today: my file is "under review" 🙄
 
Emiloo4 said:
Thanks 😀. Don't have my grade back yet, but I felt pretty good leaving.

And yeah, I think it's 60 pages. Pretty sure it's not gonna be worth my time in the long run, but with this threat of OOS tuition, I'm definitely gonna try. Btw, update today: my file is "under review" 🙄
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Well, it's a start I guess. At least you know things are moving for now.
 
Yay for having internet back! Thanks, Isaac! Now my first two tests of vet school are on the same day...great.
 
Feeling a little overwhelmed right now....

And slightly jealous of those of you that have regular exams throughout the course. I wish we did, it would at least let me know if I am studying efficiently or not. Just have to hope I don't eff up this exam, it is my entire grade for Animal Body 1. :scared:
 
DVMDream said:
Feeling a little overwhelmed right now....

And slightly jealous of those of you that have regular exams throughout the course. I wish we did, it would at least let me know if I am studying efficiently or not. Just have to hope I don't eff up this exam, it is my entire grade for Animal Body 1. :scared:
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You can do it! That is one of the reasons I wouldn't apply to UK schools though. The whole 2 exams per class or whatever. I'd rather have a lot of tests and know where I stand then just a few and be screwed if I didn't do well. But you'll do great!
 
We have just a midterm and a final in a lot of our classes as well :scared:. You can do it, though, just keep studying and it'll be OK. At least that's what I'm telling myself 😀
 
Soooooo, sorry if I'm that annoyingly happy, bubbly girl, but hot damn do I love school.

It's, like, perfect. I like my professors, I like my classes - I even like the structure of being in class from 8-5 all day, and then coming home to study, too. <3

Granted, it helps a lot that I'm in a town I absolutely adore on a campus I absolutely adore with people that I really like, and hubby is out of town until next weekend so I've been able to set a routine for myself in the comfort and quiet of my own apartment. No distractions. Good deal. 👍

I have a study group that is on top of things, I got a good seat in the lecture hall , and I feel cautiously on top of everything. We're getting more of our classes thrown in to our routine this week, but so far I'm juggling everything just fine.

And I'm sticking to my plan of giving myself Friday nights and Saturdays off. Spent the day cooking, baking, cleaning, and allowing myself to prepare for the week ahead - and that's perfect for me.

😍😍😍 So happy I've been given this opportunity.
 
Mandible, skull and canine/feline dental anatomy down. Next stop... the spine, followed closely by the thoracic and pelvic limb bones, but first time for bed... 😴
 
squirrelsrule said:
We have just a midterm and a final in a lot of our classes as well :scared:. You can do it, though, just keep studying and it'll be OK. At least that's what I'm telling myself 😀
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Penn is that way too. You have 1 to 4 exams per class. It's really not so bad.
 
hopefulinva said:
Soooooo, sorry if I'm that annoyingly happy, bubbly girl, but hot damn do I love school.

It's, like, perfect. I like my professors, I like my classes - I even like the structure of being in class from 8-5 all day, and then coming home to study, too. <3

Granted, it helps a lot that I'm in a town I absolutely adore on a campus I absolutely adore with people that I really like, and hubby is out of town until next weekend so I've been able to set a routine for myself in the comfort and quiet of my own apartment. No distractions. Good deal. 👍

I have a study group that is on top of things, I got a good seat in the lecture hall , and I feel cautiously on top of everything. We're getting more of our classes thrown in to our routine this week, but so far I'm juggling everything just fine.

And I'm sticking to my plan of giving myself Friday nights and Saturdays off. Spent the day cooking, baking, cleaning, and allowing myself to prepare for the week ahead - and that's perfect for me.

😍😍😍 So happy I've been given this opportunity.
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They add more classes over time to give you a chance to get used to it, what a concept. At OSU we got clin path with the second years for 2 hours on the FIRST day :scared:, have been studying that material all day today and finally am catching on and can interpret a CBC, kinda 🙂.
 
We had the best clin path teacher ever... I cannot imagine having clin path before physiology 🙁 Feel free to ask me questions if something's not making sense 🙂
 
bunnity said:
We had the best clin path teacher ever... I cannot imagine having clin path before physiology 🙁 Feel free to ask me questions if something's not making sense 🙂
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Our professor is pretty good too (I know the second years love her), it just feels like she's used to teaching second years that know the basics and we, well we don't know the basics. We literally had no clue what we were talking about for the first hour of class on the first day, then the second hour some of us got it and filled in the others about what it was we were talking about. She just throws out words like stroma and stromal cells and sinusoids, erythroid islands, leukopenia, regenerative anemia, non-regenerative anemia etc. like we'll know what she's talking about and we're like 😕. For a few things she actually said you first years won't know this, but you will soon and then said something to the second years. We felt really left out of the loop. First day I was just going through writing down the words I didn't know to look up later and it took me 5 hours to get it all sorted out. After that class I think a ton of people emailed and she's been explaining more instead of just moving on and it's still so much so fast, but at least we know what she's talking about. I find it interesting and relevant, but really hard.

One question I noted in my notes is: wouldn't hemolysis that is evident in the plasma reduce the PCV? It wasn't noted as an outcome of it (just the TP and other tests that required light transmittance). I'd think if the cell's contents (minus the membrane I'd assume) were up in the plasma instead of with the red blood cells where they belonged, that would decrease the PCV.

And another confusing thing for me was we went over white blood cell morphology and it said that absolute numbers were more important than the relative percent of each type of leukocyte, so you take the percent and multiply it by the total WBC count. I was confused if you manually get the WBC count or if you get it off the machine? There was something about counting the number of WBCs in the 10X counting field and 20-50 was normal, do you use that to manually calculate the WBCs per liter or microliter? Small point and probably doesn't matter, but I was confused.
 
squirrelsrule said:
Our professor is pretty good too (I know the second years love her), it just feels like she's used to teaching second years that know the basics and we, well we don't know the basics. We literally had no clue what we were talking about for the first hour of class on the first day, then the second hour some of us got it and filled in the others about what it was we were talking about. She just throws out words like stroma and stromal cells and sinusoids, erythroid islands, leukopenia, regenerative anemia, non-regenerative anemia etc. like we'll know what she's talking about and we're like 😕. For a few things she actually said you first years won't know this, but you will soon and then said something to the second years. We felt really left out of the loop. First day I was just going through writing down the words I didn't know to look up later and it took me 5 hours to get it all sorted out. After that class I think a ton of people emailed and she's been explaining more instead of just moving on and it's still so much so fast, but at least we know what she's talking about. I find it interesting and relevant, but really hard.

One question I noted in my notes is: wouldn't hemolysis that is evident in the plasma reduce the PCV? It wasn't noted as an outcome of it (just the TP and other tests that required light transmittance). I'd think if the cell's contents (minus the membrane I'd assume) were up in the plasma instead of with the red blood cells where they belonged, that would decrease the PCV.

And another confusing thing for me was we went over white blood cell morphology and it said that absolute numbers were more important than the relative percent of each type of leukocyte, so you take the percent and multiply it by the total WBC count. I was confused if you manually get the WBC count or if you get it off the machine? There was something about counting the number of WBCs in the 10X counting field and 20-50 was normal, do you use that to manually calculate the WBCs per liter or microliter? Small point and probably doesn't matter, but I was confused.
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Squirrels, Can I come join your class? That stuff sounds very interesting, much more interesting than the vast amounts of animal husbandry we are getting.
 
Found this amazing website:

http://www.vetvideos.com/

Lots of great videos on there, some really good anatomy videos too. Enjoy it!!!

ETA: This is great resource for all of the years. There are surgery videos, bacteriology videos, histology videos, suturing videos, comparative anatomy videos, radiology videos, etc, etc.

Second ETA: Here is the link to his youtube site as well. There are even more videos on his youtube site: http://www.youtube.com/user/rkbanga?feature=watch
 
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I'm definitely in a love/hate relationship with vet school. I love, love, LOVE it until they do this fun thing where they have 2 different class faulty email us multi-faceted projects due in 2-4 days (did I mention group projects? With meetings required. The day before the weekend? Due the week we have 3 quizzes.)

They have since admitted to doing that to break our OCD bubbles that demand everything is on a syllabus. Which admitting that actually made me feel better- and they succeeding in making us feel like we can handle whatever they throw at us.

I'm having a love day with vet school today (material is AWESOME, upperclassmen are the nicest people I've ever met, faculty genuinely care about our success etc). Although I'm sure vet school will abuse me again soon and the hate part of our relationship will be back with a fiery vengeance 😀
 
DVMDream said:
Squirrels, Can I come join your class? That stuff sounds very interesting, much more interesting than the vast amounts of animal husbandry we are getting.
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Sounds like fun, until you get the list you need to memorize which is:
rouleaux, anisocytosis, polychromasia, hypochromasia, basophilic stippling, nucleated red blood cells, howell-jolly bodies, spherocyte, schistocytes, leptocytes, stomatocyte, torocyte, heinz bodies, eccentrocyte, poikilocyte, echinocytes, acanthocytes, karatocytes, dacryocytes, reticulocyte, and that's all from ONE 50 minute lecture! Have learned a ton and it's interesting but there is literally not enough time in the day to learn everything. I wish we had an animal husbandry class thrown in to replace the overwhelming feeling that cells, histology, anatomy, and pathology bring. Radiology was a pretty scary lecture but we've only had that class once and my big said it's not bad, so I'm not worried yet 😀.
 
squirrelsrule said:
Sounds like fun, until you get the list you need to memorize which is:
rouleaux, anisocytosis, polychromasia, hypochromasia, basophilic stippling, nucleated red blood cells, howell-jolly bodies, spherocyte, schistocytes, leptocytes, stomatocyte, torocyte, heinz bodies, eccentrocyte, poikilocyte, echinocytes, acanthocytes, karatocytes, dacryocytes, reticulocyte, and that's all from ONE 50 minute lecture! Have learned a ton and it's interesting but there is literally not enough time in the day to learn everything. I wish we had an animal husbandry class thrown in to replace the overwhelming feeling that cells, histology, anatomy, and pathology bring. Radiology was a pretty scary lecture but we've only had that class once and my big said it's not bad, so I'm not worried yet 😀.
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Still sounds like fun to me! 🙂
I am weird though and like those types of things. Radiology has been kind of randomly thrown in with our anatomy stuff. So we have kind of learned how to tell some basic anatomical landmarks in radiographs and they have thrown in a few abnormals just so that it makes it interesting for us. 😀
 
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