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Immunology is going to be what kills me! Sure Physiology and Anatomy are tough but immunology makes zero sense to me. I don't see knowing what I have to know by Friday!
 
Lab Rat83 said:
Immunology is going to be what kills me! Sure Physiology and Anatomy are tough but immunology makes zero sense to me. I don't see knowing what I have to know by Friday!
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Immunology is FUN!!!

My "simplified" immunology map from last year:

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Lab Rat83 said:
Immunology is going to be what kills me! Sure Physiology and Anatomy are tough but immunology makes zero sense to me. I don't see knowing what I have to know by Friday!
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I'm seriously freaking out about this class. I was worried about doing well in Anatomy and in Physiology, but I'm fairly certain that I will pass them. I'm really not sure if I can scrape a passing grade in Immunology.

I guess I'm just going to spend the next 48 hours trying to memorize everything in the Google Doc and hope for the best. :scared:


DVMDream said:
Immunology is FUN!!!
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No. No it's not.

Actually, I did find immunology rather interesting when I learned it as a component of my pathology course in undergrad. But this particular immuno course is so poorly taught, I don't think there's a single person in our class who has a clue what's going on.
 
BlackDog17 said:
Actually, I did find immunology rather interesting when I learned it as a component of my pathology course in undergrad. But this particular immuno course is so poorly taught, I don't think there's a single person in our class who has a clue what's going on.
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Unfortunately, I have had a few of these poorly taught classes. That is usually when I skip all lectures and teach myself. Anyway, good luck.

Immunology really is interesting once you get past the frustration of learning it.
 
Immunology could most certainly be fun but not this class. The professor teaches it so unsequentially and so unorganized you can't link any of the concepts together. It's frustrating and stressful. He'll mention important concepts in passing as a part of one thing and then teach it in detail two weeks later.

You Tube might just save my ass though. A huge thanks to the guys that do handwritten tutorials and khan academy. I even sent in a donation to handwrittentutorials.com as a thank you.

Thank you DVMDream for your chart. Anything is helpful at this point.
 
"How the Immune System Works" by Lauren Sompayrac is the textbook that taught me immuno. It's a tiny little book. It was easier to read than the book our instructor required and the author uses good analogies that helped me. Plus there are chapter summaries and good diagrams.
 
JaynaAli said:
"How the Immune System Works" by Lauren Sompayrac is the textbook that taught me immuno. It's a tiny little book. It was easier to read than the book our instructor required and the author uses good analogies that helped me. Plus there are chapter summaries and good diagrams.
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Wish I had known this weeks ago. 🙁
 
If it's an inexpensive book, I may order it online so I'm not in panic mode for the final exam.
 
Flying home tomorrow to surprise my mom for her birthday! I am so so excited! It's going to make me and my whole family cry but I can't wait!
 
JaynaAli said:
"How the Immune System Works" by Lauren Sompayrac is the textbook that taught me immuno. It's a tiny little book. It was easier to read than the book our instructor required and the author uses good analogies that helped me. Plus there are chapter summaries and good diagrams.
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I have the book electronically and frequently use it to supplement Immuno by Tizzard since that's a little more advanced and I haven't taken immuno in several years. The pictures are fantastic and the author states tips that helped them remember something when they were a student.
 
Rwwilliams said:
I have the book electronically and frequently use it to supplement Immuno by Tizzard since that's a little more advanced and I haven't taken immuno in several years.
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Dr. Ian Tizard? If it's the same one (pretty sure he wrote a book...and he's professor of Immunology at Texas A&M, so would make sense), I'm assisting him with a research project on parakeet parasites. Man gets around.
 
epivetlove said:
Dr. Ian Tizard? If it's the same one (pretty sure he wrote a book...and he's professor of Immunology at Texas A&M, so would make sense), I'm assisting him with a research project on parakeet parasites. Man gets around.
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Please send him my way. I need an immunology tutor.
 
epivetlove said:
Dr. Ian Tizard? If it's the same one (pretty sure he wrote a book...and he's professor of Immunology at Texas A&M, so would make sense), I'm assisting him with a research project on parakeet parasites. Man gets around.
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That's the one! Ian R. Tizard. The book is laid out phenomenally and has all the information you'd need but sometimes it's a little difficult if you're shaky on the basic concepts.
 
I officially detest immunology. No, not immunology our immunology professor. Seriously! Who gives 12 short/long answer questions for a 50 minute midterm? I was on question 5 when he announced that we have 10 minutes left.

Overall, I did okay. Not great but okay. Now onto the **** that actually makes sense.
 
I can confidently say I did not fail my immunology midterm. 😀
 
Lab Rat83 said:
I officially detest immunology. No, not immunology our immunology professor. Seriously! Who gives 12 short/long answer questions for a 50 minute midterm? I was on question 5 when he announced that we have 10 minutes left.

Overall, I did okay. Not great but okay. Now onto the **** that actually makes sense.
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Yeah, I was on question 7! I heard a lot of swearing when he made that announcement. I could have written much better answers for those last five questions, but I had to rush through. Hopefully I'll get at least partial credit for all of them.

All I can say is thank god I went with my gut and studied from the old exams instead of wasting time with the study guide and lecture summaries. Every single question on the midterm was recycled from previous years. I'm fully confident that I passed, and maybe even did well!
 
BlackDog17 said:
Yeah, I was on question 7! I heard a lot of swearing when he made that announcement. I could have written much better answers for those last five questions, but I had to rush through. Hopefully I'll get at least partial credit for all of them.

All I can say is thank god I went with my gut and studied from the old exams instead of wasting time with the study guide and lecture summaries. Every single question on the midterm was recycled from previous years. I'm fully confident that I passed, and maybe even did well!
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I've heard that although you don't have the same professor we have, he's "teaching" your professor to be an immuno professor (so may God have mercy on your souls :laugh:) The good news is that everything will be 100% recycled, as it always has been! Hope you all are hanging in there 🙂
 
Found out I got an A on my VBS exam (basic sciences, encompassing the 12 -ologies) and a B on our histo/path/anatomy/rads practical! Seeing as how these are my first grades in vet school, I'm pretty pumped. I can do this!
 
epivetlove said:
Dr. Ian Tizard? If it's the same one (pretty sure he wrote a book...and he's professor of Immunology at Texas A&M, so would make sense), I'm assisting him with a research project on parakeet parasites. Man gets around.
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Tizard is awesome. And he knows his stuff. I took a class of his once, though it wasn't an immuno class.
 
So I'm halfway through the first semester and I'm kind of having a blast. My grades have all been good except for a C on my embryology midterm. I really had no idea what to expect, especially on the practical portion. I got a high B on the written and the practical pulled me way down. Needless to say I feel I will do much better on the final now knowing what I need to know for the practical portion.

I'm so presently surprised at all of my professors. I've only had one that I thought was a bad lecturer/teacher and thankfully that class is over now.

Our endocrine, immunology, embryo, anatomy and ophthalmology professors are great.

Everyone was terrified for ophtho, because as some of you may have heard there was a 'scandal' at the school and our ophtho professor was let go. We now have our two ophthalmology clinicians teaching it as well as our resident. Needless to say we had a 4, yes that's a 4, hour lecture on it the other day and everyone was so impressed it didnt feel like four hours and I feel like I learned a lot. I like kind of 😍 Ophtho now.
 
I absolutely cannot focus any more. We have our anatomy midterm tomorrow and I desperately need to study, but no matter how hard I try I can never get through more than a couple of sentences of my notes before getting distracted again.

Tomorrow will be interesting for sure. :scared:
 
BlackDog17 said:
I absolutely cannot focus any more. We have our anatomy midterm tomorrow and I desperately need to study, but no matter how hard I try I can never get through more than a couple of sentences of my notes before getting distracted again.

Tomorrow will be interesting for sure. :scared:
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I hate when that happens. Give yourself a decent study break 🙂 the anatomy exams were never as bad as I dreaded, and it wasn't my best subject.
 
I don't want to study..............

This upcoming combined anatomy and histology monster is only worth 10%. Not that proportional to the amount of hours required to be spent studying for it. Bleh.
 
Ran my first half marathon today 🙂

The aftermath is not treating me well though.
 
I have this sneaking feeling that I'm underestimating my behaviour midterm tomorrow......

Yet it's so difficult to care.

This is a new feeling lol.
 
Second Anatomy exam in 2 hours... :scared: I know the stuff but you know you dont know how well you know it till you're in there.
 
Sitting in the airport crying because I have to fly back to school. this is no where near as hard as leaving the first time.
 
wildcatj said:
Sitting in the airport crying because I have to fly back to school. this is no where near as hard as leaving the first time.
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Awww. 🙁

Try and hold onto something good that you have at school. I can understand that it's pretty rough to go back.
 
TooLove said:
Ran my first half marathon today 🙂

The aftermath is not treating me well though.
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Congrats!! I ran my second half on Sat. Was not nearly as well trained as I was for my first one lol. About mile 9 my legs were like, "You want me to run up that hill? Haha, Nope!" I finished though, lol, and beat my previous time by a whopping 4 minutes :laugh:.

Seriously, epsom salt soaks are your friend 😀
 
Crystalight33 said:
Congrats!! I ran my second half on Sat. Was not nearly as well trained as I was for my first one lol. About mile 9 my legs were like, "You want me to run up that hill? Haha, Nope!" I finished though, lol, and beat my previous time by a whopping 4 minutes :laugh:.

Seriously, epsom salt soaks are your friend 😀
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Thanks!! I probably would have been about 20 minutes faster but my knee started acting up on mile 8... I hobbled/ran the last 5k. It's a bit better now but I'm still gimping 🙁 I think I'm going to have to stay off of it for at least a week and that makes me sad.
 
I recorded a few videos of me going over the muscles of the thoracic and pelvic limbs in a few species for studying.....figured that was better than taking pictures. Even if I sound ridiculous during the whole thing. 😛

I totally understand why we're not allowed phones/tablets/etc. in the lab for bio-security reasons, but the Surface tablets that they give each group to use have such crap cameras.....my iPhone is way better. 👎

Anatomy exam Friday morning...simulated client interaction Friday afternoon then the weekend. Then have to study for our first OSCE in clinical skills next week and pray that I don't commit any fatal flaws in a station and fail....

:scared:
 
Oregon is so far behind: our first exam is tomorrow 😀
 
Escalla said:
I totally understand why we're not allowed phones/tablets/etc. in the lab for bio-security reasons, but the Surface tablets that they give each group to use have such crap cameras.....my iPhone is way better. 👎
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Really? We always had phones in anatomy lab. One person would take their gloves off and handle the camera and someone else (almost inevitably me) would name off the muscle. What about little point and shoot digital camera, no internet access?
 
Coquette22 said:
Really? We always had phones in anatomy lab. One person would take their gloves off and handle the camera and someone else (almost inevitably me) would name off the muscle. What about little point and shoot digital camera, no internet access?
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Nah, we're not allowed anything pretty much. There are copies of the textbooks in there since we're not allowed to bring our own in (works fine for me really, except for when they're all being used) and electronics of any kind are not permitted. Their reasoning is that we can't (probably more accurately they can't trust us to) disinfect everything, where the surface tablets are regularly cleaned.

:shrug:

It seems like there are a few things that they're doing that I would consider "special" compared to other schools in regards to policy.
 
Escalla said:
I recorded a few videos of me going over the muscles of the thoracic and pelvic limbs in a few species for studying.....figured that was better than taking pictures. Even if I sound ridiculous during the whole thing. 😛

I totally understand why we're not allowed phones/tablets/etc. in the lab for bio-security reasons, but the Surface tablets that they give each group to use have such crap cameras.....my iPhone is way better. 👎
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Huh. I suppose that probably makes some sense. We never had that policy ... I used to set up my animals on two tables and my laptop on a third table. Then I'd cut a rectal palp sleeve to make a computer cover and tape that over my laptop onto the table. Seemed to work ok, and gave me access to things like glass canine and all that normal stuff.

We took photos of our specimens, labeled the photos, and created study guides for the class. Worked well enough that one of the teachers asked if she could keep all our photos for future classes.
 
LetItSnow said:
Huh. I suppose that probably makes some sense. We never had that policy ... I used to set up my animals on two tables and my laptop on a third table. Then I'd cut a rectal palp sleeve to make a computer cover and tape that over my laptop onto the table. Seemed to work ok, and gave me access to things like glass canine and all that normal stuff.

We took photos of our specimens, labeled the photos, and created study guides for the class. Worked well enough that one of the teachers asked if she could keep all our photos for future classes.
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So where can a person get a hold of glass canine, usually? Were you just given a copy at school?

I need 3D to really understand things, so it's challenging when I have to rely on restricted lab hours to try and learn.
 
I was getting really frustrated in histology lab recently, but today I (finally) found a really good Auerbach plexus and the professor called everyone over to look at my slide. Much-needed confidence boost after how many times I called him over for "is this it? Is this it?"
 
Escalla said:
So where can a person get a hold of glass canine, usually? Were you just given a copy at school?

I need 3D to really understand things, so it's challenging when I have to rely on restricted lab hours to try and learn.
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Beats me. I was just using the limited online demo one back then (a few years ago). In retrospect, I sorta wish I had purchased it .... there have been a number of times this semester I've needed to go back and review/relearn various parts of anatomy.
 
Escalla said:
So where can a person get a hold of glass canine, usually? Were you just given a copy at school?

I need 3D to really understand things, so it's challenging when I have to rely on restricted lab hours to try and learn.
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http://www.sciencein3d.com/products.html

I wonder if your vet school bookstore can get it cheaper? It seems like our ... SCAVMA, maybe, or some other club ... had a deal on it at one point. Dunno.
 
LetItSnow said:
http://www.sciencein3d.com/products.html

I wonder if your vet school bookstore can get it cheaper? It seems like our ... SCAVMA, maybe, or some other club ... had a deal on it at one point. Dunno.
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Thanks for the link! I will have to check. Our "section" of the medical bookstore is really sad. That's what you get with a newer school that only admits 30/yr I guess. *sigh* Hopefully they still know something about it, otherwise I'll check with the course coordinator.

The equine colic and distal limb CDs I'm rather tempted to buy for myself though.....
 
Lucky that you guys got to take pictures of your anatomy specimens! It's an honor code violation here.
 
NStarz said:
Lucky that you guys got to take pictures of your anatomy specimens! It's an honor code violation here.
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Huh...I can understand not sharing them or taking obviously disrespectful pictures, but not taking any pictures?
 
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