Class of 2020... how you doin?

[WildZoo]

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I'll likely end up taking it while I'm on an externship. Not ideal but at least I'll be at home? I can cry to my mom when it's over?

 

[vetmedhead]

Since ours is the same for either OKC or Tulsa, I stayed the night before so I didn't have to get up early and drive. If you can, I highly recommend it. I stayed with a classmate taking it the same day to save some $$.

My roommate did something similar a few years ago because of the chance of bad snowy weather preventing her from getting to the testing center. Definitely seems to help with getting into a zen place before the exam too!

 

[twelvetigers]

Since ours is the same for either OKC or Tulsa, I stayed the night before so I didn't have to get up early and drive. If you can, I highly recommend it. I stayed with a classmate taking it the same day to save some $$.

I was gonna stay hey, come stay with me! Then I realized that these people are not talking about here. Womp womp.

 

[Cephal0pod]

Still not entirely convinced I am old enough to be doing things like taking the NAVLE in ~2 months.

What the actual potato.

 

[WildZoo]

December 6th

 

[Teepster87]

11/22

 

[flameshock]

12/10

 

[awesomenessity]

Nov 29th for me!

 

[raf2769]

11/21 - only 58 days according to vetprep

 

[WildZoo]

Vacation time 😀

 

[Teepster87]

I get a free week off because my swine externship was only 2 weeks long. I enjoyed it alot more than I imagined I would. I went in just thinking I'd like to see how swine production operates, but I'm squirreling this away for a potential post USDA retirement job. There's also a multi state ASF outbreak drill going on this week that I'm going to try and sit in on a few days.

I'm real excited for my poultry rotation that's coming up next!

 

[SARdoghandler]

Rescuing this from the second page

I interviewed for my first adult job this week On the plus side, they sounded very positive and because it's a corp basically said they could guarantee me a job in the area I want next summer. Looks like I might be flying out east in December to meet with a few options and see if I click with one clinic over another.

 

[WildZoo]

My friends are all doing job interviews or starting to work on stuff for the match and I'm just like "Doo dee doo gonna be in school forever "

 

[itsrocky]

what do I want to do with my degree? No idea apparently 🤐

 

[awesomenessity]

what do I want to do with my degree? No idea apparently 🤐

I feel ya

 

[Squeaksmom]

I feel ya

Do you also need a career counselling/(former) class mom pep talk? SAR already came to me a few weeks ago!

 

[cheathac]

My friends are all doing job interviews or starting to work on stuff for the match and I'm just like "Doo dee doo gonna be in school forever "

Do you know what you're doing your PhD in?! I decided this summer to do a PhD after veterinary school as well!

 

[awesomenessity]

Do you also need a career counselling/(former) class mom pep talk? SAR already came to me a few weeks ago!

I might I haven't had a life crisis in a few days but I'll let you know when the next one hits hahaha

 

[Squeaksmom]

I might I haven't had a life crisis in a few days but I'll let you know when the next one hits hahaha

Well I'm not at school as much as I'd like since hitting my head, but you know where to find me!

 

[Teepster87]

I got thanked by a first year today for something I don't even remember doing. I was on a student panel during MMIs last year and told someone that's a military spouse or dependent how to get converted to IS tuition. She apparently got it done in time and isn't paying OOS fees for any of her years in school. I feel pretty good saving someone about 100K in tuition.

 

[WildZoo]

Do you know what you're doing your PhD in?! I decided this summer to do a PhD after veterinary school as well!

It'll be amphibian infectious disease and pathology related 🙂

 

[supershorty]

Do you know what you're doing your PhD in?! I decided this summer to do a PhD after veterinary school as well!

Yayyy welcome to the crazy "in school forever" train!

 

[battie]

First years know my name and I've legit asked, "I'm sorry; I don't know who you are."

 

[SkiOtter]

First years know my name and I've legit asked, "I'm sorry; I don't know who you are."

It’s fine a first year I apparently met before but I didn’t know her name until like last week but she knew mine

 

[vetmedhead]

First years know my name and I've legit asked, "I'm sorry; I don't know who you are."

This is the story of my life, as I can't recognize anyone and have done a lot of stuff with classes below me/undergrads, so lots of people who I swear I've never seen before in my life know me and say hi. I'm probably a little on the face blindness end of things though

 

[Coopah]

First years know my name and I've legit asked, "I'm sorry; I don't know who you are."

Literally all the time. I've had people stop me outside in a park to say hi and I'm like oooook? I'm sorry I don't remember you. Between my volunteer time at Mercer, being a school ambassador, and teaching suture labs to undergrads, it seems like everyone knows me but I know no one

 

[Squeaksmom]

I know legit like 2 firsties. Mind you I started out c/o 2018 and am now 2021, so I've seen WAY too many generations come through this place to keep everybody straight!

 

[cheathac]

Yayyy welcome to the crazy "in school forever" train!

Yep! My mom said something similar when I told my parents. I'm still not 100% what I want to do with a PhD. Having my own lab, being research support/model development or being a principal scientist are all interests. Just found myself being more interested in the research itself along with study design and stuff. I've had experience with neuro and cardiovascular, but am pretty much open to anything translational or studying human disease in an animal mode.l.

 

[supershorty]

Yep! My mom said something similar when I told my parents. I'm still not 100% what I want to do with a PhD. Having my own lab, being research support/model development or being a principal scientist are all interests. Just found myself being more interested in the research itself along with study design and stuff. I've had experience with neuro and cardiovascular, but am pretty much open to anything translational or studying human disease in an animal mode.l.

I mean, my prelim exams are disturbingly close on the horizon and I still don’t know what I want to when I’m all done with this program, sooo...

 

[cheathac]

I mean, my prelim exams are disturbingly close on the horizon and I still don’t know what I want to when I’m all done with this program, sooo...

What is your PhD in ?

 

[supershorty]

What is your PhD in ?

That's a good question

I usually tell people cancer genetics because that's probably the closest?

 

[cheathac]

That's a good question

I usually tell people cancer genetics because that's probably the closest?

Sounds interesting! About halfway next semester it becomes more "relaxed" I believe so I'm going to shadow in my advisor's lab. She studies arthritis in a mouse model as well as prostate cancer and how it affects the bone. I'm so excited!

 

[awesomenessity]

Officially done all my month-long GVPs, so now I can just cruise for the rest of 4th year (in theory...) 😎

 

[Cephal0pod]

Alright fam time for a check in.

NAVLE is nigh, the match is nigh, job hunting is nigh, etc.

How we doing? How are we holding up?

 

[awesomenessity]

Alright fam time for a check in.

NAVLE is nigh, the match is nigh, job hunting is nigh, etc.

How we doing? How are we holding up?

Feeling good! Got accepted into the residency program I wanted (so no more life crises about what I’m going to do next year if I don’t get in... ) and did well on the first practice NAVLE. And I have my horsey back so I get to ride again <3 Fourth year is the best

 

[LyraGardenia]

I'm not nearly as far along as I wanted to be on VetPrep (just hit 28% today), but I've been doing decently well on the timed exams on there, so I'm hoping that's a good sign. I'm planning on doing an official practice test within the next few days. Earlier this week I visited a clinic that I might be interested in working at, it's largely an emergency clinic so not necessarily what I would have planned for myself, but I think I could be happy there. But I'm still exploring my options!

As far as rotations go, I survived 6 weeks of madness on anesthesia and internal med. I was so terrified for anesthesia, but it ended up not being too bad, one of our notoriously grouchy anesthesiologists liked me for some reason and I actually got an A in the rotation! (For the most part I've continued being a B student on clinics) Internal med was super busy and long hours, but I had a good group of rotation mates which helped. I was a magnet for weird puppy/kitten cases that even the clinicians couldn't quite figure out, but all my patients left the hospital alive, so that's a win!

 

[WildZoo]

I survived my rotation in Belize (just barely), got to do a bunch of cool stuff, and now my two months of zoo continues stateside! Couldn't be happier.

I guess I could be doing better on vetprep though

 

[that redhead]

I feel like it’s more abnormal to be ahead in vet prep/Zuku than behind

 

[WildZoo]

I literally just realized that the November-December NAVLE testing window opens up next week. Whoa.

Good luck, everyone! You'll all knock it out of the park. 😉

Thanks! All my friends are taking it in the first week so they've all gone super study mode, but I'm like "Eh, I've got another 4 weeks" lol

 

[SARdoghandler]

Thanks! All my friends are taking it in the first week so they've all gone super study mode, but I'm like "Eh, I've got another 4 weeks" lol

I write next week and haven't gone into super study mode

 

[Teepster87]

Thanks! All my friends are taking it in the first week so they've all gone super study mode, but I'm like "Eh, I've got another 4 weeks" lol

I thought I had more time and realized today that I've got 12 days left.

I feel like I should be panicking, but maybe I'm just numb to all the stress by now

 

[LyraGardenia]

Early on I was sure I'd finish 100% of VetPrep, then decided I'd be happy if I got to 80%... now 50% is probably a realistic goal. I've been making a giant document with the explanations for questions I got wrong (or just guessed correctly on), which slows me down for sure, but I feel like it's helping. I'm trying to keep the panic at bay, but I really should have been studying more when I was on easier rotations 2-3 months ago. 14 days to go now...

 

[jupindersomal]

Early on I was sure I'd finish 100% of VetPrep, then decided I'd be happy if I got to 80%... now 50% is probably a realistic goal. I've been making a giant document with the explanations for questions I got wrong (or just guessed correctly on), which slows me down for sure, but I feel like it's helping. I'm trying to keep the panic at bay, but I really should have been studying more when I was on easier rotations 2-3 months ago. 14 days to go now...

Hey, I just want to know that at what percent your vet prep test mode goes,like I just wanted to be more confident

 

[twelvetigers]

I did like... 35%? I don’t remember. I didn’t finish it or even get close. Eh. I tried to focus on what I needed the most review with.

 

[red_jellyfish]

Anyone from CA know how/what to study for the CA board exams? I really don't know what kind of questions are on the exam or how to approach studying for this exam.

 

[Cephal0pod]

Just had one of my letter writers for VIRMP fall through due to unexpected circumstances.

Debating which of my back up possibilities would be the most helpful option... one of them is a large animal clinician (boarded) and I think they would write me a strong letter, possibly the strongest letter out of the other options I'm considering, but I'm applying for small animal rotating...? One of my other letter writers is a boarded small animal clinician, so maybe it would be okay to have a large animal letter too...?

Ugh. I will be glad when all of this is said and done.

 

[JaynaAli]

If you feel like the large animal clinician will write a strong letter I would just go with it. A generic letter would hurt you more than one not from the right “side” of vet med in my opinion. I had a pathologist write one of mine.

 

[that redhead]

@Cephal0pod I agree with Jayna- pick the stronger letter! The internship is going to care more about things like team work, work ethic, communication skills, etc than your specific skill set right now 🙂

 

[WildZoo]

Just had one of my letter writers for VIRMP fall through due to unexpected circumstances.

Debating which of my back up possibilities would be the most helpful option... one of them is a large animal clinician (boarded) and I think they would write me a strong letter, possibly the strongest letter out of the other options I'm considering, but I'm applying for small animal rotating...? One of my other letter writers is a boarded small animal clinician, so maybe it would be okay to have a large animal letter too...?

Ugh. I will be glad when all of this is said and done.

This is just from our internship selection committee here, so other committees may feel differently, but they told us they don't care for rotating internships what variety of vet is writing your letters, it's more about getting the strongest letters you can. If you think that is going to be your strongest option, go with it.

 

[Cephal0pod]

Thanks guys, that was helpful.

Off to go shoot that clinician an email.