Class of 2021 . . . how ya doin?

[Coopah]

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... That's a LOT of externships!

 

[SkiOtter]

... That's a LOT of externships!

And I’m jealous of the amount

 

[Minnerbelle]

One of my vet school classmates moved to Australia from Canada after graduation. With her Great Dane. I can’t even.

But was she an emotional support dog that rode in the cabin with her?

 

[Squeaksmom]

... That's a LOT of externships!

We max out at 2!

 

[Coopah]

We max out at 2!

4!

 

[WildZoo]

4 for us too (8 weeks, though you have to give up a vacation block for that)

 

[PippyPony]

I think we technically have 12, but it's for vacation or externships, so if you want vacation you can't fill up all 12 weeks

 

[Squeaksmom]

We get a max of 4 weeks for externships, so 2 x 2 week blocks or 1 x 4 weeks. We also get 4 weeks of vacation, same story, but if you want to do an externship during that time you're on your own. The school's insurance etc. doesn't go with you for those ones. For official ones you're covered for... all the things.

 

[battie]

We can get 12 weeks from within the curriculum (3 FE and 3 DE) and then you can fill up your 4 off blocks (8 weeks). So you could potentially get 20 weeks off campus.

 

[Coopah]

I'm so tired guys. I just want to sleep for a million years 😴

 

[Squeaksmom]

As I write this I'm actually "studying diagnostic imaging," in case anyone was wondering how my focus and motivation are doing....

 

[SkiOtter]

We can get 12 weeks from within the curriculum (3 FE and 3 DE) and then you can fill up your 4 off blocks (8 weeks). So you could potentially get 20 weeks off campus.

BUT the DE you can’t use for small animal externships😢😢😢

 

[battie]

BUT the DE you can’t use for small animal externships😢😢😢

Small lab animal 😀

 

[cdo96]

... That's a LOT of externships!

yeah we have to do 3, 2 week externships. But we can take up to 6 (and the other three count as electives!)

 

[WildZoo]

yeah we have to do 3, 2 week externships. But we can take up to 6 (and the other three count as electives!)

When do you guys start clinics?

I need to find out how our new curriculum is structured for clinics, I feel like they gave them more externship time since they're in clinics 3 months longer and there is more significant overlap with the class above, but I don't remember.

 

[cdo96]

When do you guys start clinics?

I need to find out how our new curriculum is structured for clinics, I feel like they gave them more externship time since they're in clinics 3 months longer and there is more significant overlap with the class above, but I don't remember.

May 4 2020!

 

[Squeaksmom]

May 4 2020!

Us too! But we don't get our schedules until (tentatively) early February.

 

[that redhead]

But was she an emotional support dog that rode in the cabin with her?

Nope! Had to fit in him an airline approved crate to ride in cargo, poor guy.

 

[SkiOtter]

Small lab animal 😀

That’s not the same bats

 

[Emily Faith]

My first rotation is VACATION. 😳 My next is an externship. And then my first at OSU is hospital based theriogenology.😢

I celebrated being done with therio too quickly yesterday so... alas

Heheh. We’re gonna make therio our friend. (Somehow.)
My vacation is pretty early too. Late June to early July. And then I get to be gone ALL of October and ALL of April (until graduation) at externships.

I feel like part of the fun of clinics is doing rotations that are totally over your head, with your classmates who are amazing in those subjects. And as someone who helps occasionally with small ruminants in GP, it can still come in handy! I helped my friend breed her goats by placing CIDRs, vaccinating them, drawing blood etc 🙂

I’m looking forward to it! I’ll definitely be 100% over my head but it should be fun.

 

[KCgophervet]

That’s not the same bats [emoji23]

Fun story in lab animal world (at least the places I've been) rats and smaller are small animals, anything guinea pig size or bigger is large animal.

#themoreyouknow

Sent from my phone using the mobile app because I bought it and I'm stubborn

 

[SkiOtter]

Fun story in lab animal world (at least the places I've been) rats and smaller are small animals, anything guinea pig size or bigger is large animal.

#themoreyouknow

Sent from my phone using the mobile app because I bought it and I'm stubborn

Exactly hahaha
I don’t wanna be doing rat medicine rotations. GIMME MOAR DOGS AND CATS ONLY OFF CAMPUS PLS

 

[kaydubs]

@cdoconn - did you want to start with vacation?

 

[cdo96]

@cdoconn - did you want to start with vacation?

No, not ideally but

my parents already have a vacation booked for that time with some of their friends I don’t know, so maybe I’ll do some solo traveling! I’ll have an externship immediately after that, so I might go up early and have some fun. Who knows

 

[Squeaksmom]

Exactly hahaha
I don’t wanna be doing rat medicine rotations. GIMME MOAR DOGS AND CATS ONLY OFF CAMPUS PLS

Cats and dogs are ideal as far as I'm concerned, but rats are fun little animals and I'd probably have a couple if they weren't illegal here. I'm considering trying for experimental animal models as one of my rotations, which is likely to be mice.

 

[battie]

We're teaching ourselves endocrinology this morning. This is fine.

 

[WildZoo]

We're teaching ourselves endocrinology this morning. This is fine.

Oh dear

 

[Squeaksmom]

We're teaching ourselves endocrinology this morning. This is fine.

We've been teaching ourselves diagnostic imaging for a bit now. We'll be done tomorrow, one way or another.

 

[kaydubs]

We've been teaching ourselves diagnostic imaging for a bit now. We'll be done tomorrow, one way or another.

To me, diagnostic imaging is hard enough with guidance. Yikes.

 

[Squeaksmom]

To me, diagnostic imaging is hard enough with guidance. Yikes.

Yeah, it's been... fun? <sigh>

 

[wheelin2vetmed]

Soooo over this semester. Who else is just over it?

 

[battie]

Soooo over this semester. Who else is just over it?

My bus leaves for the airport at noon. I'm GTFO this place.

 

[SkiOtter]

My bus leaves for the airport at noon. I'm GTFO this place.

*on Friday

 

[finnickthedog]

I hear I was voted most likely to never watch a lecture. I can't say that's not true.

 

[vetmedhead]

I hear I was voted most likely to never watch a lecture. I can't say that's not true.

I realized today while I was studying that I haven't been to a single lecture of new material for 2/3 of the classes I have finals in

 

[finnickthedog]

I realized today while I was studying that I haven't been to a single lecture of new material for 2/3 of the classes I have finals in

I haven't watched a lecture since first semester. Pretty sure a couple of my classmates almost had heart attacks when I said this.

 

[ResoluteMike]

My cat just vaulted off my solar plexus to say, "Stop studying and FEED ME human!"

 

[vetmedhead]

I haven't watched a lecture since first semester. Pretty sure a couple of my classmates almost had heart attacks when I said this.

Bold, I don't think I've ever gone as far as not watching lectures at all since I've been burned too many times by the word salad slide decks that some of our professors give us.

It is so much nicer not going to class, though. I forced myself during first and second year because of some depressive episodes where I knew I wouldn't watch lectures at home if I didn't go to lecture in the first place. Nowadays I'm better about staying on top of things and my attention span is way too short to be in IRL class most of the time, so I watch everything on 2x speed at home

 

[finnickthedog]

Bold, I don't think I've ever gone as far as not watching lectures at all since I've been burned too many times by the word salad slide decks that some of our professors give us.

It is so much nicer not going to class, though. I forced myself during first and second year because of some depressive episodes where I knew I wouldn't watch lectures at home if I didn't go to lecture in the first place. Nowadays I'm better about staying on top of things and my attention span is way too short to be in IRL class most of the time, so I watch everything on 2x speed at home

I have some amazing classmates who make some amazing study materials that help me through the times when the powerpoints are just... non-informative or otherwise confusing. Without them I probably would have had to watch a couple lectures.

I actually started out going to class everyday, then had to get stitches in urgent care very late one night so I stayed home and watched in bed. It was life changing. Then from there I slowly realized that even the recordings were a drag and I could get through so much more information in less time if I just read rather than trying to watch and constantly having to rewind due to zoning out. Definitely not a method for everyone but was ideal for me.

 

[battie]

I probs actually pay attention to half the lectures. But a lot of the time I don't have the outline ready. So I do the outline. Then only listen if the outline doesnt make sense. I go to all classes for the most part though, for the socialness.

 

[PippyPony]

I'm all over the place -- don't go to lectures when they happen, but also sometimes get really burned by that if it becomes too much to watch at home later. I tend to pause a lot when I study, which is good...but it means that even if I am watching on 2x speed, a 2 hour lecture will take me like 3 hours.

I am trying to make study materials, but like right now I have 12 hours until this test and 8 hours worth of material I haven't even seen as a first pass, so...womp womp.

Kinda tempted to just drop it and make christmas cookies tbh

 

[wheelin2vetmed]

I'd be out of school without recordings. I can get through the morning on rotations but around noon my nerve pain gets bad. Going to lecture is pointless, as the entire time I'm just sitting there trying to act normal and unable to really process anything that's being said. At home I can lay down and get through them.

The real battle comes when I have to go back to class to take an exam. It comes down to doping myself up or powering through to be clear-headed.

 

[cdo96]

Yeah I can’t not go to class. But I also sit in the front row (bc deaf) and derive a painful amount of joy in socialization with friends and my professors.

 

[WildZoo]

I definitely reached a point where I realized the only reason I was going to class was for socialization and because of my position on the class executive board. But a lot of times I was working on ~other things~ in class and would watch lectures at 2x speed later. Or not watch them. And rely on our PowerPoints and written notes.

 

[Squeaksmom]

I've been averaging about half the lectures since hitting my head in September. None at first, and now I'm up to 2-3/4 per day. Problem is they don't record them here. I have permission to do so as a (very necessary) disability accommodation, but not being there I haven't been able to. So that hasn't been ideal! I've had no break... I took 1 week off with a doctor's note, and the day I came back we had a midterm. All out since then schedule-wise, though I haven't been fully participatory in labs. They require more thinking than lecture and I just haven't been able to do that much at a stretch. Associate Dean had a chat with me last week about his "concerns" around that, so that was fun (we've never gotten along). I'm really hoping 2 weeks of actual rest will be the missing piece to turn this around!

 

[SkiOtter]

I definitely reached a point where I realized the only reason I was going to class was for socialization and because of my position on the class executive board. But a lot of times I was working on ~other things~ in class and would watch lectures at 2x speed later. Or not watch them. And rely on our PowerPoints and written notes.

Me

 

[wheelin2vetmed]

Kinda tempted to just drop it and make christmas cookies tbh

So how bout dem cookies?

 

[cdo96]

My first rotation is VACATION. 😳 My next is an externship. And then my first at OSU is hospital based theriogenology.😢

I celebrated being done with therio too quickly yesterday so... alas

Heheh. We’re gonna make therio our friend. (Somehow.)
My vacation is pretty early too. Late June to early July. And then I get to be gone ALL of October and ALL of April (until graduation) at externships.

I’m looking forward to it! I’ll definitely be 100% over my head but it should be fun.

soooo I checked the listing of available rotations and I emailed the coordinator and switched therio for a second ICU (which will be much much better)

@cdoconn - did you want to start with vacation?

No, not ideally but

my parents already have a vacation booked for that time with some of their friends I don’t know, so maybe I’ll do some solo traveling! I’ll have an externship immediately after that, so I might go up early and have some fun. Who knows

so @kaydubs my parents were talking to my grandparents and apparently my Nana has always wanted to go to Italy and Austria? Well they cancelled their trip to the British Virgin Islands for my vacation block and we’re going to do a 2-3 week vacation to Italy and Austria because I’ll have that original week off between 3rd and 4th year, and then the 2 weeks of scheduled vacation! So it works out!

And then, the next rotation I’ll be in Michigan doing the Leader Dogs, seeing eye dog externship 😍

 

[kaydubs]

soooo I checked the listing of available rotations and I emailed the coordinator and switched therio for a second ICU (which will be much much better)

so @kaydubs my parents were talking to my grandparents and apparently my Nana has always wanted to go to Italy and Austria? Well they cancelled their trip to the British Virgin Islands for my vacation block and we’re going to do a 2-3 week vacation to Italy and Austria because I’ll have that original week off between 3rd and 4th year, and then the 2 weeks of scheduled vacation! So it works out!

And then, the next rotation I’ll be in Michigan doing the Leader Dogs, seeing eye dog externship 😍

That’s great!!!

 

[SkiOtter]

And then, the next rotation I’ll be in Michigan doing the Leader Dogs, seeing eye dog externship 😍

@Trilt we’ve caught another one