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vetmedhead said:
Answering purely based on my ****ass cat I would say allow cats enough space to get away from each other because the house seems happiest when there's like two doors and a gate between him and every other cat in the household :laugh: Ideally (in his mind) all other cats would not even live on the same street as him

But I agree that really all of these are the correct answer and asking students to divine the professor's thought process from the aether for this is a bit much
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See I would have said litter box because elimination problems are a major behavioral cause of cat surrenders... but obviously litter box aversion is also a common sequelae to territorial disputes so...
 
batsenecal said:
On the point of terrible test questions: which of the following sets a cat up for best behavior:

Have elevated spaces for them
Have scratching posts
Allow cats enough space to get away from each
Regularly clean their litterbox

Thanks.
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This was kind of how our whole virology course went. But @SARdoghandler had this creepy ability to read the prof's mind.... The rest of us never had a hot clue where he was going with his questions!
 
Squeaksmom said:
I got my vacation when I wanted it, which means I'll be available for 3 of the weeks Jennifer said she'd be taking students. Because of the way her scheduling worked out that was the best case scenario. Hopefully there's actually a spot in one of them! Also means I can go to the AAVN symposium in Baltimore, and I'm hoping Lori Prantil might be able to take me for a week somewhere in there as well. We couldn't get it set up as a formal externship because a couple of my emails went to her junk folder. She thought I'd just flaked, and by the time she realised what had happened and contacted me it was too late. But we're still both hoping to get me down there during a vacation block. But you guys get first pick of dates because Jennifer has less flexibility.
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If you‘re still looking for nutrition externships, 11/10 recommendation for our nutritionist. I have very little actual interest in nutrition, but I loved learning about it because of her.
 
mmmdreamerz said:
If you‘re still looking for nutrition externships, 11/10 recommendation for our nutritionist. I have very little actual interest in nutrition, but I loved learning about it because of her.
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Definitely, if I can fit them in! Who ya got??

I'm very bad at remembering what school people are at!
 
Lol you know what is always a good time?

Watching lecture capture and hearing your own voice give an incorrect answer to an in-class question.

Just overheard myself blurt out "EIA" for a cause of high fever in horses, and the professor goes "uhhh ok... but I was looking for most common differentials. How common is EIA? ... Right. Not very."

derp derp

(Even better: nerd behind me yells out "strangles!" 0.0002 seconds later)
 
ResoluteMike said:
They want us on clinics to free up the 4th years for their graduation ceremony. Hospital wouldn't run without the students.
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Graduation is the week after we start, so that’s how they get around that here.
 
Less than 8 weeks until clinics start. I don't have my schedule and I'm starting to get noticeably agitated. I literally need that schedule to ensure I can do my externship. If not I need to make changes, which take minimum of 16 weeks. I'm so on edge about everything. I can't sit in class anymore. I have to do lectures in 20 minute chunks because I can't focus. Just give me my damn schedule and make that one little bit a little bit easier.
 
Remember that time I said I thought I did horribly on an exam... and then the grades got curved or something and I didn't do thaaaat badly?

Pretty sure the exam gods overheard me rejoicing last week and decided we can't have nice things. Didn't get a grade back instantaneously for the final I just took in that same class, and probably won't for a while, but I feel like I just got double barrel kicked in the chest. (cue commotio cordis :dead:)
 
PippyPony said:
Remember that time I said I thought I did horribly on an exam... and then I didn't do thaaaat badly?

Pretty sure the exam gods overheard me rejoicing last week and decided we can't have nice things. Didn't get a grade back instantaneously for the final I just took in that same class, and probably won't for a while, but I feel like I just got double barrel kicked in the chest. (cue commotio cordis :dead:)
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You guys normally get things back instantaneously? We always have to wait a minimum of a week for the professors to look over how people did (even if it was all multiple choice) to see if they need to throw out a question. I'm pretty sure they stopped caring because they haven't done that in years. When I've fought questions before (ie cardio example) they answer with some variation of too bad.
 
Coopah said:
You guys normally get things back instantaneously? We always have to wait a minimum of a week for the professors to look over how people did (even if it was all multiple choice) to see if they need to throw out a question. I'm pretty sure they stopped caring because they haven't done that in years. When I've fought questions before (ie cardio example) they answer with some variation of too bad.
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For most of our exams they let us have a preliminary score instantaneously so we at least had a "worst case scenario" grade to look at even though it would still take them a while to decide whether they were throwing out questions and/or grade anything that wasn't multiple choice. It drove me crazy anytime they didn't give us scores right away. Waiting to find out if I failed or not just adds extra stress. Then again... before vet school waiting for exam grades was the norm so maybe I was just spoiled by getting them back instantly so often in vet school that whenever they didn't do that it suddenly felt so sucky.
 
Coopah said:
You guys normally get things back instantaneously? We always have to wait a minimum of a week for the professors to look over how people did (even if it was all multiple choice) to see if they need to throw out a question. I'm pretty sure they stopped caring because they haven't done that in years. When I've fought questions before (ie cardio example) they answer with some variation of too bad.
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Yeah, for almost all of vet school we have gotten our scores as soon as we hit submit on the exam software. I like it, it helps me gauge where I stand with the material. Mildly unnerving for them to switch to hidden scores right when we're at the end (literally the last week -- why not just keep to the old gods, ya know?)

They also just stopped doing exam reviews for our classes, too. We had one after almost every test in 1st year (usually same day, even), and we've had like...none at all this semester.

Kinda stinks because they put repeat questions on this particular exam, and I get the feeling I've gotten the same question wrong 3 times now but couldn't actually say for sure, because it disappeared into the abyss. A little frustrating, I wish they had kept the reviews so we could learn from them.
 
Coopah said:
Less than 8 weeks until clinics start. I don't have my schedule and I'm starting to get noticeably agitated. I literally need that schedule to ensure I can do my externship. If not I need to make changes, which take minimum of 16 weeks. I'm so on edge about everything. I can't sit in class anymore. I have to do lectures in 20 minute chunks because I can't focus. Just give me my damn schedule and make that one little bit a little bit easier.
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Can you just park yourself in the admin building until they give you an update? Play lectures on 2x out loud and rewind over & over --that's enough to motivate anyone into finding a way to make it stop lol
 
We're on clinics with the current 4th years for 6 weeks. Then they get the final week off to make sure all their paperwork is done. We become the "new 4th years" and they are the "PD students".
 
PippyPony said:
Can you just park yourself in the admin building until they give you an update? Play lectures on 2x out loud and rewind over & over --that's enough to motivate anyone into finding a way to make it stop lol
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Unfortunately the person in charge has an office in the VMTH and it would be right next to the surgery department (whom I want to love me) and also her door is shut and locked most times because people keep bugger her for our schedules (because it's not supposed to take this long!)
 
WildZoo said:
We waited weeks for exam scores! Weeks!

Especially if someone had to take the exam late or something.
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Dude I mean we do too, it's just extra annoying because sometimes they'll come in class after a test and be like you guys did great! But we won't know how we did for 2.5 weeks :yeahright:.

We've also had instances of cumulative final exams coming up and we have like one of five exams back. Cause that's helpful.
 
Coopah said:
Dude I mean we do too, it's just extra annoying because sometimes they'll come in class after a test and be like you guys did great! But we won't know how we did for 2.5 weeks :yeahright:.

We've also had instances of cumulative final exams coming up and we have like one of five exams back. Cause that's helpful.
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That's so frustrating!
granted I almost never took advantage of opportunities to look over the test after the fact, because I'm a piece of **** student, but I feel like that should always be available before you have another test on the same subject. Otherwise how are you supposed to know what you didn't know the first time???
 
Can someone explain the logic of not giving us the test back? We get our score, our answers, and what we got right or wrong back. We cant write anything down when we look at exams after the score is released. What is the point?!
 
batsenecal said:
Can someone explain the logic of not giving us the test back? We get our score, our answers, and what we got right or wrong back. We cant write anything down when we look at exams after the score is released. What is the point?!
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Reuse of questions, and they are afraid you will sell them to first years?
 
StayingPositive2017 said:
Reuse of questions, and they are afraid you will sell them to first years?
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Not going to lie, I wouldn't even sell it. I'd give it to my little for free cause that's what we did in undergrad. But my undergrad professors didnt reuse questions. They had a bank of accumulated questions they'd made over the years and used a question every five years or so.
 
batsenecal said:
Not going to lie, I wouldn't even sell it. I'd give it to my little for free cause that's what we did in undergrad. But my undergrad professors didnt reuse questions. They had a bank of accumulated questions they'd made over the years and used a question every five years or so.
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That's what they worry about here, it's not the exact same questions every year but it's a near thing. We may only look at our exams in a monitored room with no electronics allowed and if we want to write anything down (say if we want to look up a topic because we didn't understand the first time) we have to show any and all notes to the monitor before we leave. A little ridiculous if you ask me.
 
Coopah said:
A little ridiculous if you ask me.
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With how indepth some of our lecturers are, being told what subject I did horrible on and which teacher specifically doesnt really narrow it down to help me review for the final. It could be literally 150 slides worth of material. :/
 
Coopah said:
That's what they worry about here, it's not the exact same questions every year but it's a near thing. We may only look at our exams in a monitored room with no electronics allowed and if we want to write anything down (say if we want to look up a topic because we didn't understand the first time) we have to show any and all notes to the monitor before we leave. A little ridiculous if you ask me.
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I think it’s honestly a matter of all the faculty are horribly overworked that having to write new questions every year for every test is just something else added to their plate.

We take all our exams in examsoft and have to turn any scratch paper in at the end, show them our green turn-in screen, and sign-out.
 
mmmdreamerz said:
I think it’s honestly a matter of all the faculty are horribly overworked that having to write new questions every year for every test is just something else added to their plate.

We take all our exams in examsoft and have to turn any scratch paper in at the end, show them our green turn-in screen, and sign-out.
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Exactly my thought and how we do exams here
 
Coopah said:
That's what they worry about here, it's not the exact same questions every year but it's a near thing. We may only look at our exams in a monitored room with no electronics allowed and if we want to write anything down (say if we want to look up a topic because we didn't understand the first time) we have to show any and all notes to the monitor before we leave. A little ridiculous if you ask me.
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they started phasing that in with my class, only some professors did it then. we had almost all paper exams though. up to our class there were definitely test files passed down and professors definitely re-used questions. since the curriculum changed afterwards i think we all had to find ways to trash our test files. lots of recycling or bonfires, personal preference....
 
mmmdreamerz said:
I think it’s honestly a matter of all the faculty are horribly overworked that having to write new questions every year for every test is just something else added to their plate.

We take all our exams in examsoft and have to turn any scratch paper in at the end, show them our green turn-in screen, and sign-out.
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I don't mind tight control over the questions at all -- it takes a lot of time to write good exam questions. And since it's the same material year after year, it is hella dumb to make people try to write new ones every year.

But I'm sad that group reviews seem to be going away here. It's nice to see what we got wrong so we can have a sense of where we have big knowledge gaps. Plus, the questions that people used to ask in group exam reviews were honestly really insightful, and professors would also proactively explain the questions a lot of people got wrong -- super helpful.

Related topic but I also appreciate it when professors take old exam questions and distribute them as practice. A few of our course directors are awesome like that, and I wish more of them did it.
 
Coopah said:
Less than 8 weeks until clinics start. I don't have my schedule and I'm starting to get noticeably agitated. I literally need that schedule to ensure I can do my externship. If not I need to make changes, which take minimum of 16 weeks. I'm so on edge about everything. I can't sit in class anymore. I have to do lectures in 20 minute chunks because I can't focus. Just give me my damn schedule and make that one little bit a little bit easier.
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If only there were a computer algorithm that made our schedules automatically. I would call it "The Brain". Oh wait...
 
I had my first spay and neuter today!

and included phrases such as:
"stop bleeding, stop bleeding, why are you bleeding? stop that"
"come'ere testicle, let me cut you out COME OUT. COME ON. OUT."

and long discussions and debates about pretzels.

apparently I am chatty when I operate.
 
Coopah said:
Unfortunately the person in charge has an office in the VMTH and it would be right next to the surgery department (whom I want to love me) and also her door is shut and locked most times because people keep bugger her for our schedules (because it's not supposed to take this long!)
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I have it on good authority that students aren't the only ones bugging them! 😉
 
cdoconn said:
I had my first spay and neuter today!

and included phrases such as:
"stop bleeding, stop bleeding, why are you bleeding? stop that"
"come'ere testicle, let me cut you out COME OUT. COME ON. OUT."

and long discussions and debates about pretzels.

apparently I am chatty when I operate.
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I am also a talker. Usually with lots of bad words mixed in too.
 
cdoconn said:
I had my first spay and neuter today!

and included phrases such as:
"stop bleeding, stop bleeding, why are you bleeding? stop that"
"come'ere testicle, let me cut you out COME OUT. COME ON. OUT."

and long discussions and debates about pretzels.

apparently I am chatty when I operate.
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Last dog neuter I did the techs started playing "Push It" by Salt N Pepa because the testicle just did not want to pop out of my incision. Good times were had by all (except that ball, it did come out eventually).
 
that redhead said:
I am also a talker. Usually with lots of bad words mixed in too.
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Eeeyyuppp. I'm the only chatty surgeon in our five doctor practice. Everyone else just... concentrates and can hardly answer questions. I'm pretty sure I drive the techs a little bit ****oo with inane jabbering.

I'm a fidgeter when talking, too, though, so really just I think two parts of my brain need to be firing at once for me to be happy.
 
Trilt said:
Eeeyyuppp. I'm the only chatty surgeon in our five doctor practice. Everyone else just... concentrates and can hardly answer questions. I'm pretty sure I drive the techs a little bit ****oo with inane jabbering.

I'm a fidgeter when talking, too, though, so really just I think two parts of my brain need to be firing at once for me to be happy.
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I talk a lot but end up trailing off in the middle of sentences if I'm trying to concentrate. I can't really hold a conversation but I will definitely not shut up :laugh:
 
Coopah said:
I talk a lot but end up trailing off in the middle of sentences if I'm trying to concentrate
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Me too! I will completely forget whatever I was saying if there is something non-routine going on, and get really quiet. And then the cursing starts if it takes more than a minute to fix.
 
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