Class of 2021 . . . how ya doin?

[cdo96]

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We did a forelimb amputation on our specimens in anatomy today 😍 and now (ok after these last 2 lectures) it is SPRING BREAK.

ugh I have one more week before spring break. Very salty about it. Especially when I have 1 take home exam, 2 exams, 1 quiz, 13 lectures, and 3 labs between now and freedom

 

[battie]

That was a **** show, but its over. Just week 1 of quarter 4 to go thrpugh!

 

[Trilt]

Ummm.... I didn't 🤣I honestly was planning to go but then Wally's pamidronate infusion was done at 12:30 so I decided to take him home.

How's he doing btw?

 

[wallydo]

How's he doing btw?

He is one heck of a strong doggo. 😍

He was diagnosed in November and since surgery and stereotactic radiation weren’t options for him, our oncologist estimated about 2-3 months. We are coming up on 5 months and he’s really doing well. His weight is maintaining and he’s eating well without appetite stimulants. When he became more painful we tweaked his meds (he is on gabapentin and codeine TID, and amantadine and piroxocam SID), and we have re-added in acupuncture weekly. He normally is a little punky after pamidronate but he came home today placing his foot better than he has in a long time. He gets his next carboplatin next week. We still have a couple doses of palliative RT for if he gets acutely painful. His CT 2 weeks ago showed his chest is still clear and his mass is about 20% larger (~9cm x ~6cm) expanding into his abdomen and less into his spinal canal. I don’t think we really have that much longer left, but right now myself and those treating him are in agreement that he has good quality.

Next week we are taking him and our other dogs to their favorite place (boyfriends family cabin) for a little doggy fun. Here he is visiting friends in one of our dog friendly coffee places.

Thank you for asking. <3

 

[wallydo]

ugh I have one more week before spring break. Very salty about it. Especially when I have 1 take home exam, 2 exams, 1 quiz, 13 lectures, and 3 labs between now and freedom

That was me last week. I promise, it’s coming! You can do it!

 

[battie]

He is one heck of a strong doggo. 😍

I'm happy for you guys that he's maintaining! He's an adorable muffin!

 

[cdo96]

Professor stopped me after class today to tell me that I did substantially worse on this exam than I did the exam before. Thanks. Super helpful.

44 more school days.

 

[LyraGardenia]

Professor stopped me after class today to tell me that I did substantially worse on this exam than I did the exam before. Thanks. Super helpful.

44 more school days.

Were they offering to meet with you to help you figure out where you went wrong at least??

 

[cheathac]

Spring break is so nice.. you can catch up on everything and not having new material thrown at you is a blessing.

 

[cdo96]

Were they offering to meet with you to help you figure out where you went wrong at least??

Tbh it sounded to me like a “I’m contractually required to say this” but that might be my overall cynical approach to everything.

 

[vetmedhead]

Spring break is so nice.. you can catch up on everything and not having new material thrown at you is a blessing.

Oh man, I've been using spring break to get in some dog time and watch Criminal Minds. This week school stuff can burn in a pit for all I care

 

[Emily Faith]

Professor stopped me after class today to tell me that I did substantially worse on this exam than I did the exam before. Thanks. Super helpful.

44 more school days.

That test. 😡 Normally I’m sad about terrible grades but this time I was just downright angry. Don’t know whether I like this five exam thing or not. I feel like I never get to look away from his material and I need a dang break.

 

[cdo96]

That test. 😡 Normally I’m sad about terrible grades but this time I was just downright angry. Don’t know whether I like this five exam thing or not. I feel like I never get to look away from his material and I need a dang break.

Mhhhhm. You feel me. It’s rough. I’m so tired of studying physiology. I’m going to bake a ****ing cake when this is all over.

 

[cheathac]

Oh man, I've been using spring break to get in some dog time and watch Criminal Minds. This week school stuff can burn in a pit for all I care

Due to my grandmother's funeral last week, I had to miss a few days of school so I needed to catch up! Haha plus we have two exams after Spring break (immunology and clinical skills) so yeah more studying... these last 6 weeks of school better fly

 

[cdo96]

Insignificant, but petty rant:

My phys professor is essentially skipping out to Spring Break early and he canceled class on Friday, which is cool and all but we still have classes before & after so we're not gaining anything from it


AND THEN I find out that instead of not doing the lecture that HE CANCELED, he's just decided to do two lectures on Thursday after our Immunology exam/ after this week from hell instead! So we're now getting punished for him needing to leave early!!!!

43 more days.

 

[Emily Faith]

Insignificant, but petty rant:

My phys professor is essentially skipping out to Spring Break early and he canceled class on Friday, which is cool and all but we still have classes before & after so we're not gaining anything from it


AND THEN I find out that instead of not doing the lecture that HE CANCELED, he's just decided to do two lectures on Thursday after our Immunology exam/ after this week from hell instead! So we're now getting punished for him needing to leave early!!!!

43 more days.

WHAT. How did I miss this? I don’t know what it is with lectures just being added right and left. We are human and do actually need some time away from the classroom, believe it or not. I’m exhausted. 😴

 

[Lupin21]

That is just the way it goes with a 5 credit course. lol

 

[twelvetigers]

That is just the way it goes with a 5 credit course. lol

Correction: that is just the way it goes with the bald one.

 

[cdo96]

Correction: that is just the way it goes with the bald one.

I love you TT.

I was thinking, “wow okay, maybe Lupin is right and I’m just being dramatic.” But every day I become more and more like TT.

 

[Lupin21]

Correction: that is just the way it goes with the bald one.

Nah. The 4 credit classes are annoying too with having class damn near every day, so I say the sheer amount of time needed is what annoys. But if you don't like him, then I suppose that can factor in. I am sick and tired of the hours worth of alimentary lectures ( 4 hr credit )to get through for a test versus the nice 2 credit neuro. heh

 

[twelvetigers]

A five hour course is a pain in the ass, but it’s even worse when the professor is also a pain in the ass. If you did well in his class, he never had a reason to inform you of your stupidity and ‘lack of effort’ - I think if you had to deal with him in that regard, you’d be less likely to just chalk it up as a little baby first year having trouble with the 5hr course.

 

[Lupin21]

A five hour course is a pain in the ass, but it’s even worse when the professor is also a pain in the ass. If you did well in his class, he never had a reason to inform you of your stupidity and ‘lack of effort’ - I think if you had to deal with him in that regard, you’d be less likely to just chalk it up as a little baby first year having trouble with the 5hr course.

I never said anything about a little baby having trouble. I replied to the desire to take a break from the material. It doesn't happen when the material is so massive. You guys can rant about him as much as you want, but the major problem will still be the amount of time that has to be dedicated to a single class in my opinion. It burns a person out.

 

[SkiOtter]

Cool ......

(What was the point of posting this?)

 

[twelvetigers]

I never said anything about a little baby having trouble. I replied to the desire to take a break from the material. It doesn't happen when the material is so massive. You guys can rant about him as much as you want, but the major problem will still be the amount of time that has to be dedicated to a single class in my opinion. It burns a person out.

BacT was a five hour course too... talk about a LOT of material and a lot of memorization. But Dr. G was so nice and helpful and supportive that it made a world of difference in how it felt taking the class. I was sitting next to a classmate on the plane ride home from WVC and their bookmark was a note from Dr. G talking about how much they had improved and how she was proud and confident that they would go on to do great things and be an awesome vet. THAT is what good professors are like.

(Sorry egg, she left OSU when she couldn't get tenure or something like that - I don't know.)

 

[cdo96]

BacT was a five hour course too... talk about a LOT of material and a lot of memorization. But Dr. G was so nice and helpful and supportive that it made a world of difference in how it felt taking the class. I was sitting next to a classmate on the plane ride home from WVC and their bookmark was a note from Dr. G talking about how much they had improved and how she was proud and confident that they would go on to do great things and be an awesome vet. THAT is what good professors are like.

(Sorry egg, she left OSU when she couldn't get tenure or something like that - I don't know.)

Ouch that’s rough. She sounds so sweet. But Dr. A, our SA anatomy professor was like that as well. Kindest professor I’ve ever known.

 

[Lupin21]

BacT was a five hour course too... talk about a LOT of material and a lot of memorization. But Dr. G was so nice and helpful and supportive that it made a world of difference in how it felt taking the class. I was sitting next to a classmate on the plane ride home from WVC and their bookmark was a note from Dr. G talking about how much they had improved and how she was proud and confident that they would go on to do great things and be an awesome vet. THAT is what good professors are like.

(Sorry egg, she left OSU when she couldn't get tenure or something like that - I don't know.)

I got tired of BacT too even though Dr. G was cool. But that also had a fun lab and was slightly broken up with different lecturer with Dr. S, making it more bearable. haha

I understand what you guys are saying for sure. He can be... how he is, but to let him get under your skin is what can make that class worse. It is already tiring to study just his material which is all lecture and monotonous, so to also get angry at how he is leads to grades dropping, which in turn creates more comments from him. Vicious loop. At least for me, keeping it light helped me actually study. For me, when there is a negative connotation with something, the ground reaches my face with ease.

Lissarae I think made a comment back in my first year that I took to heart. He was actually a cool guy, which she learned taking his elective. So for me, I made sure to find these qualities in him. By the end of class, we could have a back and forth about a question I thought he was a stinker on, but still have a laugh on the way out.

 

[twelvetigers]

I got tired of BacT too even though Dr. G was cool. But that also had a fun lab and was slightly broken up with different lecturer with Dr. S, making it more bearable. haha

I understand what you guys are saying for sure. He can be... how he is, but to let him get under your skin is what can make that class worse. It is already tiring to study just his material which is all lecture and monotonous, so to also get angry at how he is leads to grades dropping, which in turn creates more comments from him. Vicious loop. At least for me, keeping it light helped me actually study. For me, when there is a negative connotation with something, the ground reaches my face with ease.

Lissarae I think made a comment back in my first year that I took to heart. He was actually a cool guy, which she learned taking his elective. So for me, I made sure to find these qualities in him. By the end of class, we could have a back and forth about a question I thought he was a stinker on, but still have a laugh on the way out.

Everyone doesn't get along with everyone, I guess. I dislike some specific things about how he teaches and about how he approaches students that are doing poorly, but obviously I had to be one of the students that was doing poorly to experience that. And who knows if my experience was universal.

I should probably just shrug and let it go at this point, but I also like commiserate with the students that are having a hard time with the class.

 

[cdo96]

I got tired of BacT too even though Dr. G was cool. But that also had a fun lab and was slightly broken up with different lecturer with Dr. S, making it more bearable. haha

I understand what you guys are saying for sure. He can be... how he is, but to let him get under your skin is what can make that class worse. It is already tiring to study just his material which is all lecture and monotonous, so to also get angry at how he is leads to grades dropping, which in turn creates more comments from him. Vicious loop. At least for me, keeping it light helped me actually study. For me, when there is a negative connotation with something, the ground reaches my face with ease.

Lissarae I think made a comment back in my first year that I took to heart. He was actually a cool guy, which she learned taking his elective. So for me, I made sure to find these qualities in him. By the end of class, we could have a back and forth about a question I thought he was a stinker on, but still have a laugh on the way out.

Everyone doesn't get along with everyone, I guess. I dislike some specific things about how he teaches and about how he approaches students that are doing poorly, but obviously I had to be one of the students that was doing poorly to experience that. And who knows if my experience was universal.

I should probably just shrug and let it go at this point, but I also like commiserate with the students that are having a hard time with the class.

I’m just here to say that I’m tired and in need of more than 4 hours of sleep/ a small break from physiology.

 

[Lupin21]

Everyone doesn't get along with everyone, I guess. I dislike some specific things about how he teaches and about how he approaches students that are doing poorly, but obviously I had to be one of the students that was doing poorly to experience that. And who knows if my experience was universal.

I should probably just shrug and let it go at this point, but I also like commiserate with the students that are having a hard time with the class.

I understand. I worried that the dislike was building to a dangerous level that makes vet school so miserable. So much depression already exists at an endemic level, it is easy to go down that road and coming back gets harder and harder. I prevent that for myself by finding the good, even if it is incredibly hidden, wherever I can.

Also, cdo and Faith, I have no idea if you're on or have already taken repro, but I hope he made an adjustment after a fun row I had with him about grammatical redundancy when he added Female in front of a blank in which he wanted Mare and I wrote horse. He insisted that he had no idea if I knew the proper terminology for a female horse, but I informed him if he had wanted Mare, he would have mentioned or put a note to use proper gender terms and left female off as female Mare is a terrible sentence structure I would never use. lol

 

[cdo96]

I understand. I worried that the dislike was building to a dangerous level that makes vet school so miserable. So much depression already exists at an endemic level, it is easy to go down that road and coming back gets harder and harder. I prevent that for myself by finding the good, even if it is incredibly hidden, wherever I can.

oh yeah, I mean I’ve been diagnosed with Persistent Depression Disorder, so I definitely understand the endemic of depression and the desire to seek out the good things. I just have to find and write out my “happy” outside of physiology (although I do really love metabolism), whether it’s my hamster, my friends, or the smallest act of kindness someone’s done for me.

Also, cdo and Faith, I have no idea if you're on or have already taken repro, but I hope he made an adjustment after a fun row I had with him about grammatical redundancy when he added Female in front of a blank in which he wanted Mare and I wrote horse. He insisted that he had no idea if I knew the proper terminology for a female horse, but I informed him if he had wanted Mare, he would have mentioned or put a note to use proper gender terms and left female off as female Mare is a terrible sentence structure I would never use. lol

Haha yeah we haven’t gotten there yet. Just finishing up Lipid Metabolism yet, but that’s pretty funny!

 

[Emily Faith]

I understand. I worried that the dislike was building to a dangerous level that makes vet school so miserable. So much depression already exists at an endemic level, it is easy to go down that road and coming back gets harder and harder. I prevent that for myself by finding the good, even if it is incredibly hidden, wherever I can.

I definitely understand and appreciate your point of view! Though it does feel good sometimes just to know you’re not the only one struggling.

I do have to admit he’s grown on me a little over these two semesters. When he’s in his chipper mood it’s a little bit adorable. 🙂

 

[Lupin21]

I definitely understand and appreciate your point of view! Though it does feel good sometimes just to know you’re not the only one struggling.

I do have to admit he’s grown on me a little over these two semesters. When he’s in his chipper mood it’s a little bit adorable. 🙂

There is no reason to ever think you are the only one struggling. It's why every year the new class page gets started and we all post soak in the happy feeling for the dark times. 😉

Funnily enough my classes that were a struggle were anatomy and histo. I was angry at myself for not getting it right away; putting in the work but not seeing the grades reflect. I think first year here is when you really find out how to deal with self worth. In the end, I conquered histo quite handily and knew anatomy was still a weakness. One of the reasons I chose those to TA is to redeem some of that, and I still really enjoy histo now even though I still have a certain opinion of some of the test questions... haha

Plus, it is St. Patty's day tomorrow, time to celebrate the Irish, amirite?!?! 🤣

 

[SkiOtter]

Plus, it is St. Patty's Paddy’s day tomorrow, time to celebrate the Irish, amirite?!?! 🤣

Patty is female. Paddy is male. Thank you and goodbye.

 

[Lupin21]

Patty is female. Paddy is male. Thank you and goodbye.

Perpetuating gender stereotypes, eh? I say you can be whatever you want to be.

 

[SkiOtter]

Perpetuating gender stereotypes, eh? I say you can be whatever you want to be.

But it is after St. Patrick which is Padraig in Gaelic. Which is what Paddy is shortened from. St. Patricia is a different saint and this is not her day. Her day is August 25th. So no, not patty’s day. It is paddy’s day.

 

[Lupin21]

But it is after St. Patrick which is Padraig in Gaelic. St Patricia is a different saint and this is not her day. Her day is August 25th. So no, not patty’s day. It is paddy’s day.

Gotcha. This is like taking a quick peep under an animal to make sure you don't call pet the wrong gender as it can enrage the client.

 

[SkiOtter]

Gotcha. This is like taking a quick peep under an animal to make sure you don't call pet the wrong gender as it can enrage the client.

But worse because it’s a whole country.

 

[Lupin21]

But worse because it’s a whole country.

But the real question is are they just looking for a fight, truly offended, or both?

 

[SkiOtter]

But the real question is are they just looking for a fight, truly offended, or both?

Truly offended

 

[Lupin21]

Truly offended

So says the fighting Irish.

 

[dyachei]

There is no reason to ever think you are the only one struggling. It's why every year the new class page gets started and we all post soak in the happy feeling for the dark times. 😉

Funnily enough my classes that were a struggle were anatomy and histo. I was angry at myself for not getting it right away; putting in the work but not seeing the grades reflect. I think first year here is when you really find out how to deal with self worth. In the end, I conquered histo quite handily and knew anatomy was still a weakness. One of the reasons I chose those to TA is to redeem some of that, and I still really enjoy histo now even though I still have a certain opinion of some of the test questions... haha

Plus, it is St. Patty's day tomorrow, time to celebrate the Irish, amirite?!?! 🤣

I think this is why we get along. Lots of trouble with histo/anatomy but physio and pharm came naturally to me.

 

[twelvetigers]

Nothing came natural to me.

 

[SkiOtter]

Nothing came natural to me.

But ya made it!

 

[cdo96]

Nothing came natural to me.

****ing same. I keep hoping it’s going to finally make sense/ come easy to me but it never does!

 

[Lupin21]

Thank jeebus the time flies though so it's only a PITA for a blink. haha

 

[cdo96]

Thank jeebus the time flies though so it's only a PITA for a blink. haha

Right? It’s crazy to believe that in just over 2 years I’ll be getting ready for clinics! 😱

 

[battie]

It snows every time I come back home. Every. Single. Time.

I don't drive 1000 miles to get snowed on -_-

 

[ResoluteMike]

Heard this on the radio on the way home. If there is a veterinary school soundtrack this should be on it. Pretty much sums up all of my feelings about neuro.

 

[Emily Faith]

Heard this on the radio on the way home. If there is a veterinary school soundtrack this should be on it. Pretty much sums up all of my feelings about neuro.

Woah, that’s perfect. Some musically inclined vet students need to get together and make a music video out of this. No lyric changes necessary!

 

[Coopah]

Heard this on the radio on the way home. If there is a veterinary school soundtrack this should be on it. Pretty much sums up all of my feelings about neuro.

This is my entire life summed up in one catchy video...