Class of 2021 . . . how ya doin?

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PippyPony said:
Only people who talk during our exams are the proctors :laugh:

I actually got kind of ticked at a pair of them on one of the last exams and glared at them until one of them said "oops, shhhh" and stopped talking.


Ayyyyyyyy
:highfive:

It's a good rule, applies in a lot of scenarios.
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Our professors would come out and chill with us (answering questions etc) or would sit in the corner and watch us. I used to occasionally call them over like I had a question and then just tell them jokes when they came up, but that's just me being weird.

Oh, and when I took our anatomy final after I was sort of getting over my prolonged death at the hands of the stomach flu, we did have one professor who basically just followed me around the whole time in the lab because she was worried I would throw up or pass out. So some of them did occasionally do catcher's duty lol
 
vetmedhead said:
Our professors would come out and chill with us (answering questions etc) or would sit in the corner and watch us. I used to occasionally call them over like I had a question and then just tell them jokes when they came up, but that's just me being weird.
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I aspire to someday get to this level of zen during an exam. Mostly I am just worried I'm going to throw up out of anxiety.
 
PippyPony said:
Ayyyyyyyy
:highfive:

It's a good rule, applies in a lot of scenarios.
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When I was an RA I always gave my residents three rules to follow for us to get along famously through the year:

1. Don't be stupid
2. Don't be a dick
3. Go to class

I told them if they were succeeding at all three at any point in time then I would never have a reason to write them up or have to have serious conversations with them
 
PippyPony said:
I aspire to someday get to this level of zen during an exam. Mostly I am just worried I'm going to throw up out of anxiety.
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I think I just use humor as an almost pathologic coping mechanism

When I took phys exams I used to wrap myself in a blanket like ET and take my test like that

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vetmedhead said:
I think I just use humor as an almost pathologic coping mechanism

When I took phys exams I used to wrap myself in a blanket like ET and take my test like that

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Our Phys professor would **** his pants if anyone tried this. :laugh:

He says in his syllabus that he reserves the right to kick anyone out if they wear sweatpants/ “unprofessional clothing” to class.

Amiright, @Emily Faith :laugh:
 
cdoconn said:
Our Phys professor would **** his pants if anyone tried this. :laugh:

He says in his syllabus that he reserves the right to kick anyone out if they wear sweatpants/ “unprofessional clothing” to class.

Amiright, @Emily Faith :laugh:
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So yoga pants and sweat shirts are probably out right. That’s like, my test uniform haha
 
Our practicals were typically timed. One minute per station and then we rotated, with "rest" stations every couple where you could figure out your life/second guess all your answers/try to acquire a photographic memory because we weren't allowed to go back to stations we had already seen.

Our final first semester was more of a free for all though. One person per station and you could spend as long as you wanted on each one.
 
WildZoo said:
Our practicals were typically timed. One minute per station and then we rotated, with "rest" stations every couple where you could figure out your life/second guess all your answers/try to acquire a photographic memory because we weren't allowed to go back to stations we had already seen.

Our final first semester was more of a free for all though. One person per station and you could spend as long as you wanted on each one.
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Did you find that you liked one over the other?

Ours were always timed (60 stations- 1 minute each station and then 20 seconds each station the second time through), and to be honest I wish there was an option to either turn in other the first go around or have a free for all. I would always always always change my answers to wrong ones the second time through. As a test taker dwelling over answers is a no-go for me, though I know there are people that would have appreciated extra time for other stations if there was a free for all option.
 
Ashgirl said:
Did you find that you liked one over the other?

Ours were always timed (60 stations- 1 minute each station and then 20 seconds each station the second time through), and to be honest I wish there was an option to either turn in other the first go around or have a free for all. I would always always always change my answers to wrong ones the second time through. As a test taker dwelling over answers is a no-go for me, though I know there are people that would have appreciated extra time for other stations if there was a free for all option.
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Eh, there were benefits to both, I don't know that I really preferred one over the other. There is a lot of sitting around and waiting with either, which is probably my least favorite thing for any exam - I'd rather fly through it before I have time to think and am tempted to change my answers.
 
vetmedhead said:
1. Don't be stupid
2. Don't be a dick
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My rules as an RA and an RD. I also said, "The ruder you are, the worse the punishment." Some kids got to sweep and mop two eleven storie staircases starting at the top. Only time they got written up the whole year.

cdoconn said:
He says in his syllabus that he reserves the right to kick anyone out if they wear sweatpants/ “unprofessional clothing” to class.
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I have 200+ articles of school clothing. I couldn't do this.

cdoconn said:
Lol yes. And no computers/ technology. I feel like y’all think I complain about him too much. :roflcopter:
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Yeah, no.
 
I say that "don't be a dick" is a good tenet to try to live by, and that I am not a rule breaker...

...but then with that professor, I think I would show up in my cat pajamas and flip flops with a big hot coffee and a donut, sit down in the front row, flip open my computer, and settle in for a nice lecture.

So I might occasionally be a little hypocritical.
 
PippyPony said:
The only thing I like about anatomy exams:

I show up at 7:45am in scrubs and a giant hooded sweatshirt, ready to face my doom in comfort.
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Mine’s leggings and a giant sweatshirt.

Or my favorite t-shirt- looks like this.

“Don’t be happy. Worry!”

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Coopah said:
We have a minute 15 for each station and then we rotate, but at the end we have 10 minutes to go to any station we need more time on. So there's definitely a conglomeration of people at the hard spots during that time but there's never any talking.
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WildZoo said:
Our practicals were typically timed. One minute per station and then we rotated, with "rest" stations every couple where you could figure out your life/second guess all your answers/try to acquire a photographic memory because we weren't allowed to go back to stations we had already seen.
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Ours were basically a mix of this. We had I think a minute per station, with some rest stations thrown in since there were always more people taking the exam at a time than there were questions, and then at the end we had I think 10 minutes to go back and look at any questions we weren't sure on.

Our quizzes for large animal were more of a cluster since it was 2 lab groups being quizzed at a time, so roughly 10 people all trying to look at each question. The professors tried to go slowly enough so everyone had time to get a good look at the structure, but it was kinda stressful. And we had more issues with people either cheating or being accused of cheating, since while we were waiting to be quizzed we were supposed to just sit there quietly doing nothing, and during the quiz it was difficult to not accidentally glance at someone else's clipboard. I would just hug my clipboard to my chest and stare at the floor if I was waiting for the next question.
 
cdoconn said:
Our Phys professor would **** his pants if anyone tried this. :laugh:

He says in his syllabus that he reserves the right to kick anyone out if they wear sweatpants/ “unprofessional clothing” to class.

Amiright, @Emily Faith :laugh:
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Lol. I was in the cubes, which is a DVM student only space, and I also wear my blanket to class all of the time anyway. I'm cold! Let me live!

I would have probably had some problems with your professor lol
 
cdoconn said:
Our Phys professor would **** his pants if anyone tried this. :laugh:

He says in his syllabus that he reserves the right to kick anyone out if they wear sweatpants/ “unprofessional clothing” to class.

Amiright, @Emily Faith :laugh:
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I honestly didn’t even know this was a rule. Probably because I take a Schrödinger’s cat approach to his class. Until I open the syllabus there is both a rule and no rule . :whistle:
 
Emily Faith said:
I honestly didn’t even know this was a rule. Probably because I take a Schrödinger’s cat approach to his class. Until I open the syllabus there is both a rule and no rule . :whistle:
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:laugh: Yeah it’s in there. It was definitely more detailed last semester, but yuup. No ET for you. 🤣
 
mmmdreamerz said:
This conversation has been very interesting. Who knew there were so many ways to teach one class.

We’re never allowed to touch anything on the practicals.
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I am amazed how different all the schools are too! We haven’t had any practicals and we’ve dissected a lot.

On exams, we don’t get the specimen in front of us for most questions, just pictures on a multiple choice test.

Then once you’re good and upset about the MCQ, we have oral exams where they bring out the specimens and ask you questions about anything from the whole year. I wish we had stations with written answers!
 
LabLuv004 said:
I am amazed how different all the schools are too! We haven’t had any practicals and we’ve dissected a lot.

On exams, we don’t get the specimen in front of us for most questions, just pictures on a multiple choice test.

Then once you’re good and upset about the MCQ, we have oral exams where they bring out the specimens and ask you questions about anything from the whole year. I wish we had stations with written answers!
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Wow when did you guys start anatomy to not have had a practical at all yet?

Our exams are divided into a written and a practical with half the class starting with one or the other, but we aren’t given a limit per station or even told how much time to spend on the written vs. the practical. We are just given a total time limit that we have to be done with both parts of the exam by.

As a whole, I really like how anatomy is taught here.
 
mmmdreamerz said:
Wow when did you guys start anatomy to not have had a practical at all yet?

Our exams are divided into a written and a practical with half the class starting with one or the other, but we aren’t given a limit per station or even told how much time to spend on the written vs. the practical. We are just given a total time limit that we have to be done with both parts of the exam by.

As a whole, I really like how anatomy is taught here.
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Ours is pretty similar, but with an hour and a half time limit for lecture and again for lab. We are generally allowed to move things around unless the pins are in something really delicate. It does help that there are only 13 of us taking the lab part though.
 
mmmdreamerz said:
Wow when did you guys start anatomy to not have had a practical at all yet?

Our exams are divided into a written and a practical with half the class starting with one or the other, but we aren’t given a limit per station or even told how much time to spend on the written vs. the practical. We are just given a total time limit that we have to be done with both parts of the exam by.

As a whole, I really like how anatomy is taught here.
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I wish we had separate exams for each class and more frequent ones because it’s amazing how fast I forget the details. And your set up sounds really low stress (for an exam) to be able to take your time and go where you want during the exam.

Our anatomy stresses me out because it’s 100% self taught and then it’s tested orally in combination with physiology and animal handling in June. And they can ask you the smallest detail from a dissection in the fall. All our exams are like that; anything is fair game on exams.

The reality of that hasn’t really hit me yet, but we have our practice oral exams in a few weeks so I’m sure I’ll be freaking out then.
 
Did y’all all get Risky, the squeezable stress donkey from the AVMA-PLIT? They’re doing a national photo contest with them, and he’s just the cutest little guy ever.
 
cdoconn said:
Did y’all all get Risky, the squeezable stress donkey from the AVMA-PLIT? They’re doing a national photo contest with them, and he’s just the cutest little guy ever.
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My friend has one on her desk and dresses him up for holidays. He has a wooden chest now to store his costumes 😛
 
cdoconn said:
Did y’all all get Risky, the squeezable stress donkey from the AVMA-PLIT? They’re doing a national photo contest with them, and he’s just the cutest little guy ever.
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No, I want one!!!
 
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