Class of 2021 . . . how ya doin?

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Making masks with my furry helper.
 
Anyone have any awesome resources for CV writing? I feel incompetent.
 
In other news, I bought NAVLE prep to follow their 6 month calendar because, let's face it, I passed to 4th year by less than half a percent. I did day 1 today. I know a surprising amount about cows and very little about dogs. :laugh:
 
batsenecal said:
In other news, I bought NAVLE prep to follow their 6 month calendar because, let's face it, I passed to 4th year by less than half a percent. I did day 1 today. I know a surprising amount about cows and very little about dogs. :laugh:
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Oh, we have very different problems. I'm not sure I know anything about cows lol
 
mmmdreamerz said:
Oh, we have very different problems. I'm not sure I know anything about cows lol
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I would feel prouder of this if I hadn't grown up in pet stores. You would think a pet store kid would know more about dogs and cats than about cows and horses. lol.
 
batsenecal said:
I would feel prouder of this if I hadn't grown up in pet stores. You would think a pet store kid would know more about dogs and cats than about cows and horses. lol.
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The irony is I grew up with horses, but from a veterinary perspective I'm probs only moderately more competent with them than cows lol
 
I'm super paranoid about starting too early, not retaining anything and then failing because if it. None of it is logical but my brain doesn't do logical these days. I opened vetprep, did one question and was super worried about it (even though it was which suture to close the linea alba with and it's not like I'm going to forget it)
 
Coopah said:
I'm super paranoid about starting too early, not retaining anything and then failing because if it. None of it is logical but my brain doesn't do logical these days. I opened vetprep, did one question and was super worried about it (even though it was which suture to close the linea alba with and it's not like I'm going to forget it)
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I don't think I'm going to start until I register for the test in June. Won't remember much anyway and also I haven't bought any test prep stuff yet so :shrug:
 
batsenecal said:
In other news, I bought NAVLE prep to follow their 6 month calendar because, let's face it, I passed to 4th year by less than half a percent. I did day 1 today. I know a surprising amount about cows and very little about dogs. :laugh:
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You're early for the 6 month calendar 😛
 
I remember starting the 6 month study calendar right around when I bought vetprep during the summer sale.

I remember getting through about 3 weeks of it and then forgetting about it for 3 months.

I remember then trying to use the 3 month calendar.

I remember reaching <30% completion before taking the NAVLE :laugh:
 
WildZoo said:
I remember starting the 6 month study calendar right around when I bought vetprep during the summer sale.

I remember getting through about 3 weeks of it and then forgetting about it for 3 months.

I remember then trying to use the 3 month calendar.

I remember reaching <30% completion before taking the NAVLE :laugh:
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But you passed!
 
And I know people who did less of vetprep than I did and passed, and people who did more (even got over the 80%!) and didn't. So basically, don't stress about that percentage. And soak up the knowledge you get on clinics, because that's going to serve you better than any prep service anyway. It can be a good review if you do it correctly, but it's not the be all end all of your NAVLE experience.
 
Navle is like the rest of vet school. Know where to put your time and energy and play the numbers. It has nothing to do with your actual competency as a vet. heh

Quickly id your weaknesses in small animal as that is the most points, follow suit after that with horses, then cattle, then small ruminants and other scientific/general procedure knowledge for some easier points. After that, if you remember things, fabulous.
 
Coopah said:
God I couldn't imagine having to buy vetprep on top of everything else. I'm hemorrhaging money this year :vomit:
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I'm fortunate that I'm staying with my fiance and only paying rent and electricity right now. Depending on travel, I might be here for a while, so I'll chip in food and stuff here. But this is forcing me to spend less money, crazy enough.
 
batsenecal said:
I'm fortunate that I'm staying with my fiance and only paying rent and electricity right now. Depending on travel, I might be here for a while, so I'll chip in food and stuff here. But this is forcing me to spend less money, crazy enough.
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I think I've somehow spent more on food from the prospect of it not being there later... But everything else is way down! It's also helped cut down that bad takeout habit 😉

But I was mostly referring to externships being crazy expensive with flights and lodging and car rentals in some cases (I'm still planning on those happening because they're not for a few months yet)

Plus they charge summer tuition for us which just makes it more painful.

And ultimately I've run out of money to live on from my previous life of being an adult with a job. I might be able to limp to the end, but have no money to move wherever I end up or pay deposits and other related expenses. I worry a lot :laugh:
 
Coopah said:
I think I've somehow spent more on food from the prospect of it not being there later... But everything else is way down! It's also helped cut down that bad takeout habit 😉

But I was mostly referring to externships being crazy expensive with flights and lodging and car rentals in some cases (I'm still planning on those happening because they're not for a few months yet)

Plus they charge summer tuition for us which just makes it more painful.

And ultimately I've run out of money to live on from my previous life of being an adult with a job. I might be able to limp to the end, but have no money to move wherever I end up or pay deposits and other related expenses. I worry a lot :laugh:
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I hope you do get to go on your externships! Money well spent! But it sucks yall have to pay summer tuition. :/
 
Lupin21 said:
Navle is like the rest of vet school. Know where to put your time and energy and play the numbers. It has nothing to do with your actual competency as a vet. heh

Quickly id your weaknesses in small animal as that is the most points, follow suit after that with horses, then cattle, then small ruminants and other scientific/general procedure knowledge for some easier points. After that, if you remember things, fabulous.
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Yes and amen.

I mostly gave up on pigs with the exception of like Erysipelas. Still did fine.:laugh:
 
I've realised that our class made some assumptions when everything closed and they changed OSCE grading. We figured that it was now straight up pass/fail because they wouldn't be able to run a resit. But the first and second years still had one OSCE left and they've adapted them to online tests. I know the Associate Dean, Academic knows my result but I haven't heard from him or the course coordinator. The more time passes, the more I'm wondering if they're going to resit me online, on the original scheduled resit day at the end of the month, and give me a chance to go through with the rest of my class. Cross your fingers please everyone!!
 
Squeaksmom said:
I've realised that our class made some assumptions when everything closed and they changed OSCE grading. We figured that it was now straight up pass/fail because they wouldn't be able to run a resit. But the first and second years still had one OSCE left and they've adapted them to online tests. I know the Associate Dean, Academic knows my result but I haven't heard from him or the course coordinator. The more time passes, the more I'm wondering if they're going to resit me online, on the original scheduled resit day at the end of the month, and give me a chance to go through with the rest of my class. Cross your fingers please everyone!!
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I will give you all the luck!!!
 
vetmedhead said:
In a little over a month I'll officially be a fourth year. Now the real question is how long will I be a virtual fourth year? :heckyeah:
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We start online in three weeks but aren’t going to start in the clinic for almost three months.
 
We start June 29th now but are virtual until at least August 22nd.
 
Big Penn (the University itself) just announced that all programs through the rest of the summer will be online. We’ll see what that means for the vet school since professional and graduate programs mostly make their own rules, but looks like that’s the way things are going.
 
ajs513 said:
Big Penn (the University itself) just announced that all programs through the rest of the summer will be online. We’ll see what that means for the vet school since professional and graduate programs mostly make their own rules, but looks like that’s the way things are going.
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Our main university made the same announcement and so all of our on campus clinics are cancelled until around August 24th. I think if they have an off campus externship they can *drive* to they can still go
 
SkiOtter said:
Our main university made the same announcement and so all of our on campus clinics are cancelled until around August 24th. I think if they have an off campus externship they can *drive* to they can still go
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Yep. If people can drive we were told to plan on going to any still currently scheduled off campus blocks.

I'm hoping that we havent heard more because they're trying to negotiate some flexibility. Like if it looks like we can go back August 1, theyll let us despite all other summer course work being online
 
Coopah said:
That seems really long!!!
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It is, but main campus are the boss of us and they've mandated no contact until at least September 1st. Possibly longer depending on how the pandemic situation evolves here. And it sounds like no out of province travel until maybe the new year so a lot of people who had externships are screwed. Our year sounds like it's being changed from 4 week blocks for mandatory rotations and 2 week blocks for everything else except research projects to 6 week blocks alternating with 2 week online learning/"decontamination" blocks between rotations. We move site to site so it's essentially a 14 day self-quarantine between. And we now only have to do 2 x 6 week mandatory rotations instead of 4 x 4 week. Everybody has to do rural community practice, and then one of the other 3. Some things are still up in the air, but lots of changes for sure!
 
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