Class of 2022...how you doin'?

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vetmedhead said:
Put together your big clinical signs to figure out where they're leading you, especially things that logically don't go together (e.g. polyphagia and weight loss or no change in appetite and weight gain)

I am dumb and need lots of mnemonics and memory devices. Here's a few from boards studying

PU/PDpolyphagiaweight changecoat changesother
Hyperthyroidyesyeslossunthrifty coatthyroid slip, a n g e r y, kidney dz might be in the vents, check for secondary hypertension!
Hypothyroidnonogaincoat dull, may be alopeciarule out euthyroid sick
Cushing'syesyesgainBALDCushing's pushes ALP in panting, pot belly dogs. Cushing's is crunchy (calcinosis cutis)
Addison'syesnono change to lossnot reallyGet stressy then get depressy. 🙁 looks like everything. High K Kills your heart and will kill your patient.
Diabetesyesyeslossmeh, usually more unthrifty than anything but can be baldishDogs: cataracts. Almost always insulin dependent
Cats: plantigrade, litter stuck to paws. Insulin resistant, big head, azotemic - might be acromegaly. Can go into remission within ~6 months of dx in some cases

DKA is bad nooz. Look for dem ketones in the pee. Also fix their lytes before you fix their sugars!
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Omg y'all somebody should kick me, I mixed up hyper & hypothyroidism in terms of which one has PU/PD and which one doesn't. Fixed it but for those of you using this for actual advice... tread carefully :ninja:

I also added a couple things in the diabetes section that I forgot about writing earlier
 
DRider13 said:
UPDATE 2.0: Just found out it didn't actually get curved. They just added the participation marks from lectures onto our terrible midterm marks so that they don't look so terrible :yeahright:
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I don’t think that is the case. You went up 11, I went up 4, and someone else went up 2 despite us all doing the questions.
 
Did my first spay last week, did my first neuter this week, and just got fantastic reviews from a clinician about my communications skills with clients! This year has been horrible so far and last night I was sitting and thinking, "Maybe I'll just finish my degree and then leave the profession right after." But these 3 events reminded me why I'm here and reminded that I will become a competent vet.

(just maybe not competent in pigs though...)
 
The last few weeks have been rough. Today I am so disappointed and disillusioned with my class; I always felt like we were in it together and people would be there for each other if they really needed it. Clearly, that is not the case.
A number of people are struggling right now, and I've seen a horrific lack of compassion towards them. And an unwillingness to have some personal inconveniences to help get everyone get through the semester. It's just hurts, knowing I was overly idealistic the past few years.

In other news, I did my first live spay this week and she was the cutest and sweetest kitten on the planet. It went pretty well, better than I expected (I was seriously concerned about finding the ovaries in my little 2kg cat). Still not convinced I have much interest in doing any surgery down the line, but it was a fun experience!
 
TheGirlWithTheFernTattoo said:
The last few weeks have been rough. Today I am so disappointed and disillusioned with my class; I always felt like we were in it together and people would be there for each other if they really needed it. Clearly, that is not the case.
A number of people are struggling right now, and I've seen a horrific lack of compassion towards them. And an unwillingness to have some personal inconveniences to help get everyone get through the semester. It's just hurts, knowing I was overly idealistic the past few years.

In other news, I did my first live spay this week and she was the cutest and sweetest kitten on the planet. It went pretty well, better than I expected (I was seriously concerned about finding the ovaries in my little 2kg cat). Still not convinced I have much interest in doing any surgery down the line, but it was a fun experience!
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I am totally there with you as far as the last few weeks being ROUGH. I have definitely let things take a toll on my mental health and have to keep reminding myself why I am here in the first place, taking everything one day and one lecture/exam at a time. (And tbh I just keep blaming COVID for it all which makes me feel a little better 😉)

I think we also have to start giving ourselves a little more credit. I was TERRIFIED to start surgery this semester, especially when it was my turn to be anesthetist (my program has us in groups of 3 and we rotate between primary surgeon, assistant, and anesthetist every surgery). I just didn't know how it was possible for us to learn on such small patients, since our cat spays are also usually pretty tiny. My first live surgery this semester was a cat neuter and I think he barely weighed 2 kg! But when you get in there, you realize how much you do know and it is very reassuring and satisfying at the end when the supervising surgeon compliments your closure which you were most nervous about.

Keep on keepin' on! We're in this together and even if you can't find comfort in your actual classmates, we're all colleagues at the end of the day and can help each other out even from afar. 🙂
 
I got to touch a live cow, sheep, goat, llama and alpaca today and it made me very happy, then I had to keep studying Cardio and it made me sad again 🙁

The further I get into the program the more I wonder what I want to do when finished. The joy I get from working with ruminants makes me really think I should go down that path rather than mixed. Or Fish, I love talking about fish too. We will see I guess. Now back to studying for the exam storm that we are currently in.
 
Barkley13 said:
I just remembered that we get our (tentative) 4th year schedules today
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Also jealous. We haven't even got our 3rd year/2nd semester schedules yet let alone heard anything about 4th year. :shrug:
 
Barkley13 said:
I just remembered that we get our (tentative) 4th year schedules today 😱
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We got ours sometime in August, filling out electives right now. But we do a weird system spin for certain electives this month with our “final” schedule coming out in December... like WHERE HAS THE TIME GONE?!
 
Amanasoul said:
Also jealous. We haven't even got our 3rd year/2nd semester schedules yet let alone heard anything about 4th year. :shrug:
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We got our 4th year schedules before we were even able to register for VM3 second semester 🤣 And this morning the registration platform was super buggy so a lot of people couldn't even get into the classes they wanted because the class codes were wrong, the # of seats in the class was capped at like 10 when it shouldn't have been, etc... 2020 is the gift that just keeps on giving :shrug:
 
SkiOtter said:
Uh excuse me but this post is useless without pictures
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Wow, you're right I should've known better. :laugh:

She's super shy and hasn't come out from under the bed yet so this is the best pic I've got for now. Meet Fawn everyone.

Cat.jpg
 
Got asked "Are you the chick who is 50+ lectures behind?" by some first years I'd never met the other day.

Apparently some people were using me as the example on why the first years shouldn't stress if they are a little bit behind. :laugh:

On the plus side, they said knowing that a 3rd year who had survived vet school thus far was even more behind than them and yet did not care one bit made them feel better. That made me happy.
 
In other news, I did buckle down this weekend and go from 50 lectures to 27 lectures. Of course, 20 of those lectures are for the class my next exam is in, but I hate that class so they can all be saved for last.

I am still undecided on what I want to go after grad. As much as I enjoy chaos and ECC I think I might be starting to drift back towards IM. I love my endocrinology and fancy diagnostics...
 
I came home after our dentistry lab and the water is off. I guess I'm just gunna smell like tooth dust all day. :shrug:
 
Amanasoul said:
Crying a little inside because they cancelled our surgery labs/class for the rest of the semester. 🙁
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Oh no... I'm so sorry to hear that 🙁 That really is a bummer. Hopefully they can make up those opportunities elsewhere for you guys in the future.
 
Lol we received a university-wide email stating that the university had decided to give students an extra week of winter break due to the challenges of online teaching. Right at the bottom of the email in small print it specified that the vet college was an exception and would still be starting at the normal time (along with nursing, med, and a few others).

A few months ago we got another university-wide email stating there was a university-wide tuition freeze, but then further down mentioned vetmed was the exception and would still get our 15% tuition hike.

I would honestly prefer if we just didn't get these emails at all so we don't know the perks the rest of campus is getting. :laugh:
 
TheGirlWithTheFernTattoo said:
Lol we received a university-wide email stating that the university had decided to give students an extra week of winter break due to the challenges of online teaching. Right at the bottom of the email in small print it specified that the vet college was an exception and would still be starting at the normal time (along with nursing, med, and a few others).

A few months ago we got another university-wide email stating there was a university-wide tuition freeze, but then further down mentioned vetmed was the exception and would still get our 15% tuition hike.

I would honestly prefer if we just didn't get these emails at all so we don't know the perks the rest of campus is getting. :laugh:
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Oh man that sucks! I tend to delete university-wide emails because I rarely find them useful. Getting false hopes sounds even worse 🙁
 
SnowJ said:
Oh man that sucks! I tend to delete university-wide emails because I rarely find them useful. Getting false hopes sounds even worse 🙁
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Haha, it's honestly not that bad because you basically know they won't apply to us before you read them. If it was something the vet college was doing they typically send us our own separate email beforehand since they are way faster at communicating than the overall university. However you get a little salty when you see everyone else getting an extended break while you are in the midst of finals. 😉
 
MixedAnimals77 said:
Well RIP to passing fall of 3rd year. That exam was ROUGH and at least ~1/3 of our class that responded to our FB poll guessed on the last few questions/didn't finish...
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Oh hey my class is dealing with r o u g h exams this fall too 🙃

there were more than 10 questions where 20% of the class got them right. And they weren’t thrown out. There were t h r e e people out of my class of 127 who got above a 90%.
 
CoffeeQuestionMark said:
I saw some mentions of that
Which class??
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LASx 52q in 60 min with 69 answers aka matching/ordering questions. It was rough not just the time constraint but the material as well. There were definitely some questions that he never talked about in class.
ETA-fixed my mix up
 
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MixedAnimals77 said:
LASx 60 q in 52 min with 69 answers aka matching/ordering questions. It was rough not just the time constraint but the material as well. There were definitely some questions that he never talked about in class.
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I'm really grateful that Cornell has had everything be open book this semester to offset the stress of COVID
Sorry you had to deal with that Mixy 🙁
 
MOOSEygoosey said:
I'm really grateful that Cornell has had everything be open book this semester to offset the stress of COVID
Sorry you had to deal with that Mixy 🙁
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kicker this one was open book :laugh: I took the exam w/o my notes until the end and that was the result.
PS I saw I made a mistake it was 52q in 60 min but still less time than the navle gives you...
 
MixedAnimals77 said:
kicker this one was open book :laugh: I took the exam w/o my notes until the end and that was the result.
PS I saw I made a mistake it was 52q in 60 min but still less time than the navle gives you...
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oh man, that's the worst! Whenever the average is below a C, I really feel like instead of just consistently curving, the school should look at the exam and change it or change the way the class is formatted. I hate when it's like they don't care about what we learn because they want to give us exams a certain way. Seeing if we can handle pressure is fine but not like that, that's for the clinics and your ER rotation
 
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