Class of 2022...how you doin'?

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Our school cancelled and just never rescheduled our white coat ceremony. What our class ended up doing was our own thing if you wanted to participate. A parent is the dean of a nursing school, so she put together a speech. Then she had us recite the veterinarian oath. And it ended with us having whoever was home with us coat us. My parents and I went and bought a white coat and my dad coated me at home. It was a nice middle ground where we still got something and people could participate if we wanted to.

I will say that I'm hoping for a virtual graduation similar to what they did for 2020 (their composit pictures cycled through while the dean said our names). That way I can go home 3 weeks early since my last rotation is completely online. lol. I will be surprised if y'all don't have a real graduation (since someone mentioned that).
 
FrostySparrow said:
Officially done with didactics... I feel like I should be doing something right now, it feels weird not having anything to study for
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Now that we are just in case-based classes and not learning new info, I feel the same. Its weird but I appreciate the change of pace
 
My friend texted me NAVLE dates are up. 11/15-12/11. Since getting that text this is all that's going through my head
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We could start signing up some time in June or July I think. I def recommend figuring out what testing center you want to be at, but picking a back up just in case yours is full when you go to sign up. You can cancel and sign up an unlimited number of times. So if your first choice place is full, sign up at your back up, then keep an eye out for an opening at your first choice. Like check every day if you really want that location.

Keep in mind weather. I signed up for Champaign even though its a hassle to get a spot because the next closest place is, like, an hour away. I didn't want to risk snow or ice causing me to miss out on my test. And the Champaign testing center is literally a 7 minute walk from my townhouse. lol.
 
Just some random things that are rants, raves, just thoughts pertaining to school and vet life so thought they might be best put here.

Tomorrow is our last goat surgery-thankful for these opportunities, but I'm anesthesiologist and I HATE anesthesia. Some of the residents helping already stress me out on a general day but I just HATE anesthesia as a general rule because I don't feel prepared and always feel like I'm going to kill something (especially because COVID killed our anesthesia sim labs) and there's what feels like 7million different monitors I have to hook up and keep track of. On top of that the anesthesia recording form here is horrid and not user friendly just complicating everything in an already stressful situation.

However, I pretty much have my externship at home set up and it's super close to my parents house with a high case load and a ton of doctors so I think it's going to be an awesome experience for me as a 4th year. The main clinician I am in contact with is super supportive of other veterinarians too-especially new grads so I'm excited. The next year of my life is starting to really come together finally.

I am coming to the realization of where I thought I would end up earlier in my career is probably not where I will ever end up working. I loved my time there, but as I've grown and learned things-personal & professional development-I've realized it's probably not the place for me as a veterinarian unless I ended up buying the practice outright (which is not what I'm looking for right now). I know it's a good thing that I realize this now, but it also comes with a degree of sadness especially because some of my biggest cheerleaders have been there from the start.
With this realization job searching has become somewhat difficult when trying to balance being closer to my parents but yet far enough away from the in-laws at a practice that suits what I want and a place that suits my husband's needs career wise is proving interesting. So that is definitely TBD.
What I do know is that November is going to be STRESSFUL-NAVLE+interviews while I'm home on "vacation".

I hope everyone is hanging in there in this weird time. Reflecting on these last 3 years it's been forever yet seems like yesterday that I started vet school and met my best friends. How are we almost to the finish line?
 
MixedAnimals77 said:
Tomorrow is our last goat surgery-thankful for these opportunities, but I'm anesthesiologist and I HATE anesthesia. Some of the residents helping already stress me out on a general day but I just HATE anesthesia as a general rule because I don't feel prepared and always feel like I'm going to kill something (especially because COVID killed our anesthesia sim labs) and there's what feels like 7million different monitors I have to hook up and keep track of. On top of that the anesthesia recording form here is horrid and not user friendly just complicating everything in an already stressful situation.
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Update-anesthesia was ok. It was great until about half way through when monitors decided not to work and be finicky the rest of the time🙃
 
MixedAnimals77 said:
Just some random things that are rants, raves, just thoughts pertaining to school and vet life so thought they might be best put here.

Tomorrow is our last goat surgery-thankful for these opportunities, but I'm anesthesiologist and I HATE anesthesia. Some of the residents helping already stress me out on a general day but I just HATE anesthesia as a general rule because I don't feel prepared and always feel like I'm going to kill something (especially because COVID killed our anesthesia sim labs) and there's what feels like 7million different monitors I have to hook up and keep track of. On top of that the anesthesia recording form here is horrid and not user friendly just complicating everything in an already stressful situation.

However, I pretty much have my externship at home set up and it's super close to my parents house with a high case load and a ton of doctors so I think it's going to be an awesome experience for me as a 4th year. The main clinician I am in contact with is super supportive of other veterinarians too-especially new grads so I'm excited. The next year of my life is starting to really come together finally.

I am coming to the realization of where I thought I would end up earlier in my career is probably not where I will ever end up working. I loved my time there, but as I've grown and learned things-personal & professional development-I've realized it's probably not the place for me as a veterinarian unless I ended up buying the practice outright (which is not what I'm looking for right now). I know it's a good thing that I realize this now, but it also comes with a degree of sadness especially because some of my biggest cheerleaders have been there from the start.
With this realization job searching has become somewhat difficult when trying to balance being closer to my parents but yet far enough away from the in-laws at a practice that suits what I want and a place that suits my husband's needs career wise is proving interesting. So that is definitely TBD.
What I do know is that November is going to be STRESSFUL-NAVLE+interviews while I'm home on "vacation".

I hope everyone is hanging in there in this weird time. Reflecting on these last 3 years it's been forever yet seems like yesterday that I started vet school and met my best friends. How are we almost to the finish line?
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Anesthesia is the worst! I took a surgery elective this semester (last semester was our main surgery course) and I am a little more comfortable now but still panic when values go outside of the normal ranges. Me being scared of it was also one of the reasons I even took the elective bc I knew the only way to get comfortable with it was to just do it over and over again 🤷🏻‍♀️ I hope it will get easier/less stressful for you the more you do it!!
 
curious for the future - how does an individuals clinical blocks get decided? is it like a ranking system where you hope to get your top choices but they aren't guaranteed?
 
neocaridinadavidi said:
curious for the future - how does an individuals clinical blocks get decided? is it like a ranking system where you hope to get your top choices but they aren't guaranteed?
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Usually there’s some core ones that everyone has to take and then there are elective ones that you rank and hope to get. At illinois you don’t get to pick what rotation you have during what block, but for off campus stuff you do get to pick dates if you do it when ranking. Not sure if other schools allow you to preference what rotation you have when but I think some do
 
neocaridinadavidi said:
curious for the future - how does an individuals clinical blocks get decided? is it like a ranking system where you hope to get your top choices but they aren't guaranteed?
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I don't know how other schools do their block scheduling. I imagine there are some differences, but at Purdue we submit our individual rankings for blocks/block times and a computer program puts everyone's considerations together in order to (hopefully) give everyone most of their preferences. There's def not a guarantee for certain blocks, but I personally got all my top choices so it isn't a terrible system.
 
neocaridinadavidi said:
curious for the future - how does an individuals clinical blocks get decided? is it like a ranking system where you hope to get your top choices but they aren't guaranteed?
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Generally there are a core group of blocks that everyone is required to take (everyone in your track if your school does tracking), then a group of electives that not everyone can get a slot in. You rank those and get into them on more of a ranking type system. Obviously if you have scheduled externships ahead of time then you tell your coordinator about it so they can fit it into your schedule/give you that time for externship (obviously you can't schedule like 9 months of externships - if you're looking to plan some contact them so they can give you general guidelines of how much you can do and how it would be easiest for you to schedule it).

At least here, if you feel that there are serious problems with your schedule you can always contact your coordinator and see if there's anything you can rearrange or try to sneak in on. Sometimes it's doable and sometimes it's not. For example we do repeat weeks on rotations over the holidays and I was originally supposed to be on general surgery for a whole month over Christmas/New Year's, which was horrifying to me as someone who can't sustain that schedule lol. I got it switched around and it was fine.
 
I should also add that if you're looking to match I highly recommend seeing if your schedule can be set up in a way that's conducive to that - that is, on rotations with people who you might want to ask for letters BEFORE the match application opens/is due. I know some people who intentionally organized an IM, surgery, and ER rotation prior to match stuff so they could hopefully get a letter from each of the three and it was helpful for them
 
SnowJ said:
I think Ive finally reached the point where I can say I hate online classes
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You have much more patience than I do if you're just reaching that point now. I think I hated them after about a week lol
 
vetmedhead said:
They're terrible for learning

But for working on:
  • Mac and cheese recipes
  • Doing puzzles
  • Watching music videos
  • Watching Love is Blind
  • Baking
I found them exceptional :laugh:
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Yeah I'm realizing I don't know PhD world without online classes so the idea of having to be in class in person and get all my other stuff done is a little scary...
 
WildZoo said:
Yeah I'm realizing I don't know PhD world without online classes so the idea of having to be in class in person and get all my other stuff done is a little scary...
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My experience with in person PhD world classes is that those professors are even worse at using projectors than vet school professors. That's what I learned from mine.
 
vetmedhead said:
They're terrible for learning

But for working on:
  • Mac and cheese recipes
  • Doing puzzles
  • Watching music videos
  • Watching Love is Blind
  • Baking
I found them exceptional :laugh:
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To add on to this list:
  • Colouring
  • Admiring all my plants
  • Making butternut squash soup
  • Teaching my dog new tricks
I guess spending a year of vet school at home hasn't been ALL bad.... :laugh:
 
It only took this long because I was so busy trying to keep up with the last couple semesters I didnt have time to think about it.
Now I have to drag myself through my 1 class a day and it is so unproductive for me
 
DRider13 said:
You know you're a broke student when someone goes through your car and doesn't even steal anything... The most valuable thing in there was my 2nd generation iPod nano and some expired DQ coupons.
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I'm sorry that happened 😕
Side story though someone broke into my friends car back when they were in undergrad. Could have stolen an old GPS was about the only thing. No they stole her half eaten subway sandwich instead...
 
DRider13 said:
You know you're a broke student when someone goes through your car and doesn't even steal anything... The most valuable thing in there was my 2nd generation iPod nano and some expired DQ coupons.
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this happened to me last year too. actually, there was only-mostly-cleaned-up dog vomit under a blanket in the back and i sincerely hope they put their hands in it.
 
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