Class of 2022...how you doin'?

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MixedAnimals77 said:
Somehow 2.5 objective sets behind in clin path and we've only had 2 lectures and lab. Plus I've already completed 3 objective sets...like how? I'm already a week behind in sys path. I slept the majority of the day. Is this sustainable long term?
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I can definitely say that you can still survive and make it to clinics after being perpetually behind in the classroom lol
 
WildZoo said:
I can definitely say that you can still survive and make it to clinics after being perpetually behind in the classroom lol
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Oh I was perpetually behind all last year for sure, but clin path has definitely been the most challenging thing for me thus far to grasp concept wise so its been a fun week plus they keep giving us all these extra mini cases to do collaboratively. I don't think I've seen my study/work group so much outside of class except finals week...
 
MixedAnimals77 said:
Oh I was perpetually behind all last year for sure, but clin path has definitely been the most challenging thing for me thus far to grasp concept wise so its been a fun week plus they keep giving us all these extra mini cases to do collaboratively. I don't think I've seen my study/work group so much outside of class except finals week...
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I loooooved clin path. First time I felt like I was learning real doctor things.
 
Speaking of clin path... anyone going to the ACVP conference this year? Or IVECCS? Or any others I haven’t heard about? I’m hoping to go to a few and meet a few people!
 
FrostySparrow said:
Speaking of clin path... anyone going to the ACVP conference this year? Or IVECCS? Or any others I haven’t heard about? I’m hoping to go to a few and meet a few people!
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I'm on the fence for going to stuff. My aim is to go to AWJAC this year, but our coach never emailed me back, so I'd be flying solo. But it's at CSU the weekend before thanksgiving break. So it would super convenient
 
batsenecal said:
I'm on the fence for going to stuff. My aim is to go to AWJAC this year, but our coach never emailed me back, so I'd be flying solo. But it's at CSU the weekend before thanksgiving break. So it would super convenient
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I went last year. It was so much fun, I have a pathology exam that Friday though this year.
 
Blueangel7 said:
I went last year. It was so much fun, I have a pathology exam that Friday though this year.
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I went in 2016 and 2017! 2018 was too much of a crazy time for me personally to even try to go, and it's normally the week of our midterms. This is the first year it isn't. So I'm going to decide this week if I just want to go it alone and just see how I do!
 
Reading the first year thread reminded me about being a young padawan. Idk about any one else, but we experienced an interesting phenomenon going into our first anatomy exam. People were literally shoving so much information in their head and new words and trying to make all the connections with the jumble of information like people couldn't make coherent conversation the couple days before the exam. Real sentences not a thing. People were legit having issues communicating. My friend almost left the locker room without pants. My other friend put her scrub top on then took it off again because it didn't register what she was doing. We adjusted and its been fine-fun times! However, I do no miss going to anatomy lab 5 days a week sometimes plus weekends.

Now I just sit there and there's chaos all around but I just walk through the fire and flying bullets like a BA from the matrix or something. 😎
 
MixedAnimals77 said:
Reading the first year thread reminded me about being a young padawan. Idk about any one else, but we experienced an interesting phenomenon going into our first anatomy exam. People were literally shoving so much information in their head and new words and trying to make all the connections with the jumble of information like people couldn't make coherent conversation the couple days before the exam. Real sentences not a thing. People were legit having issues communicating. My friend almost left the locker room without pants. My other friend put her scrub top on then took it off again because it didn't register what she was doing. We adjusted and its been fine-fun times! However, I do no miss going to anatomy lab 5 days a week sometimes plus weekends.

Now I just sit there and there's chaos all around but I just walk through the fire and flying bullets like a BA from the matrix or something. 😎
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Super second this!!! I'm loving second year (I'll say that probably until we start parasitology in a few weeks) but I'm pretty much living my best life mentally, socially, and academically!! I think it's a 2nd year thing where you probably just either feel more confident or care less (or BOTH!!) but I really feel good about my self-discipline with studying (I got the best grade I've ever gotten on a quiz this week!!!!!!) and now that my housing situation has improved 1000% I just feel so great!!! I'm ready for stuff to kick me in the face and that's okay but for now, I'm going to enjoy it 🙂
 
MixedAnimals77 said:
Reading the first year thread reminded me about being a young padawan. Idk about any one else, but we experienced an interesting phenomenon going into our first anatomy exam. People were literally shoving so much information in their head and new words and trying to make all the connections with the jumble of information like people couldn't make coherent conversation the couple days before the exam. Real sentences not a thing. People were legit having issues communicating. My friend almost left the locker room without pants. My other friend put her scrub top on then took it off again because it didn't register what she was doing. We adjusted and its been fine-fun times! However, I do no miss going to anatomy lab 5 days a week sometimes plus weekends.

Now I just sit there and there's chaos all around but I just walk through the fire and flying bullets like a BA from the matrix or something. 😎
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This is so true. There are so many times even now where I think, "I used to be able to just talk to people without stumbling over my words, what's up with that?" but yes 1000% right before exams first-year this was rampant throughout the class. There were also great moments of delirium. A few of my friends laughed ourselves to tears because there was a tack above a door and it was green.
 
Miranda Senft said:
Super second this!!! I'm loving second year (I'll say that probably until we start parasitology in a few weeks) but I'm pretty much living my best life mentally, socially, and academically!! I think it's a 2nd year thing where you probably just either feel more confident or care less (or BOTH!!) but I really feel good about my self-discipline with studying (I got the best grade I've ever gotten on a quiz this week!!!!!!) and now that my housing situation has improved 1000% I just feel so great!!! I'm ready for stuff to kick me in the face and that's okay but for now, I'm going to enjoy it 🙂
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I wish. Our class was slammed with a first exam day 14 that obliterated almost everyone. Soooo much content lol
 
MixedAnimals77 said:
Reading the first year thread reminded me about being a young padawan. Idk about any one else, but we experienced an interesting phenomenon going into our first anatomy exam. People were literally shoving so much information in their head and new words and trying to make all the connections with the jumble of information like people couldn't make coherent conversation the couple days before the exam. Real sentences not a thing. People were legit having issues communicating. My friend almost left the locker room without pants. My other friend put her scrub top on then took it off again because it didn't register what she was doing. We adjusted and its been fine-fun times! However, I do no miss going to anatomy lab 5 days a week sometimes plus weekends.
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I remember having this experience at one point as well. On a histo test I literally sat and was trying to dig through my brain to remember the “p” word related to lungs. About a minute later I “found it”—it was pulmonary. :laugh:
 
johnnaboo said:
I remember having this experience at one point as well. On a histo test I literally sat and was trying to dig through my brain to remember the “p” word related to lungs. About a minute later I “found it”—it was pulmonary. :laugh:
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Did this the other day during anesthesia exam prep; the word I was looking for was "paradoxical."
 
MixedAnimals77 said:
Reading the first year thread reminded me about being a young padawan. Idk about any one else, but we experienced an interesting phenomenon going into our first anatomy exam. People were literally shoving so much information in their head and new words and trying to make all the connections with the jumble of information like people couldn't make coherent conversation the couple days before the exam. Real sentences not a thing. People were legit having issues communicating. My friend almost left the locker room without pants. My other friend put her scrub top on then took it off again because it didn't register what she was doing. We adjusted and its been fine-fun times! However, I do no miss going to anatomy lab 5 days a week sometimes plus weekends.

Now I just sit there and there's chaos all around but I just walk through the fire and flying bullets like a BA from the matrix or something. 😎
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In the middle of last semester I forgot my locker combination out of the blue after opening my locker almost every day for months. Had to go find the anatomy lab maintenance guy bc he was apparently the only person in the building with bolt cutters. I didn't even get laughed at much because all my classmates totally understood. Just not enough room in my brain for that combo, I guess! Lol
 
DrAlex2022 said:
In the middle of last semester I forgot my locker combination out of the blue after opening my locker almost every day for months. Had to go find the anatomy lab maintenance guy bc he was apparently the only person in the building with bolt cutters. I didn't even get laughed at much because all my classmates totally understood. Just not enough room in my brain for that combo, I guess! Lol
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That happened to me except with my debit card PIN during vet school. One day I just straight up couldn't remember it. It's like it just got forced out by all the other stuff. It was really embarrassing in the store though when I didn't have any other card/cash on me.
 
nyanko said:
That happened to me except with my debit card PIN during vet school. One day I just straight up couldn't remember it. It's like it just got forced out by all the other stuff. It was really embarrassing in the store though when I didn't have any other card/cash on me.
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That sad #vetmed moment when you realize your brain preferentially dumped the info about how to access your spending money... because who needs a pin if the account only has $2 left to withdraw...

😢

(I can say this because I got paid last week and it was a whopping $11.00).
 
nyanko said:
That happened to me except with my debit card PIN during vet school. One day I just straight up couldn't remember it. It's like it just got forced out by all the other stuff. It was really embarrassing in the store though when I didn't have any other card/cash on me.
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I did this once when I was trying to buy ice cream for like $2 in undergrad. I tried three or four PINs before I gave up and fished a five out of my pocket lol. The shame!
 
Sadly it happens some days in practice as well. It was a long day of tough appts and I needed to give someone my phone number, but straight up couldn't remember it for what seemed like a very extended period of time before it came back to me. haha
 
Lupin21 said:
Sadly it happens some days in practice as well. It was a long day of tough appts and I needed to give someone my phone number, but straight up couldn't remember it for what seemed like a very extended period of time before it came back to me. haha
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I’ve given someone the clinic phone number instead of my cell phone number before
 
Lupin21 said:
Sadly it happens some days in practice as well. It was a long day of tough appts and I needed to give someone my phone number, but straight up couldn't remember it for what seemed like a very extended period of time before it came back to me. haha
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When I was closing on my house I was leaving a message for someone. Couldn't recall my cell number, started leaving my mom's then ended with "yeah, that's not the right number don't call that, I can't recall my phone number it should be what showed up on your phone."
 
Anyone have a good DIY suture board recommendation? I particularly would like something that would allow me to practice intradermal bc that trips me up a bunch.
 
johnnaboo said:
Anyone have a good DIY suture board recommendation? I particularly would like something that would allow me to practice intradermal bc that trips me up a bunch.
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Most helpful for me was going to the butcher at the supermarket and asking for pigs feet. They didn’t always have it, but they’d let me order it.
 
They also sell ham hocks at most grocery stores! They're like two bucks and usually around this time of year since we're approaching soup season
 
johnnaboo said:
Anyone have a good DIY suture board recommendation? I particularly would like something that would allow me to practice intradermal bc that trips me up a bunch.
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Surgery Club will have a DIY suture board making thing. They're similar to the towel ones so not the greatest for intradermal but great for all the others 🙂
 
You can also sometimes purchase a bovine tongue if you can’t find pigs feet or hocks. Cloth on an embroidery hoop works for a lot but probably not for intradermals, though I wonder if you could use felt on one?
 
PippyPony said:
That sad #vetmed moment when you realize your brain preferentially dumped the info about how to access your spending money... because who needs a pin if the account only has $2 left to withdraw...

😢

(I can say this because I got paid last week and it was a whopping $11.00).
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Update on this because I just got a notification on the post...I'm now down to $4.36 in my checking account after my cat's neuter.

Living the liiiiiiife
 
I just got my first check from my colony dog walker job through the school that is way more intensive than I thought it would be but yay monies! Now I can pay my car insurance bill :arghh:
 
johnnaboo said:
Anyone have a good DIY suture board recommendation? I particularly would like something that would allow me to practice intradermal bc that trips me up a bunch.
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Personally I feel like there’s no real good simulation model for intradermals. Once you have the technique down, it’s really all about getting the suture in the dermis and that’s hard to practice on a suture board.
 
mmmdreamerz said:
Personally I feel like there’s no real good simulation model for intradermals. Once you have the technique down, it’s really all about getting the suture in the dermis and that’s hard to practice on a suture board.
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You can get the super fancy kind that has all the different skin layers and practice getting in the right layers. But of course it's really expensive.
 
Coopah said:
You can get the super fancy kind that has all the different skin layers and practice getting in the right layers. But of course it's really expensive.
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They’re still way easier to get in the dermis than in real life 😛
 
Coopah said:
You can get the super fancy kind that has all the different skin layers and practice getting in the right layers. But of course it's really expensive.
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Yeah, but even then, I feel like there’s a lot of feel to it that you just don’t get with the simulators. But that’s just me.
 
that redhead said:
Honestly the hardest part I have with this pattern is getting my end knot to bury, even after all this time!
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(I just leave a long thread from the start of my subcutaneous and tie down to it... works 100% of the time, 80% of the time).

For suturing we used shamwow-style towels and folded them in accordion-ish style so there was a "wound" and layer underneath. It approximated subcuticular fairly well and held up to a lot of stitches.
 
Trilt said:
(I just leave a long thread from the start of my subcutaneous and tie down to it... works 100% of the time, 80% of the time).
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Modified Colorado? Shelter vet showed us that and I liked it way more. They never show you the cool stuff in school :laugh:
 
Caiter92 said:
Modified Colorado? Shelter vet showed us that and I liked it way more. They never show you the cool stuff in school :laugh:
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Yessss, a shelter vet showed me that when I was doing a spay and it was sooooo nifty.

I also really like to Aberdeen because the knot is smaller.
 
that redhead said:
@Trilt do you mean you tie the long tail from the beginning into the final knot? Or you make your normal end knot and tie one of those tails to the start tail? Sorry, trouble with my imaginoscope...
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I do my subq backwards (so cranial > caudal) and just leave a fairly long tail on that first knot starting the continuous. Then when I come back to the cranial end in my subcuticular I just tie the final knot (that I'm trying to bury) down to that left behind tail. It helps it bury soooo nicely.

Colorado sounds right. I was def taught it by a shelter vet from somewhere.
 
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