Class of 2022...how you doin'?

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batsenecal said:
I did absolutely nothing my last summer. Bummed on my grandparents', parents', and fiance's couches. Played videogames. Hung out in the sun. Absolutely nothing. Best decision I could've made. Dont feel pressured to do something if you dont want to!
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I also basically did nothing last summer and this summer I’m planning basically the same thing. A whole bunch of nothin. I want to enjoy my last summers of freedom
 
yellowappy said:
Feeling the hate for second year too. It's been a really rough couple of weeks were everyone else seems to be super on top of everything we're learning and I'm over here struggling with basics.

Also summer is stressing me way the eff out because everyone has all these cool and awesome jobs or research projects lined up and I'm struggling to find anything.
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My second year I did one of the cool research projects, and boy do I regret it. I wish I had more time to relax and get into healthy habits. Instead I worked my butt off and I'm still not done with it, I don't know how I'm supposed to write a manuscript in school, it's been impossible! So yeah don't feel pressured to do something just to do something.
 
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SnowJ said:
I'm also burning out hard this semester, so to therapy we go!

I actually had the opposite experience because the practice I worked at had really bad staff management and I was working my butt off for people who weren't willing to do their share... but I quit that job and I've been shadowing a great place that DOES remind me why I want to do all this, so it has worked out

We're in 34.5 and I think I'm gonna die
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Good for you for leaving a toxic working environment! That's such a tough thing to do. I'm glad to hear you have found somewhere else that appreciates you and reminds you why you're doing all this!
 
batsenecal said:
I did absolutely nothing my last summer. Bummed on my grandparents', parents', and fiance's couches. Played videogames. Hung out in the sun. Absolutely nothing. Best decision I could've made. Dont feel pressured to do something if you dont want to!
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SkiOtter said:
I also basically did nothing last summer and this summer I’m planning basically the same thing. A whole bunch of nothin. I want to enjoy my last summers of freedom
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Coopah said:
My second year I did one of the cool research projects, and boy do I regret it. I wish I had more time to relax and get into healthy habits. Instead I worked my butt off and I'm still not done with it, I don't know how I'm supposed to write a manuscript in school, it's been impossible! So yeah do t feel pressured to do something just to do something.
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Thanks everyone, sometimes I need an outside voice of reason 🙂
 
Hang in there, gang!!! You can DO IT!!!!!!
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FutureFelineVet said:
I’m thinking of possibly transferring too, although I know it may be hard to. The way these blocks exams are structured is really beating me down. Trying to stay positive, but it’s really hard 🙁
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I applied 1st semester and wasn’t accepted until the 2nd week of my 5th semester. I only applied to K-State. Even though I basically went back a semester, I’ll still be saving a good chunk of money in the long run. I absolutely love it here and I think it was worth it.

Lots of Rossies have transferred to Iowa this past year. We’ve also had some go to LSU, Oklahoma State, UF, Penn, Mississippi, and a few other places. The more places you apply, the better chance you have of getting in somewhere!

I left a week before the first block exam, but so far, I’ve heard mostly bad things 😢
 
I have 3 exams next week. I took 2 exams today. That'll be 5 exams in 7 days because of a stupid snow cancellation that didn't even end up being bad like the local K-12s didn't even cancel. I'm exhausted already. I don't wanna know about parasites-literally my least favorite content. However, the live kidney worm from a recent surgery was cool but really really hate the arthropods. Send help it's too early for this.
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MixedAnimals77 said:
I have 3 exams next week. I took 2 exams today. That'll be 5 exams in 7 days because of a stupid snow cancellation that didn't even end up being bad like the local K-12s didn't even cancel. I'm exhausted already. I don't wanna know about parasites-literally my least favorite content. However, the live kidney worm from a recent surgery was cool but really really hate the arthropods. Send help it's too early for this.
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I hate that the "day before" is their new policy. It's dumb. Maybe they should have a delay and re-evaluate in the mornings... tbh I don't really care if a few Spokane people are inconvenienced when every student gets screwed over if they make a bad decision
 
CoffeeQuestionMark said:
I hate that the "day before" is their new policy. It's dumb. Maybe they should have a delay and re-evaluate in the mornings... tbh I don't really care if a few Spokane people are inconvenienced when every student gets screwed over if they make a bad decision
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Same. I was legit pissed about it. Plus being from where it snows and CO never knowing what the weather is actually gonna do I may or may not still be a giant bagful of salt about it [emoji23]

Plus it's not like they're going to cancel school if spokane gets 10ft of snow and we get 0 so idk why it should be reciprocated.
 
MixedAnimals77 said:
I have 3 exams next week. I took 2 exams today. That'll be 5 exams in 7 days because of a stupid snow cancellation that didn't even end up being bad like the local K-12s didn't even cancel. I'm exhausted already. I don't wanna know about parasites-literally my least favorite content. However, the live kidney worm from a recent surgery was cool but really really hate the arthropods. Send help it's too early for this.
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@cdoconn do I remember you loving the giant kidney worm?
 
MixedAnimals77 said:
I have 3 exams next week. I took 2 exams today. That'll be 5 exams in 7 days because of a stupid snow cancellation that didn't even end up being bad like the local K-12s didn't even cancel. I'm exhausted already. I don't wanna know about parasites-literally my least favorite content. However, the live kidney worm from a recent surgery was cool but really really hate the arthropods. Send help it's too early for this.
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I'm not going to lie, that's one of the coolest things I've seen all week. And I saw a dog this week, so it was some pretty tough competition
 
PetVet7 said:
Lots of Rossies have transferred to Iowa this past year. We’ve also had some go to LSU, Oklahoma State, UF, Penn, Mississippi, and a few other places. The more places you apply, the better chance you have of getting in somewhere!
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I’m several years out but we always have some on rotations at Tufts and had quite a few transfers during 2nd year because of a mass exodus end of first year. Best of luck!!
 
Barkley13 said:
My prof loved parasitology so much it made me like it too
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Same for me. Haven’t had it in vet school yet, but I’m undergrad my professor was great. He approached it from a mindset of “here’s how understanding parasites can help the world.” It was really thought provoking.
 
If I didn't have parasitology lumped in with virology and bacteriology I would probably enjoy it a lot more, but trying to memorize 80+ new pathogens for a cumulative final with a total of 150+ pathogens in the course of a month killed me inside.
Luckily I never have to take that class again...
 
SnowJ said:
If I didn't have parasitology lumped in with virology and bacteriology I would probably enjoy it a lot more, but trying to memorize 80+ new pathogens for a cumulative final with a total of 150+ pathogens in the course of a month killed me inside.
Luckily I never have to take that class again...
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Oh hey same
 
SnowJ said:
If I didn't have parasitology lumped in with virology and bacteriology I would probably enjoy it a lot more, but trying to memorize 80+ new pathogens for a cumulative final with a total of 150+ pathogens in the course of a month killed me inside.
Luckily I never have to take that class again...
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Oh my god I can't even imagine. We had those as three separate courses and I had very different feelings about all of them. I think I'd have an existential crisis if they were all lumped together.
 
Coopah said:
It was bad here as well, but then we don't actually have a virology and bacteriology course... What even is that? All viruses?
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Pretty much. Virology was basically about viruses, how viruses replicate, and viral diseases. Bacteriology covered bacteria, yeasts, fungi, and some antimicrobial resistance stuff.
 
DRider13 said:
Pretty much. Virology was basically about viruses, how viruses replicate, and viral diseases. Bacteriology covered bacteria, yeasts, fungi, and some antimicrobial resistance stuff.
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That sounds awful. We just talk about our respiratory viruses in our respiratory course and like that and everything else is in the infectious disease course which is also... not fun (yes that included parasitology)
 
Coopah said:
It was bad here as well, but then we don't actually have a virology and bacteriology course... What even is that? All viruses?
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What DRider said
our "infectious disease" series was 5 parts
- Immunology
- Bacteriology/Mycology
- Virology
- Parasitology
- Infectious Disease as kind of a review course right before clinics focused on zoonotic and reportable things
 
Coopah said:
That sounds awful. We just talk about our respiratory viruses in our respiratory course and like that and everything else is in the infectious disease course which is also... not fun (yes that included parasitology)
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We do end up talking about them in the systems courses too. I thought it was helpful to know a little bit about them before getting to the systems course and applying things more clinically. Kind of a foundational building block. BacT was terrible though.
 
WildZoo said:
What DRider said
our "infectious disease" series was 5 parts
- Immunology
- Bacteriology/Mycology
- Virology
- Parasitology
- Infectious Disease as kind of a review course right before clinics focused on zoonotic and reportable things
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Hm ok our infectious disease was also like that but crammed into about 6(8?) weeks
 
Coopah said:
Hm ok our infectious disease was also like that but crammed into about 6(8?) weeks
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Ouch
Those were spread out over multiple semesters, the first 2 first year fall, second 2 first year spring, and then the last right before clinics as I said.
Then again, we were always taking 5-7 other classes at the same time, so I wonder if it comes out to the same amount of material lol
 
WildZoo said:
Ouch
Those were spread out over multiple semesters, the first 2 first year fall, second 2 first year spring, and then the last right before clinics as I said.
Then again, we were always taking 5-7 other classes at the same time, so I wonder if it comes out to the same amount of material lol
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There abouts. I keep debating if this block scheduling is good or not but the only thing I've been able to determine is that no matter which schedule it ends up being it's always bad for me
 
Coopah said:
There abouts. I keep debating if this block scheduling is good or not but the only thing I've been able to determine is that no matter which schedule it ends up being it's always bad for me
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It's always gonna suck in one way or another lol
 
kaydubs said:
I’m several years out but we always have some on rotations at Tufts and had quite a few transfers during 2nd year because of a mass exodus end of first year. Best of luck!!
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OG in da house

ajs513 said:
Same for me. Haven’t had it in vet school yet, but I’m undergrad my professor was great. He approached it from a mindset of “here’s how understanding parasites can help the world.” It was really thought provoking.
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Just wait, mwahahaha. Just kidding, I actually liked it for us. Lok/Sparky is bomb diggity. Minus some really extraneous crap we'll never see.
 
staff_wielder said:
Just wait, mwahahaha. Just kidding, I actually liked it for us. Lok/Sparky is bomb diggity. Minus some really extraneous crap we'll never see.
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I’ve heard from upperclassmen that having taken Parasitology before helps a lot. Hopefully that holds true. If I could force myself to care about it the first time, maybe I can do it again!
 
SnowJ said:
If I didn't have parasitology lumped in with virology and bacteriology I would probably enjoy it a lot more, but trying to memorize 80+ new pathogens for a cumulative final with a total of 150+ pathogens in the course of a month killed me inside.
Luckily I never have to take that class again...
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I got parasit spring semester first year (at my old school), then virology and bacti fall semester second year. All my friends at my new school had parasit at the same time as virology and bacti. I did not envy them at allllll @Miranda Senft
 
johnnaboo said:
I got parasit spring semester first year (at my old school), then virology and bacti fall semester second year. All my friends at my new school had parasit at the same time as virology and bacti. I did not envy them at allllll @Miranda Senft
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nooooop. parasitology = death. Got a great grade but honestly wouldn't have happened without all the bonus points or the fact that the teacher essentially threw out half of the final
 
CoffeeQuestionMark said:
Bomb diggity

Dude you kill me sometimes 🤣
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Hopefully in all the right ways 😉

ajs513 said:
I’ve heard from upperclassmen that having taken Parasitology before helps a lot. Hopefully that holds true. If I could force myself to care about it the first time, maybe I can do it again!
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More power to you? I didn't take anything on anything before Vet school :bag:
 
Having BacT, Virology, and Parasitology all at the same time but different courses I think was part of the reason last semester killed everyone a little inside lol. It was pretty brutal. (Plus we had another 7 courses we were in besides those 3....)

I learned/retained next to nothing in Virology and Parasitology, so I'm now relearning it all in Sys path (and hopefully will relearn it again in med next year).
 
TheGirlWithTheFernTattoo said:
I'm insanely grateful for the redundancy between classes; learning the same thing in several classes in several years is the only reason I am going to have retained anything by the point of graduation.
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In my experience the vet school philosophy is "teach it to them 84 times and hope they remember it once". Helpful if you can't grasp a topic well, annoying if you get it on iteration #4 and then still have to sit through the remaining 80
 
vetmedhead said:
In my experience the vet school philosophy is "teach it to them 84 times and hope they remember it once". Helpful if you can't grasp a topic well, annoying if you get it on iteration #4 and then still have to sit through the remaining 80
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What's weird to me is some of the stuff that gets repeated. For example in CA we have yellow star thistle. All the neuro people use it as examples and all the toxicology people because it's so cool to them. Then we get this one professor after what feels like 80 iterations and is asking differentials and someone inevitably says yellow star thistle and she goes on this rant about how you'll never see it in practice because it's so rare yadda yadda yadda. So why do they keep bringing it up? Because it's cool to them. I would like all that time (honestly it's a lot of time) to go to something useful. How many lectures have we gotten that the professor focuses on their research or something they find cool that is completely irrelevant to out learning? Probably more often than I would anticipate. /endrant
 
Coopah said:
What's weird to me is some of the stuff that gets repeated. For example in CA we have yellow star thistle. All the neuro people use it as examples and all the toxicology people because it's so cool to them. Then we get this one professor after what feels like 80 iterations and is asking differentials and someone inevitably says yellow star thistle and she goes on this rant about how you'll never see it in practice because it's so rare yadda yadda yadda. So why do they keep bringing it up? Because it's cool to them. I would like all that time (honestly it's a lot of time) to go to something useful. How many lectures have we gotten that the professor focuses on their research or something they find cool that is completely irrelevant to out learning? Probably more often than I would anticipate. /endrant
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I have heard the yellow star thistle shows up on CA state boards with some frequency as well. Russian knapweed also causes nigropallidal encephalomalacia (say that three times fast!) but is actually in CO so that's the one we always talked about because of the zomg so cool factor.
 
vetmedhead said:
I have heard the yellow star thistle shows up on CA state boards with some frequency as well. Russian knapweed also causes nigropallidal encephalomalacia (say that three times fast!) but is actually in CO so that's the one we always talked about because of the zomg so cool factor.
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That's true it does, but really there's no reason for it to be brought up at every available opportunity.
 
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