now I have a sprained ankle LOL hopefully it gets better quick 😕 other than that not bad! thank you for asking 🙂
those stairs are certainly a pita. hope you have a speedy recovery and enjoy your next few days! And don't let the imposter get too loud. It will always be there, but you got beat that off with a stick and just do your best!Haha! I was actually looking forward to those activities but they are till tomorrow and Thursday, and today we had a scavenger hunt so I was looking at a map and feel down a few stairs
(lol thats kinda graphic) thanks!🙂
No no we’re in VET school it's more like thisThank you! Love your description haha I will do that
I feel your pain, my last day was Monday, and the last appointment was to euthanize a patient I had grown super close to [emoji174]
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Many (maybe most) relationships including some marriages fall apart during vet school, even if they aren’t LDR. As someone who committed more to my relationship than vet school for a good 3 years (first of which was LDR), and it still didn’t work out in the end, I’ll say it will be okay! At the time it was devastating, but it worked out much better. I ended up upgrading to a better relationship with my now hubby, and all is groovy. It was kind of fun dating during clinics too. I distinctly remember inadvertently blowing off a one night stand because the resident I was working with was super incompetent and I was stuck sitting in the teaching hospital twiddling my thumb for hours waiting to be allowed to leave, as I sat there re-evaluating my life choices. Not my finest moment, but if my biggest worry was being late for hooking up with some random dude, it was an improvement to the rocky relationship that I was constantly worrying about. Also, not being bound to someone and their career and goals when figuring out what I wanted to do with my career after graduation was freeing. It was stressful having my career choices limited based on my ex’s career/location. Vet school does make you a bit of a different person coming out than went in, so it’s not surprising that people drift. It only gets more stressful once you’re out in practice (demands of your job are worse than as a student in many cases), so it really takes a partner that is understanding of that. It’s really easy to become resentful of your veterinarian SO if you don’t get it and support it.
The drive is a little intimidating. Take it slow and have fun at coating tomorrow! It's a big accomplishment, so take some time to be proud of yourself and your classmates this weekend before classes start 🙂CSU's orientation has been super fun so far! Tomorrow is our last day and we have our coating ceremony in the evening. We were sent links to this microsoft drive that has a bunch of study tips and stuff--I looked at them and immediately got overwhelmed
I’m going to echo @that redhead and say that this was my experience as well. The day I left my boyfriend was the absolute worst. Afterwards, particularly once classes started, I genuinely did not have time to miss him. It didn’t hurt nearly as much as I thought. Then again, we did FaceTime every night and we made sure to visit each other every 6 weeks or so. That definitely helped.
I used Khan Academy on YouTube to help study for the earlier physiology material 🙂 An important skill to develop is recognizing what isn’t working study-wise and adapting quickly instead of just continuing to do what isn’t working.
You can. Go look at all those people in the lobby who've done it and know you can too with determination and knowing when to take time off. 🙂
Sadly, Year One is actually the hardest, even with changes I think at OKstate. haha
I think the classes are the hardest and the material is so much memorization year 1 that it is at times overwhelming between anatomy, histology and physiology. After that it starts to get more clinical and not quite so tedious in my opinion. 🙂
Most of the time I didn't find the material any more difficult, it's just a lot. Like drinking from a firehose, as you may have seen some others mention. My best advice is not to try to learn every little thing, because you won't have time to. Learn what you can, and always take time for yourself. Try out a few different study methods to see what works for you. Focus on things that will be efficient for you - most of the time that's not going to be rewriting all your notes unless you're super fast with that. It doesn't work for everyone of course but active recall is usually the most efficient way to actually learn things - so quizzing yourself or having others quiz you.
I've been in class for a week and from my point of view, it is easier than undergrad.
Our counselor is a saint and I didn't even start seeing her for anything vet school related. Everybody deserves a good therapist regardless of what they have going on in their lives
I’m glad the first day went well! I’m going to warn you, they make the first day/ week/ month easy on you so first years don’t panic and run away crying. Through SDN, I’ve gotten to know a lot of people from a lot of different vet schools, so I can easily say that I haven’t met a single person that made it through the first year without getting knocked down... hard! You’ll get to the stuff in these classes you haven’t learned, and the good study habits you develop now will really help you in a month when exams come.
I think, initially, it's hard to gauge just how much the volume of credits/material will really affect you. There were a lot of things about first year (and vet school in general) that really weren't that hard, but the frequency and rate at which you have to do it really wears on you even if you don't realize it until you have a meltdown. The constant level of stress of staying on top of 20-30 credits is huge and I think I've gone something like three semesters straight where I had at least an exam a week (or two) for 90% of the semester.
It didn't click for me until my boss made an offhand comment the summer after my first year, asking me if I had stopped reading yet because books weren't dense enough. She said it took her years after she finished vet school to be able to read for pleasure, and even then it was nonfiction most of the time.
