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Current and Future Michigan State students- help!
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I am not much help, but one of our vets attended....she thinks it is an awesome school, far better than NCSU, as she likes to tell me all the time!
Unfortunatly, I won't see her again till next week (Monday) but I could ask for her email if you like and see if you can contact her.
Unfortunatly, I won't see her again till next week (Monday) but I could ask for her email if you like and see if you can contact her.
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I'd love to learn more about the area as well. Thanks to the OP for the idea and anyone who helps out 🙂
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I'm a current first year Michigan State student and would love to help.... However, we are just getting into finals week (1st one yesterday and 7 next week) so everyone's time is really, really limited now 
PM me if you have specific questions and I'll try to get to them as soon as I can... I'll try to give a general overview when I need a study break 😀
PM me if you have specific questions and I'll try to get to them as soon as I can... I'll try to give a general overview when I need a study break 😀
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Hey hey...I just posted this in an above post but it looks like it would be helpful here as well....
One more thing to add: They have their own farms for sheep, horses and they work with a local dairy! The dairy thing really interested me because the farm that they work with has like over 800 cows and they get to visit and do exams/AI etc etc. They also have a Diagnostic Center for Animal Health. Lots of centers haha.
Anyway, here's the original post:
I recently made a trip to MSU for the Welcome Day and I obviously really liked what I saw haha. The campus is HUMONOGOUS first of all and there are lots of undergrads but the vet campus is pretty separate in its own little area on the edge of campus. East Lancing is a beautiful little place with lots of shops, restaurants, etc, but there are plenty of farms surrounding it (so in my opinion, the best of both worlds!). I didn't visit Lancing so I can't really comment on that, but I just really liked the community around MSU.
In terms of the vet campus, they have well-maintained labs, student centers, library etc and a pretty big small animal hospital. The large animal hospital isn't as state of the art as say, Iowa, but its still adequate. The oncology ward is sparkly new and very cool. I was impressed.
The program is 2 1/2 years classroom learning and 1 1/2 clinical rotations with no tracking. I believe for my first semester classes they have two classes which I really liked called "Veterinary Clinical Exam and Techniques" and "Ethical and Animal Welfare Issues in the Veterinary Profession." It's just nice to get a little hands on and broader learning in the first semester (not sure about VM sorry🙁!). They also said the hospitals were open to 1st years and the doctors were very nice to students and encouraged them to help with cases.
So yeah, if you have any questions, feel free to ask...but I'm out of state so I may not be able to answer! These are just some things I noticed while there.
Good luck deciding!
One more thing to add: They have their own farms for sheep, horses and they work with a local dairy! The dairy thing really interested me because the farm that they work with has like over 800 cows and they get to visit and do exams/AI etc etc. They also have a Diagnostic Center for Animal Health. Lots of centers haha.
Anyway, here's the original post:
I recently made a trip to MSU for the Welcome Day and I obviously really liked what I saw haha. The campus is HUMONOGOUS first of all and there are lots of undergrads but the vet campus is pretty separate in its own little area on the edge of campus. East Lancing is a beautiful little place with lots of shops, restaurants, etc, but there are plenty of farms surrounding it (so in my opinion, the best of both worlds!). I didn't visit Lancing so I can't really comment on that, but I just really liked the community around MSU.
In terms of the vet campus, they have well-maintained labs, student centers, library etc and a pretty big small animal hospital. The large animal hospital isn't as state of the art as say, Iowa, but its still adequate. The oncology ward is sparkly new and very cool. I was impressed.
The program is 2 1/2 years classroom learning and 1 1/2 clinical rotations with no tracking. I believe for my first semester classes they have two classes which I really liked called "Veterinary Clinical Exam and Techniques" and "Ethical and Animal Welfare Issues in the Veterinary Profession." It's just nice to get a little hands on and broader learning in the first semester (not sure about VM sorry🙁!). They also said the hospitals were open to 1st years and the doctors were very nice to students and encouraged them to help with cases.
So yeah, if you have any questions, feel free to ask...but I'm out of state so I may not be able to answer! These are just some things I noticed while there.
Good luck deciding!
