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I took this last summer. I did enjoy the farm animal units as that is where my experience is lacking. But, the exams were pretty laughable. They let you have multiple tries to get a question correct. I got perfect scores on every exam and quiz. I am not in vet school but it is obvious that the rigor does not match up. I didn't quite finish but it was informational, but definitely more geared towards high schoolers and such.
 
rockatiel said:
But, the exams were pretty laughable. They let you have multiple tries to get a question correct. I got perfect scores on every exam and quiz. I am not in vet school but it is obvious that the rigor does not match up.
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You never know. That reminds me of the USDA certification test we had to take during vet school. Except the annoying thing was they made you wait 30 min between attempts.
 
I am signed up for this course starting January 12th, purely because I am interested and have a very light course load this semester. Plus I enjoy learning about such things (for now, though I understand that I may not in the future). So if anyone else is taking it, let me know! I don't anticipate it being extremely difficult, but it's nice to find some people learning the same content 🙂
 
LetItSnow said:
Just a word of advice, completely unrelated to this particular brouhaha.

I would be very, very, very cautious about the above-quoted attitude.

Yes, we have an obligation to point out errors and unethical behavior. That's for the good of our patients, our clients, and our industry. But you personally are not the be all and end all of deciding what's appropriate, and your *personal* opinion about what someone *else* says is really not very relevant. You should exercise a VERY high degree of professional courtesy and restraint when choosing to call out a colleague on something where you almost never have all the information.

That whole bit about the "good ethical and moral compass" is absolute hogwash: Good ethics and a moral compass apply to how YOU behave; not to how you judge a colleague's behavior.
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I'm not sure if you think I'm saying that the post was unethical or that me saying that TT was being unfair is me calling out unethical behavior. Or if the fact that I called it out makes me a better person. That's not what I meant.

It was a response to me being told that it'd be a 'joke' ("I'd love to see you act like this in vet school when a professor is outright mean for no reason but to be mean.") to continue to voice the fact that I think someone may have said/did something that either didn't need to be said/done, or could have been rephrased in order to be more effective. I could be completely off-base, but it is just as wrong to sit quietly and watch something 'bad' happen, as it is to do the action.

And frankly, if a professor is behaving that way, you bet I will confront him/her. And not in a "You're being mean and you should stop" way. If the professor continues to treat people like **** just because, then there's not much anyone can do. Everyone has had professors with that whole 'I don't give a flying pig about my students' attitude, but if some veterinary schools truly have professors who are "mean for the sake of being mean," I consider that a damper to the educational process and something that should be addressed with the proper people in the school. Maybe I'm naive in expecting professionals to act professionally, especially when training future colleagues.
 
I signed up for a couple equine vet-med related courses on Coursera as an eager pre-vet (probably learned all of it in undergrad, but that didn't matter lol)

Then I procrastinated watching (or listening? I don't even know) the first lectures...

...and never did watch them in any of the courses.

Some things never change.
 
Caia said:
I signed up for a couple equine vet-med related courses on Coursera as an eager pre-vet (probably learned all of it in undergrad, but that didn't matter lol)

Then I procrastinated watching (or listening? I don't even know) the first lectures...

...and never did watch them in any of the courses.

Some things never change.
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I have also done this.
 
kcoughli said:
I vote potatoes covered in cheese and bacon... in any form.

For example: Australian Battered Potatoes

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This is possibly one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen in my entire life.
 
pinkpuppy9 said:
I'm not sure if you think I'm saying that the post was unethical or that me saying that TT was being unfair is me calling out unethical behavior. Or if the fact that I called it out makes me a better person. That's not what I meant.
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Perhaps you missed the part at the very beginning (like, literally, the first thing I wrote) where I said very clearly "Just a word of advice, completely unrelated to this particular brouhaha.

Anyway, whatever. Good luck in vet school.
 
pinkpuppy9 said:
And frankly, if a professor is behaving that way, you bet I will confront him/her. And not in a "You're being mean and you should stop" way. If the professor continues to treat people like **** just because, then there's not much anyone can do. Everyone has had professors with that whole 'I don't give a flying pig about my students' attitude, but if some veterinary schools truly have professors who are "mean for the sake of being mean," I consider that a damper to the educational process and something that should be addressed with the proper people in the school. Maybe I'm naive in expecting professionals to act professionally, especially when training future colleague.
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I've decided now that when I get professorship in a few years, I'm going to find pinkpuppy and be a dick to her. A real big one. For sure.

I'm going to put chewing gum in her seat and then make her come up to the front of the board and point to where there bulbourethraal glands are on the diagram.

I'm gonna make sure she gets crypto in fourth year on ambulatory service and then tell her she's overreacting and in the real world of veterinary medicine, you gotta have a thicker skin, I mean, intestinal lining.

I'm going to make her go dumpster diving when we forget to sample the ileocolic lymph nodes from a horse and chew her out when she pulls out the jejunal nodes instead because as we all know any vet student worth their salt knows the difference (and if she'd taken the EDIVET course then psh maybe she'd know).

I'm gonna give everyone in the class bacon-wrapped chocolate except her; I'm going to give her a potato and tell her if she had just chilled the **** out, she wouldn't be holding a potato right now.

DEAL WITH IT

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WhtsThFrequency said:
I've decided now that when I get professorship in a few years, I'm going to find pinkpuppy and be a dick to her. A real big one. For sure.

I'm going to put chewing gum in her seat and then make her come up to the front of the board and point to where there bulbourethraal glands are on the diagram.

I'm gonna make sure she gets crypto in fourth year on ambulatory service and then tell her she's overreacting and in the real world of veterinary medicine, you gotta have a thicker skin, I mean, intestinal lining.

I'm going to make her go dumpster diving when we forget to sample the ileocolic lymph nodes from a horse and chew her out when she pulls out the jejunal nodes instead because as we all know any vet student worth their salt knows the difference (and if she'd taken the EDIVET course then psh maybe she'd know).

I'm gonna give everyone in the class bacon-wrapped chocolate except her; I'm going to give her a potato and tell her if she had just chilled the **** out, she wouldn't be holding a potato right now.

DEAL WITH IT

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Way too easy..... ask her to point out the cranial nerves in the guttural pouch.
 
WhtsThFrequency said:
I've decided now that when I get professorship in a few years, I'm going to find pinkpuppy and be a dick to her. A real big one. For sure.
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But... but... but... she'll have to exercise her "right" to confront you in order to be true to her ethical and moral compass! There is no other way! The compass never lies! And it's never wrong! It's the compass, for god's sake!

Besides, you're already a dick. I mean, I asked you for help on my necropsy rotation and what did you do? Basically said 'neener neener suck it up fourth year'.

Totally unprofessional. I'm complaining to your state board.
 
LetItSnow said:
But... but... but... she'll have to exercise her "right" to confront you in order to be true to her ethical and moral compass! There is no other way! The compass never lies! And it's never wrong! It's the compass, for god's sake!

Besides, you're already a dick. I mean, I asked you for help on my necropsy rotation and what did you do? Basically said 'neener neener suck it up fourth year'.

Totally unprofessional. I'm complaining to your state board.
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I'm the Gordon Ramsay of necropsy.

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Lawd. The maturity....it's lacking.

WhtsThFrequency said:
I'm going to make her go dumpster diving when we forget to sample the ileocolic lymph nodes from a horse and chew her out when she pulls out the jejunal nodes instead because as we all know any vet student worth their salt knows the difference (and if she'd taken the EDIVET course then psh maybe she'd know).
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So...you're saying I'll be just fine then
 
WhtsThFrequency said:
I'm the Gordon Ramsay of necropsy.

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I wish we had never had lunch and I didn't know what you look like, because that's making it really hard for me to imagine you standing in the middle of the necropsy floor garbed up with a filet knife in one hand, glaring at me, screaming "What the F!@# were you THINKING throwing that duodenum in the garbage? How did you even get IN to vet school? The only reason you're going to pass this rotation is so that I don't have to deal with you again."
 
LetItSnow said:
I wish we had never had lunch and I didn't know what you look like, because that's making it really hard for me to imagine you standing in the middle of the necropsy floor garbed up with a filet knife in one hand, glaring at me, screaming "What the F!@# were you THINKING throwing that duodenum in the garbage? How did you even get IN to vet school? The only reason you're going to pass this rotation is so that I don't have to deal with you again."
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WildZoo said:
Personally I think you are very mature
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adj. adjective
  1. Having reached full natural growth or development.

    a mature cell.

  2. Having reached a desired or final condition; ripe.

    a mature cheese.

  3. Having or showing characteristics, such as patience and prudence, considered typical of well-balanced adulthood.
synonyms: LIS, Dyachei, SOV
Antonyms: WZ
 
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