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I have a bit of a quandary regarding my Cornell app. I recently decided to go for it since, hey, I'm probably not going to get in anywhere, so might as well practice blowing my money. 
<-- I'm not sure even this face depicts the combined panic and sense of impending doom. I'm trying to tell myself that the supplemental apps I still have to wade through will give me practice for my next five tries.
Anyway, back to sounding like a relatively normal person. Most of my experience (animal and vet) is equine (clinical and some research), plus a genetics research project that was going great until I got pneumonia and was told in no uncertain terms to stay away from the lab with its mold problems (my flies like very high humidity and eat corn mush --> intractable mold issues). This pneumonia thing also wrecked the second half of my summer and any thoughts of getting more SA vet experience, since I've been sleeping 12+ hours/day since July. This is what I have for SA experience, and I'm not sure how/where to extract an eval letter by the end of October for Cornell's supp:
- volunteered with a therapy and assistance dog organization for a year, 5 years ago -- not sure anyone would remember me, and I was 16-17 then
- shadowed a SA vet for a total of 21 hours
- intermittent pet-sitting since I was a wee one -- I estimated several hundred (so not tons, but more than 21 h) hours, including farm-sitting and taking care of cats, dogs, horses, guinea pigs, and a gecko
So, it's not obvious to me who could write me a letter, especially since I am a bit bashful about asking for favors of people I don't know that well. Should I ask the SA vet, who is a FOAF but doesn't know me all that well? Should/could I ask a pet-sitting client? See if anyone remembers me at the dog place? Just go with my equine/research experience? Forget it all and go sell pineapples and bananas on the beach?
Thanks for the input. I think they make the application process so long so as to figure out who can take the stress and who turns into a raving maniac. It's a thin line.
<-- I'm not sure even this face depicts the combined panic and sense of impending doom. I'm trying to tell myself that the supplemental apps I still have to wade through will give me practice for my next five tries.Anyway, back to sounding like a relatively normal person. Most of my experience (animal and vet) is equine (clinical and some research), plus a genetics research project that was going great until I got pneumonia and was told in no uncertain terms to stay away from the lab with its mold problems (my flies like very high humidity and eat corn mush --> intractable mold issues). This pneumonia thing also wrecked the second half of my summer and any thoughts of getting more SA vet experience, since I've been sleeping 12+ hours/day since July. This is what I have for SA experience, and I'm not sure how/where to extract an eval letter by the end of October for Cornell's supp:
- volunteered with a therapy and assistance dog organization for a year, 5 years ago -- not sure anyone would remember me, and I was 16-17 then
- shadowed a SA vet for a total of 21 hours
- intermittent pet-sitting since I was a wee one -- I estimated several hundred (so not tons, but more than 21 h) hours, including farm-sitting and taking care of cats, dogs, horses, guinea pigs, and a gecko
So, it's not obvious to me who could write me a letter, especially since I am a bit bashful about asking for favors of people I don't know that well. Should I ask the SA vet, who is a FOAF but doesn't know me all that well? Should/could I ask a pet-sitting client? See if anyone remembers me at the dog place? Just go with my equine/research experience? Forget it all and go sell pineapples and bananas on the beach?
Thanks for the input. I think they make the application process so long so as to figure out who can take the stress and who turns into a raving maniac. It's a thin line.
