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equineconstant said:
Is it at least going to be curved? When we did the ACS in my chem classes, the teachers knew we hadn't covered everything, so they curved it for the class.
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My professor did the same thing for my ACS orgo II final. I think they understand how difficult it is particularly if you're taking the course for a vet pre-req and not a major requirement. Although, he sneakily didn't tell us he was going to curve until after we took it...
 
Random thought! My friend who's in med school was telling me about how he has to dissect human cadavers next semester.. I don't know about you guys, but that seems so weird to me!! I LOVED doing necropsies on animals while interning... but it would be so weird to do that on a human!!

My friend also told me he could absolutely never, ever, ever open up an animal, nor could most of his classmates. I just thought it was interesting that vet med and human med are essentially very similiar but most vets would never want to touch humans and vice versa.
 
cs5910 said:
Random thought! My friend who's in med school was telling me about how he has to dissect human cadavers next semester.. I don't know about you guys, but that seems so weird to me!! I LOVED doing necropsies on animals while interning... but it would be so weird to do that on a human!!

My friend also told me he could absolutely never, ever, ever open up an animal, nor could most of his classmates. I just thought it was interesting that vet med and human med are essentially very similiar but most vets would never want to touch humans and vice versa.
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We were actually going to try to do a cadaver swap kind of thing with UPenn's medical school. No dissecting or anything, but go to their lab and see what they do and then have them come to ours and see what we do. It fell through though. I was pretty excited about it and thought it was a neat idea.
 
I guess it's not technically a rant, but I'm so stressed out right now I need to vent a little, also I've never shared something so personal to people I don't know...it's a little odd!

This semester has been so upsetting. My grandma fell and broke her hip at the beginning of it and was hospitalized. She's since moved into a nursing home but now is essentially addicted to narcotics. She's confused all the time and afraid of being in pain, which upsets her then she just asks us to take her life, it's heart breaking.

My boyfriend's EXTREMELY messy sister moved in since she was having trouble with her roommates. She was in rehab for bulimia/alcoholism and I found 4 empty handles of vodka in our guest room on top of her stealing my wine. I have no idea what to do.

On top of that, my aunt died two weeks ago today.

To top the cake off, my dad had a minor heart attack this morning.

Ug...silver lining, I'm officially done with undergrad as of today!
 
parula said:
I guess it's not technically a rant, but I'm so stressed out right now I need to vent a little, also I've never shared something so personal to people I don't know...it's a little odd!

This semester has been so upsetting. My grandma fell and broke her hip at the beginning of it and was hospitalized. She's since moved into a nursing home but now is essentially addicted to narcotics. She's confused all the time and afraid of being in pain, which upsets her then she just asks us to take her life, it's heart breaking.

My boyfriend's EXTREMELY messy sister moved in since she was having trouble with her roommates. She was in rehab for bulimia/alcoholism and I found 4 empty handles of vodka in our guest room on top of her stealing my wine. I have no idea what to do.

On top of that, my aunt died two weeks ago today.

To top the cake off, my dad had a minor heart attack this morning.

Ug...silver lining, I'm officially done with undergrad as of today!
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I'm very sorry about your struggles this semester. Making it through it all and saying your done with undergrad is a big accomplishment, Congrats!

SDN is great bc you are anonymous unless you choose not to be.. One of the many reasons SDN is amazing 😀
 
Kpowell14 said:
I'm very sorry about your struggles this semester. Making it through it all and saying your done with undergrad is a big accomplishment, Congrats!

SDN is great bc you are anonymous unless you choose not to be.. One of the many reasons SDN is amazing 😀
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Couldn't be happier to be done, I need a break!

Yeah, I feel better already. Just saying it outloud-ish did make me feel quite a bit better. 🙂
 
parula said:
Couldn't be happier to be done, I need a break!

Yeah, I feel better already. Just saying it outloud-ish did make me feel quite a bit better. 🙂
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Yes, it feels great to be done! I graduated this past Saturday and it is such a relief to be done with UG and to have a little break!

It is amazing what saying things out loud can do. Plus there is always a chance that someone can either relate to you or may have uplifting words. This truly is a great community 😀
 
parula said:
I guess it's not technically a rant, but I'm so stressed out right now I need to vent a little, also I've never shared something so personal to people I don't know...it's a little odd!

This semester has been so upsetting. My grandma fell and broke her hip at the beginning of it and was hospitalized. She's since moved into a nursing home but now is essentially addicted to narcotics. She's confused all the time and afraid of being in pain, which upsets her then she just asks us to take her life, it's heart breaking.

My boyfriend's EXTREMELY messy sister moved in since she was having trouble with her roommates. She was in rehab for bulimia/alcoholism and I found 4 empty handles of vodka in our guest room on top of her stealing my wine. I have no idea what to do.

On top of that, my aunt died two weeks ago today.

To top the cake off, my dad had a minor heart attack this morning.

Ug...silver lining, I'm officially done with undergrad as of today!
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Sounds strangely similar to my semester. 🙄
My grandma had a hip replacement a few years ago. She then had 3 more in the same month on the same hip (long long story). She also became addicted to pain meds and it was hard to watch. This woman had never even taken an Advil in her life and was sneaking medicine and begging for more oxycontin. She passed away in October and was addicted till that day. So sorry to hear your grandma is going through the same. I hope she has no more complications and can get to feeling better. I lost 3 grandparents this semester, my uncle had a heart attack on the way to my grandpa's funeral, and my BF's brother tried to commit suicide 3 times 🙄. My point in sharing is that I completely understand what it takes to push through adversities like that while trying to focus on school and I commend you for that.
Hang in there. Rough semesters happen, but good job for pushing through 😍 and congrats on graduating. :hardy:
 
Emiloo4 said:
Sounds strangely similar to my semester. 🙄
My grandma had a hip replacement a few years ago. She then had 3 more in the same month on the same hip (long long story). She also became addicted to pain meds and it was hard to watch. This woman had never even taken an Advil in her life and was sneaking medicine and begging for more oxycontin. She passed away in October and was addicted till that day. So sorry to hear your grandma is going through the same. I hope she has no more complications and can get to feeling better. I lost 3 grandparents this semester, my uncle had a heart attack on the way to my grandpa's funeral, and my BF's brother tried to commit suicide 3 times 🙄. My point in sharing is that I completely understand what it takes to push through adversities like that while trying to focus on school and I commend you for that.
Hang in there. Rough semesters happen, but good job for pushing through 😍 and congrats on graduating. :hardy:
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I had you in mind Em when I said people can relate.. Sheesh, what a semester you both have had, but you made it through it and that's what matters!
 
This whole graduate school application process is making me :boom::boom::boom::boom::boom:

Found out another school required a prior degree (but it says it nowhere) and was upset, because this is the second one and it makes me feel stupid. Didn't want to tell Mom until I talked to my mentor and figured out what my next plan was. Mom got up in my face, asking why I was upset, what was wrong, etcetcetcetcetc and I told her to please leave me alone and that I'd talk to her later. She didn't stop so I finally snapped at her and now she's all pissed at me and being a butthead. And I feel guilty.

I can't wait to move out.
 
I'm so stressed out and I'm not even in this cycle. So I'm teaching myself Orgo 2 so I can know what I'm doing on the MCAT, my GPA keeps slightly dropping no matter how hard I work in my classes (3.37). I'm also trying to get that stupid LOR from the committee at my school, but I need 6 letters of evaluations and it sucks because I'm not the type of guy that likes to hang around professors, so it's not like they know me. There's so much pressure on how I do on this MCAT that its driving me crazy, and not to sound like a 13 year old white girl, but I honestly feel like no one around me knows the stress that in under. I just feel lost and like this will never get done and I'll never figure out what I'm going to do.

Posting this made me feel a lot better. This thread is a great idea.
 
...I guess you can rant about that here, if you want.

I was like, why are you taking the MCAT? Ohh...

I'm glad we don't have to get committee LORs. They always sound like a pain in the ass.
 
This is only kind of a rant because it does involve dying of cute overload.
Last night was my first night with cleft palate puppy. I'm tube feeding her because of the cleft and that was going fine all day yesterday, a little challenging but no big deal. I got up in the middle of the night to feed her and first off I thought she had regurged a little and aspirated and therefore was freaking out, but it turned out she had been sucking on her legs and had some snot in her nose, crisis averted. So, this is 1:40 that I get up and I struggled for a half hour to tube her and just could not pass the tube. I finally gave up and got back into bed at 2:45, but was so stressed about it that I couldn't fall asleep. Eventually fell back asleep around 4:30 and then woke up at 5:15 and successfully tubed her. I have my last two finals this morning and I'm seriously scared how I'm going to do. I do not function well on no sleep. Better news is that she is sooooo freaking cute and I really can only complain a little. I named her Billie because she looks like a tiny goat.
 
There's a blizzard outside and I have to attempt to drive to work in it.
 
Emiloo4 said:
Sounds strangely similar to my semester. 🙄
My grandma had a hip replacement a few years ago. She then had 3 more in the same month on the same hip (long long story). She also became addicted to pain meds and it was hard to watch. This woman had never even taken an Advil in her life and was sneaking medicine and begging for more oxycontin. She passed away in October and was addicted till that day. So sorry to hear your grandma is going through the same. I hope she has no more complications and can get to feeling better. I lost 3 grandparents this semester, my uncle had a heart attack on the way to my grandpa's funeral, and my BF's brother tried to commit suicide 3 times 🙄. My point in sharing is that I completely understand what it takes to push through adversities like that while trying to focus on school and I commend you for that.
Hang in there. Rough semesters happen, but good job for pushing through 😍 and congrats on graduating. :hardy:
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Thanks, it's nice to know I'm not alone...and I'm glad we both made it through the semester!!

Now it's time for me to heat up the oven and stress bake like there's no tomorrow!
 
cs5910 said:
My friend also told me he could absolutely never, ever, ever open up an animal, nor could most of his classmates. I just thought it was interesting that vet med and human med are essentially very similiar but most vets would never want to touch humans and vice versa.
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I personally think that anyone who eats chicken, cow, etc. should at least see what their food looks like before it becomes a nugget, a steak, etc. I can understand not wanting to dissect anything, but the fact that some people do not mind people but mind animals or vice versa is a little strange to me for some reason.

My friend and I were at the farmers market the other day. She was looking for a specific cut of meat at the butcher. He went out back to see what he had and just hauled a quarter of a cow out of the freezer. My friend was in mild shock and then started trying to apologize on my behalf (because I do not eat meat). I told the guy, "Don't worry about it. I want to be a vet. I have seen various dead animals before." I got a picture of it. It was pretty cool:

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This is why I can't get that upset about not getting enough sleep...
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But seriously doesn't she look like a tiny goat?
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cs5910 said:
Random thought! My friend who's in med school was telling me about how he has to dissect human cadavers next semester.. I don't know about you guys, but that seems so weird to me!! I LOVED doing necropsies on animals while interning... but it would be so weird to do that on a human!!

My friend also told me he could absolutely never, ever, ever open up an animal, nor could most of his classmates. I just thought it was interesting that vet med and human med are essentially very similiar but most vets would never want to touch humans and vice versa.
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They did one last year and I heard not one word about the human cadavers but I heard a LOT about how hot Penn Med student guys are. Might be worth doing again haha.
 
Some people shouldn't have animals.

I went with the vet to look at some rescue horses today, and it was very upsetting. The bad part is that the rescue that took these horses could only take the horses that were in the worst condition by "buying" them off the people, so there are still horses at this place where they isn't enough food or shelter for them (and its raining like crazy out and supposed to snow tomorrow). They did call the police and the people got a citation, but I guess that it gives the people a few weeks and they don't think that they're doing anything wrong. The vet was calling other rescues and trying to find a place for the rest of them, but I'm not sure what is going to happen to them.
 
wolfspeaker said:
😍😍 Are they planning on fixing the cleft?
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If it doesn't close on its own (it's unlikely) then we will be trying to repair it at 4 to 6 months.

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Just got home from hanging out with some of my dearest friends, sooo ready for bed, and as I crawl in I feel a huge wet spot. One of my LOVELY :annoyed: animals pissed on the bed. Ugh!!
 
I hate traveling.

Woke up at 6am to catch my flight which got delayed for 2 hours so I missed my connection. So I'm on standby for a flight late tonight, and if I don't get off the standby list I get to play the standby game all day tomorrow because the earliest confirmed flight I could get is 7:55 pm tomorrow.

I just want to go home and do Christmassy things and not be stuck in the airport for two days. :cry:
 
I'm back! This is a rant because I thought I had happily moved on to Plan B. But the more I think of it the more my heart longs for vet med. Now, here I am in the middle of my third application cycle and I'm getting to the point of wanting to settle down and have kids. Not start a ridiculously study intensive, cry everyday, terrified to fail, up to my eyeballs in debt vet med program and 4 years away from even starting a career. Why oh why can't I be 25 again?

I've been lurking for the past couple of weeks and I miss posting. Has no one really started an AVC thread? What's up with that?
 
equineconstant said:
I hate traveling.

Woke up at 6am to catch my flight which got delayed for 2 hours so I missed my connection. So I'm on standby for a flight late tonight, and if I don't get off the standby list I get to play the standby game all day tomorrow because the earliest confirmed flight I could get is 7:55 pm tomorrow.

I just want to go home and do Christmassy things and not be stuck in the airport for two days. :cry:
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Oh yuck, that sucks. 🙁 I love traveling until something goes wrong. You don't know anyone where you're stuck?
 
Lab Rat83 said:
I'm back! This is a rant because I thought I had happily moved on to Plan B. But the more I think of it the more my heart longs for vet med. Now, here I am in the middle of my third application cycle and I'm getting to the point of wanting to settle down and have kids. Not start a ridiculously study intensive, cry everyday, terrified to fail, up to my eyeballs in debt vet med program and 4 years away from even starting a career. Why oh why can't I be 25 again?

I've been lurking for the past couple of weeks and I miss posting. Has no one really started an AVC thread? What's up with that?
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I did not start one because I did not want to accidentally upset someone this year 🙁 This is my third cycle too. I am thinking of upgrading in the fall. I am settled in. I would move to get an interview, but I cannot afford to go back to working a minimum wage job.

I will not get an interview this year so there was not really a reason for me to start a thread.
 
Trilt said:
Oh yuck, that sucks. 🙁 I love traveling until something goes wrong. You don't know anyone where you're stuck?
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Nope. Currently on standby for a flight home and really hoping I can get there tonight.

I love visiting other places, but travel is the worst. At least I probably won't have to deal with flying home from up North right before Christmas anymore.
 
Trematode said:
I did not start one because I did not want to accidentally upset someone this year 🙁 This is my third cycle too. I am thinking of upgrading in the fall. I am settled in. I would move to get an interview, but I cannot afford to go back to working a minimum wage job.

I will not get an interview this year so there was not really a reason for me to start a thread.
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For some reason I had thought that you didn't even apply this year and were skipping a cycle or something. I have no idea why I thought that, except maybe your insistence that you won't get an interview this year.
 
Lab Rat83 said:
I've been lurking for the past couple of weeks and I miss posting. Has no one really started an AVC thread? What's up with that?
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Not sure. There doesn't seem to be many SDN applicants for AVC this year. It's not even getting mentioned on "where are you applying" thread. (Or wasn't mentioned last time I checked).

So sorry you're feeling conflicted, LabRat. 🙁 My PM box is open if you need to talk.
 
Ugh. My next door neighbors' dog has been outside for at least the past hour barking to be let in. I just went over and rang the door bell to ask them to let the poor thing inside and they're not even home. They're probably off drinking somewhere nearby and forgot to let the dog in. I'm so pissed off because apparently this isn't the first time this has happened. My parents have gone over to tell them before only to see the husband stumbling back from wherever he was to let the dog in.

Pretty sure I'm about to submit a cruelty complaint. 😡😡😡
 
Lab Rat83 said:
Has no one really started an AVC thread? What's up with that?
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I had thought about starting one but the only thing I would have to say is that I am fretting like crazy because I haven't been offered an interview. 🙁
 
orca2011 said:
We were actually going to try to do a cadaver swap kind of thing with UPenn's medical school. No dissecting or anything, but go to their lab and see what they do and then have them come to ours and see what we do. It fell through though. I was pretty excited about it and thought it was a neat idea.
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bunnity said:
They did one last year and I heard not one word about the human cadavers but I heard a LOT about how hot Penn Med student guys are. Might be worth doing again haha.
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Nope. I would go nowhere near that dissection room. YUCK. :barf:

but.... if there's some attractive med students, I might hang out in the hallway... 😉
 
Coquette22 said:
I could be wrong, but I'm not sure they've offered interviews to anyone yet.
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They have, I think there are three in the interview thread so far. The email I got from them said:

"Please note, shortly after December 15, 2012 the DVM Admissions
Committee will meet to review the ranking of International applicants.

Applicants invited for an interview will be notified by email, before
the Christmas break."

I think they're officially on Christmas break as of the end of the day today, so now I'm worrying.
 
AVC notifies you when you haven't been granted an interview. They don't leave you to just assume. So don't count yourself out yet.
 
I didn't know that. Thanks for the info! Gives me a tiny bit of hope! 🙂
 
I'd start an AVC thread but then I'd just feel like this guy
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nyanko said:
For some reason I had thought that you didn't even apply this year and were skipping a cycle or something. I have no idea why I thought that, except maybe your insistence that you won't get an interview this year.
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I was conflicted.

It is only $50 to apply. I was planning on re-taking the GRE (which may give me an interview if I raised my score) but I felt crazy fatigued the last few months. It is just within the last month that I have started feeling better. Plus, the university put new rules in place (lower than a 70% in certain courses disqualifies you from applying I think). I am curious to see if that helps my odds.

I am debating whether to sign up for the GRE before the deadline which is near the end of February I think.

I should really go back and look at my app 😛.
 
If you apply and don't get in, you're out $50 and a bit of pride, perhaps.

If you don't apply at all... well, why not at least try? Is it a hardship? Is it a "three times and you're out" sort of thing? You might as well.
 
There is no limit on how many time I can apply, so why not?
Plus, nothing really changed on my supplemental. It took me 15 minutes to edit.
 
Sign up for the GRE and study like crazy if you think that could get you an interview! Trying doesn't hurt (the wallet too much)!
 
I am currently applying to the VPH at Ohio State University, but there is not much info on the admissions process. Does anyone know if they interview for their program? Or how they select their students?
 
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