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My running shoes that I bought in mid March are already falling apart, which is super upsetting. I've had older models of this particular shoe, and while I wore them way beyond their expiration date, they still don't have their soles falling off like the new pair does. The new ones might have around 100 miles on them but they should probably be able to go for at least 200. I was planning on buying a new pair before I go back to school in August, but might have to cave earlier.
 
orca2011 said:
My running shoes that I bought in mid March are already falling apart, which is super upsetting. I've had older models of this particular shoe, and while I wore them way beyond their expiration date, they still don't have their soles falling off like the new pair does. The new ones might have around 100 miles on them but they should probably be able to go for at least 200. I was planning on buying a new pair before I go back to school in August, but might have to cave earlier.
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are they rated for a certain number of miles? i'd write the company and let them know that you've had several pairs before and are very disappointed with the quality this time around. my brother has gotten so much for free this way
 
jmo1012 said:
are they rated for a certain number of miles? i'd write the company and let them know that you've had several pairs before and are very disappointed with the quality this time around. my brother has gotten so much for free this way
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Not sure of the exact miles, but they definitely should have last longer since I am my no means a heavy runner.

And that was pretty much my plan. I was just super shocked since my older pair (even the first pair of this shoe from like 4 years ago) seem to be holding up better. And I don't skimp on running shoes since I have crappy feet and need the support.
 
Getting woken up at 4am for what sounds like gun shots and fighting right outside your bedroom and then laying there wondering what or if the cops found/did anything after you called them. Now it sounds like about 5 cars have driven off so guess I'll just lay here and wonder what happened :/
 
Ugh. This was quite possibly the longest week ever. My dad's cousin's daughter passed away, my grandmother passed away, and another one of my dad's cousin is basically weeks away from passing (terminal cancer). So we had to drive to Ohio (12hours) for two back to back funerals and saying goodbye. Hoping that is all the bad news for a while... They says it comes in 3's right?
 
Turns out sick animals don't adhere to weekends being rest days. I'm beyond exhausted and had to bail on multiple fun plans for this weekend. I'm also scheduled to work 3-11pm Sunday so pretty much zero weekend for me. I think I'm going to go to bed now.
 
Don't get me wrong, I love my job (res hall desk supervisor), but there is a large lack of communication among everyone involved.
First instance, I had a no call-no show yesterday. Checked the schedule, called the individual who was scheduled to be working.
His response? "Where does it say that? I've already worked 8 hours today!" (mind you, desks are open overnight so a student may have 8+ hours in one 24hr period)
"Says here on my paper schedule and online that you're supposed to be at hall X right now"
"Hold on, lemme check" puts me on hold, comes back "Oh... I see it right here... can someone cover for me?"
Mind you this is after I repeatedly e-mailed my students saying to KNOW YOUR FREAKING SCHEDULES. I can't help you find a cover if you're not on top of your stuff.

Additionally, I had a student signed up for an overnight, she reported in, and someone was already there, scheduled from my higher up and nobody told me. I felt so bad for the girl.
 
i hate how much hurt is associated with suddenly being ignored by someone whom i considered a good friend. i mean, i know you're busy, but come on. you can't even return a brief message? or even bother to read it? gee thanks so much 🙁
 
I really hate this physics class. Quantum physics makes me feel stupid. Plus the professor doesn't give us any formulas for the exams, just the values of certain constants. I really hope I pass this class. It would be pretty embarrassing to lose my provisional acceptance and not graduate just because of this class.
 
:boom:That smiley isn't saying I'm frustrated. It's simply the way my head feels right now. Migraines suck. Especially when I have a final project due in a few hours, and of course it's an online class, and the light from the computer screen hurts. And I can't form proper sentences very easily. It took me a few tries to write this, to make sure I wasn't skipping words or changing the order of words or letters. Yuck.
 
Old member posting under a new account because I was recently informed that someone in my school's administration has been monitoring my posts here. 😡

I understand the expectation that veterinary students will act like professionals, but IMO policing your students' opinions and activities outside of school is about as unprofessional as you can get.
 
MooVet said:
Old member posting under a new account because I was recently informed that someone in my school's administration has been monitoring my posts here. 😡

I understand the expectation that veterinary students will act like professionals, but IMO policing your students' opinions and activities outside of school is about as unprofessional as you can get.
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Did you get in trouble for something specific?
 
Escalla said:
Did you get in trouble for something specific?
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Sorry I should clarify that I have not been formally approached on the matter. I was just causally informed by a faculty member that I'm working with that administration is aware of my account here and has been displeased with some of the opinions I've expressed in my posts. I find it especially frustrating because I have never said anything negative or false about the school and beyond that I don't think my opinion is any of their business.

I was going to give up SDN entirely but VMCAS's post in the rankings thread today made me realize I'm probably not the only vet student under this kind of scrutiny so I felt I could safely make a new account and be more careful about the personal details I divulge from here on out. I realize that this is a public forum and I shouldn't be surprised that people are reading my posts but the idea of a school actively keeping track of what I say leaves a bad taste in my mouth regardless.
 
Mini-rant. Just when I think I've got my new "puppy" potty-trained she'll have an accident. And just when I was about to post this for the first time I found another fun present. :dead:
 
MooVet said:
Sorry I should clarify that I have not been formally approached on the matter. I was just causally informed by a faculty member that I'm working with that administration is aware of my account here and has been displeased with some of the opinions I've expressed in my posts. I find it especially frustrating because I have never said anything negative or false about the school and beyond that I don't think my opinion is any of their business.

I was going to give up SDN entirely but VMCAS's post in the rankings thread today made me realize I'm probably not the only vet student under this kind of scrutiny so I felt I could safely make a new account and be more careful about the personal details I divulge from here on out. I realize that this is a public forum and I shouldn't be surprised that people are reading my posts but the idea of a school actively keeping track of what I say leaves a bad taste in my mouth regardless.
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Meh. They shouldn't be able to coerce you like that. There's a pretty distinct difference between vulgar and/or inappropriate attacks on an institution or a particular person, and stating your opinion if it happens to include some criticisms. Expecting professional behavior of your students is fine, but censorship of student opinions in personal lives should not fall under that umbrella, perhaps unless it's a case of aggressive straight up slandering.
 
MooVet said:
Old member posting under a new account because I was recently informed that someone in my school's administration has been monitoring my posts here. 😡

I understand the expectation that veterinary students will act like professionals, but IMO policing your students' opinions and activities outside of school is about as unprofessional as you can get.
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I have been in (and still am in, for all I know) a similar situation and I understand how frustrating and upsetting it is. Feel free to PM me if you want someone sympathetic to vent to.

In my mind it's similar to sitting at a bar discussing school or vet med with your friends. Yes, you're in a public space where everyone can hear you, but that doesn't make it okay for someone from the Dean's office to sit at the next table and record the conversation.

Good for you for sticking around though, even if you have to do it incognito.
 
JAVMA has the most messed up citation style on the planet. Why can't all journals use APA? Grrrrr...

I mean, what the heck is this?
Reisner IR. Differential diagnosis and management of human-directed aggression in dogs. Vet Clin Small Anim 2003; 33: 303-320.
 
My sister is supposed to be visiting. She got stuck at her layover in Chicago. They are having some sort of weird problems with planes flying into St Louis and everything is delayed forever. No idea if she's even going to get here tonight and this is her first time traveling alone. I feel so bad and I'm so bummed.
 
MooVet said:
Old member posting under a new account because I was recently informed that someone in my school's administration has been monitoring my posts here. 😡

I understand the expectation that veterinary students will act like professionals, but IMO policing your students' opinions and activities outside of school is about as unprofessional as you can get.
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That's a shame. Although sometimes it is good for us all to be reminded that anyone can read what we post on here, especially for those of us that don't do a very good job of hiding our secret identities (I'd be an awful superhero) :phantom: Meh... now I feel creepily like Big Brother is watching me.
 
dovelover said:
That's a shame. Although sometimes it is good for us all to be reminded that anyone can read what we post on here, especially for those of us that don't do a very good job of hiding our secret identities (I'd be an awful superhero) :phantom: Meh... now I feel creepily like Big Brother is watching me.
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Heh at least most people aren't silly enough to practically use their actual name as their username... 🙄
 
kcoughli said:
Heh at least most people aren't silly enough to practically use their actual name as their username... 🙄
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i was a newbie to forums when i created mine...now i choose fun things haha. not sure how much my school "watches," but theoretically they know i'm on here (because their admissions person is on here from time to time and knows who i am. meh.
 
Feeling kind of down today. It's my first time not having a summer vacation and my job + online class is wearing me out. Besides that, since I go to school 800 miles away, the summer is usually the time I spend with my bf. Now I feel like I barely see him. I love my job but I'm so tired and emotionally drained I feel like I'm starting to lose sight of that.
 
I miss my girls <\3 It's been 3 months since I lost Libby and a month since I lost Genie. I feel like I'm doing worse as time passes, not better. I didn't get out of bed until 2pm yesterday. I thought fostering 2 cats would help a lot but it's still very tough. My girls were everything to me and I feel lost without them.
 
ky261682 said:
I miss my girls <\3 It's been 3 months since I lost Libby and a month since I lost Genie. I feel like I'm doing worse as time passes, not better. I didn't get out of bed until 2pm yesterday. I thought fostering 2 cats would help a lot but it's still very tough. My girls were everything to me and I feel lost without them.
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<3

my roommate has a poorly trained and regularly ignored 5.5mo puppy that my dog adores. she gets into mischief constantly. she is a regular shoe thief, although i keep shoes tucked away in my room (but not completely away). anyway, she took my expensive asics tonight and my dog being the alpha and playful idiot that he is, stole it from her and continued the chewing game, destroying the top and laces. i wouldnt have caught it if she hadn't come prancing around with the other. i'm so mad!! yes, she's a puppy, yes it was my dog who ultimately destroyed the shoe, but she does no training and no discipline with this dog. the dog steals things to get attention because she doesnt give her attention otherwise. grrrr.
 
One of the public health classes I took last week was a bit of a let down, and now I'm struggling to write my final paper for the class. I was pretty excited for the class because it was about infectious disease and influencing policy change, and I love infectious disease and have a relatively new-found interest in public policy. The guest speakers were great, especially the one who talked about the year she spent working for a senator as part of the AVMA congressional fellows program, but the actual instructors of the class didn't really connect with the class. It didn't help that English was not their first language so they went really slowly through everything and didn't always explain things clearly. They've had good experiences and definitely know what they're talking about, it just didn't mean much to me to hear about the project they were a part of that influenced policy in a country in Africa with help from project based out of our university... that was a familiar frame of reference for them, but not really for the students. As a newbie into the world of policy, it would have been nice to have a more familiar perspective to work from. And we all got really confused by what we were supposed to do for our final group presentation project, to the point that I just read some slides that someone with more experience wrote and didn't really know what I was talking about, which is very unlike me. And now I have to write a paper related to the presentation and I've just got such a negative feeling about how the class ended with those projects that I just can't bring myself to write it and I should be going to bed in an hour. I know if I just get to it I can probably BS something decent, but I just have this horrible feeling of dread. Especially when I remind myself that $870 of my own personal money basically went down the drain taking a class from which I learned about as much as I could have learned in a lunch meeting. Bleh... at least they don't charge us out of state tuition for these classes, then I'd be really mad...
 
MooVet said:
Sorry I should clarify that I have not been formally approached on the matter. I was just causally informed by a faculty member that I'm working with that administration is aware of my account here and has been displeased with some of the opinions I've expressed in my posts. I find it especially frustrating because I have never said anything negative or false about the school and beyond that I don't think my opinion is any of their business.

I was going to give up SDN entirely but VMCAS's post in the rankings thread today made me realize I'm probably not the only vet student under this kind of scrutiny so I felt I could safely make a new account and be more careful about the personal details I divulge from here on out. I realize that this is a public forum and I shouldn't be surprised that people are reading my posts but the idea of a school actively keeping track of what I say leaves a bad taste in my mouth regardless.
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I hope that admin person doesn't see this post... I would think they might deduce who you are.. Just a thought. I think it's pretty crumby you have been even approached about the matter considering you say you haven't said anything that would be considered unprofessional.

I know one of our higher up admin people has an account and has posted a couple times in the MU page. I also know she knows who I am bc at my interview she asked my "big sib" if I was Kpowell on SDN...and since then I Definitely watch my post content.
 
I'm reasonably well known in my class (and well, in life,) for liking sloths. I've had a quite a couple people put two and two together. So far hasn't hurt me, and I'm not generally one to shy from controversial topics.
 
You could probably figure out who I was if you knew me in real life. I'm not sure many faculty would, but there's also the fact that just about everything I've said about AVC on SDN, I'd be willing to say (or have said in the past) to faculty members.

My rant: I have been nauseated and cold and achey since about 10 AM this morning. No fever, according to my thermometer though. It's 7:30 and I am sorely tempted to go to bed now...
 
*sigh* I am pretty sure I just upset my mom. Their plan for this weekend was to go up to their camper and hangout, I told them that I would stay the night tonight and spend tomorrow up there for Father's Day. I was just informed that my sister and her family are planning on coming and possibly staying the night, I was told that they will figure something out since I said that I would just come up for tomorrow then. The camper is too small for 6 people and I am just not in the mood to deal with my sister and whatever drama her family has going on (I tolerate her husband to keep peace). I was hoping to go up there and get some sort of peace and quite since I am already in a crappy mood (my boyfriend and I kind into a tiff last night... long distance is hard even if it is only for 3 months).

My run did not help improve my mood either.... can June be over with please 🙁
 
My brother, who has been raised by my aunt due to circumstances, is getting married next June. My aunt has been the center of helping him and his finacée plan the wedding, and my mom feels terribly left out (sort of understandably). I've gotten three phone calls today from my mother crying about this. Mind you, I live an hour and a half away from all the going ons, so I'm just trying to be a soundboard.
Third call, my mom's gotten so upset, she tells me that me and my little sister "weren't allowed to be bridesmaids because we're too fat (which I don't care, never wanted to be a bridesmaid anyways) and that's why we're usherettes, but now we're no longer in the wedding." By this time I'm fed up with the situation and just trying to get to work for 8 hours.
Brother calls me shortly after to tell me that my mom was just upset and saying crap and I freaking blew the eff up. Crying, cussing, the whole biz. Because I am sick and tired of having to deal with family drama when I'm not even home. I'm at college, working two jobs with two online classes this summer. I can't deal with it. I don't have the mental capacity to care. I have my own problems. I don't mind being a sounding board for things that are going on, but when I start being told two different things that affect my stance (in the wedding) it pisses me off.
 
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Broke my distal fibula near the lateral malleolus today playing inline hockey, may need surgical fixation. Yaay!

edit: This is why I should stick to ice hockey instead, haha.
 
My car has decided to $%# the bed NOW.....when I almost had it paid off and two months before I leave for vet school. Great! Now what do I do?!?!?! :rage:😢
 
Hotfillyky said:
My car has decided to $%# the bed NOW.....when I almost had it paid off and two months before I leave for vet school. Great! Now what do I do?!?!?! :rage:😢
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Move to vet school in Oregon trail fashion?


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I'm only kidding...

Sorry to hear about your car, hope you can figure out something. 🙂
 
DVMDream said:
Move to vet school in Oregon trail fashion?


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I'm only kidding...

Sorry to hear about your car, hope you can figure out something. 🙂
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But then he'll contract dysentery!

Sorry about your car though, hope it all works out!
 
Aaahhhh GoT season finale 🙁

Also why did they leave some important stuff out I know it's hard to translate some book to screen stuff but things have happened that shouldn't have happened!!
 
Passing out twice from excruciating abdominal pain is not fun. Having the ER doc say it's a GI virus and refuse to get you a CT because "too much radiation causes cancer" also sucks.
 
Jamr0ckin said:
Passing out twice from excruciating abdominal pain is not fun. Having the ER doc say it's a GI virus and refuse to get you a CT because "too much radiation causes cancer" also sucks.
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That sucks, Jam 🙁 I'm sorry. I hope you feel better soon!
 
I got a speeding ticket for going 81 in a 75. Bye bye $180, hello higher car insurance. :bang:
 
Was so excited to finally have some free time so I could get my bike out and start exploring some of the bike trails in town as part of my summer get in shape plan. Apparently despite my brother de-rusting my chain for me last fall (somehow the bike managed to get very rusty sitting in my parents' garage for a year and a half...), several links of the chain are rusted together so that they don't move. Was able to get them to move with some lube and pliers, but they're still too stiff to bend on their own when pedaling. Looks like I'm going to have to learn how to replace a bike chain... which actually doesn't look that hard if I buy the right kind of chain with a special snap in place link on the end. The hard part will be finding a way to remove the old chain without having to buy special tools... hmmm... challenge accepted.
 
dovelover said:
Was so excited to finally have some free time so I could get my bike out and start exploring some of the bike trails in town as part of my summer get in shape plan. Apparently despite my brother de-rusting my chain for me last fall (somehow the bike managed to get very rusty sitting in my parents' garage for a year and a half...), several links of the chain are rusted together so that they don't move. Was able to get them to move with some lube and pliers, but they're still too stiff to bend on their own when pedaling. Looks like I'm going to have to learn how to replace a bike chain... which actually doesn't look that hard if I buy the right kind of chain with a special snap in place link on the end. The hard part will be finding a way to remove the old chain without having to buy special tools... hmmm... challenge accepted.
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I think I have a chain tool - I replaced my bike chain last summer. So you can borrow mine if you want (and if I can find it)!
 
kcoughli said:
I think I have a chain tool - I replaced my bike chain last summer. So you can borrow mine if you want (and if I can find it)!
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That may make life easier (and injuries less likely), haha.
 
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