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Since you aren't so bothered by finals, I have a few you can come take for me... I know how much you love your production animals and infectious diseases... Especially when the professor asks obscure, ridiculous questions that make no sense at all....

I will give you cookies. 🙂

No thanks - seems to me I already took those exams. 🙂 (I really wish I could forget eimeria truncata and replace it with some parasite information that I actually need.)

Though the cookies you sent WERE excellent.
 
I don't like talking on the phone with my dad. I especially don't like talking on the phone with him when he has someone at the house. He changes his behavior and starts saying stupid things to entertain whoever is visiting. Meanwhile, I'm sitting there thinking, "Just give the phone to my mom." :annoyed:

(My obnoxious uncle was visiting.)
 
A couple of our preclinical semesters included having 5 exams stacked over the course of 7-10 days, and that was way worse than midterms or finals because we were expected to be in class (no recordings for us) learning new material. Give me a bunch of exams spread over several days with your class any time
 
I never quite figured out why finals bugged people so much. For us, just because of the way classes were all staggered all over the semester, finals week really just meant 3-4 exams instead of the typical 1-2/week ... so really, it was only another 1-2 exams AND we didn't have classes so there was all sorts of free time to study. I always felt like finals week was pretty darn relaxing compared to the rest of semester.

I like that better than 8 in a row. :/
 
I like that better than 8 in a row. :/

Heh. I think every class everywhere has its particular story about "Ermahgerd we had 95,000 exams in the last 15.5 days!"

It's like it's a badge of honor or something. I remember our class talking for like a year straight about our 'bad patch of tests'. It was somewhere around second semester? Or maybe third. I dunno.
 
Heh. I think every class everywhere has its particular story about "Ermahgerd we had 95,000 exams in the last 15.5 days!"

It's like it's a badge of honor or something. I remember our class talking for like a year straight about our 'bad patch of tests'. It was somewhere around second semester? Or maybe third. I dunno.

I don't consider it any particular feat, I think I might like the block system instead of the semester system, but the grass is always greener lol.
 
I don't consider it any particular feat, I think I might like the block system instead of the semester system, but the grass is always greener lol.
Yeah... We have exams every 8 weeks which is a pain but I much prefer that to having a couple exams every week.
 
Heh. I think every class everywhere has its particular story about "Ermahgerd we had 95,000 exams in the last 15.5 days!"

It's like it's a badge of honor or something. I remember our class talking for like a year straight about our 'bad patch of tests'. It was somewhere around second semester? Or maybe third. I dunno.

Clearly you guys aren't trying hard enough.... we had 100,000 exams in 2 minutes. 😛
 
Heh. I think every class everywhere has its particular story about "Ermahgerd we had 95,000 exams in the last 15.5 days!"

It's like it's a badge of honor or something. I remember our class talking for like a year straight about our 'bad patch of tests'. It was somewhere around second semester? Or maybe third. I dunno.

Haha it's so true. But then you quickly forget as soon as you're out, and start feeling like, eh that wasn't too bad.
 
Midterms bothered me more than finals. Midterms were 2-4 per week (depending of the year) for 2-3 weeks, while also being in class all day. And because they were the first round of tests, you had no idea how the prof was going to test. For finals, it was the same number of exams, spread over two weeks, so usually one every other day. But you weren't in class all day, you knew how the final would probably be and you knew where you stood in the class.
 
Got a raise at work, yay! My 3 month review also said I need to be asking more questions. Okay, sure.

Ask if I can offer a cat some wet food since it hasn't eaten for us yet. Reply: "WHY ARE YOU ASKING SOMETHING LIKE THAT? How do you know the cat's not eating? Does the whiteboard say wet food? NO. That means no-wet-food." Raised voice and everything. I was told I was over thinking the situation...mind you this cat has had full mouth extractions and the owner feeds wet at home. Le sigh...not gonna last much longer at this place. I just need to save up a little more.
 
Le sigh...not gonna last much longer at this place. I just need to save up a little more.

Come to my job!! It's awesome!! Granted, it is a doggie boarding place, but it starts at 9.50 an hour and if you work hard, you get two raises in three months! 🙂
 
This day was supposed to be my day off. Instead, I'm playing catch up with all the errands. I just got home and need to leave again in a bit. I ended up waiting 1.5 hrs on a phone repair in the store and they had to replace it instead. And of course they couldn't get in touch with me because they had my freaking phone. *grumpy*
 
my aunt just posted a picture on facebook of her son holding some sort of rifle and standing over a pig he killed. he is a third year medical student. i think this kind of photo is tasteless in general, but this is seriously the professional image you want circulating of you on the internet? i certainly would think twice about trusting a doctor who is grinning with heavy armery over a kill. ugh.
 
Got a raise at work, yay! My 3 month review also said I need to be asking more questions. Okay, sure.

Ask if I can offer a cat some wet food since it hasn't eaten for us yet. Reply: "WHY ARE YOU ASKING SOMETHING LIKE THAT? How do you know the cat's not eating? Does the whiteboard say wet food? NO. That means no-wet-food." Raised voice and everything. I was told I was over thinking the situation...mind you this cat has had full mouth extractions and the owner feeds wet at home. Le sigh...not gonna last much longer at this place. I just need to save up a little more.
I didn't get a raise at my clinic job until I'd been there for a year. And the raise was from $8 an hour to $8.50. I do live in an area with a low cost of living, but yet I make $10 an hour now at my call center job. 🙄 But also I don't know if that's normal that I had to wait so long for a raise or if other people usually get them quicker/get more of one. I kinda wish we did performance reviews, but I'm too chicken to request one.

Anyway, the rant I came here to post, someone I don't know was blocking my car in at my apartment this morning when I had to leave for work. 😡 There are fewer parking spots here than there are residents, so people regularly have to double park with their roommate(s) or park elsewhere, but blocking in someone you don't know??? It was at 6:30 this morning too, so management wasn't in the office to tell me whose car it was, and I didn't want to go around knocking on people's doors. Luckily I was able to get a ride from my boyfriend, and my work was understanding that I was late. I left a note on their car and they've since moved it, so hopefully it won't happen again.
 
Receptionist up and walked out today. As in quit. Don't blame her at all, but now the rest of us are bearing the brunt of our bosses' anger.

$200 traffic ticket.


That is all.
 
Is it Tuesday yet?

I'm on call until Tuesday AM and holy crap it's been crazy. Emergencies at 6pm, 10pm, 12a, 4:30a and 7:45a do not make for a good nights sleep. And that's not counting the four farm calls during the day yesterday. I have never seen it this crazy before. Never had more than 3 calls in a weekend before. Fingers crossed I get time today to squeeze in a nap. The stupid upcoming full moon is making every critter within 30 miles of here give birth or act stupid.
 
my aunt just posted a picture on facebook of her son holding some sort of rifle and standing over a pig he killed. he is a third year medical student. i think this kind of photo is tasteless in general, but this is seriously the professional image you want circulating of you on the internet? i certainly would think twice about trusting a doctor who is grinning with heavy armery over a kill. ugh.

Why not, exactly? Human beings survived by hunting for thousands of years. It's a way of life for a lot of people. I'm not sure that factory farming is a preferable alternative. I don't have an issue with hunting, as long as it's done legally and they eat what they kill.
 
Having to study the weekend after finals is not cool, internal medicine... Do. Not. Like.
 
Having to study the weekend after finals is not cool, internal medicine... Do. Not. Like.

I'm going to be reviewing literally everything because I start Internal Med when I get back from my vacation in BVI. Kind of a bummer, but I guess the plus side is that I can do it on the water with a fruity adult drink in hand.
 
I'm going to be reviewing literally everything because I start Internal Med when I get back from my vacation in BVI. Kind of a bummer, but I guess the plus side is that I can do it on the water with a fruity adult drink in hand.
I can definitely say I'm envious of your vacay! Enjoy, you certainly deserve it (even if you do have to study up!)
 
I don't usually eat a lot of meat but I went to a Brazilian place with some foreign exchange students. They really wanted me to try some meat which was quite delicious. I later learned it was steak. So I had my first piece of steak in almost 25 years. My body is very unhappy about this decision and violently protesting against my choice to eat steak. Being sick right before finals sucks majorly.
 
Why not, exactly? Human beings survived by hunting for thousands of years. It's a way of life for a lot of people. I'm not sure that factory farming is a preferable alternative. I don't have an issue with hunting, as long as it's done legally and they eat what they kill.
I think it is more the tone of the photo than the act of hunting itself, at least from how I read jmo's post.
 
Why not, exactly? Human beings survived by hunting for thousands of years. It's a way of life for a lot of people. I'm not sure that factory farming is a preferable alternative. I don't have an issue with hunting, as long as it's done legally and they eat what they kill.
i dont necessarily have an issue with hunting, i have issues with the showboating and gloating that comes from killing an animal, and i think that as a young professional, it it is tasteless to be publicly displaying yourself in that manner. i personally wouldnt trust someone who wasnt respectful of their hunt, and i particularly wouldn't want them to provide me with medical care, regardless of their qualifications and skill. i think it shows poor judgement when you think its acceptable to share yourself gloating with heavy artillery over the death of your prey.
 
I'm going to be reviewing literally everything because I start Internal Med when I get back from my vacation in BVI. Kind of a bummer, but I guess the plus side is that I can do it on the water with a fruity adult drink in hand.
eh...i learned early on that studying ahead of time was usually a waste of time. particularly for something like internal medicine, where the range of topics is so vast and the details so deep. i found it much more productive to study up for particular cases instead, because i often found i would read up on x, y, and z, only to never see that and instead need a, b, and c in the foreground of my brain. if i felt like i needed to brush up on something, i'd hit the highlights and build from there during the rotation. this was my strategy for actually getting to sleep a little bit during 4th year.
 
So I have this tech job that I use as a means to, you know, pay bills and stuff while in school. Well, because I'm a part time and temporary employee, my pay is kind of insulting but I like working and at least it's something so I don't fuss about it. However, now that I am nearing the end of my vet school career, I find myself being frustrated. When I work, it's typically 10 - 12 hour shifts (which you never get out of on time) and it's emergency so there are several different doctors that rotate through. Yesterday, when I was covered in bloody vomit, urine, and who knows what else...being consulted by the doctor on cases, I though to myself "I am worth more than I am being paid right now." I make $10 an hour at this job. In just a few weeks, with no additional knowledge or training than I have right now, just a few letters that they won't let me have until after I walk across a stage, I will be making significantly more money and cleaning up bloody vomit won't be written in my job description. I will still clean it up, but knowing that it's not actually my job feels pretty dang good. So this was a rant and a rave I guess, but there it is.
 
So I have this tech job that I use as a means to, you know, pay bills and stuff while in school. Well, because I'm a part time and temporary employee, my pay is kind of insulting but I like working and at least it's something so I don't fuss about it. However, now that I am nearing the end of my vet school career, I find myself being frustrated. When I work, it's typically 10 - 12 hour shifts (which you never get out of on time) and it's emergency so there are several different doctors that rotate through. Yesterday, when I was covered in bloody vomit, urine, and who knows what else...being consulted by the doctor on cases, I though to myself "I am worth more than I am being paid right now." I make $10 an hour at this job. In just a few weeks, with no additional knowledge or training than I have right now, just a few letters that they won't let me have until after I walk across a stage, I will be making significantly more money and cleaning up bloody vomit won't be written in my job description. I will still clean it up, but knowing that it's not actually my job feels pretty dang good. So this was a rant and a rave I guess, but there it is.

Do you work where I think you work? If so who are you!?
 
i dont necessarily have an issue with hunting, i have issues with the showboating and gloating that comes from killing an animal, and i think that as a young professional, it it is tasteless to be publicly displaying yourself in that manner. i personally wouldnt trust someone who wasnt respectful of their hunt, and i particularly wouldn't want them to provide me with medical care, regardless of their qualifications and skill. i think it shows poor judgement when you think its acceptable to share yourself gloating with heavy artillery over the death of your prey.

I guess it depends on the photo itself and what you know about the person. I have lots of friends who hunt and post pictures on Fb, and I've never found any of them offensive. They are all dedicated outdoorsmen and conservationists, they eat what they kill, and many of them only eat meat that they've taken themselves. So I've never felt like they were gloating about the killing of an animal (a la Kristen Lindsey). I think it was more about the skill and dedication - like when people post pictures of the huge fish they caught.

You're right that not everyone feels the same way, and some people will be really upset seeing that kind of thing. I agree that he should be aware of that.
 
What a way to start clinics :/ One of my kitties may have asthma--getting chest rads on her today. 🙁 🙁 Please keep her in your thoughts, everyone.
 
What a way to start clinics :/ One of my kitties may have asthma--getting chest rads on her today. 🙁 🙁 Please keep her in your thoughts, everyone.
Tell her you don't need to practice your technical skills and paperwork writing skills yet 😉

Hope she feels better soon!
 
i dont necessarily have an issue with hunting, i have issues with the showboating and gloating that comes from killing an animal, and i think that as a young professional, it it is tasteless to be publicly displaying yourself in that manner. i personally wouldnt trust someone who wasnt respectful of their hunt, and i particularly wouldn't want them to provide me with medical care, regardless of their qualifications and skill. i think it shows poor judgement when you think its acceptable to share yourself gloating with heavy artillery over the death of your prey.

I see your point. It's more a concern about their judgment than anything, which I buy.

I admit, though, I think you kinda reveal a bias when you call a rifle "heavy artillery". I grew up spending summers in a rural setting where a rifle was just ... another tool. It wasn't special, it wasn't scary, it wasn't some big-deal-political-issue ... it was just a gun, and it had a straightforward purpose that nobody questioned. And it generally was kept where anyone could grab it, and nobody ever shot themselves because everyone understood its purpose and it wasn't some big deal. Times have clearly changed, but calling a rifle "heavy artillery" is ... a lot of hyperbole.
 
I'm moving into my bf's house (not a rant) but holy crap, when did I accumulate so much crap and where am I going to put it all? I'm currently using my landlord's furniture so when I move into my place, I literally have like 5 drawers (meant for clothing) to store clothes, random objects I've collected, my herd of animals' things and all my desk stuff. Trying to get it majority of it done in the next couple of days because then I'm on Anesthesia and likely won't have a ton of time to do it.
 
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I'm moving into my bf's house (not a rant) but holy crap, when did I accumulate so much crap and where am I going to put it all? I'm currently using my landlord's furniture so when I move into my place, I literally have like 5 drawers (meant for clothing) to store cloths, random objects I've collected, my herd of animals' things and all my desk stuff. Trying to get it majority of it done in the next couple of days because then I'm on Anesthesia and likely won't have a ton of time to do it.
i dont think all of my stuff is going to fit into my car tomorrow...:scared:
 
Verizon managed to delete a year's worth of photos off my phone. So not happy. I could care less about all the other crap, but I want my pictures 🙁 🙁 🙁
 
Graduation is this weekend and my older sister has already managed to make it all about her.
Oh my sister has done that too! She asked if we could go shopping after my ceremony for clothes for her.

Thanks sis.
 
Lecture capture down, final exam in 11 hours. This might go poorly for me.
Is it sad that I read through all the new posts on this thread just to see if you had come on to rant about lecture capture? Or perhaps the sadder part is that I knew you would 😉 But seriously... worst timing ever. At this point the only way I'm going to learn anything about equine metabolic syndrome is by listening to the wonderfully enthusiastic Canadian accent of a certain LAM instructor. Darn error 404...+pissed+
 
Is it sad that I read through all the new posts on this thread just to see if you had come on to rant about lecture capture? Or perhaps the sadder part is that I knew you would 😉 But seriously... worst timing ever. At this point the only way I'm going to learn anything about equine metabolic syndrome is by listening to the wonderfully enthusiastic Canadian accent of a certain LAM instructor. Darn error 404...+pissed+

Any disease in equines, assume it causes laminitis (or colic) because it does.

That is the extent of my equine knowledge. 😉
 
Not a busy day in the ER, but it picked up in the evening. Euthanized 4 out of the 6 that I saw. 🙁
 
Is it sad that I read through all the new posts on this thread just to see if you had come on to rant about lecture capture? Or perhaps the sadder part is that I knew you would 😉 But seriously... worst timing ever. At this point the only way I'm going to learn anything about equine metabolic syndrome is by listening to the wonderfully enthusiastic Canadian accent of a certain LAM instructor. Darn error 404...+pissed+

That LAM instructor might be the only reason I showed up for those classes. That and boards.
 
Sister's list of complaints about my grad weekend:
She has nothing to wear (Mom offered to buy her something)
It's too hectic and she wanted time to take naps, swim and go to the spa (Parents are paying for her hotel room, no idea how she was going to pay for these spa services. Also told her that if she wanted more free time, she could skip grad in the morning and just go to White Coat.)
The 5 hour drive is too long (She isn't driving and could nap in the back seat if she wanted.)
 
Sister's list of complaints about my grad weekend:
She has nothing to wear (Mom offered to buy her something)
It's too hectic and she wanted time to take naps, swim and go to the spa (Parents are paying for her hotel room, no idea how she was going to pay for these spa services. Also told her that if she wanted more free time, she could skip grad in the morning and just go to White Coat.)
The 5 hour drive is too long (She isn't driving and could nap in the back seat if she wanted.)
😵 How old is your sister??
 
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