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Trilt said:
And it isn't my skin that needs to be thicker. I'm more in concern for the person with >10 posts who is going to possibly be put off from a community (with really generally wonderful people and a ton of great information) because they were made fun of by several established community members one of the first few times they post. Unreasonable?
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It's the internet deeed. They can get glad in the same pants they got butt hurt.
 
It takes more than someone posting pictures online to discourage me..ha

But no, I never said I'd make it right outta vet school. All I said was that it was possible.

I've experienced making money from nothing before. My grandpa started a business over in Europe from selling individual rabbits at a market to an international business that was ranked 5th best out of all agriculture businesses over there and had the rating for company image. Believe me, if you don't believe you're gonna get somewhere, then you never will make it because you already established it's impossible so you won't try.

Grill me all you want but I've got a goal to reach and nothing will prevent me from getting there.
 
Dsmoody23 said:
No reason to kick the puppies and tell them Santa isn't real. They'll figure it out without you.
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When I was 3, I asked my dad if Santa was real, and he told me no.

Then I went to pre-school and told everyone, and I was mocked for being an idiot because of COURSE Santa was real.

Not sure if there are any SDN parallels in that story, but I share it at every opportunity due to the intense trauma it left on my psyche.
 
breenie said:
When I was 3, I asked my dad if Santa was real, and he told me no.

Then I went to pre-school and told everyone, and I was mocked for being an idiot because of COURSE Santa was real.

Not sure if there are any SDN parallels in that story, but I share it at every opportunity due to the intense trauma it left on my psyche.
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Your dad is a dick.
 
breenie said:
When I was 3, I asked my dad if Santa was real, and he told me no.

Then I went to pre-school and told everyone, and I was mocked for being an idiot because of COURSE Santa was real.

Not sure if there are any SDN parallels in that story, but I share it at every opportunity due to the intense trauma it left on my psyche.
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I kept pretending to believe in Santa until I was 11 because I was afraid I wouldn't get as many presents if I didn't believe in Santa.

#confessions
#greedyonlychild
 
Trilt said:
If a pre-vet walked up to you in real life and said "Man, I'm worried about these loans... I'm glad that I plan to own my own clinic, make six figures and should be able to repay it!" would your response be to hold up a picture of rose-tinted glasses, saying nothing else? When they add "Anything's possible!" would you mock them and add to it, "if you are extremely lucky and have tons of things that you have no control over go perfectly right, and have baby Jesus love you to pieces and if you can ride a unicorn"?
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Haven't you even READ the multitude of other posts I have made on this subject, and many others? Especially since I am IN the current job market, and have seen more than the average pre-vet? And I have never discouraged anyone from the field, but only insisted on being realistic?

I have a sense of humor. Nice way to take one joke out of a million serious issues to try and make a mockery. Nice. I'm sorry, remind me never to make a joke or poke fun at anyone in the pre-vet forum again, since evidently the butt-hurt disease is rampant.
 
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WhtsThFrequency said:
Haven't you even READ the multitude of other posts I have made on this subject, and many others? Especially since I am IN the current job market, and have seen more than the average pre-vet? And I have never discouraged anyone from the field, but only insisted on being realistic?

I have a sense of humor. Nice way to take one joke out of a million serious issues to try and make a mockery. Nice. I'm sorry, remind me never to make a joke or poke fun at anyone in the pre-vet forum again, since evidently the butt-hurt disease is rampant.
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I have! And seriously, I do value the input from current veterinary students and fully-fledged vets on this forum. It is something that you simply don't experience in "real life," and I believe it makes me both a more informed applicant and individual. But as I continued in the rest of my post that you didn't quote, it was more that it was done to a student who was brand-new on the forum that I found it in poor taste... you have to admit the entire set of posts was not exactly in the name of educating or being realistic.

I also didn't mean to "make a mockery" of you or offend you, I was just trying to point out how it could be interpreted. And that we do a lot of things online that would just never be acceptable, normally, and I think people can sometimes get a little carried away... what can start as just poking fun could escalate and discourage a valuable community member from staying. That's all. I think people get a bit carried away with "being realistic" around here, sometimes, too.

(I know, I know, Libster, I'm arguing on the internet. :laugh:)

I kept pretending to believe in Santa until I was 11 because I was afraid I wouldn't get as many presents if I didn't believe in Santa.

#confessions
#greedyonlychild
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I wasn't ever told Santa wasn't real. And any time I brought it up my parents my parents would say "Oh, well, guess he can't bring you presents any more!" so I "believed" in santa for a very long time, hehe.
 
Trilt said:
I think people can sometimes get a little carried away... what can start as just poking fun could escalate and discourage a valuable community member from staying.
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Point taken. I realize that sometimes my sense of humor can be interpreted wrongly - it's just who I am. However, like I said, there is truth in humor. What I try to impart to people is *not* to be discouraged from the field, but to come into it fully knowing that even if everything goes right, considering the current state of the economy and veterinary medicine, you need to be extremely careful in your decision making - the idea of "if you work hard enough, it will happen" is NOT a good outlook, because it assumes success. You can never assume success just due to how hard you work. There are so many more factors at play. However, hatchet buried.
 
I still believe in Santa. I've worked my butt off this year, and been a really, really good girl. I have a long list..... 😉
 
K9DANE - I have a good sized list as well.

When I was 5, my brother and I decided to camp out in the living room to wait for Santa. We snuck out of our room with our blankets and slept next to the tree. "Santa" tripped over my brother and fell a** over tea kettle.:laugh:

To this day though, when I go home for xmas, my dad will set out cookies and milk and put a towel down by the fire place, and in the morning we get a note with the remnants of cookies and fresh boot prints on the towel. Gotta love empty-nesters, they want you to be that kid again so much.
 
I HAD THE WORST F********* NIGHT AT WORK!!! MY BOSS IS BACK AND HE IS COMPLETELY INCOMPETENT!!! I HATE THIS JOB!!! I AM GOING TO QUIT THE MOMENT I KNOW I CAN FINANCIALLY SWING IT!!!


AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
nadf;kasjhflaskdhfjo'aqieshfoeiasjflasjhflkasdjhfolasjfaosdijnfaslkdjhnaskefdjaisodrjhaoisdfhaoseiufwoearu!!!!

i feel better now!!!
 
Trilt said:
I'm more in concern for the person with >10 posts who is going to possibly be put off from a community
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What is up with the vet community and inequality signs? I see it used incorrectly like ALL the time. It's like an epidemic. Same thing with Lose vs. loose.

I'm generally not a grammar (or whatever that is) nazi, but it's really weird to see it written wrong soooooo many times by professionals who you think should know better. I mean, like both things get used all the time where the meaning is relevant and important in vet med so you'd think vets/vet students/pre-vets of all people would have it right (you lose patients, dog's skin is loose, >100 neutrophils).
 
Minnerbelle said:
What is up with the vet community and inequality signs? I see it used incorrectly like ALL the time. It's like an epidemic. Same thing with Lose vs. loose.

I'm generally not a grammar (or whatever that is) nazi, but it's really weird to see it written wrong soooooo many times by professionals who you think should know better. I mean, like both things get used all the time where the meaning is relevant and important in vet med so you'd think vets/vet students/pre-vets of all people would have it right (you lose patients, dog's skin is loose, >100 neutrophils).
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Next time you see it, let me know. I will send my German Shephard and Boarder Collie after the offenders. They haven't been spade, so they are still very fierce!
 
What is up with the vet community and inequality signs?
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I used to get the two mixed up all the time! A good way to remember them though is < is kind of shaped like an "L" for less than. If it weren't for the trick I'd still be getting them mixed up.
 
Minnerbelle said:
What is up with the vet community and inequality signs? I see it used incorrectly like ALL the time. It's like an epidemic. Same thing with Lose vs. loose.

I'm generally not a grammar (or whatever that is) nazi, but it's really weird to see it written wrong soooooo many times by professionals who you think should know better. I mean, like both things get used all the time where the meaning is relevant and important in vet med so you'd think vets/vet students/pre-vets of all people would have it right (you lose patients, dog's skin is loose, >100 neutrophils).
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Hehe, to be fair to myself, it was 5am when I wrote that... and I hadn't slept yet. Totally learned it as the alligator eating the larger number, too, though. 😀
 
It bothers me to no end when professors don't review powerpoints before presenting them. For example, today in a presentation a line read, "When a person greets you and asks how you are, the minimum response should be 'I'm doing good.'" Unless you are helping blind children read, saving the whales, or giving booze to the hobos, you are not doing good, you are doing well. This is in our professional development class and the fact that the grammar is incorrect and spelling errors are present throughout makes it really hard to take the facilitators seriously.
 
Bearby said:
It bothers me to no end when professors don't review powerpoints before presenting them. For example, today in a presentation a line read, "When a person greets you and asks how you are, the minimum response should be 'I'm doing good.'" Unless you are helping blind children read, saving the whales, or giving booze to the hobos, you are not doing good, you are doing well. This is in our professional development class and the fact that the grammar is incorrect and spelling errors are present throughout makes it really hard to take the facilitators seriously.
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I kind of see where you are coming from, but he did say "minimum", correct? I think that when dealing with clients (in my opinion, anyway) you can come across as friendlier and less intimidating if you don't 'talk over them'. "Hey, I'm good! How are you?" sounds a bit less stuck up than, "I am well". Just my late night 2 cents, that's all.

Now putting 'irregardless' in a powerpoint...
 
Marsala said:
I kind of see where you are coming from, but he did say "minimum", correct? I think that when dealing with clients (in my opinion, anyway) you can come across as friendlier and less intimidating if you don't 'talk over them'. "Hey, I'm good! How are you?" sounds a bit less stuck up than, "I am well". Just my late night 2 cents, that's all.

Now putting 'irregardless' in a powerpoint...
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I had a very highly educated (Ph.D) professor in one of my classes last fall who used the word "irregardless" on a regular basis. As in daily. :boom:
 
twelvetigers said:
No, no... the alligator eats whatever is more! So of the alligator eats the 10, whatever is less than 10. 🙂
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omg, what?!? i cannot even think in these terms. which way is the alligator facing? 😕
 
the alligator is hungry so he always wants to eat the bigger number!
like this,
MATH_1_WORDS_WORDS_WORDS_10.GIF
 
I was always taught it was a snake.... my childhood has been ruined. And I must re-learn math.
 
^^ I sooo just spit my coffee everywhere. That was a much needed morning giggle.
 
I've just had to straight memorize it. Sigh. My mother ruined me with homeschooling. I will never be successful in life.

:laugh:
 
This is like, my 4th week at my new job. Go to get cat out of cage, knowing cat is angry. Got the d**n thing under a towel, even got it in a scruff, and it did one of those horrible barrel rolls and managed to bite the everloving bejeesus out of my arm. Literally worst bite I've had in 6 years - I have 4 perfect little puncture wounds from the canines, which doesn't look very impressive, but it's HUGE already and killing me and there was blood all over the clinic. All of it mine.
I mean ALL over. I'm on those huge horse-sized augmentin, so if we could all just keep our fingers crossed that it doesn't get horribly infected and land me back in the hospital I'd appreciate it.

On the bright side my new job has been great about it, and forbade me to come in tomorrow.
 
Whyevernot55 said:
This is like, my 4th week at my new job. Go to get cat out of cage, knowing cat is angry. Got the d**n thing under a towel, even got it in a scruff, and it did one of those horrible barrel rolls and managed to bite the everloving bejeesus out of my arm. Literally worst bite I've had in 6 years - I have 4 perfect little puncture wounds from the canines, which doesn't look very impressive, but it's HUGE already and killing me and there was blood all over the clinic. All of it mine.
I mean ALL over. I'm on those huge horse-sized augmentin, so if we could all just keep our fingers crossed that it doesn't get horribly infected and land me back in the hospital I'd appreciate it.

On the bright side my new job has been great about it, and forbade me to come in tomorrow.
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ugh that SUCKS!!! 👎

i hate those freaking cats at the clinic -- 1/2 of the time the cats are mean and terrible and hard to take care of...especially the huge blocked orange kitties who are just so angry! not a cat fan sometimes...

i hope you get better soon! :luck:
 
Dear coworkers,

Why is it exactly that you feel that I'm responsible for ALL the work of the department when there are in fact 6 of us? Really, can one of you at least recognize that I really don't get my jollies from coming in before 7am and leaving after 7pm without getting the time to so much as pee while the rest of you drag your sorry asses in after 9am, sit around all day doing next to nothing, and then sashay out of here prior to 5pm? Oh wait, I forgot, you're all too @#$%&! lazy to give a damn. Whoops, my bad... :bang:

PS - WEN, hope you're feeling better really soon. That blows!! :xf::xf: the augmentin works its magic!!
 
I'm not much of a ranter but everyone deserves one every now and then.

I hate when people move to a farming town and then complain about the smell! It makes me feel like kicking someone!😡

End rant.
 
My mare had a really long and stressful trip from WI to MO yesterday... today she is 3 legged lame.

Long day, longer day tomorrow. Just hope everything will be ok.
 
breenie said:
My mare had a really long and stressful trip from WI to MO yesterday... today she is 3 legged lame.

Long day, longer day tomorrow. Just hope everything will be ok.
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Ohh nooooo. I was so hoping things would go well and she'd arrive safely! 🙁 Keep us posted, ok?
 
Whyevernot55 said:
Ohh nooooo. I was so hoping things would go well and she'd arrive safely! 🙁 Keep us posted, ok?
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I will. 🙁 Going to sneak out of school a little early and get the vet out tomorrow. Hoping it's just stress and not anything serious, but I'm definitely fretting.
 
GRRRRR. So. We don't have class until 10am tomorrow. I meant to make the most of the evening. After finishing anatomy lab at 5, I went out for a quick dinner with a few classmates and then headed back to the lab to pound out anatomy and actually try and get ahead a bit. Or at least caught up.

And then realized that somewhere between the end of anatomy and coming back to school, my keys vanished. No way into my locker. No way into my desk/study carrel/etc. No way into my car.

Two wasted hours later, I found my keys (yay). But I just got home and didn't get anywhere near done what I wanted.

Sigh.
 
When the quiz question asks "what is the normal blood pressure for a dog" and you put 80-120 bpm, you are not going to get ANY credit (answer was 120/80). Yes the numbers 80 and 120 make up the answer the professor was looking for, but you put bpm AND you should not have a BP of 80/120!! Do not hassle me over not giving you partial credit (particularly when NONE is deserved), especially when you already answered enough questions correct to get your max 10 points!!! I will also most definitely not feel lenient when quiz after quiz you give another lab partner 3-5 points total because you don't like his answers (even when they're technically right).
 
WhtsThFrequency said:
If a student hassled me over that, I don't know if I would just laugh or give them the WTF stare and raised eyebrow....
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that would be my normal response, but this person has been pushing my buttons
for 6 weeks and i am absolutely fed up! i just keep telling myself that lab will be over with in 10 weeks and next semester this person will not be allowed to be in my lab group (or any group)
 
WhtsThFrequency said:
If a student hassled me over that, I don't know if I would just laugh or give them the WTF stare and raised eyebrow....
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When I get hassled or whined at about partial credit, I let them whine and give me their story, and when they are done, I ask them to give me my 2 minutes or whatever of my life back. And tell them that there is no crying in entomology. And I told one student to pull her head out of her a**. She actually sent me a thank-you note at the end of the semester.
 
Whyevernot55 said:
Ohh nooooo. I was so hoping things would go well and she'd arrive safely! 🙁 Keep us posted, ok?
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Talk about the worst timing ever, but it was just an abscess! We were convinced she mauled herself on the trailer or something, but nope... just a big honkin abscess.

I'm totally happy to go soak her foot. So so so happy!
 
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