Hi hello I definitely got into an entire fight on here with someone insulting my school saying they didn’t get past round 1 but it was their safety school and they should’ve been a shoe in and everyone else who did make it past phase 1 who had lower gpa than them didn't deserve it💀 (sorry not sorry mods)
i remember that !!! yeah you absolutely rightfully called them out
I think we all kind of feel this, at least I do. That's why I've stuck around. We really don't have a lot of resources out there for pre-vets. I don't think admissions/profession advice should be paid for imo, even though a lot of those types of services/companies have popped up.
and thank god you did !! you are an encyclopedia of information ( + jayna, + otter, + dubz, + shorty) the information most prevets knows wouldn’t be known if it wasn’t for you guys sticking around to help.
Yeah that's a fair point. Like a legit proofreading. And that doesn't even have to be done by someone veterinary, although it's helpful if it is. But also taking this as an opportunity to remind anyone reading that a lot of colleges/universities actually offer free proofreading services through their learning centers/whatever centers.
This is seen daily on reddit. Then people get mad when you tell them that requirements are, cough, required and the school won't be lenient for your app because you decided not to look before spending hundreds to thousands of dollars on application fees.
Oh yeah, a classic. 😆
Especially with Michigan state requiring all science pre reqs done before you apply, when they get rejected they crash out beyond belief. The belief that schools will give you grace because they should feel bad because you messed up is crazy.
there’s this lady going around tiktok right now who preaching about how you (being pet owners) should demand a titer rather than a vaccination and how dogs should only need one in their lifetime— if you are seeing a spike in this weirdo behavior, tik tok is likely to blame
I probably wish this was the case (my twch told me about it as i dont do tik tok) but it hasn't been 🙃
*doesn't tell you anything about a strange dog*
I came upon a well intentioned woman on instagram who is trying to educate people about wobblers and ECVM due to her 6 year old becoming severely neurologic. (Although I won’t get into it ECVM =/= neurologic risk) I took a peak at the comments to see the consensus and if anyone was brave enough to mention this. One of the top comments was that the rabies vaccine must have caused the neurologic deficits and that you should request to check “titters” and if they have enough “titters” to refuse the vaccine, this commenter didn’t seem to get that they still need to be vaccinated at least once to have any antibodies on the titer, also that, to my knowledge, there’s no published like effective titer range for horses? My flabber was gasted. (The author of the video shut it down at least but yeah, no bueno)
Not the titters 😭
Never mind the fact that we don't even know what titers mean in dogs and we only have an educated guess on what is "adequate", hence the recommendation for yearly/every three year vaccine recommendations 🙄
THE DISTEMPERAMENT VACCINE!! A classic!
Or bordello
Bortotello
Truly, I’m not sure if I could keep a straight face if someone said “titters” to me in person. Like the idea of someone asking me to pull a “titter” because their horse has had “the limes” has me crying 😭
My nemesis in vet school so far is feeling like I really understand a topic/system mere days *after* I'm tested on it 💀 at least i have a final to redeem myself on lol.
Yes! I definitely try to get everything mapped out visually but even planning how I am going to do that is kind of a lengthy process because it’s like I am “translating” a lecture into a diagram/mind map/etc. without knowing understanding it. Honestly I had the exam today and it didn’t go well but I still have a passing grade in the class so YAYYY I think the worst of the semester is honestly behind me at this point and the upcoming units are way more comprehensible than renal physiology D:
Honestly I am so glad you said this because I need someone to tell me that I can be a good vet without knowing every detail of the nephron.
Yeah so this was essentially what all of my studying amounted to.
Renal Phys coupled with ADME is my literal nightmare
Nooope. Could not for the life of me remember the formula for dead space
What’s a nephron
I believe you that there is a formula, but 1) I did not recall there was such a formula until this very moment 2) have never needed to utilize said formula in clinical practice ever
There is a high chance that this is due to the fact that UofI has (had?) the worst renal phys course/instructor in the history of human/animal medical education. Those lectures basically consisted of him telling us we were always going to be subpar to human docs, and literally no meaningful info on renal phys whatsoever.
Now that you mention it/I google it, I have a very faint memory of hearing that people were starting a college for nephrology dips and I was surprised and still am. And now looking at it, I see some of their residencies are remote which is really interesting/cool and something I wish more specialties would do (nutrition for one, so I could do one without uprooting my life).
Tbh I couldn’t tell you who I had 😂😂😂
I'ma need a story time because the UofI renal phys instructor was absolutely legendary for all of the wrong reasons
I do not wish to go back to those times of my life. I almost failed out. No computers allowed, and didn’t allow recording. I think people may have had to get accessability services involved to get him to record for people with hearing loss? That was well after my time. He was a native English speaker but had a strong accent. Used overhead transparencies while drawing on the board facing away. Would call people out for talking or sleeping. Would also just pick random people to ask us questions. Horrible testing procedures out to trick you…madlibs style fill in the blanks where the whole paragraph is the entire pathophys, and also once we had a true false section that was mark all that are true (or false I can’t remember which) and the mindf*ck was that you didn’t actually need to mark ANY. But who doesn’t mark anything as being true an entire 15 question t/f section. There’s a reason classes suddenly started losing 10%+ of their students every year. I’m told outside of class and in electives he was very nice, but I did not interact beyond the requirements.
