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racccjlm said:
Guy: yo baby naw I didn' do nothin with Chrissy. You juz trippin cause I been down hangin with my homeboys...
Girl: *very high pitched* Nuh uh I been talkin' to Camile who heard from Jamie that you been all up in Chrissy's crib doin' thangs
Guy: Baby naw baby they liein. Whos ya gonna believe?

Direct quote. and on and on and on...somewhat entertaining at first, but seriously...
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They talk like that in Iowa??? Umm. Not quite what I expected.
 
LivestockDoc said:
They talk like that in Iowa??? Umm. Not quite what I expected.
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Haha - I'm actually in NE (contract) - first two years here, then last two years at Iowa. Who knows, maybe they talk like that in Iowa too 😛
 
The one vet at work decided that she wanted us to track lot numbers on vaccines so I spent 2 hours talking with another vet at a different clinic explain how to go in to make Cornerstone track lot number and expiration dates. After figuring that out I had to count all the vaccines on stock and then go in and fix the inventory and add in the lot numbers/update expiration dates. Most of the inventory was off claiming that we had negative amounts of vaccines so I had to 0 them all out and then input the proper amounts and lot numbers. Every single vaccine worked fine (all Dhpp, bordetella (inj and IN), rabies, rattlesnake, lyme, lepto, ferret distemper and ferret rabies, etc.) Every single one worked (I guess that is a rave) BUT the cat vaccines did not (FvRCP and FeLV)! Grrr.... I tried to figure out why but it was the end of the day and we were closing and so now I have NO idea why the hell it is not working.

Also, I have discovered during the process that quite a bit of our inventory is off (not just the vaccines). Now I have to try to convince them to do the inventory ordering a certain way so when we recieve inventory no mistakes will be made (this will be easier said then done since I just started working in this clinic at the end of August).

Stupid cat vaccines! Making my job more difficult.


ETA: I also saw a kitten today on the freeway. I am not sure if the van in front of my ran over it or if the kitten had crawled into the wheel well of that van and it finally could not hold on any longer and fell off, but it was so sad to see that kitten in the middle lane of a busy freeway with traffic zooming by at 65+ miles an hour. I only hope the poor thing did not suffer too much. 🙁 :cry:
 
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Like most pre-health advisors, mine is not helpful and spreads misinformation, and is, naturally, the advisor of the pre-health organization on my campus. I'm the president of that organization. Not only do I have to sensor myself and not tell everyone he sucks at his job, but I am doing part of his job for him. The problem is he is too busy to take the initiative to contact any of the pre-whatever students in the organization, and lets them come talk to him instead, which leaves them misinformed and confused about what they should be doing because let's face it, most of them don't go home and research that kind of stuff unless you are a real go-getter.

Okay, that felt good... Can't rant to my e-board about stuff like that because they're still young and naive.

Normally my roommate leaves her dogs out until I come home (I'm the last to go to bed), and I put them in their kennel (2 dogs, 1 kennel) in the kitchen when I take my dog to my room. The last couple of nights, she has been letting them sleep with her. The other night, I went to bed, and her door was closed. I woke up, and her door was open with her dogs sleeping in the living room, but she's still asleep in her room.

Last night, she let them sleep with her again, except this time, when she let them out in the middle of the night to go do whatever they want, they started barking at something or other at 1:30 am. She went out, told them to be quiet, and went back to bed, taking 1 dog with her, leaving the other out. Not a minute later and the one left out was barking again. I really appreciated it, especially since I have a test tonight and I really would have liked a full night's rest.
 
So I got an 82% on a Molecular Genetics midterm yesterday. This was originally going to go under raves, because I didn't think I did nearly that well. It was really hard and even though I studied for six hours I thought I bombed it. So when I saw an 82% I was SO excited.

The reason it's in rants? I went to look at the exam, and I got about 7.5 points worth of questions that I THOUGHT I knew and THOUGHT I would have gotten right, but ended up making stupid mistakes and getting wrong. The super hard essay questions? Nope, got full credit on all of those just fine. Most everything I was wishy-washy on I got right. Three easy questions, though, just not paying attention, and wham. There goes my A-. Sigh. Oh well.
 
racccjlm said:
Haha - I'm actually in NE (contract) - first two years here, then last two years at Iowa. Who knows, maybe they talk like that in Iowa too 😛
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Oh. Let me rephrase that...

They talk like that in Nebraska??? Umm. Not quite what I expected. 😛
 
People probably talk like that everywhere. Stupid is ubiquitous.
 
psilovethomas said:
Whaaaa? How does that work?
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The first two years of vet school are completed in NE, the last two years in IA. Same courses, just different profs. And, the bonus of getting to pay IS tuition all 4 years instead of going directly to IA, which would have been OOS tuition.
 
racccjlm said:
The first two years of vet school are completed in NE, the last two years in IA. Same courses, just different profs. And, the bonus of getting to pay IS tuition all 4 years instead of going directly to IA, which would have been OOS tuition.
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Where is there a vet school in NE??
 
My rant: Biochem.

First of all, biochem was a prerequisite for VMRCVM. So WHY are we taking it AGAIN?!
Secondly, I have no problems with understanding the ins and outs of the pathways grossly, they are important. (The clinical correlates lectures are awesome) But. WHY do I have to memorize EVERY SINGLE pathway, EVERY SINGLE enzyme and component?! I think it would be much more reasonable to only have us memorize key enzymes/components that are targets for regulation or drug interaction. But nooooo....
AUGH. I am doing pretty well in my other classes, but this one I am sucking BIG TIME in.
My professor is great, but I am having hard with the rote memorization of stuff that all blends together. Ick.

I'd rather have more anatomy. For real.

Oh and on another annoyance note, our class is starting to be known as the "whiners." We have some people in our class with ZERO brain-to-mouth filter, and it seems to really stir the pot sometimes. Oy vey!

Ok time to study embryology....
 
7 exams, 1 surgery, 1 ICU rotation and 4 patient care shifts before thanksgiving break. All of it is required for school, it's not outside work. Pretty sure I hate school.
 
My exam schedule came out. Classes end December 4th I think. I have exams on the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th. Two of those exams go from 6-10pm. The last bus of the evening arrives at the university at 9:30, which means I'm going to have to shell out $20 in cab fees. And because my exams end early, it's unlikely I'll be able to see the boyfriend. I can go home and be with the family or sit around for a week doing nothing and see the boyfriend.

Ah well.

And another fire cracker just went off... GAH.
 
On my Tufts application, I typed IUCUC instead of IACUC. And pressed submit. fml. Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee is now Institutional Use Care and Use Committee. Cool.
 
I'm sure they'll toss your app the instant they see that!

:d

Everyone has typos, I guarantee it. I accidentally typed "wither" instead of "with her" in an Ohio supp... maybe I was just subconsciously focusing on horses?

Anyway, don't worry about it. If they notice at all, they'll assume it was a typo. No big.
 
yeah, don't worry about it at all. i worked in a lab that worked with lots of mouse fetuses... so i kept writing FETAL instead of FATAL in my apps.

like... the cat got injected with fetal plus...

i didn't even notice either until i wrote that on sdn and someone pointed it out. only one real rejection out of seven though, so don't despair!
 
Vet school is exhausting. :yawn:
 
Dear men in Missouri (and probably other states for that matter):

Just because you drive a truck does not mean I'm instantly attracted to you. Revving your engine at a stoplight doesn't help.

ETA: Also, just because your son plays football and drives a truck doesn't mean he's my type (that's a rant going back to high school... "He's got a truck!" Silly guy.)

Good luck next time,

scb44f
 
Saturday was crazy. We had 18 doctor appointments (there's only time in the schedule for 10), 7 technician appointments, one hospitalized patient, and some boarders. Of the three technicians working, I was the only one who could do most of the stuff - draw blood, take good x-rays, set up for HBCs that were coming in. I was being pulled in about 10 different directions and to top it all off, none of my patients were cooperative!

We close at 1, the other techs left at about 2, but somehow I was still there at 3:30p - probably because no one else wants to deal with the hospitalized patient or log control drugs or make sure charts are done. By the end of the day, I was ready to hit something...or quit. I actually did think about quitting because my boss wouldn't let us try to reschedule some of our annual appointments that we had for during the week since we already had all 5 rooms full at 8:45a. It all worked out, because I got a raise at the end of the day - so there's a little bit of a rave after that long rant.
 
Veracosa said:
But. WHY do I have to memorize EVERY SINGLE pathway, EVERY SINGLE enzyme and component?! I think it would be much more reasonable to only have us memorize key enzymes/components that are targets for regulation or drug interaction. But nooooo....
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So I just talked to someone in your class and heard your exam SUCKED and was nothing like the quizzes! You're not alone! Gives me something to look forward to, right? 😱 (PS- I found that drawing the pathways in various renditions over and over and over again helped in my biochem prereq class. Definitely worth a whiteboard.)

And oh yeah.. you went through vet school admissions and you're a member on here. So you should know better than to think they would be reasonable!
 
favhrnstr said:
(PS- I found that drawing the pathways in various renditions over and over and over again helped in my biochem prereq class. Definitely worth a whiteboard.)
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I totally agree with this! over and over and over and over
 
Dear men in Missouri (and probably other states for that matter):
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Think that's just Missouri. 'round here the women drive trucks too so that wouldn't get you far.

And I've never heard of it happening anywhere else, so, surely... 😀
 
HopefulAg said:
Think that's just Missouri. 'round here the women drive trucks too so that wouldn't get you far.

And I've never heard of it happening anywhere else, so, surely... 😀
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Haha women drive trucks here too, but they aren't usually the ones trying to impress me 😛
 
My left big toe has been tingly or numb or swollen or twitchy since... July. It went away in September and then came back last week and the numbness has spread lower. So I finally went to see a doctor. They're going to rule out diabetes first before they do anything, so I have to wait a week for bloodwork. Yay. I highly doubt it's diabetes... sounds more like a pinched nerve to me... and the doctor said he's never delt with a tingly toe before. Double yay. At least he's nice and didn't make me feel stupid for coming in 👍

The Canadian health care system sucks by the way.

I have two midterms coming up. The toe thing is actually pretty distracting. I did poorly on a few tests back in second year because my kidney was doing backflips 24/7 for about two months. Thank goodness two of those profs scaled marks!
 
Another health-related rant.

Back in January, my horse tossed me into a jump at a horse show. Mostly I was fine, but I got my pinky caught in the reins and wrenched it. It swelled up and bruised massively, and didn't start to get better, so after a week I went to the doctor. They took x-rays, declared that it was not fractured, and told me to take some Advil.

It's still not better. I can't use the finger for ANYTHING. Trying to lift with it or even curl it all the way under when I make a fist is impossible. Even putting pressure on the joint is painful.

I have a feeling it's not going to get better, and I can't afford diagnostics beyond what the local family clinic can offer. Which is where they told me to take advil, and generally make *****ic suggestions. Blarg! Stupid hand.
 
My day: 7 surgeries and I was surgery tech: FHO (1hr 40min), cat dental w/3 extractions(1hr 30min), 70# dog spay in heat (40min), 13# dog spay in heat (25min), 70# dog neuter with lots of bleeding (40min), 5# pregnant dog spay (35min), and 5# cryptorchid dog neuter (30min). This is only surgery time does not include all of the putting invoices together, doing post-op instructions, time it takes to induce; intubate; and shave, etc. To top it off once I was done with surgeries at about 5:00 and still had to get together instructions, invoices and pain meds we went from having only 2 appointments left to having 8 appointments (all of which came in between 6:20 and 7:00 (we close at 7:00)). I finally left at 9:15 tonight.

P.S. Do not skip breakfast before going in to work. I never think twice about it since we normally only have 3-4 surgeries in a day. About half way through the FHO surgery I nearly fainted because I had not had anything to eat or drink...it has been quite a while since I have had that happen. I should know by now to always eat a little something before going to work....apparently I just see sleeping as more important than eating. 😴
 
My honours supervisor, who is also my prof, got "mad" at me for making silly mistakes on my invert lab midterm and lecture midterm. I got an 83 on both. He basically said it's not good enough for where I want to go in life :scared: and now I'm kind of bummed. I studied hard... could have studied harder... my nerves got to me during the lab midterm though and I did make some silly mistakes. I need to learn to carefully check over my stuff before handing it in.

I kind of feel like no matter how hard I try or how good I think I've done, I'll always be only capable of 80-somethings. My record is full of 80-somethings. If by some miracle I do get into vet school, how am I going to handle the heavy memorization? I've already discovered that I study better in groups, but due to my lack of social life, I haven't had a study group in a year. When I studied in groups, I was pulling high 80s and 90s, not low-mid 80 somethings, with the occasional high 70-something.

*sigh*

Please tell me I'm not the only one who feels like this!
 
That makes me feel a bit better. Thanks 🙂

And a teeny tiny additional shout out to the GRE gods: WHY WON'T YOU LET ME SEND MY SCORES??????????????????????

Now I have to go cram for anatomy. I actually really enjoy the material in that class.
 
I guy my age that I used to bowl with won a million dollars off a scratch ticket... and announced it on Facebook.

Isn't that a huge no-no when you win a large sum of money? I watch a lot of tv when I'm home and have cable and watched a show about people who've won the lottery. Some of those people got robbed, stalked, disowned by their friends and family... I mentioned that on his wall and all 20 of his congratulators didn't seem to care.

Yes, I'm a little jelous... but the stupidity overrides it. He's a nice guy... just really immature... I hope he spends it wisely and sends some good money karma my way.
 
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scarcelyheard said:
I guy my age that I used to bowl with won a million dollars off a scratch ticket... and announced it on Facebook.

Isn't that a huge no-no when you win a large sum of money? I watch a lot of tv when I'm home and have cable and watched a show about people who've won the lottery. Some of those people got robbed, stalked, disowned by their friends and family... I mentioned that on his wall and all 20 of his congratulators didn't seem to care.

Yes, I'm a little jelous... but the stupidity overrides it. He's a nice guy... just really immature... I hope he spends it wisely and sends some good money karma my way.
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Well, over here after the government ripped taxes off that winning you would be lucky if you were left with 250-300K. Still quite a bit of money but nothing that will set you for life; not even a one time win of a million dollars (if you actually got to keep all of it) would set you for life. Although it could make you live quite comfortably if you invest it right. More than likely he will run out of that money within the next 5 years give or take a few years. But, I agree with you if I had won a million dollars I would not be telling everybody about it and I would definitely not post it on FB.
 
DVMDream said:
My day: 7 surgeries and I was surgery tech: FHO (1hr 40min), cat dental w/3 extractions(1hr 30min), 70# dog spay in heat (40min), 13# dog spay in heat (25min), 70# dog neuter with lots of bleeding (40min), 5# pregnant dog spay (35min), and 5# cryptorchid dog neuter (30min). This is only surgery time does not include all of the putting invoices together, doing post-op instructions, time it takes to induce; intubate; and shave, etc. To top it off once I was done with surgeries at about 5:00 and still had to get together instructions, invoices and pain meds we went from having only 2 appointments left to having 8 appointments (all of which came in between 6:20 and 7:00 (we close at 7:00)). I finally left at 9:15 tonight.
😴
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Lol - this is ALMOST identical to a day I had a week or so ago... Gotta love once you finally finish everything and you still have to do the charges. *snore* 😉
 
lol, I love that you all have a "rant" thread. Keep up the great work, and way to stick together!
 
DVMDream said:
Well, over here after the government ripped taxes off that winning you would be lucky if you were left with 250-300K. Still quite a bit of money but nothing that will set you for life; not even a one time win of a million dollars (if you actually got to keep all of it) would set you for life. Although it could make you live quite comfortably if you invest it right. More than likely he will run out of that money within the next 5 years give or take a few years. But, I agree with you if I had won a million dollars I would not be telling everybody about it and I would definitely not post it on FB.
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According to his FB, he might buy another car. He's 21 and works at a gas station. If it were me, I'd be investing it in my education. If I won that kind of money I'd:
Pay off my debt
Apply to vet school abroad if I don't get accepted
Take more undergrad courses if I don't get accepted
Get a cat if I do get accepted
Buy a car
Give some to the parents to pay off their debts, sell the house if they want to, and go on a much needed family vacation
Tuck the rest away for after graduation

And probably buy a lululemon sweater...

I'm totally buying a lottery ticket on my way home from school 😛
 
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heylodeb said:
Lol - this is ALMOST identical to a day I had a week or so ago... Gotta love once you finally finish everything and you still have to do the charges. *snore* 😉
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We put in all the charges ahead of time at the place I work. Then, just changing inventory is easy. Meds are already up and ready to go home before the patient is in surgery. Of course things can be added if need be at the end, but it definitely makes me glad at the end of the day when I don't have to sit there and go through all the charts.

I mentioned a few weeks ago in the raves section that the orthopod that comes down was impressed with how quickly my coworker and I turned over his surgeries. 3 TPLOs and a double OCD. We started prepping at 7am and I left at 8pm. This may seems like an insanely long period of time for four patients (5 surgeries) but it was approximately 2.5 hours per TPLO, 2 hours for the double OCD. An hour to clean instruments, wrap packs, and run the autoclaves between surgeries 3 and 4. Which means that we spent less than an hour prepping each patient pre-medding, placing catheters, shaving, intubating, moving, fastening, and scrubbing patients. If you've ever seen how much you have to shave for a TPLO or OCD, just imagine it on dogs over 95# with that crappy fur that won't shave the way you want it to. Anyway we were pretty impressed with ourselves.

The assisting doctor, however, was less than thrilled with our performance. She likes to move from one table to the next without stopping when she's doing surgery...which is fine...but we only have one table that we do orthopedic surgeries because it rotates the way the orthopod likes it. I was satisfied with my performance, especially since I'd been doubting myself for the months leading up to it, but it just sucks to hear from someone who is your superior that you weren't doing it well enough. We weren't slacking, I took a 13 minute lunch break and my coworker took a 9 minute one. I wish that for a minute she could put herself in our shoes and see how much work we did and appreciate us...but that's not her style. Anyway, it's all good, because the orthopod loved us. But this long surgery day thing reminded me of it
 
Gen chem II makes me want to cry on a near-daily basis. I won't give in. No tears will be shed until I'm done with it. I just...I go from feeling I understand it completely to being baffled when our TA tries to go through the material. Test Nov. 1 - happy halloween 🙄
 
that redhead said:
Gen chem II makes me want to cry on a near-daily basis. I won't give in. No tears will be shed until I'm done with it. I just...I go from feeling I understand it completely to being baffled when our TA tries to go through the material. Test Nov. 1 - happy halloween 🙄
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I'm actually taking an environmental chemistry course this semester and it's all applied gen chem II. Acid base chemistry, equilibria, redox reactions, thermodynamics...I thought I was finished with this stuff 😡
 
my gen chem II prof regularly made students cry in her office. she had a rule that said each student was only allowed 5 min of office hours (which could be combined to a total of 15 min if you grouped up with 2 other people). she even told a student that she needed to "go get a f*cking algebra tutor"

this was pretty shocking, considering i went to a school where tears in front of your prof/dean would get you pretty much anything you wanted.
 
Minnerbelle said:
my gen chem II prof regularly made students cry in her office. she had a rule that said each student was only allowed 5 min of office hours (which could be combined to a total of 15 min if you grouped up with 2 other people). she even told a student that she needed to "go get a f*cking algebra tutor"

this was pretty shocking, considering i went to a school where tears in front of your prof/dean would get you pretty much anything you wanted.
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My Ochem prof (who was also my gen chem I and II prof as well as both Ochems) made me cry in her office when I got a poor grade on a test. She saw me welling up with frustration and almost reflexively reached for a box of tissues up on the shelf. I said "So I take it this happens often?" and she said "Often enough." lol I don't know what it is about chemistry that makes people cry but it really has that effect on lots of students. Keep on truckin!
 
Bearby said:
We put in all the charges ahead of time at the place I work. Then, just changing inventory is easy. Meds are already up and ready to go home before the patient is in surgery. Of course things can be added if need be at the end, but it definitely makes me glad at the end of the day when I don't have to sit there and go through all the charts.

I mentioned a few weeks ago in the raves section that the orthopod that comes down was impressed with how quickly my coworker and I turned over his surgeries. 3 TPLOs and a double OCD. We started prepping at 7am and I left at 8pm. This may seems like an insanely long period of time for four patients (5 surgeries) but it was approximately 2.5 hours per TPLO, 2 hours for the double OCD. An hour to clean instruments, wrap packs, and run the autoclaves between surgeries 3 and 4. Which means that we spent less than an hour prepping each patient pre-medding, placing catheters, shaving, intubating, moving, fastening, and scrubbing patients. If you've ever seen how much you have to shave for a TPLO or OCD, just imagine it on dogs over 95# with that crappy fur that won't shave the way you want it to. Anyway we were pretty impressed with ourselves.

The assisting doctor, however, was less than thrilled with our performance. She likes to move from one table to the next without stopping when she's doing surgery...which is fine...but we only have one table that we do orthopedic surgeries because it rotates the way the orthopod likes it. I was satisfied with my performance, especially since I'd been doubting myself for the months leading up to it, but it just sucks to hear from someone who is your superior that you weren't doing it well enough. We weren't slacking, I took a 13 minute lunch break and my coworker took a 9 minute one. I wish that for a minute she could put herself in our shoes and see how much work we did and appreciate us...but that's not her style. Anyway, it's all good, because the orthopod loved us. But this long surgery day thing reminded me of it
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It sounds to me like you guys did a great job getting everything done in a timely manner. The other vet was probably in a bad mood.

I wish I could get all the charges put in before the surgery but the way our system is set up it would be impossible. We have to put in exact doses for things like dexdomitor, ketamine, diazepam, lidocaine, marcaine, buprenorphine, etc, etc. And we have to put in exact doses for pain medications and many of these things are not calculated until right before the surgery starts. Also, our doctors like to get surgeries started ASAP (they are supposed to be done with surgery by 3PM so they can see regular appointments) so there is not time to put charges in before the surgeries start. I will start putting charges in while I am in surgery monitoring anesthesia since I have the dosages right in front of me and there is a computer in the surgery room, but I still can't always get everything put in because the doctor can not calculate the dose for post-op pain meds to go home in their head. Sometimes I will grab a calculator and ask them what the mg/kg is and calculate it myself but if the doctor is too focused on the surgery they often can not think about dosages while doing surgery. Oh well, it is what it is. I don't mind doing it at the end and I have gotten quite quick at it. For example, the FHO surgery only took me about 2 minutes to put the charges in which made me very happy. 😀
 
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