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[Evie1923]

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Just dumped my boyfriend of 3 years.

I think what did it was that my birthday is coming up... he's gotten me nothing for my last two birthdays. I handmade him cards, bought him gifts and once even shipped it halfway across the country. It's not about the material items... but it bothers me that he doesn't get that you're supposed to do special things for someone on their birthday... it just hurts.QUOTE]

I feel your pain!!! 🙁 I also dumped my boyfriend last week. We were seeing each other long distance for over a year and he just moved here to be with me after I found out I was going to vet school. I guess being in a long distance relationship blinded me to the things I began to realize once he moved in with me. For example, we've been together over 1.5 years and he's never bought me a gift...ever. And like you said, it's not about the material things, it's just about showing you care such as a card or even a single flower. For his birthday this year I was trying to save so I just made him his favorite meal and dessert with a candle in it.

The worst part is that he refuses to go back home. He wants to stay here and even moved into an apartment right down the street from mine (which by the way I had to find for him because he was planning on taking his sweet time moving out of mine)! I just hate fearing that I might run into him while I'm trying to move on. I think I'll always love him but I know that I had to break up with him immediately when he showed his true colors last weekend by he getting wasted by himself in our apartment and then trying to take out some aggression on me while I was sleeping. I refuse to ever be in an abusive relationship! 🙁

 

[168135]

I emailed the school counselor on Monday asking if I can make an appointment.

She's not available until February the 8th.

Seriously?

My stress levels are through the roof. The only way I can see someone sooner is if I do something stupid and end up in the hospital. That won't happen. Gah.

Headaches and nightmares and migraines... the past week has sucked 😎

 

[Minnerbelle]

I emailed the school counselor on Monday asking if I can make an appointment.

She's not available until February the 8th.

Seriously?

My stress levels are through the roof. The only way I can see someone sooner is if I do something stupid and end up in the hospital. That won't happen. Gah.

Headaches and nightmares and migraines... the past week has sucked 😎

Scarecely, if you feel like you really can't wait a week to talk to someone, and need someone NOW, there should be some services around for that (esp on campus health services) without the need to harm yourself first. If not, there's got to be at least a crisis hotline to call.

 

[168135]

Scarecely, if you feel like you really can't wait a week to talk to someone, and need someone NOW, there should be some services around for that (esp on campus health services) without the need to harm yourself first. If not, there's got to be at least a crisis hotline to call.

I'm aware of the crisis hotline. I have to make a doctors appointment anyway. I'll be fine 🙂 Other than that, I don't really know what's available but I should probably look into it.

I'm beginning to think there is something wrong with me. I get separation anxiety with specific people that gets pretty nasty at times. That's been going on since I was 2. Lately, I've had periods of zero motivation, which is a BAD thing to have when you're working on a thesis. I spent a couple of hours playing with my hair and watching tv with the volume on low on Sunday and could not physically get up and get my text books. Nothing at all was going through my mind. It was creepy. Happens a lot, but never for that long.

Another rant... I think I have arthritis. Hence the doctor's appointment. I'm 22 and falling apart. My gene pool sucks. I'm never having kids lol.

 

[Coquette22]

I hate biochemistry lab. The work is interesting enough, and not particularly hard, but I hate having a full lab report due every single week. Especially because all graphs and tables have to be done by hand. I have lousy handwriting and I can get a more accurate graph on Excel, so what is the point?!

And the TAs are kind of useless. One told me my data were fine, another said they were horrible and I had to go get someone else's, but only told me this the day before the report was due, and I'd already drawn all the graphs and done all the calculations.

Above all though, I hate my lab partner. She's useless. She mentally checks out during experiments. She left a couple of test tubes in the warm water bath during a DNA digestion while she ran off to get help on last week's questions from the TA. Leaving me alone for about 45 minutes to finish the experiment on my own.

 

[Minnerbelle]

I hate biochemistry lab. The work is interesting enough, and not particularly hard, but I hate having a full lab report due every single week. Especially because all graphs and tables have to be done by hand. I have lousy handwriting and I can get a more accurate graph on Excel, so what is the point?!

Why??? That's the dumbest thing I've heard. Isn't lab supposed to try and teach you techniques/skills that will help you if you decide to pursue research? In this day and age, shouldn't it be taught that handwritten figures are NOT acceptable?

Reminds me of the stupid stats hw that would have data sets of 50 values, and we had to write out all the work by hand to get the standard deviation. yep... filled up the whole page for each question. i still did it on excel anyway. but just had to handwrite all the crap.

 

[thedogisgreen]

Another rant... I think I have arthritis. Hence the doctor's appointment. I'm 22 and falling apart. My gene pool sucks. I'm never having kids lol.

Hope you are hanging in there with everything!
I feel like I have some weird arthritis/joint pain too. For the last week, my knee has been killing me, it hurts to bend and straighten and I can feel it cracking and creaking. I don't know of anything that I've done recently that could have caused that sort of injury. I'm hesitant to go to the doctor because
a) human clinics suck and don't have everything you need (i.e. xrays) in one place --> mult copays and lots of time driving around
and b) it might just be something that heals with time and there is nothing they can do (though I'm definitely not taking the advice I always giving clients of getting their pets checked out just in case).
Boooo. Stupid knee, go away!

 

[princesspeaches]

My boyfriend has a Real Job with a 401k and all kinds of things that I don't understand.

Now that it's tax season, he's been getting giant financial-ly envelopes almost every day. They look exactly like what I imagine a veterinary school acceptance letter would look like. I can't handle getting this excited when I open the mailbox only to be let down every day! ARGHHHH. and harumph. harumph I say.

 

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[Coquette22]

Why??? That's the dumbest thing I've heard. Isn't lab supposed to try and teach you techniques/skills that will help you if you decide to pursue research? In this day and age, shouldn't it be taught that handwritten figures are NOT acceptable?

The instructor's reasoning is that "Everyone uses Excel now and no one knows how to do it by hand". Okay, how about I show you one graph done by hand to show I can do it, and then I do the rest properly, neatly and accurately on my computer. Yeah, it's massively dumb, and I hate it. 😡

 

[EllieGirl89]

Add me to the list of people falling apart young. I was diagnosed with osteoarthritis of both knees at age 16. Horseback riding was deemed the culprit. When I was 19 I started going to the chiropractor for my back, where an x-ray showed a stress fracture in my lower back. The cause? A combination of my conformation (a bit "swaybacked") combined with repeated stress from riding horses. Dang beasts. And they've only begun to beat my azz, seeing as I plan on spending the rest of my days doing equine medicine.

 

[ylrebmik]

I'm already sick of my anatomy class. I study/read for hours a day, go to tutoring sessions, etc. But there is SO much busy work for this class, I'm having such a hard time keeping up with it all plus studying as much as I can.

I met with my adviser today and she told me that it's going to take me 6 years to complete my undergraduate degree.... which is really upsetting me.

 

[vetme]

Ah, it's basically the same thing for me, and I'd never heard anyone use the term Bursar outside of Discworld novels. They're technically different offices, but we don't have a bursar we just have 'student accounts', who are run by the registrar's office anyway.

Yup, "student accounts" is what I am familiar with. Never heard it termed Bursar. I guess I could have googled it. Those are outrageous fees anyway🙁

 

[twelvetigers]

Maaaaan... I now have four tests next week. Probably nothing compared to vet school, but I wasn't planning on it and now I have to get my butt in gear!

 

[168135]

Hope you are hanging in there with everything!
I feel like I have some weird arthritis/joint pain too. For the last week, my knee has been killing me, it hurts to bend and straighten and I can feel it cracking and creaking. I don't know of anything that I've done recently that could have caused that sort of injury. I'm hesitant to go to the doctor because
a) human clinics suck and don't have everything you need (i.e. xrays) in one place --> mult copays and lots of time driving around
and b) it might just be something that heals with time and there is nothing they can do (though I'm definitely not taking the advice I always giving clients of getting their pets checked out just in case).
Boooo. Stupid knee, go away!

Eeek. I hope it feels better!

ETA: My stress levels are already sky high. My only best friend in the area is now whining because the prof she is OBSESSED with agreed to be another student's honours supervisor. She's LIVID because she wanted to be the only one. I cannot handle her right now. I've been telling her for the past year to suck it up or move on to another prof. But no... she cries over him and obsesses over every little thing he does and does not do. Everytime she sends the man an email, I have to approve it before she does.

I just want to grab her by the shoulders, shake her and scream KNOCK IT OFF to her face.

She made me late to my sleepover Friday night. She made me feel guilty for not being available for dinner that night. She only wanted to hang out with me on my birthday when it was a good time for her ("Let's go for a coffee NOW" uh... I'm crying and my not dressed yet... so no"). Now this.

I keep having dreams where we get into fights. I can see our first one coming.

 

[clairbear]

So, I have a lab due for O-Chem tommorrow, and I've been losing a lot of points on peak assignments lately because my professor is a lot pickier this semester. So, I was planning on going to the tutor tonight because I'm staying over with my friend because of the snow.

Ordinarily, I don't get to take advantage of the science tutors at my school because I commute (about an hour each way which is awful) and my mom is paranoid about me being in my school's parking lot after dark (all of the chemistry tutors at my school begin at six at the earliest, and its a small school, so we usually only have one a night/class) because its a bit of a walk from the main buildings.

Anyways, tonight I was planning on going to the tutor for help with my lab, and he wasn't there. It just makes me mad though because if I knew he wasn't going to be there I would of made an appointment with the proffessor.

I know I should of planned on having it done earlier, and went to the professor anyways, but I had a million other things going on this week with school/outside committments.

In addition, I honestly wish I would of went to a more commutor friendly school at times because being a commutor at my school absolutely sucks. To top it off, last semester I'm fairly certain I would of gotten much better grades if I didn't commute. I would have a lot more time. Also, my school has these review things for both cell bio and o-chem that they give you an extra 3% on your grade if you attend because they get grants for them and need to show people go. Of course, they were always on Sundays from 7:30-9:30 and to go to them would of wasted two hours of my time driving, not to mention I already spend enough in gas per week. The two friends I have that were in those classes commute too and didn't go either because the times are so inconvenient and they also live fairly far away. If I would of gone, I would of had an A in cell Bio, and an A-, for sure, but possibly and A in organic (from getting the help).

 

[EllieGirl89]

I fell down the stairs AGAIN. This time taking my dog potty. I let go of the leash as I flew down the stairs and the dog took off, running for his life. Thank goodness he stopped and sat when I yelled for him to sit. In addition to the bruises I feel forming on my butt and the nagging ache in my back, I came inside and looked at my hand and found this:

That's blood, in case you were wondering.

FML.

 

[rosyreef]

That's blood, in case you were wondering.

FML.

Ouuuch! 🙁 My roommate was worried about the same thing.. stupid ice, I was sliding all over campus today (you're in Columbus, right?) Neosporin those babies up!

 

[goldnretrivrgrl]

I fell down the stairs AGAIN. This time taking my dog potty. I let go of the leash as I flew down the stairs and the dog took off, running for his life. Thank goodness he stopped and sat when I yelled for him to sit. In addition to the bruises I feel forming on my butt and the nagging ache in my back, I came inside and looked at my hand and found this:

That's blood, in case you were wondering.

FML.

Yeeowch! Those look like they sting! How about some nice band-aids? I personally believe that Hello Kitty band-aids speed up the healing process

 

[EllieGirl89]

Ouuuch! 🙁 My roommate was worried about the same thing.. stupid ice, I was sliding all over campus today (you're in Columbus, right?) Neosporin those babies up!

Yep, in Columbus. I fell on my way to school today too, and saw lots of other people fall too. Most people actually stayed off the sidewalks and opted to walk in the middle of the road instead. Safe 🙄

 

[Cautionary Tail]

Yeeowch! Those look like they sting! How about some nice band-aids? I personally believe that Hello Kitty band-aids speed up the healing process

Approve.

IMHO, Hello Kitty band-aids are pretty much the medical equivalent of duct tape.

@ EllieGirl89... ouch! 😱

 

[Ausheya]

One of my favorite authors pushed the release date of his next book back by like three months. Aghhhhhhh! First it was supposed to be out in April, then May (unless I'm mixing it up with another book, which is totally possible) and now JULY! 😡 Not even early July--late July. I don't wanna wait an extra three months to find out what happened after the WORST CLIFFHANGER EVER. Ughhhh!
[/petty]

Also, everyone knows that Disney princess band-aids are the best.

 

[rosyreef]

Also, everyone knows that Disney princess band-aids are the best.

I love the glow-in-the-dark band-aids.. brings me back to when I was a kid and had those glow-in-the-dark stars all over my bedroom walls and ceiling 😎

 

[twelvetigers]

I had glow in the dark stars on my ceiling too! They are still there, in my old room. I even put them on my fan blades. That was really cool at night, at least until they started flying off while I was asleep. Falling (plastic) stars can hurt when they hit you in the face. FYI.

 

[bee83]

The weirdest thing happened tonight. My male cat, who has been neutered since he was a kitten, was seen repeatedly mounting my female cat, who has been spayed since before they met each other three months ago. What gives? I'm no animal expert, but I've never seen neutered animals trying to mate with other neutered animals. How exactly am I supposed to prevent this? Just a little baffled.

 

[rosyreef]

I had glow in the dark stars on my ceiling too! They are still there, in my old room. I even put them on my fan blades. That was really cool at night, at least until they started flying off while I was asleep. Falling (plastic) stars can hurt when they hit you in the face. FYI.

Haha thankfully that never happened to me! I'm assuming mine all got lost at some point during one of my family's numerous moves.. they must still sell them somewhere on the internet? Thinking about decorating a room in my new apt with some glow-in-the-dark stars 😉

 

[twelvetigers]

Internet? I'd try Hobby Lobby. 🙂

 

[squibby]

Good lord. Do we have a class klutz?

 

[kaydubs]

Thank goodness he stopped and sat when I yelled for him to sit. In addition to the bruises I feel forming on my butt and the nagging ache in my back, I came inside and looked at my hand and found this:

That's blood, in case you were wondering.

FML.

Owies!!! Aw, EllieGirl....🙁 Usually my dog doesn't have to pull me down the stairs for me to fall. Funny thing: I usually trip coming UP the stairs...and down occasionally....

Mini-rant: Dear snowblowers outside my dorm apt:

I want to sleep (but due to throwing off my own circadian rhythms, I can't...) but you are NOT helping!!!😡😡 I should just go to the gym if there was going to be such a racquet!! (Which is prolly not open.....bah!)

 

[rosyreef]

Internet? I'd try Hobby Lobby. 🙂

What is this "Hobby Lobby" you speak of? 🙂

Side note- I got up early this morning to drive over to the laundromat to get it done before a long & busy trip to NY this weekend. All of the traffic lights were out of power/service on my way to the bank to get cash (cluster-F drivers), only to find that all three banks near the laundromat were also experiencing a power outage so I couldn't use their ATM machines. Miraculously, the laundromat is up and running.. but I only have enough quarters to do half of my laundry (and hopefully dry sufficiently)! Stupid ice storm. Aaand remind me to never ever again move into an apt that doesn't have a washer/dryer.

 

[Coquette22]

It's snowing like crazy, classes were canceled 5 minutes after my last class for the day ended, so no snow day for me. And a 68% on my biochemistry test.

I'd like to crawl into bed and never come out. 🙁

 

[AuRevoirFinance]

The weirdest thing happened tonight. My male cat, who has been neutered since he was a kitten, was seen repeatedly mounting my female cat, who has been spayed since before they met each other three months ago. What gives? I'm no animal expert, but I've never seen neutered animals trying to mate with other neutered animals. How exactly am I supposed to prevent this? Just a little baffled.

We had a cat named Lucky, a neutered male, who didn't know he was neutered. He liked to hump a stuffed toy, a pig. It was something to behold.

The wife asked the vet and I think the answer was that testosterone is present in small amounts in other areas aside from those that are removed in the neuter procedure. There wasn't any way to prevent it, except to hide the stuffed pig. 😛

 

[twelvetigers]

Oh no... Hobby Lobby isn't everywhere? Man, now I'm even more unwilling to move!

Try a craft store, or really, I net they have them in the toy section of Wal-Mart or similar.

 

[Chinola]

The weirdest thing happened tonight. My male cat, who has been neutered since he was a kitten, was seen repeatedly mounting my female cat, who has been spayed since before they met each other three months ago. What gives? I'm no animal expert, but I've never seen neutered animals trying to mate with other neutered animals. How exactly am I supposed to prevent this? Just a little baffled.

In my experience with owners reporting similar behaviors the vet tells them that it is a dominance behavior. Your male cat is trying to dominate your female cat. In my understanding the sex of the animals don't matter, just that one is trying to physically dominate the other one.

 

[bee83]

In my experience with owners reporting similar behaviors the vet tells them that it is a dominance behavior. Your male cat is trying to dominate your female cat. In my understanding the sex of the animals don't matter, just that one is trying to physically dominating the other one.

Interesting. The male is a 13-pound orange tabby, and is the most relaxed, laid-back cat you've ever seen. Although, since I got the tortie a few months back, she has been getting everyone riled up, playing and chasing and wrestling and whatnot. That may have something to do with his sudden urge to dominate.
If he keeps it up, though, he might just be going to stay at grandma's house for a while!

 

[168135]

It's snowing like crazy, classes were canceled 5 minutes after my last class for the day ended, so no snow day for me. And a 68% on my biochemistry test.

I'd like to crawl into bed and never come out. 🙁

Aww. I did the same in biochem too. Nobody should ever have to take that class!

ETA: It should NEVER take someone 6+ hours to complete a weekly chem assignment. Like everyone else in the class, I had other assignments due this week. Unlike everyone else, I have a test tomorrow. So, while they were in the lab until 2am finishing it, I spent 4 hours in the lab and went home to study. I told the prof I was handing in what I had done. Luckily she doesn't really care. But holy freaking IR NRM Mass Spec batman! 6+ hours to do 15 moderate problems (find the structure based on mass spec, IR and NMR) and determine the peaks on 15 mass specs.

I've been going to the prof often for extra help... gah... it doesn't really help. After 30 minutes of staring at a problem, I still don't have it done.

 

[that redhead]

So I don't know if its because I just started back in classes a week ago or if my glasses prescription really needs to be looked at but I've been getting headaches from sitting under fluroescent lighting all day staring at Powerpoints or the chalkboard. I feel like I have a headache from the minute I start class until I fall asleep at night. It doesn't help that I like to poke around online (on the computer) when I get home to unwind. I'm going to make an eye doctor appointment and maybe have my prescription changed. I hate taking a lot of Advil but at this point I'm just uncomfortable all of the time and do my best to look out the window into REAL LIGHT as often as I can 🙁

 

[thedogisgreen]

I am going into major panic mode every time I go onto this site. I know I won't hear anything for another 1-2 weeks, but I'm still freaking out. But I can't stop going on here constantly. Gah, go away, vet school anxiety!

 

[bee83]

So I don't know if its because I just started back in classes a week ago or if my glasses prescription really needs to be looked at but I've been getting headaches from sitting under fluroescent lighting all day staring at Powerpoints or the chalkboard. I feel like I have a headache from the minute I start class until I fall asleep at night. It doesn't help that I like to poke around online (on the computer) when I get home to unwind. I'm going to make an eye doctor appointment and maybe have my prescription changed. I hate taking a lot of Advil but at this point I'm just uncomfortable all of the time and do my best to look out the window into REAL LIGHT as often as I can 🙁

What type of computer monitor do you have? It took me a while to realize that the glare from the glossy screen on my Macbook was really messing up my eyesight. Makes my eyes feel like everything is kinda dim for the rest of the day. Sometimes it helps just to severely cut down on computer time and focus instead on a book or getting out for a walk.

 

[Cautionary Tail]

Interesting. The male is a 13-pound orange tabby, and is the most relaxed, laid-back cat you've ever seen. Although, since I got the tortie a few months back, she has been getting everyone riled up, playing and chasing and wrestling and whatnot. That may have something to do with his sudden urge to dominate.
If he keeps it up, though, he might just be going to stay at grandma's house for a while!

My cats have never done the mounting thing, but my parents' did when they were younger. In their case, it was definitely a dominance thing.

How old are the cats? Cats generally hit social maturity between 2 and 4 years of age, and I've seen a (thankfully temporary) significant increase in aggressive and dominance-related behaviors from each of the boys when they went through it. Nick hit it at 3, Thomas at 3.5, and Tyson at 4. Tyler is somewhere in that age range, and he's just starting. (I can already tell that this one is going to be fun.)

 

[NStarz]

In my experience with owners reporting similar behaviors the vet tells them that it is a dominance behavior. Your male cat is trying to dominate your female cat. In my understanding the sex of the animals don't matter, just that one is trying to physically dominate the other one.

Dogs (and cats, in this case) hump because they can. It feels good. It is a behavior that can be redirected to another outlet. Dominance theory has been largely debunked. Jean Donaldson taught a dog to hump on command (causing quite a stir, might I add). Dogs and cats are not trying to go around all day, trying to dominate us or other animals. Apparently their secret mission is world take-over by means of dominance over humans.

http://www.urbandawgs.com/dominant_dog.html

http://www.avsabonline.org/avsabonline/images/stories/Position_Statements/dominance%20statement.pdf


Also, behavior-speak is off-limits based on the rules and TOS. Maybe we could get back on topic so we don't get this thread shut down?? 😉

 

[Chinola]

Dogs (and cats, in this case) hump because they can. It feels good. It is a behavior that can be redirected to another outlet. Dominance theory has been largely debunked. Jean Donaldson taught a dog to hump on command (causing quite a stir, might I add). Dogs and cats are not trying to go around all day, trying to dominate us or other animals. Apparently their secret mission is world take-over by means of dominance over humans.

http://www.urbandawgs.com/dominant_dog.html

http://www.avsabonline.org/avsabonline/images/stories/Position_Statements/dominance statement.pdf

What I was referring to was not an all day humping sort of thing. Just a once in a while humping. That's what the vets I've worked with advise owners about. I wasn't aware that that theory had been somewhat debunked though. I will look into the links you provided.

I guess there can be many reasons for humping. And they're all horribly embarrassing to the majority humans involved.

 

[bee83]

Also, behavior-speak is off-limits based on the rules and TOS. Maybe we could get back on topic so we don't get this thread shut down?? 😉

Oops! Sorry, I was afraid that topic might cross the boundaries. Thanks for the input though, and now back to your regularly scheduled ranting...

 

[GellaBella]

I am the penn vet merial student rep.

The order window for products closed tonight after being open for a week. We had A LOT of orders.

I just deleted them with a swift click of the mouse. No idea if they can be recovered and I promised the order would be placed tomorrow.

I feel like a total ass and I'm going to feel even worse when I send a school wide email saying I messed up and they need to re-order and when I contact merial and tell them they won't have the order tomorrow, so they won't have the product here when they come for a lunch talk later this month.

Not good.

 

[NStarz]

Oh no, GB! I'm sooo sorry. I hope you can get the orders back 🙁

 

[BlacKAT33]

I am the penn vet merial student rep.

The order window for products closed tonight after being open for a week. We had A LOT of orders.

I just deleted them with a swift click of the mouse. No idea if they can be recovered and I promised the order would be placed tomorrow.

I feel like a total ass and I'm going to feel even worse when I send a school wide email saying I messed up and they need to re-order and when I contact merial and tell them they won't have the order tomorrow, so they won't have the product here when they come for a lunch talk later this month.

Not good.

😱 maybe the IT people can help you tomorrow??? jeez, that website should have had a warning before it deleted all the data!!!

it will be ok 🙂 Even if it is late, the students won't know why they need to reorder things so they won't blame you, and Merial may not even care when they receive the order (i dont see why it matters to them)

man that sucks, sryy!! on the other hand, i hope ur microbio talk was interesting today 🙂

 

[bunnity]

No worries GB - I think most of us are so happy to be getting free products that it's no big deal to fill out the 3-second form again.

 

[kaydubs]

So, I've gone into panic mode about (dun dun dun) my English lit minor. I am looking for a class that isn't MWF (want to try and leave Friday open so I can travel to schools if need be) however, my Tufts interview is next Tuesday (I can't wait!😍) But, my lone English class to complete my minor has a teacher who is being incredibly difficult, saying "You missed my 1 class when you transferred in Monday, that counts as an absence (I was in another English class at the time & didn't want to just walk out cause it would've been uber rude), & you're missing Monday again. That's 2 absences. I allow 4. Good luck😛"

I understand a prof's position (they expect students to go to class), but vet school is kind of my future. I don't want to bash any liberal arts majors or their profs, but the class I switched from (writing intensive: don't need in order to graduate) only allowed 2 absences (excused or not) and she said my "vet interview" is counting as 1. I'm seriously annoyed.

The question: do I drop the class? (and give up my minor cause there are literally 0 classes that seem of interest that are not writing intensive/don't fit in my schedule) or pray that I wake up tomorrow and it's all a dream? (i'm emailing the english dept. head now but feel like I'm not going to make any progress...)

Added bonus: my mom called me a quitter. I don't want to jeopardize my GPA, mess up my hard science classes for my English class, and go into a class with little respect for a prof. I don't mind when a prof kicks my butt cause they're tough & excellent, but over a vet professional school interview?

I admit - I don't get it.

 

[vetme]

So, I've gone into panic mode about (dun dun dun) my English lit minor. I am looking for a class that isn't MWF (want to try and leave Friday open so I can travel to schools if need be) however, my Tufts interview is next Tuesday (I can't wait!😍) But, my lone English class to complete my minor has a teacher who is being incredibly difficult, saying "You missed my 1 class when you transferred in Monday, that counts as an absence (I was in another English class at the time & didn't want to just walk out cause it would've been uber rude), & you're missing Monday again. That's 2 absences. I allow 4. Good luck😛"

I understand a prof's position (they expect students to go to class), but vet school is kind of my future. I don't want to bash any liberal arts majors or their profs, but the class I switched from (writing intensive: don't need in order to graduate) only allowed 2 absences (excused or not) and she said my "vet interview" is counting as 1. I'm seriously annoyed.

The question: do I drop the class? (and give up my minor cause there are literally 0 classes that seem of interest that are not writing intensive/don't fit in my schedule) or pray that I wake up tomorrow and it's all a dream? (i'm emailing the english dept. head now but feel like I'm not going to make any progress...)

Added bonus: my mom called me a quitter. I don't want to jeopardize my GPA, mess up my hard science classes for my English class, and go into a class with little respect for a prof. I don't mind when a prof kicks my butt cause they're tough & excellent, but over a vet professional school interview?

I admit - I don't get it.

I imagine that trying to interview while classes are in session would be hard....I just hate missing class because then I feel sooo behind.

Hang in there everything will turn out fine I'm sure. Do what you think is best for YOU🙂

 

[Cautionary Tail]

Do you think you can make it through the semester without missing another two classes?

I'm in a quasi-similar boat with an english class. I'm trying to sign up late and find a professor who is willing to be understanding of the fact that I am missing an additional 2 classes for one interview, and could potentially end up missing another 1-2 for another interview right after (don't know yet).

I understand that it's problematic for the professor, and that certain things need to be done in class... but it's not like you can help it. You're not skipping, and you don't really have any choice in the matter. They give you an interview when they give you an interview.