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There goes my plan for the weekend 😛
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Found my ID. After it was laying in the street all day and got run over multiple times
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He is a very nice man but his lectures are difficult to sit through. I had a migraine and was sleepy from Benadryl so that didn't help.
I hope surgery class gets better for you and you have a good weekend to make up for a crappy week.
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If it's any consolation, I regularly use "badness" as a medical term and they haven't kicked me out. And we did the Gangam Style dance in surgery lab last year. And on my bacti final exam, I filled in a whole question with a scenario so that I was Dr Baggins working in the Shire. And a classmate and I came to school last year for Halloween dresed as the Doctor and River Song and spent lunch hour running around, sliding down hallways and generally acting like six year olds on pixie sticks. So, they definitely allow for a certain amount of idiocy.
I remember the "don't be an idiot and don't fail" lecture. I also remember getting a "don't fail" letter. I think they did the lecture earlier in the year, and then letter came out right before midterms. Fun times.
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Grrr my throat hurts this morning and my nose is slightly runny. I really don't need to be getting sick right now...
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Gah - discovered yesterday afternoon my laptop was no longer turning on, when I went in to get it checked out it turns out the hard drive has failed, so it's been sent off for a week to get checked and repaired.
Praying it's not too expensive, and also SO SO grateful that it didn't happen until the day after VMCAS was due in!!!
Praying it's not too expensive, and also SO SO grateful that it didn't happen until the day after VMCAS was due in!!!
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If I email you to ask an important question, it's considered common courtesy to reply within a few days at least. Even if you don't know the answer, it would be nice get a quick "I'll look into it" email so I know you actually got the message and aren't just ignoring me. 🙄
Also, my landlady has been sitting in her car directly outside my apartment for the past five minutes and it's starting to creep me out.
EDIT: Scratch that, it's not the landlady, it's some guy in a truck that I've never seen on this property before. Now I'm really creeped out. And I need to leave for class and he's blocking me in. Awesome.
Also, my landlady has been sitting in her car directly outside my apartment for the past five minutes and it's starting to creep me out.
EDIT: Scratch that, it's not the landlady, it's some guy in a truck that I've never seen on this property before. Now I'm really creeped out. And I need to leave for class and he's blocking me in. Awesome.
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Equine midterm. WTF was that?? Most of it was fine, except for all the questions written by one specific prof where it seemed like a bunch of questions had more than one right answer and some questions seemed like we never even talked about it. Oh well, on to the next one.
ETA: and just found out that because our prof for Food Animal didn't show up one day last week, we now get to spend an extra hour in class to make up that lecture on Tuesday afternoon next week. Cause six hours of lecture on Tuesday just wasn't enough already.
ETA: and just found out that because our prof for Food Animal didn't show up one day last week, we now get to spend an extra hour in class to make up that lecture on Tuesday afternoon next week. Cause six hours of lecture on Tuesday just wasn't enough already.
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Wasn't me! But I have to say taking a big test while suck is AWFUL. I am going to sleep now .
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Sorry darling, but you're going to be dealing with slightly more poop over the course of your veterinary career than the dime sized amount we were provided to run a parvo test in immunology lab today. Better get over that.
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Yeah. And that took FOREVER. I almost fell asleep the second time she went through the slide images...
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Yeah. And that took FOREVER. I almost fell asleep the second time she went through the slide images...
I almost fell asleep during the practical the first time. I think I did today with a fever.
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It most definitely is. I took my first anatomy practical with an almost 103 degree fever...which I hadn't really realized I had until wayy later in the day. Just knew I felt really, really crappy going into it.
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Yeah, looking back at this morning I think I had a fever. Especially how my morning started. So ready to sleep as much as I can this weekend
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Really? Someone was whining about poop? They know they're in vet school right? Has this person been in a clinic at all? 😕
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Not by the looks of it. You would have thought I had a tube of herpegonorrhsyphilaids or something 😀
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I worked as a tech for 6.5 years. I whine about poop and gag like crazy almost every time. Lol 😀
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2nd migraine ever is on a one dr day where I'm 1.5 hrs from home
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orgo.
that's all.
that's all.
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I feel like I am losing control again and slipping back into depression. I don't have time for this... I need to focus on studying, but it is so hard to study when your mind keeps telling you to emotionally detach yourself from everything. 🙁
🙁 Hang in there... I feel really overwhelmed too, I've not been diagnosed w/depression in years but I feel like I'm constantly battling it. I'm just in undergrad but between 4 classes and a full time job I'm feeling very frazzled and just want to give up and lie on the couch. I can empathize to a degree and I'm sorry you're going through it!
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ughhhh i hate midterms!!! one yesterday and 4 more next week. i am already so bored with studying, gahhhh. at least its my final set of midterms (unless i'm too stupid to pass my classes) because or 6th termers dont have midterms (at least not like we do). i dont wanna study 🙁
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Renovations bite....
Was supposed to be done by end of August so we could move in before classes started.. FAIL.
Was told it would take 2-3 weeks.. so we moved into a hotel and put our stuff in storage.
Still at hotel after 5 weeks, and although I can see an end at some point... it is not for a couple of weeks.
Oh... and I got the freaking flu.
So ready to move on with my life.
Was supposed to be done by end of August so we could move in before classes started.. FAIL.
Was told it would take 2-3 weeks.. so we moved into a hotel and put our stuff in storage.
Still at hotel after 5 weeks, and although I can see an end at some point... it is not for a couple of weeks.
Oh... and I got the freaking flu.
So ready to move on with my life.
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Started taking a couple new meds for stuffs and they make my stomach hurt so bad and they make my mouth feel really dry. I am supposed to take another dose now, but I just don't feel good and I am not sure I want to take them. I am also definitely hitting a spiral of depression.
Sometimes I wish I could just crawl into a hole and disappear forever. 🙁
Sometimes I wish I could just crawl into a hole and disappear forever. 🙁
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I'm coming down with whatever is going around my class. Feel like crap, have 5 more exams to get through in the next few weeks. And I think I'm feverish--which NEVER happens (I never run fevers). This is highly inconvenient. 🙁
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My school is implementing a 100% mandatory attendance policy for each lecture, lab, seminar and skills course. Excused absences are to be approved by the Associate Dean. Conference absences will not be approved unless you are presenting a paper or poster, so don't even think about it.
W.T.F. 😡😡😡
I expect to be treated as an adult in a professional program, not an irresponsible teenager that skips class for the hell of it. I am accountable for my actions and while I understand the attendance for labs and skills courses should be mandatory, requiring my attendance for every minute of every scheduled event for the next four years is completely unreasonable. Apparently we're not above having baby-sitters. This is complete bull****.
W.T.F. 😡😡😡
I expect to be treated as an adult in a professional program, not an irresponsible teenager that skips class for the hell of it. I am accountable for my actions and while I understand the attendance for labs and skills courses should be mandatory, requiring my attendance for every minute of every scheduled event for the next four years is completely unreasonable. Apparently we're not above having baby-sitters. This is complete bull****.
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We're getting more info on Monday. I hope this has been blown out of proportion, because I have serious objections to what I'm hearing now.
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As a lecture skipper, I feel for you! I could not deal with that and be seriously freaking pissed off!!! 😡
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Yeah, seriously. There are some lectures that are pointless to go to and I would like to reserve the right to miss the class and be held accountable for any material, assignments or quizzes.
Can't have a glass of wine when you go out for lunch, can't skip a lecture for something you view to be more worthwhile....I must be in high school.
I'll be reading the official policy tomorrow when it's sent out. We'll see then, I guess.
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Why the eff am I still awake......
Dyce should be able to fix that, I imagine. 😉
Dyce should be able to fix that, I imagine. 😉
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Sounds like a more extreme version of what they implemented here last year, though we don't have mandatory lecture attendance. Lab attendance is mandatory though and we have the same rule about conferences, though it really only applies to rescheduling midterms/exams missing labs.
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My guess is this in response to lecturers complaining that so many people miss their lectures. Instead of doing the responsible thing and thinking WHY people skip, and address the problem, it is easier to mollify the butt hurt faculty and force attendance. Really quite pathetic, but predictable.
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This is probably the first time I'm saying I'm glad I picked AVC over UCVM. I find it a waste of my time to sit in lectures that I'm getting nothing out of. I could be at home going over the material myself and get way more out of it. This is especially true for lecturers that just read the slides which are taken directly from the textbook. I can read, I don't need someone to read it to me. I feel for you, Escalla.
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See, the thing that really would piss me off about this is that you are PAYING them for a service. So I don't really see how they can force you to attend lectures. I mean, technically speaking, our lectures are "required" but they don't take attendance so it's no problem to skip. If that happened here I would make a BIG stink about it.
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Yeah, technically our lectures are mandatory as well. I'm an obsessive class-attender anyway so it doesn't matter to me. I honestly haven't heard of or noticed anyone skipping. But I really do like most of our lecturers. Some may read off the powerpoint but I haven't noticed a powerpoint straight from the book yet, so for me it's beneficial to go.
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Whoa. Not cool. I do not approve.
Most of our lectures are "attendance strongly recommended" but aren't required. Some professors even joke that on Friday afternoon they can't believe we show up for lecture at all. Most labs aren't even required, except the surgery and anesthesia ones. I wish more people would skip class, especially when they don't feel good, so to help decrease the spread of whatever is going around - plus I can't hear the lecture over all that coughing and sniffing.
I skip lecture on a regular basis. So do a lot of my close friends. We do well on tests, so it doesn't seem to affect us negatively. I think it should be my choice to attend lecture, as that may not be the best way I learn.
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That's the bottom line, in my opinion. They place so much emphasis on "everyone is a special snowflake that learns differently" and then wham, require you to attend lecture when that might not be the best way for you to learn? Silly.
I understand that no one wants to lecture to a half-empty classroom, but we're adults and we can make those decisions for ourselves. I only skip lecture if I'm feeling really awful or think that I could make a lot better use of the time - like studying for an exam the next day or something similar.
The assistant dean lady that did our attendance lecture thing got extremely defensive and snarky, though. I don't think it helped that she had dealt with the rest of the classes before us and they were nasty to her (some of our people were...sharper than they needed to be) but still...demonstrate the professionalism of your position.
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Ours was like this last year, not lectures, but all practicals and tutorials were 100% required attendance. And lecture attendance was "highly recommended". I did not attend lectures much last year, I am doing much better this year with attending lectures and I think it is helping. They have also now decreased the 100% attendance to 75% attendance and it includes practicals/tutorials and seminars. I think that they realized that they can not have a 100% attendance requirement with a bunch of adult students, because we do have lives outside of school and they were getting a lot of crap last year for it, from both the students and the main uni. So, they changed it to 75%, but 100% is recommended unless you have a good reason to not attend. I think it is silly, but I do try to attend everything now, unlike last year where I stayed home quite frequently.
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So the reasoning supposedly behind it is now that we're forced into giving a medical reason for absence, the profs now have an official policy to allow work to be made up should a medical-facilitated or other excused absence arise. As opposed to what, saying no to someone with a physician's note before? 🙄 This policy is "to protect students" and we should "try not to get too upset", according to some students ahead of us when this blew up our FB group. I agree with having policy outlining the requirement of profs to allow the make-up of missed work for legitimate reasons. But how has this not already been in place? How does a policy with that intention equate to forcing 100% attendance?
Thanks for the input guys. I don't believe they will be taking attendance, but in a class of 30, it's not hard to notice who's gone. I usually attend class myself, but I would like to reserve the right to skip if I deem my reason necessary and not have to seek approval. We're going backwards from the University of Calgary undergrad policy and into territory that I believe to be unfitting for a program claiming to train responsible, accountable individuals.
Thanks for the input guys. I don't believe they will be taking attendance, but in a class of 30, it's not hard to notice who's gone. I usually attend class myself, but I would like to reserve the right to skip if I deem my reason necessary and not have to seek approval. We're going backwards from the University of Calgary undergrad policy and into territory that I believe to be unfitting for a program claiming to train responsible, accountable individuals.
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Trying to study for our optho exam on Tuesday and my brain will not absorb anything. I feel like the time I took to read through all of the lectures was worthless. The only thing I think I can remember is one thing that we learned in our equine optho lecture. 
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Trying to study for our optho exam on Tuesday and my brain will not absorb anything. I feel like the time I took to read through all of the lectures was worthless. The only thing I think I can remember is one thing that we learned in our equine optho lecture.
I feel you on an undergrad level 😀
staring at these notes and watching youtube videos all weekend hasn't helped me absorb anything 😡
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Trying to study for our optho exam on Tuesday and my brain will not absorb anything. I feel like the time I took to read through all of the lectures was worthless. The only thing I think I can remember is one thing that we learned in our equine optho lecture.
That's not true. I'm sure you remember that ALL CATS HAVE HERPES. Oh, and chloramphenicol should be used to treat everything, which flies in the face of everything that every other professor has told us (okay, the other profs don't say it doesn't treat things, but it causes aplastic anemia in people randomly, and you have other drugs, so why take the risk). And did I mention ALL CATS HAVE HERPES? And the OH SO FASHIONABLE HEADLOOPS? And REFER REFER REFER!
(Yeah, she gave 10 lectures, and the above is what I learned. 🙄 Equine ophtho was with a different professor and a whole sum of 2 lectures and I learned so much more.)
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I signed Olive, my foster dog, up for training classes. I've kind of been less then impressed with the structure of them. The trainers have a cult like following and stellar reviews. I have a friend who used them and her dogs are terrific. Olive is responding to the training but I practice like hell with her. I want her to get a really good home so I've invested both my money and my time into it. Some people who come could give a care in the world. You can tell they don't practice. One lady lets her huge Irish Wolfhound puppy run up to everyone. I try to keep Olive paying attention to me, and greet other dogs in a controlled manner. I've adamantly avoided her since the first class. Today she almost let the puppy bounce into a private session dog there for aggressive behavior. 😕
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Okay, true, I do know those things too, I feel better already 😀 I'll just write her a little note and say well, why would I need to know this if I could refer it to someone as opthomologically gifted such as yourself?
But yeah, the equine lecture was so much better in so many ways...
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Feel Better soon! 🙁 and keep whatever that is in the 2nd year classroom
...We seem to have enough of our own germs going around.
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Don't really know where to post this but I'm so conflicted
I go to undergrad in TX but i'm a resident in CA..
I visted TAMU last month and it was amazing. I always had my sights set on UC Davis, but the statistics of getting into UCD OOS are much higher than TAMU OOS. I have been debating whether or not to apply for residency here in TX to up my chances of getting into TAMU. My family would be devastated as they are expecting me to go back to CA after undergrad.. my mom even started freaking out last year because I wanted to stay an extra month for summer school.. yeah, that didn't happen..
However, if I don't get into TAMU and I get into UCD I could become a resident after a year. I'd just rather go to a much cheaper school, and I have the opportunity to apply for residency in a state that would give me the benefit of going to school for close to $100,000 cheaper than I would in CA. It seems like an easy choice, right? Am I just overthinking or am I right to kinda freak out that would be committing myself to stay in TX for 4+ more years than I was planning and to be that far from my family? Not looking for an exact answer, because I know it is my own choice, but maybe some voices of reason or advice..
I go to undergrad in TX but i'm a resident in CA..
I visted TAMU last month and it was amazing. I always had my sights set on UC Davis, but the statistics of getting into UCD OOS are much higher than TAMU OOS. I have been debating whether or not to apply for residency here in TX to up my chances of getting into TAMU. My family would be devastated as they are expecting me to go back to CA after undergrad.. my mom even started freaking out last year because I wanted to stay an extra month for summer school.. yeah, that didn't happen..
However, if I don't get into TAMU and I get into UCD I could become a resident after a year. I'd just rather go to a much cheaper school, and I have the opportunity to apply for residency in a state that would give me the benefit of going to school for close to $100,000 cheaper than I would in CA. It seems like an easy choice, right? Am I just overthinking or am I right to kinda freak out that would be committing myself to stay in TX for 4+ more years than I was planning and to be that far from my family? Not looking for an exact answer, because I know it is my own choice, but maybe some voices of reason or advice..
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Don't really know where to post this but I'm so conflicted
I go to undergrad in TX but i'm a resident in CA..
I visted TAMU last month and it was amazing. I always had my sights set on UC Davis, but the statistics of getting into UCD OOS are much higher than TAMU OOS. I have been debating whether or not to apply for residency here in TX to up my chances of getting into TAMU. My family would be devastated as they are expecting me to go back to CA after undergrad.. my mom even started freaking out last year because I wanted to stay an extra month for summer school.. yeah, that didn't happen..
However, if I don't get into TAMU and I get into UCD I could become a resident after a year. I'd just rather go to a much cheaper school, and I have the opportunity to apply for residency in a state that would give me the benefit of going to school for close to $100,000 cheaper than I would in CA. It seems like an easy choice, right? Am I just overthinking or am I right to kinda freak out that would be committing myself to stay in TX for 4+ more years than I was planning and to be that far from my family? Not looking for an exact answer, because I know it is my own choice, but maybe some voices of reason or advice..
Just be cautious of making such a big decision solely to please another person. Especially when that decision affects you more than them.
Apply to both to better your chances of gaining admission (US students seem to seldom apply to only one school anyway).
Do what's best for you and what will make YOU happy. Sounds selfish but sometimes you gotta be. Good luck!
