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I hate when places put forms online and put fax numbers on said forms, then don't accept the completed forms via fax. Now I have to find time tomorrow to go downtown and hand deliver this application because they need the original.

Clear directions are much appreciated.

(I had originally planned to hand deliver it yesterday but my minor car maintenance turned into not-so-minor car maintenance that took two days to get fixed so I ended up staying at my parents' house an extra day and a half.)
 
hazelmoo said:
Omg rugrats was my favorite! I also loved courage the cowardly dog.. That's so sad!! My parents didn't let us watch any "adult" cartoons like the Simpsons, and I never understood why until I got older...
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Same to all of this. I'm also really glad my mom didn't outlaw power rangers.

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Welp, that was an exciting conversation....

I'm going to rant about the fact that this case I have is just sad. Incredibly, incredibly sad. I also seem to attract the cancer whenever I am on medicine. I hate the cancer. Hate it. That is all.
 
twelvetigers said:
You don't know pass/fail until you are at the student mailboxes getting out your final exam and grade for a class you knew was close and feel a little poo come out when you see that 69.99 final grade.

Whatever stresses you have had, this one will be new and terrible in ways that you had not yet imagined.

But, by and large, most folks make it through - grey hairs and anal leakage notwithstanding.
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I can relate to this.

I can still remember seeing that 46% or whatever it was on my one exam and realizing, crap, I have to re-take this over summer and if I don't pass, I am going to have to reatake the course next year, add to my debt, and well, I just effed up BIG TIME. I felt like such a failure, looking back on it now, I am so glad for the changes I have made since then. So much happier now.
 
DVMDream said:
I can relate to this.

I can still remember seeing that 46% or whatever it was on my one exam and realizing, crap, I have to re-take this over summer and if I don't pass, I am going to have to reatake the course next year, add to my debt, and well, I just effed up BIG TIME. I felt like such a failure, looking back on it now, I am so glad for the changes I have made since then. So much happier now.
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What changes? Like in study habits?
 
Rwwilliams said:
The pass/fail thing keeps getting brought up and I feel like that's not the case... For a lot of us, just passing a class is not acceptable. Sweet Jesus, if I "just" had to pass everything, I would breath such a sigh of relief. Unfortunately, for those of us pursuing match that's not really an option. For the discipline I want to go into, I need to maintain at least a 3.5 GPA and stay within the top 25% of my class to even be considered for a residency. So for those pre-vets saying that they will be so relieved when they get to vet school because they "just" have to pass, keep in mind that isn't the case for everyone and sometimes "just" passing is difficult enough on its own.
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Where can one find GPA info when it comes to residencies? Is it a word of mouth thing, or is there something more 'official' that I haven't found yet?
 
pinkpuppy9 said:
Where can one find GPA info when it comes to residencies? Is it a word of mouth thing, or is there something more 'official' that I haven't found yet?
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I just read this and thought, "I wonder what GPA stands for?" as if it was some cool and foreign vet acronym.

😳
 
DVMDream said:
Like in moved back to the US, started at another school, tackled depression, got it under control, got through a few rough personal things type of deal.
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I'd say switching to the Dragon School was a pretty solid move. 🙂

By the way, I love your list of clinics. I have no idea what "how to avoid dragon fire" is, but I feel like you're in the american version of Hogwarts and this makes me happy.
 
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DVMDream said:
Welp, that was an exciting conversation....

I'm going to rant about the fact that this case I have is just sad. Incredibly, incredibly sad. I also seem to attract the cancer whenever I am on medicine. I hate the cancer. Hate it. That is all.
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we joke a lot that medicine is just the cancer diagnosing service. i've diagnosed so much cancer on medicine. and critical care. :-/ i really, really want to send 1 hemoabdomen to surgery and have it be the one that comes back benign. i've sent 2 so far and 2/2 cancer. one which was 5 years old. typically people just euthanize when they realize whats involved, but for once i'd like to have a hero moment of cure!
 
Coquette22 said:
Mom fussed about The Simpsons, but never actually turned it off. She also thought Power Rangers was too violent, but never stopped me from watching it. I fluctuated between wanting to be the Pink Ranger or Sailor Mars. (Okay, I still want to be the Pink Ranger or Sailor Mars...)
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I was literally able to do or watch whatever I wanted and that's how I turned out so cool
 
jmo1012 said:
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we joke a lot that medicine is just the cancer diagnosing service. i've diagnosed so much cancer on medicine. and critical care. :-/ i really, really want to send 1 hemoabdomen to surgery and have it be the one that comes back benign. i've sent 2 so far and 2/2 cancer. one which was 5 years old. typically people just euthanize when they realize whats involved, but for once i'd like to have a hero moment of cure!
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Before I was accepted into vet school and I was still working as a tech, my dog had a splenic tumor and we went through with splenectomy. The tumor came back as a hematoma, unfortunately, my dog went into multi-organ failure and became completely oliguric/anuric, so we had to put him to sleep... 🙁

I even posted about it on here...

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/dog-having-surgery-tomorrow.808079/

then I disappeared from SDN for quite a few months... you know, a couple years of rejection, dog dying, etc... I kind of needed the disappearance.
 
jmo1012 said:
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we joke a lot that medicine is just the cancer diagnosing service. i've diagnosed so much cancer on medicine. and critical care. :-/ i really, really want to send 1 hemoabdomen to surgery and have it be the one that comes back benign. i've sent 2 so far and 2/2 cancer. one which was 5 years old. typically people just euthanize when they realize whats involved, but for once i'd like to have a hero moment of cure!
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See, and I feel like I got all the oddball cases that are going to make me overly optimistic for things going forward. In my first few weeks on clinics, I had a horrible hemoabdomen that was a hepatocellular adenoma, and a 13ish year old cat with pleural fluid that (shocker!) actually ended up being a pyothorax instead of cancer or heart disease. Chest tubes and management and she did great. I managed to not have a single patient euthanized on medicine, while I had classmates who felt like every third patient was dying...
 
Trilt said:
See, and I feel like I got all the oddball cases that are going to make me overly optimistic for things going forward. In my first few weeks on clinics, I had a horrible hemoabdomen that was a hepatocellular adenoma, and a 13ish year old cat with pleural fluid that (shocker!) actually ended up being a pyothorax instead of cancer or heart disease. Chest tubes and management and she did great. I managed to not have a single patient euthanized on medicine, while I had classmates who felt like every third patient was dying...
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I haven't had any patients euthanized since starting clinics... yet.


Ok, to clarify that, I haven't had any patients euthanized at the school with me present, yet. I have had patients go home and be euthanized at their rDVM.
 
I really should go to bed because tomorrow is going to be a busy day, but I really don't want to because I want some awake time not doing vet school things. But I am so damn tired.
 
DVMDream said:
I haven't had any patients euthanized since starting clinics... yet.


Ok, to clarify that, I haven't had any patients euthanized at the school with me present, yet. I have had patients go home and be euthanized at their rDVM.
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Same, actually, excluding exotics on externships that were brought in 85% dead. I feel very lucky.
 
Successfully 'threw' a sheep for the first time today, but I really think it may have been the last straw for my rotator cuff. I also couldn't get blood for the life of me 🙁
 
wheelin2vetmed said:
Simpsons was off limits for me too. Barely watched TV, but this was my all time favorite cartoon:

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My mom hated pretty much every show. We couldn't watch The Simpsons either, yet we were completely okay to play the PS2 games lol. No CatDog, Angry Beavers, Johnny Bravo (although more often than not she didn't change the channel for that one), Pinky and the Brain, and more. She also had MTV blocked until maybe 3-4 years ago lol. She put so much work into keeping inappropriate stuff out of the house, yet all three of us turned out to be three of the most foul-mouthed people I know.
 
twelvetigers said:
Man, I just didn't have cable. That cut a lot out. That said, I'm pretty sure I watched Wishbone and The X-Files around the same time period in my life, so...
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Also didn't have cable, plus wasn't allowed to watch tv during the week till I was about 9. But my mom often fell asleep before I did on the weekends, so then no one was around to monitor my shows. Friends, that 70s show, King of the Hill, Simpsons, and Buffy were all favorites of 5 year old me haha. My mom was kind of horrified when she learned I use to watch those at that age.

And then you have my dad.... Who didn't see anything wrong with letting me watch SVU at that age when I was at his house....
 
Was I really the only kid on earth who really didn't like Power Rangers?

My parents let me watch pretty much anything that was okay enough to be on broadcast or cable. Mom tsked and shook her head and nagged a little about South Park when it first came out, but I watched it anyway. As long as I was doing well in school and behaving myself, my dad didn't give a single f- what I watched.

And holy crap, South Park has been on the air for almost 20 years. Wow. I still remember the first episode and a few others from the first season. Cripes, I feel a little old now. Thanks, guys. 😛
 
pinkpuppy9 said:
Where can one find GPA info when it comes to residencies? Is it a word of mouth thing, or is there something more 'official' that I haven't found yet?
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Uhhh, so that information does exist somewhere because I've seen it but I don't remember where. Sorry 🙁 I hear about it more as a word of mouth thing. Surgery is a 3.5 GPA and 25% of the class minimum for residencies. Internal med is a little easier to get into. Zoo med is harder. Path is harder. Sorry, that's all I've got 🙁
 
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Was I really the only kid on earth who really didn't like Power Rangers?
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Yeah, I kinda hated it. My little brother loved it and would run around for hours yelling "Go ____ ranger!" and making laser and exploding noises.

I was a Johnny Bravo, Pinky and the Brain, Animaniacs, Sailor Moon, Doug, Batman and Superman cartoon fan in middle and high school. Watched Buffy, Angel...

But as a kid: Gummy Bears, Rainbow Bright, Pippi Longstocking, Punky Brewster, Under the Umbrella Tree, Reading Rainbow, Transformers, He man and She-Ra, and weird stuff like Doogie Howser and Three's Company... I feel like I watched a lot of TV...

My kid is still in the Sesame Street stage, but she's started to like Shawn the Sheep, Peg + Cat and Jake and the Never land Pirates.
 
missdarjeeling said:
Was I really the only kid on earth who really didn't like Power Rangers?
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I didn't like it either. I was in elementary school in the early to mid 90's when it came out and it was just part of the wait before X-Men, Spider-Man, Batman, and Animaniacs came on after school. For childhood nostalgia's sake: The Tick, Eek! the Cat, and Darkstalkers were also cartoons of that period that I remember fondly.
 
Rwwilliams said:
Uhhh, so that information does exist somewhere because I've seen it but I don't remember where. Sorry 🙁 I hear about it more as a word of mouth thing. Surgery is a 3.5 GPA and 25% of the class minimum for residencies. Internal med is a little easier to get into. Zoo med is harder. Path is harder. Sorry, that's all I've got 🙁
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What does "25% of the class minimum" mean?
 
Doug!! 😍

I wasn't into Power Rangers either and I wasn't allowed to watch South Park.
 
I wasn't a fan of power rangers or Sesame Street.. I LOVED the wild thornberrys and cat dog. I also loved spongebob! Doug and hey Arnold were the bomb!
 
I was allowed to watch whatever the heck I wanted. But I was a rough and tumble kid. I always wanted to be at the park.

ducktales, gummy bears, various anime, Invader Zim, etc etc
 
pinkpuppy9 said:
Successfully 'threw' a sheep for the first time today, but I really think it may have been the last straw for my rotator cuff. I also couldn't get blood for the life of me 🙁
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We had to flip sheep and do blood draws this past week for one of our classes. There are 3 of us in a group for the year for labs. I had a sprained ankle, another group member of mine tore her labrum in her hip and needs surgery, and our 3rd lab partner had just had her gallbladder removed the week before. We were a hot mess :laugh: Luckily 2 of us had done it many times before so we figured out how to tag team without injuring ourselves 🙂. I hope your shoulder is able to heal 🙁 Don't worry about the blood, you have plenty of time to learn that.
 
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When I was ~3rd grade my parents go rid of cable. Then we watched Between the Lions and all those PBS shows. On Saturday mornings, there were craft shows and cooking shows. And Bob Ross. I love Bob Ross.
 
PrincessButterCup said:
When I was ~3rd grade my parents go rid of cable. Then we watched Between the Lions and all those PBS shows. On Saturday mornings, there were craft shows and cooking shows. And Bob Ross. I love Bob Ross.
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Dance, dance, dance in smarty pants! Ooh aah, dance in smarty pants!

Cliff hanger, hanging on a cliff. That's why it's called... cliff hanger!
 
My favorite show growing up was this really f***ed up cartoon in Japan where the main character was this billionaire kid. The way his dad would show affection to his kid was essentially by frenching each other. The kid didn't walk but instead had a herd of 10 turtles he had on leashes that he stood on. His way of expressing friendship was grinding his penis onto his friends. One of his classmates was the oldest child of a family of like 7 orphaned kids, and they were poor but proud, so their attire was fairly normal in the front but butt naked in the back. The f***ed up ness of the whole thing was quite up there, but i thought it was the funniest thing in the world. A few years ago, it was on rerun on a cable channel so I watched a few episodes, and it was pretty disturbing. I found Stickers of this show's theme on LINE, and almost use then exclusively when I'm in touch with my family
 
Minnerbelle said:
My favorite show growing up was this really f***ed up cartoon in Japan where the main character was this billionaire kid. The way his dad would show affection to his kid was essentially by frenching each other. The kid didn't walk but instead had a herd of 10 turtles he had on leashes that he stood on. His way of expressing friendship was grinding his penis onto his friends. One of his classmates was the oldest child of a family of like 7 orphaned kids, and they were poor but proud, so their attire was fairly normal in the front but butt naked in the back. The f***ed up ness of the whole thing was quite up there, but i thought it was the funniest thing in the world. A few years ago, it was on rerun on a cable channel so I watched a few episodes, and it was pretty disturbing. I found Stickers of this show's theme on LINE, and almost use then exclusively when I'm in touch with my family
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This . . . this was shown to children?
 
Minnerbelle said:
My favorite show growing up was this really f***ed up cartoon in Japan where the main character was this billionaire kid. The way his dad would show affection to his kid was essentially by frenching each other. The kid didn't walk but instead had a herd of 10 turtles he had on leashes that he stood on. His way of expressing friendship was grinding his penis onto his friends. One of his classmates was the oldest child of a family of like 7 orphaned kids, and they were poor but proud, so their attire was fairly normal in the front but butt naked in the back. The f***ed up ness of the whole thing was quite up there, but i thought it was the funniest thing in the world. A few years ago, it was on rerun on a cable channel so I watched a few episodes, and it was pretty disturbing. I found Stickers of this show's theme on LINE, and almost use then exclusively when I'm in touch with my family
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I don't remember that one. But I watched a lot of Japanese cartoons when I lived there. Like Anpanman and several others I can't remember the name of.
 
Minnerbelle said:
My favorite show growing up was this really f***ed up cartoon in Japan where the main character was this billionaire kid. The way his dad would show affection to his kid was essentially by frenching each other. The kid didn't walk but instead had a herd of 10 turtles he had on leashes that he stood on. His way of expressing friendship was grinding his penis onto his friends. One of his classmates was the oldest child of a family of like 7 orphaned kids, and they were poor but proud, so their attire was fairly normal in the front but butt naked in the back. The f***ed up ness of the whole thing was quite up there, but i thought it was the funniest thing in the world. A few years ago, it was on rerun on a cable channel so I watched a few episodes, and it was pretty disturbing. I found Stickers of this show's theme on LINE, and almost use then exclusively when I'm in touch with my family
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That's worse than Shin-Chan.
 
Rwwilliams said:
Uhhh, so that information does exist somewhere because I've seen it but I don't remember where. Sorry 🙁 I hear about it more as a word of mouth thing. Surgery is a 3.5 GPA and 25% of the class minimum for residencies. Internal med is a little easier to get into. Zoo med is harder. Path is harder. Sorry, that's all I've got 🙁
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It's no biggie! I wish there were stats published like they do for admissions. I just keep hearing "keep your grades high."
 
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