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pinkpuppy9 said:
Possibly. It doesn't help matters when your 'course mom' says (to the group of people really confused about the same issue) "Yeah, they do seem to have been graded rather inconsistently. That's what happens when you grade a huge volume of papers in an extremely short period of time." :eyebrow: I'm no professor, but it seems weird to have not adhered to some sort of rubric and instead subjectively evaluated and assigned points from there. It's not like it was an essay question where explanations could have differed...it was a graph we had to spit out from memory. Just annoying, that's all.
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I feel your pain and have shared your frustration many times. The -1 person is frustrated and the -2 person is all, "it's not that big a deal". It's fun to watch what happens if the tables turn... Suddenly it's a big deal 😛
 
orca2011 said:
It's actually cause it's probably a bit too early. I'm having that issue now because I have to move for my internship but I'm more limited on how frequently I can go check out places. I had been sort of hoping that if I wasn't necessarily going to be in a college town that'd it be a bit easier to find things ahead of time, but it's not.
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When I moved for my residency, I went looking in April because that was the latest I could get time off. It was too early for the majority of places to know what they'd have open in July. The place I ended up renting had an awesome landlord who held an apartment for a month for me. It's tough. Some college towns are super early...other towns are more normal and you only want to go 2 months ahead of time.
 
variegata said:
When I moved for my residency, I went looking in April because that was the latest I could get time off. It was too early for the majority of places to know what they'd have open in July. The place I ended up renting had an awesome landlord who held an apartment for a month for me. It's tough. Some college towns are super early...other towns are more normal and you only want to go 2 months ahead of time.
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This is a similar problem I'm running into. The college-town apartments are all taken up (and considerably more expensive) while the townie apartments aren't showing anything until may or June, and I need to move in July.
 
ketoone said:
Eesh, that does sound super stressful... I hope you can find somewhere soon! :xf:


Yeah, I was thinking this earlier. I've got several inquiries that I've made, so I'm hoping something comes out of one of those. I'm the type of person who just really prefers to have things set in stone way in advance. That's crazy that the good rentals started so late! 😱
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Have you checked out Pheasant Run Apartments in Ames? That's where I lived during my four years. At the time, they did allow pets other than dogs. A lot of vet students lived there, which comes in handy when your car refuses to start on the morning of a final exam - got a very timely lift from a first year to my Pathology final one winter day . If you're thinking of getting one of the trailers near the vet school, I would cruise by the bulletin boards in the vet school on a regular basis - that's where most of the kids in my class posted theirs. Of course, that was over 15 years ago...
 
Necropsy rotation... not my jam. And then today I had the lovely added insult of having the clinician bring the big camera equipment down and record the process, including impromptu question and answers. Took like three times longer than it should have, and my face gets to be in videos. (me = not photogenic). awweesssomeeee.

:beat:
 
twelvetigers said:
Four rotations left for you though, and three of them should be pretty sweet! And at least radiology doesn't involve too much paperwork or after hours care.
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It's so true. Emergency was my last "real" rotation, and really it's all been smooth sailing since, like, late November. Really shouldn't complain... digging through dead things just makes me an uber grump, apparently. :laugh:
 
Just found out that my boyfriend's good friend has colon cancer. He's only 26. Life really sucks sometimes.
 
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This rant may be premature, but I like to plan ahead. After months of fighting with the administration (and losing) about which track I was going to take, I finally caved and did what they wanted me to do. I was (still am) bitter about it, but I managed to get into all of the rotations I wanted to including electives that I was originally told I probably wouldn't get. My schedule came out and I didn't even have any major issues that needed changing, so despite it not being my original plan, I was pretty content with it.

Yesterday I went in to the admin office to sign off on my rotation schedule (since I didn't need to make any changes). Today, I received this email:

Hi Kat! (this happy exclamation point angers me)

When I was filing your form last night I noticed that I had a notation on your schedule, so we will need to meet. You are short a core elective, so we need to drop an elective, externship or vacation to fit in the missing core elective.

No no no no no! I specifically chose my electives based on the stupid "worksheet" I had to follow and I swear to Zeus if they force me to change something now I will go ballistic. I am SO TIRED of arguing with them about this! I have done everything they have asked of me and sacrificed so much already I absolutely REFUSE to keep caving especially at this stage in the game.

Just leave me alone! I was so happy!
 
kcoughli said:
This rant may be premature, but I like to plan ahead. After months of fighting with the administration (and losing) about which track I was going to take, I finally caved and did what they wanted me to do. I was (still am) bitter about it, but I managed to get into all of the rotations I wanted to including electives that I was originally told I probably wouldn't get. My schedule came out and I didn't even have any major issues that needed changing, so despite it not being my original plan, I was pretty content with it.

Yesterday I went in to the admin office to sign off on my rotation schedule (since I didn't need to make any changes). Today, I received this email:

Hi Kat! (this happy exclamation point angers me)

When I was filing your form last night I noticed that I had a notation on your schedule, so we will need to meet. You are short a core elective, so we need to drop an elective, externship or vacation to fit in the missing core elective.

No no no no no! I specifically chose my electives based on the stupid "worksheet" I had to follow and I swear to Zeus if they force me to change something now I will go ballistic. I am SO TIRED of arguing with them about this! I have done everything they have asked of me and sacrificed so much already I absolutely REFUSE to keep caving especially at this stage in the game.

Just leave me alone! I was so happy!
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This makes me frustrated for you :-(
I hope you can make them see the light and let you keep your schedule!
 
JJ1019 said:
This makes me frustrated for you :-(
I hope you can make them see the light and let you keep your schedule!
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I'm meeting with them in like 5 minutes so hopefully I can sort it out. Hopefully it's just an error on their part, but I am seriously nearing the point of tears with this. I hate being confrontational and having to stick up for myself and I'm seriously generally such a rule-follower this kind of stuff makes me sick to my stomach. I just want to do what's best for my future and intended career, and so far they have refused to work with me at any point along the way.
 
kcoughli said:
I'm meeting with them in like 5 minutes so hopefully I can sort it out. Hopefully it's just an error on their part, but I am seriously nearing the point of tears with this. I hate being confrontational and having to stick up for myself and I'm seriously generally such a rule-follower this kind of stuff makes me sick to my stomach. I just want to do what's best for my future and intended career, and so far they have refused to work with me at any point along the way.
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I'm largely the same way. I'm very much someone who plays by the rules so I have a difficult time standing up for myself in these types of situations... I know that struggle.

I really, really hope that this works out for you and that they can resolve the scheduling issue entirely! I'm frustrated just reading about it.
 
So the problem ended up being that they decided to recategorize one of my electives, so it no longer fulfilled a requirement of the track that I was forced into. I managed to pull some crazy shenanigans and will have to change my signature line a bit but overall I think it worked out okay. Not the best, but okay.
 
kcoughli said:
This rant may be premature, but I like to plan ahead. After months of fighting with the administration (and losing) about which track I was going to take, I finally caved and did what they wanted me to do. I was (still am) bitter about it, but I managed to get into all of the rotations I wanted to including electives that I was originally told I probably wouldn't get. My schedule came out and I didn't even have any major issues that needed changing, so despite it not being my original plan, I was pretty content with it.

Yesterday I went in to the admin office to sign off on my rotation schedule (since I didn't need to make any changes). Today, I received this email:

Hi Kat! (this happy exclamation point angers me)

When I was filing your form last night I noticed that I had a notation on your schedule, so we will need to meet. You are short a core elective, so we need to drop an elective, externship or vacation to fit in the missing core elective.

No no no no no! I specifically chose my electives based on the stupid "worksheet" I had to follow and I swear to Zeus if they force me to change something now I will go ballistic. I am SO TIRED of arguing with them about this! I have done everything they have asked of me and sacrificed so much already I absolutely REFUSE to keep caving especially at this stage in the game.

Just leave me alone! I was so happy!
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What "core elective" were you short?
 
LetItSnow said:
What "core elective" were you short?
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"FA/Eq/SA" for the Mixed/Interdisciplinary Track. Which, to me, should be literally ANY elective they offer. And they just created a lab animal medicine elective for our class, and originally had decided that it counted as a SA elective. Apparently over the winter break they decided to recategorize it to comparative medicine category. Honestly, I don't even understand why they have a core elective category for "FA/Eq/SA" when they renamed the track to include Interdisciplinary. I have a lot of opinions about this, but I don't think anyone cares what I have to think about it.
 
kcoughli said:
"FA/Eq/SA" for the Mixed/Interdisciplinary Track. Which, to me, should be literally ANY elective they offer. And they just created a lab animal medicine elective for our class, and originally had decided that it counted as a SA elective. Apparently over the winter break they decided to recategorize it to comparative medicine category. Honestly, I don't even understand why they have a core elective category for "FA/Eq/SA" when they renamed the track to include Interdisciplinary. I have a lot of opinions about this, but I don't think anyone cares what I have to think about it.
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Just do SA or Equine track like everyone else and there will be a lot less confusion.

*duck*
 
LetItSnow said:
*duck*
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Me: :boom:
You:
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kcoughli said:
"FA/Eq/SA" for the Mixed/Interdisciplinary Track. Which, to me, should be literally ANY elective they offer. And they just created a lab animal medicine elective for our class, and originally had decided that it counted as a SA elective. Apparently over the winter break they decided to recategorize it to comparative medicine category. Honestly, I don't even understand why they have a core elective category for "FA/Eq/SA" when they renamed the track to include Interdisciplinary. I have a lot of opinions about this, but I don't think anyone cares what I have to think about it.
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I feel like as third years we begin to get stronger and stronger opinions about certain parts of our curriculum...
 
Rwwilliams said:
Oh no! I hope you're alright!
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Had elective hip surgery today because I had a very large swelling 8 weeks after a slip. And the pain isn't controlled on iv pain meds. The one nurse was talking about sending me home on percocet but I can't even move from the bed to the recovery recliner.
 
dyachei said:
Had elective hip surgery today because I had a very large swelling 8 weeks after a slip. And the pain isn't controlled on iv pain meds. The one nurse was talking about sending me home on percocet but I can't even move from the bed to the recovery recliner.
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Yuck. I'm sorry.
 
BirdsinMyHouse said:
I swear to Thor I will fight the next person who re-posts that stupid meme about there not being a cure for cancer because there's more money in chemo drugs than there is in a cure. It's like, think about that for a second. If the cure for every single cancer existed, drug companies would be tearing each other to pieces over it. People would pay any amount of money, because it's a disease that takes pets and family and friends from us... what wouldn't anyone give for a cure? I'm sure scientists and pharmaceutical people have lost loved ones to cancer as well.

And of course this last person had to add HIV on to the list of things we haven't cured because of money. Um... no. The lack of knowledge about how infectious diseases spread and how science works makes me sad sometimes. People want to believe these stupid conspiracy theories because they don't understand, and they COULD understand if they were taught better... or taught at all. It's easier to think someone is deliberately hiding the answer from you than learning the truth.
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Just saw this pop up on my Facebook today and wanted to express my anger here rather than getting into a facebook debate. :boom:
 
My husband is making it even harder for me to decide which school to go to. He's pressuring me to hurry up and decide and he's dumping all of his anxiety over it on me, saying that he needs me to figure everything out quickly because it's stressing him out. He wants me to decide right now and figure out housing as soon as possible. I'm already anxious enough and I'm already feeling the weight of this decision without him pressuring me about it. I already know perfectly freaking well just how much it matters and just how much it's going to affect our lives. He blew up at me the other day and pointed out that this affects him, too, but he fails to recognize that my taking time to make a decision is the result of considering everyone else in my life instead of just me. If I were just thinking of myself, I would've decided already. Then he has the gall to say that he thought I'd be happier about it all. Well, you're not exactly helping me focus on the positives, are you?
 
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dyachei said:
Had elective hip surgery today because I had a very large swelling 8 weeks after a slip. And the pain isn't controlled on iv pain meds. The one nurse was talking about sending me home on percocet but I can't even move from the bed to the recovery recliner.
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That sounds awful. 🙁 I hope you feel better soon, dyachei!
 
No where near the extreme of anyone else's rants right now, but I'm trying a new recipe -- chai latte muffins. The batter tastes very bland...I don't have high hopes which is surprising because I feel like the batter had a lot of flavorful things in it.
 
orca2011 said:
No where near the extreme of anyone else's rants right now, but I'm trying a new recipe -- chai latte muffins. The batter tastes very bland...I don't have high hopes which is surprising because I feel like the batter had a lot of flavorful things in it.
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It's not over til it's baked! I've had plenty of baked goods taste better cooked. Which is disappointing to someone who loves to lick the mixing spoons.
 
orca2011 said:
No where near the extreme of anyone else's rants right now, but I'm trying a new recipe -- chai latte muffins. The batter tastes very bland...I don't have high hopes which is surprising because I feel like the batter had a lot of flavorful things in it.
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Those sound really good. If they work out, sounds like a good recipe to have.
 
missdarjeeling said:
My husband is making it even harder for me to decide which school to go to. He's pressuring me to hurry up and decide and he's dumping all of his anxiety over it on me, saying that he needs me to figure everything out quickly because it's stressing him out. He wants me to decide right now and figure out housing as soon as possible. I'm already anxious enough and I'm already feeling the weight of this decision without him pressuring me about it. I already know perfectly freaking well just how much it matters and just how much it's going to affect our lives. He blew up at me the other day and pointed out that this affects him, too, but he fails to recognize that my taking time to make a decision is the result of considering everyone else in my life instead of just me. If I were just thinking of myself, I would've decided already. Then he has the gall to say that he thought I'd be happier about it all. Well, you're not exactly helping me focus on the positives, are you?
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I'm in a similar boat - my whole family has arbitrarily decided what school they think I should attend and keep talking about how they're so excited that I'm going to go there. :annoyed:

I actually like that school too, but their insistence is making me hate it! Plus one of the reasons they want me to go there is so they can visit more often - but professional school is a ton of work and I can't manage surprise visits from them every weekend. I just wish they would accept that this is ultimately my choice and my career. I definitely want to be making decisions with my family in mind, but that doesn't mean they can make all of the decisions for me either!

And, of course, they're pressuring me to accept a position quickly... because they need to buy plane tickets to come up for my graduation and whether they will have to make them round trip tickets depends on where I go. 😕
 
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Womp. I must have somehow packed the flour too well and had too much because they're on the dry side and still sort of bland. I'm soooo sad right now. I was hoping to bring these in for my rotation tomorrow.

I also substituted maple syrup for agave because I didn't have. Maybe should have used honey instead but I didn't have enough of that either.

I will have to try them again because I think they're supposed to be really good.

ETA: Now i can't remember if I doubled the amount of syrup since I doubled the recipe...that totally might be the issue.
 
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orca2011 said:
No where near the extreme of anyone else's rants right now, but I'm trying a new recipe -- chai latte muffins. The batter tastes very bland...I don't have high hopes which is surprising because I feel like the batter had a lot of flavorful things in it.
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I can commiserate. I screwed up the buttercream for my tech's baby shower. The cupcakes still taste good but they look like crap.
 
vetmedhead said:
I'm in a similar boat - my whole family has arbitrarily decided what school they think I should attend and keep talking about how they're so excited that I'm going to go there. :annoyed:

I actually like that school too, but their insistence is making me hate it! Plus one of the reasons they want me to go there is so they can visit more often - but professional school is a ton of work and I can't manage surprise visits from them every weekend. I just wish they would accept that this is ultimately my choice and my career. I definitely want to be making decisions with my family in mind, but that doesn't mean they can make all of the decisions for me either!

And, of course, they're pressuring me to accept a position quickly... because they need to buy plane tickets to come up for my graduation and whether he will have to make them round trip tickets depends on where I go. 😕
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Yeah, it's a little stressful, isn't it? I mean, it's important to recognize that this is their way of being supportive, but it's sometimes hard to think through your options properly when you've got someone breathing down your neck about it.

My family isn't particularly excited about any of it. My mom was happy for me but she's still upset that I'm not currently in some other high-powered, high-paying career while simultaneously popping out grandbabies because omg I'm almost 30!!!111. She wants me to go to school in Philly so I can be close by, but she lost the "let me tell her what to do!" battle a decade ago, so she's learned not to push me. My husband was happy for me but quickly moved into the anxiety and "why haven't you figured this all out yet?" stage. The only people who were really excited were my coworkers, and everyone is already assuming that I'm staying instate. I appreciate how sweet and supportive they've been, but it's also a little awkward to hear, "You don't want to be a Penn grad. They're so obnoxious," and the like. I know they're just trying to make light hearted conversation, but yeah.

I can deal with all of that pretty easily except for the husband thing. It's frustrating because he convinced me not to give up on vet med and supported me in pretty much everything. I'm grateful for how much he's done for me. But now that I'm in, he can't stop ramping up my anxiety by verbally vomiting up all of his, and it's making me feel even more guilty about doing any of this. I'm currently in a hotel room because I'm visiting a school tomorrow. I was really excited to be here, but after one more brief phone conversation with him about school, I just have a knot in my stomach and I'm wondering what the F I'm doing here.
 
missdarjeeling said:
I was really excited to be here, but after one more brief phone conversation with him about school, I just have a knot in my stomach and I'm wondering what the F I'm doing here.
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I can see how your husband would be anxious, but if I had someone pressuring me like that I would probably blow up on them by now...

Please try to not let that get you down! You've worked too long and too hard to wonder what you're doing there! I hope you can just try to enjoy your trip to the school, and I really hope that everything works out for you and your family. It'll be a tough decision, but I am sure it will work out in the end.
 
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batsenecal said:
My best friend has Shingles at the age of 24. So sucky.
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Not just an old person disease. My best friend also got it...I think he was about 26-27. seemed very painful. I hope they find some relief!
 
Shingles is less of an old person disease than it used to be because of the chicken pox vaccine. There are a couple studies out there that subsequent exposure to chicken pox can reduce the likelihood of the virus reemerging. So in the past you got chicken pox as a kid and you were more than likely exposed multiple times as a kid, plus your children and grandchildren also probably had chicken pox so most people were set for life. Now with the great reduction in naturally occurring exposure, more people are getting shingles because they aren't getting those boosters.
 
BrownSwissCows said:
Shingles is less of an old person disease than it used to be because of the chicken pox vaccine. There are a couple studies out there that subsequent exposure to chicken pox can reduce the likelihood of the virus reemerging. So in the past you got chicken pox as a kid and you were more than likely exposed multiple times as a kid, plus your children and grandchildren also probably had chicken pox so most people were set for life. Now with the great reduction in naturally occurring exposure, more people are getting shingles because they aren't getting those boosters.
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Bull. I had "naturally occurring" chicken pox and got shingles. Shingles occurs in those who have had a previous infection with chicken pox. The virus has to have the opportunity to take up residence in the nerve endings then it "flares", usually at times of stress or if the body is immunosuppressed. It is highly unlikely for those vaccinated for chicken pox to develop shingles and there are research studies that have been conducted that prove there is no link between chicken box vaccination and development of shingles.
 
Yep. Was born before being vaccinated for chicken pox was common. Had chicken pox bad (like, there was not one place on my body not covered in pox) at 2 and 6. Still had shingles at 7.
 
I think you misunderstood the way I typed it. Exposure to chicken pox after you have already had it can reduce the risk of a flare up, which is shingles. More people being vaccinated means that you are less likely to be exposed to chicken pox.
 
BrownSwissCows said:
I think you misunderstood the way I typed it. Exposure to chicken pox after you have already had it can reduce the risk of a flare up, which is shingles. More people being vaccinated means that you are less likely to be exposed to chicken pox.
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Chicken pox causes shingles... you have to be infected with chicken pox to develop shingles. It doesn't matter how many times you are "exposed" to the virus, it takes one infection for the virus to take up residence and lie dormant in the nerve tissue and it just takes a little bit of stress/immunosuppression for it to re-emerge. Kind of like herpes. Actually shingles is called herpes zoster because it was believed to be a type of herpes virus. To state that "Shingles is less of an old person disease than it used to be because of the chicken pox vaccine," is stating that the vaccine is causing shingles because young people are getting vaccinated. Which is 100% untrue, ok, 99.9% untrue.
 
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