I was just joking lol. I would gladly attend the school, especially if it was my only option!
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I was hoping you were, but some people aren’t about those things and are actually dead serious
Which makes the second years all salty when our exam doesn't start on time because y'all are in our room 😛
Hah those are some stubborn, inflexible people! Qualities I imagine don’t do so well in vet school..
Sometimes I wear jeggings instead of regular leggings to trick people into thinking I have my life together enough to wear nice clothes (jeans)
It’s not too bad. I wear comfy clothes that still fit the dress code, but it does sound like a hassle compared to the other schools that don’t have professional dress. First year anatomy I rarely changed into scrubs and just wore a lab coat over my clothes. Auburn is a great school so don’t let the dress code deter you. We have the dress code because the school wants us to look presentable and professional since we are in professional school. Definitely would love to wear sweatpants to class, but I try to pick out business clothes that are comfortable enough to sit in for 8 hours. Also, Auburn has state of the art facilities, wonderful professors, and everyone here is like family, so consider those factors above the dress code. And if you’re an in state / Kentucky resident you should have Auburn as your top pick bc low tuitionThis sounds horrible! Giving my application to Auburn a second thought
They want me to pay $200k to not be able to wear sweatpants while I sit in a frigid classroom for five hours straight? Uh huh.
I don’t mind THAT much about wearing business clothes..it just means I would have to update my wardrobe! Just another expense lolIt’s not too bad. I wear comfy clothes that still fit the dress code, but it does sound like a hassle compared to the other schools that don’t have professional dress. First year anatomy I rarely changed into scrubs and just wore a lab coat over my clothes. Auburn is a great school so don’t let the dress code deter you. We have the dress code because the school wants us to look presentable and professional since we are in professional school. Definitely would love to wear sweatpants to class, but I try to pick out business clothes that are comfortable enough to sit in for 8 hours. Also, Auburn has state of the art facilities, wonderful professors, and everyone here is like family, so consider those factors above the dress code. And if you’re an in state / Kentucky resident you should have Auburn as your top pick bc low tuition
I'm in nice pants, boots, and a vet med sweat shirt with a vet med polo in my bag cause I might be giving a tour to an professional sort of person......
I want my sweat pants back.
I want my sweat pants back.
Here is how I think about it. We are at a professional school with professionals watching you all day long. Would you want your 1st impression for a potential employer to be you in leggings or sweatpants? For example, we had USDA talking to us about jobs and internship opportunities on Monday. I would not want to go up and talk to my potential employer for a summer internship wearing sweatpants or leggings, it is just not professional. Your appearance is the 1st thing people see about you and you want it to be the best possible. We are in a field where everybody knows just about everybody else (one of the doctors I shadow in the clinics have connections with Blue Pearl and 5 other universities). What impression would you want to make on this doctor? Just food for thought.
So one of my questions at my interview was if we had a dress code. My faculty interviewer is a huge researcher here and she straight up laughed and said, "I teach 8 ams, and people come in PJs. We understand you're here most days till between 5 and 7."
As a club president, I've communicated and worked with department of ag, clinicians from outside clinics, clinicians inside our clinic, and more. They've all, literally 100% of them, have expressed how they were glad for us that we don't have to worry about it and that they're low key jealous they had to be business casual while in school.
Plenty of people at my school have done awesome summer internships through connections they made via lunch lectures and clubs. All while wearing sweats and leggings. It's not nearly as big of a deal that you think it is, because all of these people have been in our shoes and know exactly how awesome it is to not have a dress code.
You do you, boo. Dress however you're comfortable and confident. But don't think that us comfy, lazy sons of guns are doing worse than you for that fact. Cause we aren't.
I didn't go to class to network... I went to class to learn (when I went to class that is). I mean sure, if there's a big wig in the field you want to break into that is flying in to give a special lecture and you want to schmooze, dress up if that's your goal. But... for sitting in a classroom 8 hours a day I just do not see the point in needing to look "professional". But like bats said, you do you.
I’ve found that the only people who care how you look in while sitting through lecture days in vet school are the people who haven’t been to vet school or if they did go to vet school they either have been in it for a month or they haven’t been in it for 40+ years.
@Trilt made a pretty good argument about it once- I’ll try to find it
presumably you knew about the USDA thing in advance? There's nothing wrong with dressing professionally just like there's nothing wrong with dressing comfortably.
I personally learn better when I'm not adjusting clothing or whatever because I'm comfortable. And if I had planned to go down to clinics, I always dressed professionally. That doesn't mean it's required every day.
It also doesn't give anyone the right to judge anyone else based on the way they dress.
I am just stating what was stated to us 1st years during our interview and at orientation. If your schools doesn't require you to dress professional then good for you guys. Wearing slacks or khakis is not as bad as people are making it out to be. Dress code definitely should not be the major factor between applying for a school or not.
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Yeeeeah, that sounds to me like something a school with a dress code would say to justify it.
I don't know. We don't have a dress code. We even have ridiculous days where we dress up in crazy stuff or in pajamas. Doesn't affect our abilities to get externships or affect our professors' opinions of us.
Judgment free zone either way 🙂
My employer didn’t come anywhere near the vet school. And now I wear scrubs at work every day. The slacks I bought for 4th year get worn like, once a year... and they’re all too big because nothing like four years of stress eating to make your pants bigger. Glad I don’t have more poorly-fitting pants taking up space in my closet.
I also have purple hair, SO. Maybe I just don’t care as much about making a ‘good impression.’
No but really.
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I'm pretty sure at every conference I've been to in the past year, most people were wearing casual clothing. Not sweatpants mind you, but like...t-shirts, jeans, cargo shorts, etc. Unless they were presenting, but even then it was mostly the students who dressed up.
If I don't even have to dress up for a professional conference, I'm not gonna put in more than the necessary effort to sit in a classroom for 8 hours a day
If I don't even have to dress up for a professional conference, I'm not gonna put in more than the necessary effort to sit in a classroom for 8 hours a day
When a pre-vet lectures on what is or is not professional in a school (emphasis - SCHOOL) environment.....
Of course you dress up nicer for professional situations like talking to a potential employer. But 95% of the time you are in vet school, you are not doing this. You are sitting in lecture or labs. Hell, half the faculty at our vet school wear jeans several times a week.
I get not looking like a total slob. But requiring students to dress up (and to in many cases shell out even more money for expensive dress clothes, as if they aren't paying enough already) to just sit in class is silly.
Also, as an educator...I personally could not care less about what my med students wear to class. Most faculty don't. Heck, we webcast so a decent proportion of the class watches lectures at home. Probably in their sweatpants. I don't care what they wear (for class, clinics are another matter) as long as they are learning and perform well on exams, labs, etc.
Hell, most days I don’t even bother with pants.
Yeppp. I wore Birkenstocks to a conference and got a little **** for it. But like, my prof told me it was casual, and for the most part, it was. It almost seemed like people dressing up felt like they had something to proveI'm pretty sure at every conference I've been to in the past year, most people were wearing casual clothing. Not sweatpants mind you, but like...t-shirts, jeans, cargo shorts, etc. Unless they were presenting, but even then it was mostly the students who dressed up.
If I don't even have to dress up for a professional conference, I'm not gonna put in more than the necessary effort to sit in a classroom for 8 hours a day
. And no professors were dressed up at all.
To be fair, if you're actively searching for a job and trying to network at a conference, dress nice. If you're just attending, whatever though.
So for first years at Cornell, our schedule is EXTREMELY variable. We have a block system so right now we're in block 1 which is basically a huge anatomy course. We do a lot of PBL so we usually have our tutor groups 2-3 mornings a week, and afterwards/on the other mornings we could have lectures, gross anatomy labs, histology labs, or radiology labs. Every single day and every single week is different. Then in the afternoons we have our physical exam class 2-3 times a week which is doing hands on exams to either small animal, bovine, or equine. So the days where you don't have the PE class you have the afternoon off to do independent studying for PBL. I honestly love how our curriculum is set up! Since we do blocks we will never have multiple exams in close proximity because we're just essentially in one "megacourse" plus the physical exam class. So far we had a midterm and three quizzes and that's it! And thankfully no dress code
