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07:59 pm - Wishing for summer
So I'm doing everything I can not to think about this upcoming week of tests. However, I'm very prepared to study. Lots of study guides, books and notes at hand. The actually serious studying just hasn't begun yet. And so I am here updating...something I haven't been so good at lately.
Vet school is...well, you've caught me at a bad time. 2 finals down and 5 to go and Cassandra just isn't the happiest peach. It's been a rough semester, but we're about to cross that one year hurdle and it will be nice to come back next year without the stigma of being "first years" (very Harry Potter-ish, I know.) In my down time these past few weeks (down time?!) I played in the vet school volley ball tournament when since has turned into a procrastinator's dream. We have a sand court outside the cafeteria at school, and there's a group of us that plays every few days when we can. It's the first time I've been excited about being at school. And though my studies are lacking at a crucial time in the semester, I'm outside doing something that I like to pretend counts as exercise.
After exams are over, we have 2 weeks of selectives. My first week is farrier medicine, and I'll be shadowing a farrier one on one for the whole week. I have high hopes for that one. My second week is bovine nutrition...so if you've got a cow, I'm going to learn how to feed it. Promptly following selectives I start my new job in clinical pathology in the hospital. I'll be part of a group of students that will be responsible for weekends and the on call hours of the lab for the next 2 years. This summer is a full time position in which we are trained in all aspects of the lab...running blood samples, transfusion crossmatches...etc. It will also be an opportunity to meet some of the clinicians up in the hospital. I do forsee two downfalls of the job: 1) no windows in the lab and 2) no animal contact, just their blood/tissue samples/other bodily fluids.
Meg and Marc's wedding was yesterday. They were both beautiful. :) Evernyone was nervous about the weather, but it turned in to a beautiful spring day. And what's a spring day without the threat of an April thunderstorm? I feel that everyone feels the same sentiment that no one gets to see enough of anyone these days and weddings are a good excuse to see people you haven't in a while. It was nice to catch up. It's just amazing how the time flies. Only yesterday Meg and I were lying on her kitchen floor, our bellies stuffed with dozens of home-grown tomatos.
I should be getting back to studying. I'll post soon.
Vet school is...well, you've caught me at a bad time. 2 finals down and 5 to go and Cassandra just isn't the happiest peach. It's been a rough semester, but we're about to cross that one year hurdle and it will be nice to come back next year without the stigma of being "first years" (very Harry Potter-ish, I know.) In my down time these past few weeks (down time?!) I played in the vet school volley ball tournament when since has turned into a procrastinator's dream. We have a sand court outside the cafeteria at school, and there's a group of us that plays every few days when we can. It's the first time I've been excited about being at school. And though my studies are lacking at a crucial time in the semester, I'm outside doing something that I like to pretend counts as exercise.
After exams are over, we have 2 weeks of selectives. My first week is farrier medicine, and I'll be shadowing a farrier one on one for the whole week. I have high hopes for that one. My second week is bovine nutrition...so if you've got a cow, I'm going to learn how to feed it. Promptly following selectives I start my new job in clinical pathology in the hospital. I'll be part of a group of students that will be responsible for weekends and the on call hours of the lab for the next 2 years. This summer is a full time position in which we are trained in all aspects of the lab...running blood samples, transfusion crossmatches...etc. It will also be an opportunity to meet some of the clinicians up in the hospital. I do forsee two downfalls of the job: 1) no windows in the lab and 2) no animal contact, just their blood/tissue samples/other bodily fluids.
Meg and Marc's wedding was yesterday. They were both beautiful. :) Evernyone was nervous about the weather, but it turned in to a beautiful spring day. And what's a spring day without the threat of an April thunderstorm? I feel that everyone feels the same sentiment that no one gets to see enough of anyone these days and weddings are a good excuse to see people you haven't in a while. It was nice to catch up. It's just amazing how the time flies. Only yesterday Meg and I were lying on her kitchen floor, our bellies stuffed with dozens of home-grown tomatos.
I should be getting back to studying. I'll post soon.