In my studies, I often find myself wondering while learning about a subject; “but why?” is a question that so often pops up. It seems to take hours to learn one chapter, as I am unhappy with knowing the basics and seek to delve more into depth about nearly every subject I encounter. One question […]
The Art of Trimming Pug Nails
The art of the pug nail trim is one of the things that veterinary technician classes cannot prepare you for in a clinical setting. Those adorable little squish-faced dogs with piggy tails may fool the inexperienced vet staff. Do not be deceived by this dog’s cute-as-a-button appearance; once you so much as think about […]
How Did I Get Here? The Journey to Veterinary Medicine
Now that the beginning of my first semester of veterinary school is drawing eerily close, I have been doing a lot of reflecting on exactly what I did to get here. What steps along the way helped me decide that this was the career for me, and what did I do to set myself apart […]
Giving Yourself Grace
Vet students are generally a group of overachievers. We have long academic track records of excellence, are involved in more clubs and extracurricular activities than we can remember at times, and most of us have held leadership roles during our undergraduate careers. Senior year in my own undergraduate program, the vet students were pretty well-known across […]
In Preparation of 3rd Year
It might only be halfway through the summer, but the start of 3rd year is already weighing on my mind. It’s set to be a full year of hands-on electives, our first surgical experiences, and then clinical rotations await us at the end of it all. Which is equally exciting and terrifying to me. First […]
Suicide and the Veterinary World
In life, we faced new challenges every day and is not surprising that suicide has ended up with the life of many people. They may seem happy and successful but they could not cope with depression, anxiety or loneliness. In these times, suicide has turned into a major problem in demanding careers including the veterinary […]
Open Letter to First Year Vet Students
Dear students, Congratulations on starting your first year of vet school! That’s a big step and I know how excited, enthusiastic and a little nervous you are! I am writing to tell you a few important things about vet school. I only need 380 characters to give you a heads up for your near future. […]
The Big Move
Most of us who choose to go to professional school have to uproot our lives to move to where ever that professional school is located. In the words of an undergraduate professor, “If the veterinary school of Narnia says they will take you, then that’s where you will go.” During my application and interview process, […]
Moving On: Leaving My First Veterinary Clinic
Just a few weeks ago, I said goodbye to the veterinary clinic where I worked nearly every day for the past two years. When I started working there, I was a fairly shy college sophomore working my way through undergrad who needed to pick up as many veterinary shadowing hours as I could. When I […]
Running on Adrenaline
You don’t truly appreciate the level of function you are working at in veterinary school until you slow it down and then speed it back up again. The way of daily life in veterinary school has been the biggest change in my life in the past year. You don’t sincerely know what hard work is […]
