I am never allowed to talk about my day with my husband. He thinks what I do is gross. Talking about the cases I saw during the day can mean I end up sleeping on the couch. During undergrad, I volunteered at the Montana Raptor Conservation Center, where I cleaned cages, made raptor meals out […]
The Start of Senior Year (The Smelliest Rotation)
Today was the start of a two-week vacation; my first break since senior year began in May. At Colorado State University, senior year is a full twelve months of two- or three-week rotations. Each rotation is with a different department at the Vet Teaching Hospital, or students can do externships off campus. I just finished […]
What Would James Herriot Do?
There is probably not a vet student who hasn’t heard of James Herriot, and most of us have read through his tales as a rural veterinarian in the Yorkshire countryside. A lot of the subjects he wrote about are the same all vets deal with, independent of time and location: limitations of medicine, interactions with […]
