It’s no secret that I like social media. It’s given me an opportunity to connect with many amazing individuals in the veterinary field and also help many people. When I started my veterinary Instagram account in January of 2018, I had NO IDEA how many incredible individuals I would have the opportunity to connect with […]
5 Tips for New Students Starting Vet or Vet Tech School
This fall, I am not going back to school, I have entered the workforce as an official veterinary technician. However, now that I am done, it is time for me to spread my wisdom to the new generation. Here are 5 tips for new students who are staring vet or vet tech school. Classmate friends […]
Why do you want to be a vet?
‘Why do you want to be a vet?‘ It’s a question that has universally and repeatedly popped up since deciding upon my career path. And it’s totally valid; what with the extended, insanely expensive education, the difficulty of said education, student debt, long hours and a massive imbalance of income, emergencies, euthanasia…it’s not surprising that […]
When He Crossed the Rainbow Bridge
Three months ago, I said goodbye to my four-legged best friend and the one that lived long enough to come with me to vet school. He was 14 years and 8 months when he recently crossed the rainbow bridge. My family and I rescued him when he was almost 6 months old. He was not […]
Lessons Learned in my Third-Year of Vet School
It’s been four months since I officially became a senior vet student! It seems like it was yesterday when I spent all my weekends in the anatomy lab during my first year. I started my vet school journey three years ago and time has flown by. Sometimes I still cannot believe that my third year is […]
Recollections of Residency
2:00 pm Christmas afternoon – only ten more hours to go. I was a first-year resident at the Animal Medical Center (AMC) in New York City, running the hospital and overseeing 20 interns on the one major holiday I was required to cover during my residency in avian and exotic pet medicine. The AMC was […]
Finding Great Mentors
Before second-year gets started, I’ve had a couple of days where I could head back home to do some shadowing at the clinic I used to work at before vet school. My mentors at this practice are worth their weight in gold and I aspire to be like them someday! I only got to spend […]
Orientation: Round Two
I remember what my first day of vet school orientation was like. I was in a new state, at a school I barely knew and surrounded by total strangers. When I walked in, I was terrified. What if no one liked me, or I didn’t make any friends? But, by the time Orientation was over […]
National Veterinary Scholars Symposium
As the culmination of my summer research project, I got to go to the 2019 National Veterinary Scholars Symposium. This year the Symposium was hosted by Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine. As part of the Symposium, I got to present my research during a poster presentation, and we also had the opportunity to […]
How to Make a Research Poster
I’ve been doing research through the Veterinary Summer Research Training Program which culminates in getting to present my findings at the 2019 National Veterinary Scholars Symposium. This has been an experience unlike any other and one of the things I’ve had to figure out how to do was create a research poster! A research poster […]
