Random writings of the goings on at vet school Down Under
So I have been a bit busy, and after a really hard days work I dont feel much like blogging. Yesterday was soooo tough. Ok, Tuesday...we got the massive mob down to the pen at the cattle yard...then tea time. I have never drank so much tea in my life LOL! There is always time for tea is a great motto. It is a good break as well...good long ride, then boots off, hats off horses set loose for a break, and 30 minutes to an hour of sitting around and talking about everything under the sun. Tea finished, catch horses and back out we go to move another mob...then more tea and load the horses on the trailer (called a float here) and we are off to a location 30 minutes away to muster more cattle close to another yard. Stop at the neighbors...which is very far away for yep, you guessed it more tea and chit chat for an hour or two and then back for dinner and after....more tea and talking. I was told that none of us would be smiling after Wednesday night...and they sure were right.
Wednesday morning...get cows in yard and then draft cows and calves (separate them from each other) tea at 10 :) 11 time to mark 245 calves. This is a long painful process of tearing chunks out of their ears and putting tags in both...and yes, if they are male, castrating them on the spot...in the mud etc. I was on ear torture duty on Wednesday and I felt aweful making them scream like that, and boy could they scream. I fell in the mud, boot got stuck and my foot came out and sock went in the mud, then both hands. This was while trying to scare cattle into next yard. As soon as I fell, they came running right by me, and I thought, soon over me. I decided I would be much more use if they did not need a snorkel to come find me and stay around the edge where it was a bit harder ground. The guys told me they were going to stick a flag on my head so they knew where I was in the herd...ha ha ha, very funny :P
The vet came out to look at three bulls who have been a bit "too busy" lately and broke their gear..poor bulls, still interested in the females, but could not do a thing with them. The vet was actually from America, which was great because I had not met any American vets so it was great to talk to him while he shoved his arm up bull's asses and posed for shots with the bull penises always with a smile on his face LOL...calf marking was still going on and once he was gone I had to go back to it...the sun had just set after the last calf...good timing, but I felt like I was going to die. The cattle men are all smiles...covered in mud, blood and crap...I eventually smile and all the little calves run happily back to mum.
Thursday, mustering another herd in and moving three bulls in to replace broken ones...34 kangaroos spring up and go tearing past the horses which is quite a site. Tea time again LOL...a bit longer this time because Cliff's wife joins us for tea and stories. Catch the horses and then drive off to another location to muster more cattle close to yards...draft all the cows and Ian's wife and little Sophie come join us for a bit. Kate also comes and joins for the fun. Then lunch time and TEA...and then back out to mark :( This time I got to weild the scalpel blade and castrated about 10 calves he he...the cattle men are "what is your boyfriends name" he better watch out now lol...it started to rain though so I figured I would leave the slippery scalpel to the experts and do more next week when it is hopefully dry.
I should introduce you to the players in this madness:
I am staying with the farm manager Ian Mckenzie, his wife Nicole, and there 9 month old daughter Sophie. Michael, Ians retired friend from Narrogin has joined us, and Cliff, Ians other retired friend has joined as well. They have been doing this for almost 30 years Today Kate, who is actually studying human nursing joined us for the fun as well. Tomorrow all of us, including Nicole and little Sophie will be on horse back and we will be moving the cows away from the yard and bringing some closer....NO MARKING because it is Friday and then nothing on the weekend. On Monday, another vet student joins us for the fun.
Ok very tired with these 5 am wake up 6:30 am on horseback days...nighty night
Thursday, June 21, 2007
I Am the Woman from Snowy River
Random writings of the goings on at vet school Down Under
All finals are done...woo hoo! I have no idea how I did on any but I hope I at least passed.
Now, I am out in the middle of nowhere and there are no words to describe how sore my ass is LOL!! I just spent the last 5 hours on horseback, and no, this is no little trail ride type horse ride. This is oh shit a bunch of calves have just broken off the mob of 300+ cows you are mustering, Christina, race your horse over there...jumping over creeks...running through tress "duck" the low branches and run as fast as you can to head them off and bring them back.
Wow..I am mustering cattle on horse back in the Outback. It is yet one more thing on my list of things to do before I die that I can cross off. My list is getting so small. There are no words to describe the site of four people on horse back racing through gorges, jumping over logs and catching those straggling calves, and having kangaroos hopping along side as well. Spectacular!! And to be racing right along with them...then have a battle plan of who races where next? Who goes to the top of the hill in the distance to get that lost calf, and who keeps the massive mob going?
I have all the gear...my own authentic Australian Driza Bone jacket that is pure leather and goes all the way to the boots, the hat, the horse...I AM THE WOMAN FROM SNOWY RIVER, I just cant move and I have two weeks of this wich is great...just oh so sore.
So the massive mob we had today was all the way to the last paddock and we were at the gate...the sun was setting and about 1/4 of the mob broke in a run back the wrong way. Two of us stayed behind, racing back and forth to keep the remaining cows there and two took off at full speed across the field. They tried to bring them back but a no go and the sun was setting so we had to close the last fence and get them down to the yards tomorrow.
I will write more after dinner.....
All finals are done...woo hoo! I have no idea how I did on any but I hope I at least passed.
Now, I am out in the middle of nowhere and there are no words to describe how sore my ass is LOL!! I just spent the last 5 hours on horseback, and no, this is no little trail ride type horse ride. This is oh shit a bunch of calves have just broken off the mob of 300+ cows you are mustering, Christina, race your horse over there...jumping over creeks...running through tress "duck" the low branches and run as fast as you can to head them off and bring them back.
Wow..I am mustering cattle on horse back in the Outback. It is yet one more thing on my list of things to do before I die that I can cross off. My list is getting so small. There are no words to describe the site of four people on horse back racing through gorges, jumping over logs and catching those straggling calves, and having kangaroos hopping along side as well. Spectacular!! And to be racing right along with them...then have a battle plan of who races where next? Who goes to the top of the hill in the distance to get that lost calf, and who keeps the massive mob going?
I have all the gear...my own authentic Australian Driza Bone jacket that is pure leather and goes all the way to the boots, the hat, the horse...I AM THE WOMAN FROM SNOWY RIVER, I just cant move and I have two weeks of this wich is great...just oh so sore.
So the massive mob we had today was all the way to the last paddock and we were at the gate...the sun was setting and about 1/4 of the mob broke in a run back the wrong way. Two of us stayed behind, racing back and forth to keep the remaining cows there and two took off at full speed across the field. They tried to bring them back but a no go and the sun was setting so we had to close the last fence and get them down to the yards tomorrow.
I will write more after dinner.....
Thursday, June 7, 2007
3 Down 2 to Go
Random writings of the goings on at vet school Down Under
Ok I have had three finals and I have two left to go. I have no clue what I got on the pathology practical final, I feel ok, but I dont want to jinx myself, on the Pharmacology final. I studied EVERYTHING for that and had a massive panic attack overwhelmed with stress thingy. Sometimes IT DOES get a bit overwhelming. At the last minute, I decided to go over the previous semesters exams, and wouldn't you know it but it was almost like he cut and paste from those exams. All I needed to do was study those and the cardiology notes and I would have been fine. Oh well you never know.
Now I know if I just study the previous exams for Nutrition and Pathology Theory that I will probably get screwed and nothing will be from those. But my battle plan is still going to be this: fingers crossed some stuff will be from old exams...so I will do all of those and study the information that goes with those questions. If I have time after that, like my good friend Courtney says "sit back with a cup of green tea and read the reader and your notes over again, highlight important information and go back and write it down." Well I have read the reader and my notes and highlighted so many times that I have invented a new color...first reading was yellow, then pink, then green, and then blue...oh look all my important information is highlighted in some mauve color LOL!
Today was the farm prac final, and as Steve said, I am having steak for dinner and bacon for breakfast after that one. 10:30 we were assigned a cow each.
1. Age, breed, and condition score the cow please
-hmmmm, breed: well it is mostly black making it an angus cross of some sort but only the face is white kind of like a hereford...I am guessing Angus Hereford cross???? Correct!!! woo hoo
-damn cow wont lift its head for me to stick my hand in and look at the teeth, still trying to lift stuborn cows head....still fighting with it....smashed hand...wonder if I should use the evil nose pliers, nope I think I will try just using my fingers instead. Head flys up, almost sends me flying...full set of teeth, look sort of new...I am saying 31/2 -4 years??? Correct!!!!
-Not too fat, not too skinny A score of 2 1/2 -3 Correct!!!!
2. Apply a mouth gag please
- Wrestle cow for a bit...thrown around a bit...does not want giant metal thing in mouth, finally get it
3. Please insert giant metal rod into mouth and then shove tube into stomach of unhappy cow
-lots more wrestling, very unhappy cow, succeed in getting it into stomach and back severely hurting now
4. Apply rope and restrain front leg
5. Apply v-sling rope you must make from one peice of rope to back leg
6. Give heart rate, respiratory rate and temp of adult cow (I think I botched that up)
7. Tell every intricate detail you know about the correct sites of IM injection...SQ and IV
Next at 11:00 was the terrible, horrible, evil pigs
I got lucky for the first time ever...my partner not so much...she got assigned Pig #2 and these pigs have been poked and prodded for the entire semester + they are 90kilos easy = one very smart, very unhappy, very LARGE beast at the end of the rope.
Must catch pig by nose with noose of rope and tie WITH CORRECT KNOT to the fence...pig knows what is going on, pig even once caught rears into air and smashes me and my partner...this is her pig and she has to catch, and tie and draw blood from the ear vein...many tries, my hand is smashed and bruised...pig so bad we have to give up and it is my turn :(
Pig #5 please be good...he only took three tries...hit the ear vein first shot I love you #5 pig
Back to devil pig #2...metal snare time...many more tries to catch and tie pig...both of us covered in blood and who knows what else...finally she gets blood from screaming pig...we are both smashed up
What??? Temp and IM injection time...turn around and #5 is laying down...I love you #5...jab needle into neck...pig does not move...shove thermometer in bum...pig looks at me, but does not move HOW LUCKY IS THAT...everyone else trying to hit running targets
So I am bruised, covered in blood, and "smell worse than the Cats litter box" says my roommate when I get home...BUT I PASSED!!!!
Now time to go to work...what work...I can barely move, I need a back massage...oh the pain and now 6 hours on my feet feeding drinks to the locals...oh gooody!!!
Ok I have had three finals and I have two left to go. I have no clue what I got on the pathology practical final, I feel ok, but I dont want to jinx myself, on the Pharmacology final. I studied EVERYTHING for that and had a massive panic attack overwhelmed with stress thingy. Sometimes IT DOES get a bit overwhelming. At the last minute, I decided to go over the previous semesters exams, and wouldn't you know it but it was almost like he cut and paste from those exams. All I needed to do was study those and the cardiology notes and I would have been fine. Oh well you never know.
Now I know if I just study the previous exams for Nutrition and Pathology Theory that I will probably get screwed and nothing will be from those. But my battle plan is still going to be this: fingers crossed some stuff will be from old exams...so I will do all of those and study the information that goes with those questions. If I have time after that, like my good friend Courtney says "sit back with a cup of green tea and read the reader and your notes over again, highlight important information and go back and write it down." Well I have read the reader and my notes and highlighted so many times that I have invented a new color...first reading was yellow, then pink, then green, and then blue...oh look all my important information is highlighted in some mauve color LOL!
Today was the farm prac final, and as Steve said, I am having steak for dinner and bacon for breakfast after that one. 10:30 we were assigned a cow each.
1. Age, breed, and condition score the cow please
-hmmmm, breed: well it is mostly black making it an angus cross of some sort but only the face is white kind of like a hereford...I am guessing Angus Hereford cross???? Correct!!! woo hoo
-damn cow wont lift its head for me to stick my hand in and look at the teeth, still trying to lift stuborn cows head....still fighting with it....smashed hand...wonder if I should use the evil nose pliers, nope I think I will try just using my fingers instead. Head flys up, almost sends me flying...full set of teeth, look sort of new...I am saying 31/2 -4 years??? Correct!!!!
-Not too fat, not too skinny A score of 2 1/2 -3 Correct!!!!
2. Apply a mouth gag please
- Wrestle cow for a bit...thrown around a bit...does not want giant metal thing in mouth, finally get it
3. Please insert giant metal rod into mouth and then shove tube into stomach of unhappy cow
-lots more wrestling, very unhappy cow, succeed in getting it into stomach and back severely hurting now
4. Apply rope and restrain front leg
5. Apply v-sling rope you must make from one peice of rope to back leg
6. Give heart rate, respiratory rate and temp of adult cow (I think I botched that up)
7. Tell every intricate detail you know about the correct sites of IM injection...SQ and IV
Next at 11:00 was the terrible, horrible, evil pigs
I got lucky for the first time ever...my partner not so much...she got assigned Pig #2 and these pigs have been poked and prodded for the entire semester + they are 90kilos easy = one very smart, very unhappy, very LARGE beast at the end of the rope.
Must catch pig by nose with noose of rope and tie WITH CORRECT KNOT to the fence...pig knows what is going on, pig even once caught rears into air and smashes me and my partner...this is her pig and she has to catch, and tie and draw blood from the ear vein...many tries, my hand is smashed and bruised...pig so bad we have to give up and it is my turn :(
Pig #5 please be good...he only took three tries...hit the ear vein first shot I love you #5 pig
Back to devil pig #2...metal snare time...many more tries to catch and tie pig...both of us covered in blood and who knows what else...finally she gets blood from screaming pig...we are both smashed up
What??? Temp and IM injection time...turn around and #5 is laying down...I love you #5...jab needle into neck...pig does not move...shove thermometer in bum...pig looks at me, but does not move HOW LUCKY IS THAT...everyone else trying to hit running targets
So I am bruised, covered in blood, and "smell worse than the Cats litter box" says my roommate when I get home...BUT I PASSED!!!!
Now time to go to work...what work...I can barely move, I need a back massage...oh the pain and now 6 hours on my feet feeding drinks to the locals...oh gooody!!!
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Holy Crap!!!
Random writings of the goings on at vet school Down Under
One final down...sooo many more to go. The final was tough as, but I studied very hard so I am hoping I did ok.
An example question:
This autopsy is from an aged German shephard who had a limp for the past 5 months, then developed a cough and died.
Picture is of horrible lookings lungs....
What is the possible pathology of this disease???? Good god, it could be anything by the looks of the lung, but a limp? aged? I will have to say a bone tumor or osteosarcoma that metastisized to the lungs and caused multiple multi-focal to coalescing areas of calcification in the lung parenchyma.
Oh boy....I hope I am right, but hey, I have accomplished alot and it is already time to enroll for second semester of 3rd year...holy crap!
One final down...sooo many more to go. The final was tough as, but I studied very hard so I am hoping I did ok.
An example question:
This autopsy is from an aged German shephard who had a limp for the past 5 months, then developed a cough and died.
Picture is of horrible lookings lungs....
What is the possible pathology of this disease???? Good god, it could be anything by the looks of the lung, but a limp? aged? I will have to say a bone tumor or osteosarcoma that metastisized to the lungs and caused multiple multi-focal to coalescing areas of calcification in the lung parenchyma.
Oh boy....I hope I am right, but hey, I have accomplished alot and it is already time to enroll for second semester of 3rd year...holy crap!
| 2007/S1 | Processes in Animal Disease ( VET340 ) | MURDOCH | D | ENROLLED | 4.000 | ** | ** | ** |
| 2007/S1 | Veterinary Pharmacology and Chemotherapy ( VET345 ) | MURDOCH | D | ENROLLED | 4.000 | ** | ** | ** |
| 2007/S1 | Veterinary Nutrition and Animal Toxicology ( VET346 ) | MURDOCH | D | ENROLLED | 4.000 | ** | ** | ** |
| 2007/S2 | Veterinary Microbiology ( VET341 ) | MURDOCH | D | ENROLLED | 4.000 | ** | ** | ** |
| 2007/S2 | Veterinary Applied Pathology and Diagnosis ( VET343 ) | MURDOCH | D | ENROLLED | 4.000 | ** | ** | ** |
| 2007/S2 | Veterinary Parasitology ( VET344 ) | MURDOCH | D | ENROLLED | 4.000 | ** | ** | ** |
| 2006/S1 | Veterinary Anatomy ( VET240 ) | MURDOCH | D | COMPLETED | 4.000 | 51 | P | 4.000 |
| 2006/S1 | Veterinary Biochemistry ( VET241 ) | MURDOCH | D | COMPLETED | 4.000 | 68 | C | 4.000 |
| 2006/S1 | Veterinary Physiology ( VET244 ) | MURDOCH | D | COMPLETED | 4.000 | 64 | C | 4.000 |
| 2006/S2 | Veterinary Form and Function ( VET243 ) | MURDOCH | D | COMPLETED | 4.000 | 54 | P | 4.000 |
| 2006/S2 | Animals and Society ( VET246 ) | MURDOCH | D | COMPLETED | 4.000 | 67 | C | 4.000 |
| 2006/S2 | Veterinary Immunology and Molecular Genetics ( VET247 ) | MURDOCH | D | COMPLETED | 4.000 | 51 | P | 4.000 |
| 2005/S2 | Animal and Plant Recognition ( BIO157 ) | MURDOCH | D | COMPLETED | 3.000 | 74 | D | 3.000 |
| 2005/S2 | Introduction to Travel and Tourism ( TOU102 ) | MURDOCH | D | DISCONTIN | 3.000 | - | W0 | 0.000 |
| 2005/S2 | Animal and Human Bioethics ( VET106 ) | MURDOCH | D | COMPLETED | 3.000 | 77 | D | 3.000 |
| 2005/S2 | Topics in Comparative Mammalian Anatomy ( VET108 ) | MURDOCH | D | COMPLETED | 3.000 | 60 | C | 3.000 |
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
Anyone Wondering What I Study???
Random writings of the goings on at vet school Down Under
Look at what I am studying
Short Answer Questions (5 marks)
1. Compare transudate, modified transudate and exudate. Give an example of a disease that would be associated with a transudate, modified transudate and exudate.
2. Compare haemorrhage and diapedesis, what processes cause haemorrhage and diapedesis, give an example of a disease characterised by diapedesis and haemorrhage.
3. What is Apoptosis? Briefly contrast the process of apoptosis and necrosis.
4. What is Haemosiderosis? Give examples of lesions in which this process might occur.
5. Cells and tissues vary in their ability to adapt. Using examples, list the features of cells and organs that influence their ability to adapt
6. Discuss the most plausible relationship between the following pathological changes:
Chronic hepatic abscessation, severe, acute epistaxis, hemoptysis and sudden death.
7. Explain the relationship between the administration of corticosteroids and the alleviation of pain and fever.
8. Your good friend is working on a farm during her summer holidays and rings you to tell you about her day helping the farmer kill a sheep to butcher for meat. She tells you they ended up having to kill 2 sheep because when they opened the abdomen of the first sheep there were multiple pale tan-yellow nodules, ranging from 1 to 3cm diameter, occupying 70% of the liver. When the farmer cut into the nodules they had a putty-like consistency in the centre with a firm outer margin. The farmer decided to cut this sheep up for dog meat and kill another sheep for human consumption (which appeared grossly normal).
What pathological process(s) do you think are responsible for the changes in the liver of the first sheep and why? Was it a good idea to feed the sheep with the liver lesions to the dogs and why?
9. Explain the events that occur in the healing of a sutured surgical skin wound caused by a scalpel.
10. What are the possible consequences of disease? Give examples.
11. What is meant by the term functional reserve capacity, give examples.
12. Briefly discuss the following pathological processes, and give examples of where each might occur. (5 marks each)
a. Atrophy
b. Metaplasia
c. Lipofuscinosis
d. Gangrene
e. Metastatic calcification
f. Jaundice
13. What do the terms ‘benign’ and ‘malignant’ mean with respect to neoplasia?
14. What are oncogenes, and how are they related to the development of neoplasia?
15. Using pRb (the retinoblastoma gene product) as an example, outline what is meant by a tumour suppressor gene / protein.
16. How do viruses cause cancer?
17. How do the developmental periods of the fetus differ in their susceptibility to teratogens?
18. Briefly discuss one viral teratogen.
19. Why was thalidomide banned, and why may it now reappear?
20. How may teratogens be classified?
Medium Length Questions (10 marks)
1. Discuss how the immune response influences the development and progression of tuberculosis
2. What is oedema, how does it form, give examples?
3. What are the main cellular, chemical and vascular elements of acute inflammation, discuss in broad terms, how they cause the cardinal signs of acute inflammation?
4. From you knowledge of cellular injury and adaptive responses, briefly explain the meaning the following statement:-
“The normal cell, the adapted cell, the injured cell and the dead cell are hazily delimited states along a continuum of function and structure”
5. Outline how the susceptibility to teratogens of a developing mammal varies with its developmental stage
6. Discuss the prothrombotic and antithrombotic properties of endothelial cells.
7. Discuss the process and purpose of scarring; include in your discussion the consequences of scarring in different organs.
8. Compare and contrast the processes of acute and chronic inflammation. Include in your discussion the elements involved in each process, what determines whether there is an acute or chronic inflammatory response and the physiological effects of acute and chronic inflammation.
Woo hoo and this will be alot like MY final in four weeks....holy #$%^!!!!!
Look at what I am studying
Short Answer Questions (5 marks)
1. Compare transudate, modified transudate and exudate. Give an example of a disease that would be associated with a transudate, modified transudate and exudate.
2. Compare haemorrhage and diapedesis, what processes cause haemorrhage and diapedesis, give an example of a disease characterised by diapedesis and haemorrhage.
3. What is Apoptosis? Briefly contrast the process of apoptosis and necrosis.
4. What is Haemosiderosis? Give examples of lesions in which this process might occur.
5. Cells and tissues vary in their ability to adapt. Using examples, list the features of cells and organs that influence their ability to adapt
6. Discuss the most plausible relationship between the following pathological changes:
Chronic hepatic abscessation, severe, acute epistaxis, hemoptysis and sudden death.
7. Explain the relationship between the administration of corticosteroids and the alleviation of pain and fever.
8. Your good friend is working on a farm during her summer holidays and rings you to tell you about her day helping the farmer kill a sheep to butcher for meat. She tells you they ended up having to kill 2 sheep because when they opened the abdomen of the first sheep there were multiple pale tan-yellow nodules, ranging from 1 to 3cm diameter, occupying 70% of the liver. When the farmer cut into the nodules they had a putty-like consistency in the centre with a firm outer margin. The farmer decided to cut this sheep up for dog meat and kill another sheep for human consumption (which appeared grossly normal).
What pathological process(s) do you think are responsible for the changes in the liver of the first sheep and why? Was it a good idea to feed the sheep with the liver lesions to the dogs and why?
9. Explain the events that occur in the healing of a sutured surgical skin wound caused by a scalpel.
10. What are the possible consequences of disease? Give examples.
11. What is meant by the term functional reserve capacity, give examples.
12. Briefly discuss the following pathological processes, and give examples of where each might occur. (5 marks each)
a. Atrophy
b. Metaplasia
c. Lipofuscinosis
d. Gangrene
e. Metastatic calcification
f. Jaundice
13. What do the terms ‘benign’ and ‘malignant’ mean with respect to neoplasia?
14. What are oncogenes, and how are they related to the development of neoplasia?
15. Using pRb (the retinoblastoma gene product) as an example, outline what is meant by a tumour suppressor gene / protein.
16. How do viruses cause cancer?
17. How do the developmental periods of the fetus differ in their susceptibility to teratogens?
18. Briefly discuss one viral teratogen.
19. Why was thalidomide banned, and why may it now reappear?
20. How may teratogens be classified?
Medium Length Questions (10 marks)
1. Discuss how the immune response influences the development and progression of tuberculosis
2. What is oedema, how does it form, give examples?
3. What are the main cellular, chemical and vascular elements of acute inflammation, discuss in broad terms, how they cause the cardinal signs of acute inflammation?
4. From you knowledge of cellular injury and adaptive responses, briefly explain the meaning the following statement:-
“The normal cell, the adapted cell, the injured cell and the dead cell are hazily delimited states along a continuum of function and structure”
5. Outline how the susceptibility to teratogens of a developing mammal varies with its developmental stage
6. Discuss the prothrombotic and antithrombotic properties of endothelial cells.
7. Discuss the process and purpose of scarring; include in your discussion the consequences of scarring in different organs.
8. Compare and contrast the processes of acute and chronic inflammation. Include in your discussion the elements involved in each process, what determines whether there is an acute or chronic inflammatory response and the physiological effects of acute and chronic inflammation.
Woo hoo and this will be alot like MY final in four weeks....holy #$%^!!!!!
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Make it stop!!!
Random writings of the goings on at vet school Down Under
So nothing I am studying about nutrition is sticking. It really wont stick. Have I reached my maximum capacity for information holding in my brain space? If I shove more in....will things I do know and need fall out my ears??? I am beginning to wonder if 9 years is the maximum holding capacity for information for full time study. Its ok...breathe, there must be more room in there.....come on only 2 1/2 more years to go....hmmmm must start forgetting irrelevant things.
Happy note....I love my car, and I had a great meal of lamb and steamed vegetables from work. Going to sleep now, I have all day off tomorrow so I will study till I cant do it anymore and just go for it on Thursday....I did get a credit on my Processes of Animal Diseases test!!! D's and HD's are a thing of dreams for this working gal.....
nighty night
So nothing I am studying about nutrition is sticking. It really wont stick. Have I reached my maximum capacity for information holding in my brain space? If I shove more in....will things I do know and need fall out my ears??? I am beginning to wonder if 9 years is the maximum holding capacity for information for full time study. Its ok...breathe, there must be more room in there.....come on only 2 1/2 more years to go....hmmmm must start forgetting irrelevant things.
Happy note....I love my car, and I had a great meal of lamb and steamed vegetables from work. Going to sleep now, I have all day off tomorrow so I will study till I cant do it anymore and just go for it on Thursday....I did get a credit on my Processes of Animal Diseases test!!! D's and HD's are a thing of dreams for this working gal.....
nighty night
A Day in the Life of This Working Vet Student
Random writings of the goings on at vet school Down Under
What a crazy day....the thing is, I have so many like this, but I thought I would share this one. One thing I do have to say is I GOT A CAR FINALLY!!! Last week I got myself a little roller skate. It is a Toyota Starlet and I love it. This little silver bullet has already been named Coors by my friend Courtney. I will post pics and talk more about it very soon
Ok the day started with me waking up at 7:30 even though the alarm was set for 6:30. You see, on Sunday I worked all day and then studied till really late and finished my pathology report. My brain was mush so I set the alarm, but forgot to turn it ON...minor detail.
Feed dog...sprint to shower...proceed to run around in the shower cursing because it is either scalding hot or freeezing cold, jump out while going past kitchen, stop and throw water on stove to boil. Get ready in .2 seconds while printing out the days lectures. Run to kitchen, throw lunch together while shoving breakfast in face...pour boiling water in cup to make green tea...boiling water is hot ...note to self dont drink right away. Oops!
Throw everything in car, continue shoving food in face and very excited because I can listen to whatever music I want...woo hoo, run to class. 8:30-9:30 is Pharmacology. Realize I have not purchased the second reader for the course and the next exam on Monday, is on the material in this reader. Class ends...run to bookstore in the rain. Search everywhere for reader, it is not there so must order it and I sure hope it is in by Wednesday. 10:30-11:30 time for Nutrition and Toxicology, lack of sleep starting to catch up ....oooh dog nutrition and calculations
Must stay awake, but just cant do it...wake up in time for next class which is Processes of Animal Disease....it is a review of the midterm we just had...hmmmm did not do as well as I thought, but I passed. Oh look, a break at 12:30 , or is it. Go to the Common Room and stare into space while shoving a sandwich in my face and then off to the library to print off more notes and study Nutrition. We have another midterm on Thursday ...this will be Antioxidants, Metabolic Diseases, Pig, Llama, Cattle, and Dog Nutrition...Ration Formulation...and I am sure I am forgetting something. So from 1-2:30 I try and fill my brain with as much of this information as possible. 2:30 is time for Pathology workshop. This is where each group of six is given a gross image and a slide and we have to say the pathological changes we observe in front of the class...this class takes FOREVER AND EVER. We finally get out at 4:30, just in time for traffic, but I dont care because I am driving my new car
The only reason I care is because I have to be at work at six.
Run through the door and jump in shower...run around cursing again because the shower SUCKS!!!! Jump out run by kitchen and throw fish sticks on George Foreman grill...give Keaton a hug and a carrot. Try to get ready in record time....must be very presentable as the Dockers are in for dinner and there is a cocktail party of 60....yuck! Burn dinner, but make good salad to make up for burnt fish, sit down for 15 minutes to enjoy. Feed dog ...go to work.
Proceed to put on fake smile and walk around with plates of finger food for cocktail party for the next four hours...9:30 rolls around, and they are all toasted. Finally they start leaving and we have to bring in all the tables from outside and reset everything for the next day...help move massive amounts of tables and chairs, polish countless glasses and cutlery...pull shoulder out when lifting ...ouch, it is killing me. 10:30 pm.....home, and cant sleep because of coffee at work. Should be studying, but brain is mush. Going to go lie in bed and stare at ceiling and pray for sleep because I have another big day tomorrow.
How I have done this for the past 9 years or more, I have no clue...it is tough, but it could be worse, and my brother could probably beat me with his stories of working and studying. Supposedly it will all pay off in the end.....oh how I cant wait for the day when all I have to worry about is just uni....or all I have to worry about is just work....I guess I will keep dreaming, and I have a car, so apparently that will make everything better.
Thursday after the test will be sooooo much better. Friday we are having our annual Cinco De Mayo party which will be awesome...I do have another test on Monday and a paper due on the next Friday, but I am not thinking about that..Take it one at a time.....one at a time.....
What a crazy day....the thing is, I have so many like this, but I thought I would share this one. One thing I do have to say is I GOT A CAR FINALLY!!! Last week I got myself a little roller skate. It is a Toyota Starlet and I love it. This little silver bullet has already been named Coors by my friend Courtney. I will post pics and talk more about it very soon
Ok the day started with me waking up at 7:30 even though the alarm was set for 6:30. You see, on Sunday I worked all day and then studied till really late and finished my pathology report. My brain was mush so I set the alarm, but forgot to turn it ON...minor detail.
Feed dog...sprint to shower...proceed to run around in the shower cursing because it is either scalding hot or freeezing cold, jump out while going past kitchen, stop and throw water on stove to boil. Get ready in .2 seconds while printing out the days lectures. Run to kitchen, throw lunch together while shoving breakfast in face...pour boiling water in cup to make green tea...boiling water is hot ...note to self dont drink right away. Oops!
Throw everything in car, continue shoving food in face and very excited because I can listen to whatever music I want...woo hoo, run to class. 8:30-9:30 is Pharmacology. Realize I have not purchased the second reader for the course and the next exam on Monday, is on the material in this reader. Class ends...run to bookstore in the rain. Search everywhere for reader, it is not there so must order it and I sure hope it is in by Wednesday. 10:30-11:30 time for Nutrition and Toxicology, lack of sleep starting to catch up ....oooh dog nutrition and calculations
Must stay awake, but just cant do it...wake up in time for next class which is Processes of Animal Disease....it is a review of the midterm we just had...hmmmm did not do as well as I thought, but I passed. Oh look, a break at 12:30 , or is it. Go to the Common Room and stare into space while shoving a sandwich in my face and then off to the library to print off more notes and study Nutrition. We have another midterm on Thursday ...this will be Antioxidants, Metabolic Diseases, Pig, Llama, Cattle, and Dog Nutrition...Ration Formulation...and I am sure I am forgetting something. So from 1-2:30 I try and fill my brain with as much of this information as possible. 2:30 is time for Pathology workshop. This is where each group of six is given a gross image and a slide and we have to say the pathological changes we observe in front of the class...this class takes FOREVER AND EVER. We finally get out at 4:30, just in time for traffic, but I dont care because I am driving my new car The only reason I care is because I have to be at work at six.Run through the door and jump in shower...run around cursing again because the shower SUCKS!!!! Jump out run by kitchen and throw fish sticks on George Foreman grill...give Keaton a hug and a carrot. Try to get ready in record time....must be very presentable as the Dockers are in for dinner and there is a cocktail party of 60....yuck! Burn dinner, but make good salad to make up for burnt fish, sit down for 15 minutes to enjoy. Feed dog ...go to work.
Proceed to put on fake smile and walk around with plates of finger food for cocktail party for the next four hours...9:30 rolls around, and they are all toasted. Finally they start leaving and we have to bring in all the tables from outside and reset everything for the next day...help move massive amounts of tables and chairs, polish countless glasses and cutlery...pull shoulder out when lifting ...ouch, it is killing me. 10:30 pm.....home, and cant sleep because of coffee at work. Should be studying, but brain is mush. Going to go lie in bed and stare at ceiling and pray for sleep because I have another big day tomorrow.
How I have done this for the past 9 years or more, I have no clue...it is tough, but it could be worse, and my brother could probably beat me with his stories of working and studying. Supposedly it will all pay off in the end.....oh how I cant wait for the day when all I have to worry about is just uni....or all I have to worry about is just work....I guess I will keep dreaming, and I have a car, so apparently that will make everything better.
Thursday after the test will be sooooo much better. Friday we are having our annual Cinco De Mayo party which will be awesome...I do have another test on Monday and a paper due on the next Friday, but I am not thinking about that..Take it one at a time.....one at a time.....
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