Hi everyone!
So it's been a long time again since I last posted, I just don't have that much stuff to post about! Even though I actually do but I don't realize I want to post it until a year later. oops!
Anyways, so I'm done fourth year of vet school (technically my 3rd year) and will be moving on to final year in September. However, I have to resit one of my exams next week so if I pass that THEN I'm on to final year! One more week of non-stop cramming and reading and studying, and then I get to fly home to Canada for a whole month (and a half). It won't be just a vacation though, I'll be completing some work experience at 2 emergency referral hospitals (one for York Region and one for Toronto) and then 2 weeks at the Toronto SPCA. I just can't wait to get some hands-on experience this year; usually by now I would have completed a month of EMS and gotten my fill of dogs and cats (never!) but this summer is a little different.
As part of our course, we have to complete a 6 week research project before the start of final year, it can either be a lab project, a clinical project or a literature review. I opted for the lab project as I hoped it would give me a better structure for my report as well as getting me some hands-on lab experience (which I haven't had in about 5 years). I ended up at the Roslin Institute which is across the road from the new vet school. Most of you will know it as the place they cloned Dolly, and that's all I knew it for as well before I started. Genetic research like cloning for Dolly is no longer being researched at Roslin although they did name their cafeteria "Dolly's" to remember that time in history. My project looked at transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (brain disease that's transmissible) although I can't really delve more into that project here.
So now another year has passed, a lot of drunken shenanigans and wedding proposals and weddings have happened around me (congratulations Nicole and Mike! And that was one amazing hen night...back in November 2011 haha) and hopefully one more year to go!
So it's been a long time again since I last posted, I just don't have that much stuff to post about! Even though I actually do but I don't realize I want to post it until a year later. oops!
Anyways, so I'm done fourth year of vet school (technically my 3rd year) and will be moving on to final year in September. However, I have to resit one of my exams next week so if I pass that THEN I'm on to final year! One more week of non-stop cramming and reading and studying, and then I get to fly home to Canada for a whole month (and a half). It won't be just a vacation though, I'll be completing some work experience at 2 emergency referral hospitals (one for York Region and one for Toronto) and then 2 weeks at the Toronto SPCA. I just can't wait to get some hands-on experience this year; usually by now I would have completed a month of EMS and gotten my fill of dogs and cats (never!) but this summer is a little different.
As part of our course, we have to complete a 6 week research project before the start of final year, it can either be a lab project, a clinical project or a literature review. I opted for the lab project as I hoped it would give me a better structure for my report as well as getting me some hands-on lab experience (which I haven't had in about 5 years). I ended up at the Roslin Institute which is across the road from the new vet school. Most of you will know it as the place they cloned Dolly, and that's all I knew it for as well before I started. Genetic research like cloning for Dolly is no longer being researched at Roslin although they did name their cafeteria "Dolly's" to remember that time in history. My project looked at transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (brain disease that's transmissible) although I can't really delve more into that project here.
So now another year has passed, a lot of drunken shenanigans and wedding proposals and weddings have happened around me (congratulations Nicole and Mike! And that was one amazing hen night...back in November 2011 haha) and hopefully one more year to go!
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