So I guess not having the time to post anything at all this year just goes to show you all that final year is busy busy busy!
This year we have no classes and only rotations throughout the different departments within the small animal and large animal hospital (meaning we learn EVERYTHING within one week and switch!).
I have bonded so much with my small final year group it's amazing. They are the best girls that I've had the pleasure to work with, and with what I've heard about some of the other groups in our year, it could have gone completely differently. Witty banter and all, I will miss them!
I guess currently, we (and the final year med students) are the only ones left to study for exams as everyone else is gleefully frolicking in the meadows, taunting us as we stare at them from the library. Sometimes I feel like we're the cave trolls or something else sinister like that staring at all the happy people from the shadows. And every time the sunshine hits us we burn (oh wait, that's Scottish people, zing!).
Officially in 2 weeks time our class will be done with vet school forever. According to our dean, he has no worries that he will see us all at graduation in July and he believes that we are a very strong year. I'm going to take that little confidence boost and just try to get through these last 2 weeks.
Since I wrote my NAVLE (North American Licensing Exam), I haven't felt the motivation (aka the kick up the ass) to continue to study for finals. I think the NAVLE was SO stressful to study for (our knowledge plus all the specific regional US diseases as well) that when it was over I was in a state of shell shock. And when I finally got the results 5 weeks later (I passed yay!!) I was so happy that I didn't want to do ANYTHING. I mean, I always thought I was lazy in that respects. I'm not one of those people that have the need to be doing something all the time, I am actually the exact opposite. So instead of wanting to study for finals, I went through my elective (small animal soft tissue surgery - amazing!), attempted to study cattle along the way and now with one week left before my 8 oral exams, I still have all of dog and cat, exotics and two thirds of horses to go through.
I feel like my notes are like the broomsticks in Fantasia, every time I finish one, two more pop up for me to read! I think the main thought right now to motivate me to study is that I do NOT want to be the first GEP for the last two years (at least) to fail final year. I cannot let that happen, it would totally devastate me!
Well, I guess I'll be updating later on next week due to the procrastination (consciously being lazy).
Wish me luck!
This year we have no classes and only rotations throughout the different departments within the small animal and large animal hospital (meaning we learn EVERYTHING within one week and switch!).
I have bonded so much with my small final year group it's amazing. They are the best girls that I've had the pleasure to work with, and with what I've heard about some of the other groups in our year, it could have gone completely differently. Witty banter and all, I will miss them!
I guess currently, we (and the final year med students) are the only ones left to study for exams as everyone else is gleefully frolicking in the meadows, taunting us as we stare at them from the library. Sometimes I feel like we're the cave trolls or something else sinister like that staring at all the happy people from the shadows. And every time the sunshine hits us we burn (oh wait, that's Scottish people, zing!).
Officially in 2 weeks time our class will be done with vet school forever. According to our dean, he has no worries that he will see us all at graduation in July and he believes that we are a very strong year. I'm going to take that little confidence boost and just try to get through these last 2 weeks.
Since I wrote my NAVLE (North American Licensing Exam), I haven't felt the motivation (aka the kick up the ass) to continue to study for finals. I think the NAVLE was SO stressful to study for (our knowledge plus all the specific regional US diseases as well) that when it was over I was in a state of shell shock. And when I finally got the results 5 weeks later (I passed yay!!) I was so happy that I didn't want to do ANYTHING. I mean, I always thought I was lazy in that respects. I'm not one of those people that have the need to be doing something all the time, I am actually the exact opposite. So instead of wanting to study for finals, I went through my elective (small animal soft tissue surgery - amazing!), attempted to study cattle along the way and now with one week left before my 8 oral exams, I still have all of dog and cat, exotics and two thirds of horses to go through.
I feel like my notes are like the broomsticks in Fantasia, every time I finish one, two more pop up for me to read! I think the main thought right now to motivate me to study is that I do NOT want to be the first GEP for the last two years (at least) to fail final year. I cannot let that happen, it would totally devastate me!
Well, I guess I'll be updating later on next week due to the procrastination (consciously being lazy).
Wish me luck!
