Something to look forward to...
Score one point for each statement that applies to you;
1 - You can discuss necropsy/anatomy over a meal
2 - You own a 4 color pen
3 - And it just isn't enough colors for you
4 - You use more than one color to take notes
5 - You have used more than 6 highlighters in the past 6 months
6 - You have ever highlighted something YOU wrote
7 - You retype handouts given in class
8 - You haven't had a date in 3 months
9 - You haven't had a date since entering vet school
10 - You have not been able to remember the normal term for something because you were thinking of the medical term (ie, reflux for heartburn)
11 - You get more sleep in lecture than at home
12 - You have ever asked a question in class
13 - And the professor didn't understand the question
14 - And you didn't believe the answer the prof gave
15 - And you went to look it up to see if they were right
16 - You can't hold a conversation on anything other than vet school
17 - You skip class to study
18 - You've said you didn't do well on a test on which you beat the mean
19 - You spend more than 15 hours/week on e-mail
20 - You have a callous on your finger from writing
21 - More than one professor knows you by name
22 - When you ask a question , a new professor has said, "Oh, I've heard of you"
23 - You can name more amino acids than past presidents
24 - You use more than 5 acronyms/ hour when talking
25 - You know all the steps of the Krebs cycle
26 - You can remember all the muscles in the thoracic limb
27 - You know the structures of the urea cycle
28 - You can't remember what you had for breakfast
29 - You actually know normal values for plasma Na
30 - And K
31 - Missing class causes you extreme stress
32 - You have asked "Will this be on the exam?"
33 - Just after the professor said it wouldn't
34 - You identify with anyone on ER (or Animal Planet!)
35 - You have made up a medical joke
36 - And no one laughed
37 - And you figure they just weren't that far in their studying
38 - You wear your stethoscope around your neck in the car
39 - And you don't even know which way the thing goes in your ears
40 - 'SOB' means 'short of breath' to you
41 - You have gone to student health suspecting you have a zoonotic disease you have studied
42 - Within 3 days of the lecture
43 - You can flip your pen over your thumb
44 - With both hands
45 - And you do so throughout class
46 - You have corrected a professor in class
47 - And the rest of the class didn't understand the lecture to begin with
48 - You know how to calculate specificity
49 - And positive anion gap
50 - But you can't balance your checkbook
51 - You don't know what the weather was like for the last week
52 - You think B- is a bad grade
53 - You have stressed about a pass/fail course
54 - You study during most of your meals
55 - You see nothing abnormal about Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
56 - You draw all of the slides not already provided in the handouts
57 - Anatomy makes you hungry
58 - You know the size of a RBC
59 - You don't know the size of a football field
60 - Your eyesight has worsened by 10 points or more in the last year
61 - You have the library hours memorized
62 - You score than 95 on the anatomy final
63 - You own more than one white coat
64 - You have debated between giving up sleep or eating in order to find more time to study
65 - You started studying for boards your freshman year
66 - You have never received a personal invitation to discuss your grades with the Dean
67 - You wear scrubs to tests
68 - You have made plans to study on a beach during vacation
69 - And you actually did
70 - You have a designated seat in lecture
71 - You have asked someone to move from "your seat"
72 - You sleep less than 4 hours/night
73 - You think that is plenty
74 - And you have thought about cutting back
75 - You study more than 35 hours outside of class
76 - And you think you are a slackard
77 - You think everyone answers yes to most of these questions
78 - You added up your score on this survey
Grading scale:
0-15 You are not in vet school. Go back to your party and leave us alone. We have work to do.
15-30 Either vet school is a breeze or you like the sound of "Senor Doctor"
30-40 Gotta love that primary care (?)
50-60 Your social life is shot, might as well try to earn some money
60-70 Which surgery subspecialty did you say you liked?
70+ All Hail, Great Vet School Dork Master!!