This is where I will complain, whine, and brag about my undergraduate work and veterinary experience as I approach time to apply to vet school!!
Something to look forward to...
Published on January 9, 2004 By DrKata In Pets & Nature
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!!


Comments
on Apr 22, 2004
Hi Katie,

I'm in my first year of vet med at the WCVM (in Canada) and I scored 11 on your test. I feel like I should tell you - don't be a stressball!! The most important thing in vet school is being able to handle ridiculous amounts of stress well. If you're trying to get into vet school, you should be learning how to have a good time, how to relax, how to party hard and how to keep everything in perspective so that when you are in the middle of vet school finals and it feels like ferrets are eating your stomach, you can still laugh and fall asleep at night.

Good luck on getting in!

-Jess

http://www.freewebs.com/inanimatetragedy - adventures of an island girl in the prairies
on Sep 10, 2004
This was great for a good laugh!
Amazingly enough nearly half of all these comments are TRUE and I have only been in school for 3 weeks. This is my first year too!

But...despite it all, vet school is really not all that bad, if you learn to chill and have a life on top of it all.