My absolute lack of blogging can only be blamed on one thing: veterinary school.
We had 3 exams this week: systemic pathology, pharmacology, and parasitology. I felt like I was cramming all week. Oh wait, I was cramming all week. The pathology exam was the only one that actually upset me. On one part, there was a picture and we were to identify the causative agent for the lesions shown. However, the picture was zoomed in too far to be able to tell if the organ was liver or lungs, as they both look quite similar (especially out of context). The kicker was that the instructor who wrote that portion of the exam refused to tell us the organ and there were no clues in the question. I hope it’s better for the people next year. This is only that instructor’s second year teaching and supposedly her exam last year was ridiculously easy. I guess she tried to make it a bit harder this year. I’m going to go with “third time’s the charm” and call it good. I passed.
Pharmacology came next and I’m am, once again, amazed at the sheer amount of random crap I can cram into my head. The highlight of that test was getting to the questions written by a guest lecturer and actually having to write out an equation of words to figure out what the heck he was asking. Parasitology was yesterday. There’s not much to say about it since the tests in that class are always well-written and fair. I think it went well.
I’m still floating on the “recently-engaged” high and it’s helped to make this week considerably better than I thought it was going to be. I keep staring at my ring and then I catch myself and I feel like a goldfish for being distracted by shiny objects. Oh well, I’m OK with that.
I have a considerable amount of non-school things to work on in the coming weeks. I need to find a summer job. That is the one that is adding the most stress to my plate right now. The job market is already crappy enough and soon a whole university worth of undergraduate, graduate, and professional students will be competing for jobs. I’d love to work in a clinic, but I understand that most clinics cannot afford to pay students for a summer. It’s too costly to train and then lose someone in 3 months. I may end up doing something totally different (retail, office, etc.) than I’ve done in the past just because I need to do something. I know it’ll all work out, I’m just an expert at worrying.
My plan for today is to hang out with Best Friend (and possibly Best-Friend-in-law) because our opposite school schedules has made it almost impossible for us to spend any time together. I may do a bit of light studying later this evening, and then I have a phone date with the Captain. I think it’s going to be a nice night after all.
