Chilly? Or Motivational Dreams!

Yet again things are going slow right before the ramp up to midterms, anyway so far everything is going okay classes are "interesting" when you can both hear and understand what the professors are talking about (which most of the time I can), although this weeks Physo professor did decide that we all needed to watch a USSR propaganda film. Where they where bring dogs back from clinical death 15min later with "no" ill effects, and "reanimating" severed dog heads to top all of this off are professor is from Germany, ( to be fair there was some real information on the heart and how it works although it was very early in the film).
Moving on from being scared, I made chilly yesterday and it was pretty good except, I am not used to making it in such a small portion so it ended up being a bit (A lot!) spicier then I intended, it was still good though after I got over the shock.
And since it was a slow week I figured I would talk about sleep or the lack there of. Professional school students have a hard time letting themselves relax enough to get to sleep. Unless its a unearthly hour of the morning, or they distract there minds enough to fall asleep, the first way is pretty self explanatory you stay up working/studying till 3-4AM in extreme cases 5-6AM this is obviously unhealthy and we should all shoot for at least 6-7 hours of sleep a night, (I am not saying that I get that much sleep every night but I am trying to go to bed earlier. The second has multiple ways off working all with there own unique side effects, for myself I like to listen to a podcast while trying to fall asleep, but I always set a sleep timer and I try to stop and take my headphones out before falling asleep (if the sound didn't stop then my brain would still be listing to it and i wouldn't be as rested the loophole is that if you can listen to your music/podcast, without headphones then you can just turn the volume down to where you can barley hear it however setting a sleep mode up is always a good option). Any who I say all of this just so I can talk about how I couldn't sleep a couple of weeks ago, because for whatever reason my brain was writing a motivational speech, (and let me tell you it's a pretty good one) now I have never given or written a motivational speech before (I have given a lot of speeches just not this kind), and I am still not sure if I was just trying to motivate myself or if I really wanted to brighten my classmates days. Regardless I could not fall asleep right away it would always be 2-3AM before I would finally come to and figure out that I had been laying in bed for four hours, imaging myself giving this speech that I was writing as i went. It was not till four nights of this that I deiced to just give in and put this thing on paper, and since I did I have not had trouble falling asleep, even right before a test when I am stressed I can lay down listen to a few minutes of a podcast and then go straight to sleep.

Sometimes you need motivate yourself, and sometimes you have bad timing, but no matter what we all absolutely need to sleep or our brains will shut down and no amount of USSR reanimation magic can help you then so just eat a big bowl of chilly, and let you mind and body take a nice long rest (just not during class ok), Till next week when I will probable talk about some other random subject, see you then.     

A Comedy of Quiz's Or Gupta's Home Style Cooking and Fusion

This last week was crazy three quizzes, two in anatomy, and one in animal nutrition. This lead to high stress levels, and loads of studying which normally would be a boring blog post but ill give it a go. reading notes x99000, going over bones and muscles x130000, and that is pretty much it aside from this weekend which was spent (gasp!) studying Histo for the quiz on Monday.
On to the more interesting part of the week which almost entirely happened on Friday (and by almost I mean it all happened on Friday after class), I got a hair cut which was okay a bit expensive, then I went to the improve comedy clubs show, which was very funny in till I got ("randomly") chosen to participate but that wasn't to bad, I was told that I was funny (shrug). moving on to the best part of Friday night and it wasn't the lights, it was the cooking a couple of us vet students got to gather each  providing parts of the cooking supply's, Ben (a faceless, meaning less name to most of you) was planning on doing most of the cooking but I couldn't help myself so I help with the cooking, at the same time a non company (part of the student visa we have here is we cannot make money), anyway myself and Ben decided that it would be nice to do this cooking at someones kitchen using a lot of different food stuffs. We also felt that this needed a name we settled on Gupta's Home Style Cooking and Fusion, (Dr. Gupta is are Histo professor) also I liked the idea that it would be like a food truck.
Now I am looking back at this post it's really not very good but I did almost forget to write it so I suppose it will have to do for this week and hopefully I will do a better job, anyway remember don't hold yourself to overly high blog standards. see you next week ^_^

   

Bowling the Quiz Or When the Breaking Point Hits!

So I feel like a lot has happened this week we had our first quiz, term 1 went bowling, we had anatomy lab check, and other stuff. Just feels busy plus all the studying for the anatomy quiz's
But lets start with the quiz it was not as bad as I thought it would be, everything was very organized and ran smooth. Now the bowling trip went pretty good as well, every one had fun and seemed to relax a bit, which is just what we all needed plus the next day was Grenada's independence day so we got the day off school (we tried to take advantage of the break with varying degrees of success.
I had my small animal clinical orientation lab on Friday which went good (it was just a general fiscal of a dog which most people haven't done before so if you are thinking of being a vet ask your vet if they would walk you though one on your animal its great practice) luckily for me Austin Peay has one of the best teachers around who taught us how to do fiscals. In fact Austin Peay did a great job preparing me for vet school there hasn't been any totally new concepts or subjects.
But lets move on to something that has been one of the big talking subjects around campus Breaking Points and what happens when we hit them, this was sparked by the sudden announcement by a med student that they where done and they where leaving, and its not like they where the first to leave going to school on a island is not all sunny days and beaches, in fact if you can do well here then you should be able to practice anywhere with no problem. However all your peers may not feel the same way since Island schools career lot of negative cognition's, which is one of the reasons I am writing this blog. So what should we do when we start questing why we are here? Well the problem is that it is a different answer for every person, what I can tell you is running away or trying to ignore it are never good options, SGU goes so far out of there way to try and make sure that every student knows about the help they can get here for free, for every thing from studying to mental stress and fatigue.
The big problem is that we are all to proud to ask for help when we need it, and we push all our problems down in till we break and it floods out of us all at once, threatening to overwhelm us pushing us away from our Hopes, Dreams, and Goals only leaving a scared kid that has no reason to be here. Now the vet school has only lost one person (so far as I am aware), however midterms are just around the corner and I am afraid that the stress will get to more of us. If the stress does get to you just remember that little kid inside that has all those Hopes of  saving life's, Dreams of one day wearing the white coat and having people look at you with admiration, and Goals of becoming a Doctor. And then you will remember why you are putting yourself though all this stress, It's because you could never see yourself doing anything other then becoming a vet.
I will see you all next week, for more adventures and hopefully less stress.

The art of Snake catching Or cultural cross reference!

This last week was mostly uneventful other then studying for the first Quiz, (quiz = small test) most people seem nervous about it. However I feel like its coming more from the strict testing procedures then the material it's self, but we will see Tomorrow how it goes.
So what did happen this week well one yesterday was one of my classmates (and Fellow Tennessean) birthday there was a nice party, cake, I made Sweet tea which is already becoming something I talk about far to much, along with other southern tropes (hey I like the south). Moving on to the other thing that happened, I went snake hunting with the herpetology club which was very fun we where driven (almost to quickly) to Grand Etang where we where split up in to groups and sent down trails, oh did I mention it was dark, and it had rained the day before (MUD!) this lead to lots of almost falling over even when standing still. I almost slide right in to a stream, lucky I didn't and we went on looking for snakes, unfortunately we did not catch any and by we I mean my group one of the other groups did get one. my group did hear some monkeys, one lizard, some bats, a bird, a frog, a male and a female wolf spider (not in the same place), a scorpion, and a Opossum.
Well I think that's it for this week sorry it's so short I will be sure to have more news and adventure next week, But in till then just remember Do Not Go Walking in the Jungle After Dark Alone, Bring your friends.
Also Photos are very hard to take on rough roads in a moving van but I did my best here you go.