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.