Boomerang , Or How we all Stay Sane

Hello Dear Readers, It's kinda getting crazy with only about 4 weeks till finals start, also I have 4 quiz's and a final that will happen before then, a four day weekend for Easter and I alter from feeling like I can't possibly get though, understand and remember all the material for the tests and beyond. and feeling like I might be able to pull off high marks on some of the test, and a confidence that I can beat this term, but we will see how it goes, all I can do is my best and that will just have to be good enough.
On to the core of this post, this last week in physio 2 we have been going over a lot of "review" of bio-chem, at the same time I got a Facebook memory of some notes that I had posted when I was in bio-chem which I promptly used to help complete some homework, I am honestly surprised by how much of my undergrad classes have come back to me and helped me to better understand some of my classes, I will also say that there are also classes and lectures that seem to have nothing to do with my classes, this is mostly since the whole of my undergrad is covered in the first slide set, vet school is hard their is no doubt about that.
Now you maybe wondering with all this stress how does one stay sane (or at the very lest, not go more crazy), well that's a bit of a tricky question mostly since there is a different answer for each individual, the advise I received a long time ago was to be a good vet you need a hobby that has nothing to do with animals, for me it was racing cars but since I can't really do that on Grenada (unfortunately), however I was lucky enough to find Improv Club here and now when I am on island that is how I deal with my stress, the big thing for me is not the actual improv (although I think I am getting the hang of it and it is very fun), the big thing is that I have friends that I can have fun with.
Friends really good friends that you can talk about anything, your problems, your success, the stuff that they don't really care about, someone who makes who makes you go to a beach front restaurant, a Friend, BFF, Confidant, a Best Vet School Buddy. TTFN 

Finals or Nothing, Or Kick 'em Jenny

Hello Dear Readers, you might have noticed that I did not post anything yesterday (Monday) this was because I had a PD (Physical Diagnosis) final, this final is more of a performance based test (OSCE) i.e. we had to be able to preform a number of tests and explain what your doing and why, everyone had 3 of these stations and you get 3 min to complete each test, in general it was pretty interesting, kinda stressful (especially since its only been a week since midterms), maybe even a little fun.

So I don't have anything else inextricably interesting to talk about expect that Kick 'em Jenny (the submarine volcano off the east cost of Grenada) was raised from yellow to an orange alert level, what does that mean, well KeJ is about 180m down so even if it erupts we won't be covered in fire and ash, the biggest danger is for ships which could suddenly sink if they get caught in a cloud of gas escaping from KeJ which would low the water density, so the orange alert ups the 1 mile exclusion zone to a 3 mile exclusion zone. Kick 'em Jenny is one of the most active volcanoes in the indies, however since it is so far down most of the potentially devastating results are mitigated making it a safe-ish volcano.

I know where I am going to go if the volcano blows, do you? TTFN   

Fight Or Flight, Or Thoughts of the Future

Hello Dear Readers,
I feel like I had several plans pertaining  to this weeks post, however I can't seem to remember any of them, Such is the nature of Midterms week.
As the title suggest Midterms is a week of Fight or Flight still studding trying to review info trying to learn the stuff that professors give days before the exam, it is a week of wake up study, take test, study, go to sleep and repeat it for the next 7 days. Some how I made it though this terms gantlet of stress, despair, triumph, depression, sleep depredation with only small mental wounds to show for it.
Enough about the worst weeks of vet school, let's talk about the future and not the terrifying one where we all have flying cars (shudder) just imagine a small fender bender ending with both party's plummeting 100ft to the ground, no I am talking about my future Lord willing I will graduate vet school and then what be a vet? Yes of course but what kind of vet, since vet pretty much can get you any number of jobs ranging from Lab work to wildlife conservation work part of vet school is figuring out what you want to do after vet school, now most people come in to vet school knowing exactly what they want to do with their degree, and I have a general idea of what I would like to accomplish. The thing for me is that in high school and undergrad despite my outward confidence I honestly figured that I would never get into vet school, and then last year I was fairly certain that I would fail out of vet school, it's only been this term that I have allowed myself to dream of the future and what it might hold. Be that Struggles, Joy, Tears, Love, Pain, Success, or a bit of all of those, the future is no longer shrouded in a fog of self doubt for me and no matter what happens it's looking pretty bright. TTFN