Firstly let me apologize for not giving you a heads up on the date switch, if you didn't see, I will be doing a post this and next week but then finals start so I will be "done" for the term with posts. So I will still have the right number of post for the term, anyway on to the meat of this post.
a couple of weeks ago I was talking to my family and they told me that one of the people I knew back in my rabbit show days was going to be starting vet school in the spring? I don't remember of the top of my head, the important thing is that she would be starting vet school HEAR at SGU. To which I responded "Why?", and to understand this reaction you need to understand the group attitude at SGU SVM which in a nutshell is that most of us did not get into the schools we wanted to, and this was are 2nd, 3rd, 4th...etc etc etc choice, some people start hear so they can get a leg up and then try to transfer out as soon as they can, there are parts of the ladder group that transfer out, and some of the later wind up staying.
The really interesting thing is that most of us love "most" of the professor, the classes a good, the schedules are bad but you get used to that, and sure the schools higher ups care more about the med school, but you have to remember that this "school" has a CEO. But overall the SVM side of things really cares about us students and wants us to be good vets someday, so let me get back to my question of Why? she was coming hear for school, and I will be honest I don't know the actual reason why she decided to come to an Island school, but I have decided to devote the rest of this post to why SGU is actually an amazing vet school and why people might make the choice to come hear, so buckle up, sip the kool-aid, and lets see if I can think in the positive for once.
Let's start with my favorite thing about going to vet school here in the Caribbean, the people, not just the locals (which are great but I have written about them before) but the professes, and other students, and staff, are amazing. I have classmates from all over the U.S., Canada, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, UK, Grenada, and the professors are from an even wider range. On top of the sheer range, people here are super nice and welling to help out, I think I've been invited to no less then four Thanksgivings this term (unfortunately I need to Study), vet school is hard but being able to hang out/study with friends makes all the difference. Also we are all on an island together so the vet school as a whole is a very tight family, where professors do there best to look after the students, and we students try our best to keep professors happy, the long and short here is simply that, the people are SGU SVM and without them it would suck. And it's still going to suck at times, but the fact that the Twinkie (yellow food trailer) lady knows what kind of bagel you like makes things a little better, when a professor tells you a funny story about how he had a professor fall asleep during his own lecture will help, and when your friends go out of there way to cheer you up that will also help a lot.
Island School is little scary when you start, and a little tiring once you get going, but all in all I wouldn't trade the friends I've made or the experiences I have had here! For all the pie and ice cream in the world. I feel like I lost the flow some where in there... maybe not? Talk to you next week TTFN.
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