Burning Bright Or, Wave Goodbye

Hello Dear Readers,
The term is rapidly drawing to a close, with finals starting on Friday. This term has been kinda all over the place and I feel like it just started last week, it also feels like a year has gone by. The realty I started this dumb blog a year and a half ago, that is... just wired to think about, 1.5 years since I first stepped foot on to this little island nation. I have manged to learn more information then I would have thought possible, but now I get to experience another unique aspect of island vet school... saying goodbye to friends, yes in state schools you still have to say goodbye to upper term friends when they graduate, but hear there is something happy sad about knowing that you won't see someone around school anymore. We are all happy to see them going to clinical year but when they go they get scattered all over North America, which is kinda sad to think about, also the fact that no matter how much we all say we will get back together. Someday is a awful long way away and time pulls everyone in different direction, don't miss construe my words I believe that at some point I will get to hang out with those friends of mine that are leaving this at the end of this term. I will really miss seeing them around campus, talking to them about vet stuff, improv things, and car stuff (even if they didn't care), thanks for all the support. I can't wait to see how you all change the world my 6th term friends, I know you will even if you don't really want to, because that is the power of this crazy stupid way of going to school has, we are all stronger then we where and waving goodbye to good friends has never gotten any easier for me even though I have more then my fair share of experience at it. I am starting to get a bit of experience waving hello to old friends, and that gives me hope.
Goodbye till next term Dear Readers have a very merry Christmas, TTFN

 

 

Incoming Or, Why Vet School In Grenada Is Not Bad

Hello Dear Readers,
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. 

Getting Though it All, Or Story Tellers, Or Finals Again.

Hello Dear Readers, I Have been writing this blog for over a year now, I obviously plan on keeping it up as long as I am here, vis-à-vis finals are coming up and as per my usual I am not sure how I am going to make it though them. I am not as bad off as I have been in the past, Pharm and anatomy lab are going to kill me, they are pretty much straight memorization and there is a lot there to remember plus this weekend was one of those where I try to do something like study but my brain says no lets wonder off and do something else and then by the time I lay down to sleep it snaps back and says "you didn't get enough done your going to fail so" I lay awake clear in the knowledge that I am a worthless idiot who has no right to be here, and the sane part of my mind is saying that the best thing to do now is to get some sleep and get up and get some work done, then by 2:30am I am finally able to fall asleep. I wish I was one of those people who could just sit down and study all day, oh while at lest vet school is getting better, not easier mind you just better what does that mean you ask, well I am getting used to the level of work and stress, which means that I am enjoying my time here a bit more it is not as strange and foreign as it was before. So hopefully I can make it though finals and move on to term 3, and as long as I can I think there might be some changes made to this blog, since the last couple of posts have been very short and frankly stupid. I can do better but apparently not weekly so since you dear Readers deserve the best I can muster I will probable make it into a Bi weekly post. Something else that I think would be interesting for this blog is adding your the Readers story's to it, I know that some of you probable have better things to talk about then I do. So we will see how finals works out and then I will figure out how that would work and go from there. Anyway I think this will be it for me this term, hopefully though the grace of god I will be back next term, till then...

 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   

I Hate Cliffhangers Or, What Happens Next

Well Dear Readers I know that I said I would not post again this year, but I have some good news I have unofficially passed term 1 (finely) thanks to Gods grace.
And that's it really I just wanted to let you know that you will be hearing more from me. Oh and if you ever felt like "man i really like this stupid blog, but i really wish there was a way that i could show the world just how much i like it", then  you can stop yelling about it and just check out my redbubble account (I have had this account for about a year and it has all the crazy little designs I make as stress relief, Please don't think I am trying to sale you stuff, but i am a bit, sorry) . also I will include some samples here let me what you think or don't its up to you. TTFN And Marry Christmas
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Finaly Finals, Or Three More Weeks

Hello Dear readers, Finals start next Monday so this will be my last post this year, and for this post I figured I would talk about you the reader.

You see with out you no one would ever read this and while that probable would not be sad per say, (given my writing skill), It would make me a lot less motivated to write this fun little blog post.
For me this blog is mostly therapeutic, I really do enjoy writing about whatever is currently going on around here, and I am glad that you like to read it.
It's also grown somehow see that most of my post from last term averaged 50 views and now it's closer to 150 (which might not seem like much but I think it's cool). So you won't here from me till next term which as of today might as well be in two months, and assuming I do well on my finals (I am nerves but not as bad as midterms) I am really trying heard to make sure I can pass all my classes and finally move on to term two. Going along with that thought I would like to talk about my decel term in broad strokes for just a minute, this term has been weird a year has gone by and I have been standing still watching everyone moving around me, I can not even talk to them since I have to hold my breath while I wait to see if I get to move forward again or if i will fall back into a thick fog never to be seen again.
It's been a stressful year for me but hopefully, my Dear Readers though the grace of god, and hard work I will be able to talk to you again next term. Thanks for reading TTFN.

     

God is Great, Or how I figured out vet school at the last possible moment!

Well Dear readers I did it I passed all my classes,
I really don't have much to talk about, I finally figured out my studding and I might have gone a little crazy as I honestly forgot how to go to sleep daring finals week. But I think that next term I won't go that insane! 
Besides that this blog will be going dark till August so I will see you all then thanks for going on this stress full trip, and till next time stay calm, have fun, and study hard.
TTFN

The End is Apon us, Or Life, the story is still at the begining.

Well dear readers finals start tomorrow and if I don't get at least a B on my physio final I am going to fail the class (not the way anyone wants to start their vet school career) I really don't know how this would effect my standing with the school since I am already deceling this term, but I believe that if with 5 full days of studying for this one test I should be able to pass. If I don't then life will go on I will figure out some other totally awesome life goals out (not that I am planning for failure, In fact I am writing this Sunday night after my study time).
I have a couple hints for anyone who is thinking about vet school but first a real quick programing note: there will not be a post next Monday do to finals, my last post for this term will be on the 15 of May ( if any other news happens there will be quick update). Okay back to the Fun tips for vet school!
1. Don't go to vet school straight out of undergrad or masters program (if you are like me you will decide that this is a once in a life time opportunity and you will go regardless, Be Warned, You are already Burned out and you need a break even just a summer is better then nothing, I know because I have only just recently got things clicking again.)
2. God
3. Going to Vet school out of country is not as bad as you might think, getting student loans is the same as going to school in the states. and going to school in the Caribbean gives you the ability to fly home for the summer (which is nice) even if the flights are kinda crap.
4. Friends are life, and if you don't want to go crazy
5. Friends outside of vet school are also life (for real support systems)
6. Use every available resource even if you don't think you need it
7. Have some fun
8. Never get down on yourself that's when you start giving up
9. sleep!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
10. Follow your dreams, ( I honestly never thought that I would get in to vet school and now I am here and even if I fail I will not regret a thing well maybe the 32 grand in loans but hey you win some you lose some life keeps moving on).
TTFN Dear readers till the 15th. and the 16th I get to see my little girl.