Glow in the dark cat...

Cool or creepy? Apparently you can get a cloned cat and the cloners added a fluorescent gene so it glows in the dark. As if I needed another reason not to get a cat, ha. We have our zootech midterm (worth 33% of our grade) in about an hour and kinda freaking out about it since we all started studying for it yesterday after the practical portion of histology. I think we maybe underestimated the amount of material on this thing. And why do there have to be so many types of tabbys?! While there can only be 4 questions per lecture we are not sure how specific it is going to be since there is about 50 slides a lecture. This class is supposed to be an easy grade, too!
As much fun as I have with my classmates I'm so ready for Christmas break. Studying constantly is super tiring and always worrying about grades is a little stressful. Better go make sure I can tell the difference between a belgian blue and rhode island red.

Weird

Vet students are weird. While this isn't really news, it can be easily confirmed by listening to almost any conversation we have with each other. The more we talk the weirder we get, too. This can actually be detrimental to other relationships because your significant other will start pointing it out on a regular basis. Like when you show him a video of a macrophage chasing and enveloping bacteria and not only is he not impressed, but points out how lame you are... but when shown in class every vet student is as excited as if it were a chase seen on an action movie.

We just got our first test back from physiology 2 and while the average was a D, which is failing in vet school, I got a C! Never been so happy for a C in my life. From what I have heard the class should get slightly easier from here on out though, so that is encouraging I guess. 

Anatomy didn't go so well... luckily my previous grades helped keep my grade looking decent; however, our final is worth like half our grade so it doesn't matter much what we have going in to it since it is worth so much. Assuming we all make it, I think we have picked out our anatomy group for next semester when we start on the horse. I think I'll like the horse more than dogs and cats... they're bigger and, well its a horse. In zootech we went over exotics and pocket pets and it reminded me how much I love little wabbits! Soo cute and fuzzy, but definitely don't have time or money for another mouth to feed. Speaking of money I found out today that my insurance actually covered every penny of my rabies shots so we just got refunded about 850 bucks!

On a less boring note, I got to do a physical on a cow this week. It is nice getting our hands on something alive and cows are pretty much the coolest. The stethoscope the clinic I worked for got me has come in handy for these labs.  We also added husbandry labs to our schedule and every other week we do physicals monday thru thursday. This week I had the blood donor cats and dogs and while it was interesting the first day, it started to just feel like a waste of time by day 4. At least food animal then equine are my last 2 rotations so that should be more fun.
Tomorrow morning I'm helping my husband work some calves and while I am a little sad my histology study time is getting disturbed, I'm excited to get some fresh air. Off to curl up to learn about some nephrology, bleh.

Dull

Not much going on here. Went to Texas last week and had a great time with the family. The most glorious part of the weekend... not studying one bit. I want to say that it made me refreshed and ready for more studying, but I'd be lying. Most of us are completely over the excitedness of vet school and very warn down from the constant studying. I am constantly amazed at how much I am retaining when I study though. I did really well on my histology quizam last week, but we are all still waiting on physiology 2 grades; however, most of us could do without knowing how horrible it went.
We got to learn how to do physical exams on horses yesterday and it was so nice to do something I felt comfortable with. Definitely decreased my stress level by a thousand points. Next week is food animals handling and techniques and I'm excited about that, too. Monday is our 3rd anatomy exam. I'm a little worried because I haven't done a ton of studying for it, but my lab partner and I reviewed today and a knew a little more than I had thought.
I need to bake some cookies tonight to help with a bake sale fundraiser for our class. They are selling them at walk around for homecoming tomorrow. Oklahoma State apparently has an awesome homecoming, but I haven't really gotten into it before. Hopefully they can make some money, but it is suppose to be rainy, cold, and icky tomorrow so I doubt I will start enjoying it this year. Plus Saturday has been allotted for studying anatomy. Better go feed and snuggle my own horsies and get to baking.

wait... what day is it?

Somehow, the worst week besides finals week of the semester has come to an end and fall break has begun... and I'm still alive?  I don't think I have studied more in my life than I did this week and it still didn't feel like enough. This was the first week I actually sacrificed sleep to get a few more hours of studying.
Monday was phys 1 and we got the test back a few hours ago. I didn't do fabulous, but I'm still ok with my grade. Histology wasn't as bad as I was anticipating, but that doesn't mean it went well... it was histology after all. Probably won't get that graded and back for at least a week. We ended up not getting our exam for Jurisprudence & ethics which is nice to have one less thing to worry about. Physiology 2... I don't even want to talk about. It is what broken dreams are made of. Anatomy had a little quiz assignment today and it actually wasn't too horrid. Every few weeks we rotate animals so we can learn on different specimens so we must evaluate the previous groups dissections. All I can say is that I'm glad my anatomy group isn't worried about staying late to get everything done and done right because our new specimens were definitely no where near being dissected correctly/fully. Apparently reading directions and asking questions is above some people, but it is their grade that it hurts, not ours.
I am going to start  drinking away always remember the memories of this week...

Free time... what is that??

We had our second anatomy exam on Monday and while I didn't do as well as the first exam, it was no where near as bad as it could have been so that's good. We finally got our histology grades back from the test almost 2 weeks ago. I did horrible on the multiple choice part and my practical part somewhat made up for it, but again not as good as our first quizam in there.
This coming week is not going to be fun. We start on Monday with physiology 1 exam and it is mainly neurophysiology. We had a different professor lecturing and she was extremely hard to understand/follow so it turned into a more self taught and using your classmates as resources to learn the information. Tuesday we have a histology quizam. Knowing what to expect for this one will help make it a tiny bit better. Wednesday we are handed out our take home Jurisprudence & ethics midterm and have over a week to work on that (yeah let me get right on that...). Thursday is our first physiology 2 exam and it is going to be mostly respiratory physiology which, like I said I really enjoy. Friday starts our fall break and I get to go down to texas for my cousins baby shower and I'm super pumped about getting a little break after this horrible upcoming week.
We have really got into dissecting our dog and cat in anatomy and it is definitely not my forte. My partner I am with all semester is super nice and usually pretty prepared, but is very meek and I feel like I am doing most of the dissecting because she doesn't really get in there and do what needs to be done. Sometimes you have to be a little more rough than you'd think. So needless to say her and I are very slow which backs up my whole anatomy group. I really wanted to get into the anatomy lab some yesterday to review, but it definitely was not a top priority with everything else we have to study for next week so one of my study buddies and I stuck with the other stuff. Our test on Monday was moved to 8am so we don't get so distracted studying for it instead of paying attention in our other classes. That gives us a 2 hour lunch and plenty of time to review.
Off to make sure I know everything about the autonomic nervous system, skeletal muscle, microscopic lymphatics and digestive system, and whatever else I may be ignoring forgetting.