Hi there; Birdie here!
This week (really last Friday afternoon), we started up our normal classes. Currently that consists of immunology, neuroscience, and anatomy III. Anatomy will be focusing on large animal stuff, but we're still working on comparative in the head right now, finishing up with the eye and ear and all the vessels and nerves. I'm going to be really glad to be done with anatomy; it actually ends before the end of the semester with no Anatomy IV! And have I mentioned we'll get to touch live animals this semester for anatomy? We'll need to have stethoscopes starting in a couple of weeks, which is a bit of a problem for people who just found out about that from the school last week, but luckily I already have one. I'm really excited about that, but it probably means I'll need to do more dissection outside of class time, boo. Immunology is really fun because our course coordinator/main lecturer is a little bit crazy, in a good way. She explains things with lots of metaphors (often similar to the way I think about it) and is great at keeping the class engaged. Right now it's not difficult for me at all since I had immunology in undergrad. We've only had 2 hours of neuro so far, which was reiterating stuff I've already learned in two classes, one of which was physio last semester. We're going to be doing a sheep brain dissection, which I've also done (that's what I get for taking neuro in undergrad) but I'm still looking forward to it.
Path club has an actual president now, instead of just me as VP being acting president! Our first meeting is Thursday and I've done a lot to set up for it. I'm hoping our new president can take over with it now, but she hasn't emailed me back yet.
Last night we had a bachelor auction to raise money for the Aescupalalian Ball or whatever it's called. The boys themselves weren't on auction--they just represented packages of a variety of gift cards/voucher--but they danced like they were. Some of them weren't even bachelors (one of my classmates "bought" her husband, and the pathologist MC and her boyfriend both went up). It was fun, but went on significantly longer than I wanted to stay. They basically paused for a song or more between each guy to let people drink so they would bid more (they weren't even very subtle about it). It was a little much for me, to be honest, especially when it went on for three hours. I'm glad I went, but I'm not sure I'll go next year.
Today I spent most of the day at the LVMA winter meeting. I went to a talk about feline intestinal diseases and one about intestinal surgery and a couple of hours on practice management. I'm kind of hoping I can apply those last hours to my VBMA certificate, but I'm not sure whether it will make a difference. I'll get the certificate either way, and I don't think those 2 hours will push me from silver to gold level. It was a little awkward, especially since I was alone, since the intended audience was obviously veterinarians, not students. I felt a little out of place, especially when one of the organizers talked to me between sessions and mentioned how it was strange I was going to lectures when I didn't have to, basically. He didn't mean it like that, but I still left not long after that. I am going to go back in an hour or so, though. They're doing a student speed networking event, so I'm going to that. Hopefully it will be good!
So I mentioned how this is such a long weekend? It started with a snow day yesterday. Yes, in Baton Rouge! It wasn't proper snow, but the roads were icy in the morning (I would have been too terrified to drive to school even if it was open!) and I had to scrape a bunch of ice off my car when I went to drive today. Plus the stairs in front of our apartment had a thick sheet of ice that made them really dangerous. It wasn't snowy enough to make a snowman or anything. I ordered snow boots for my ski trip with my family over Mardi Gras break and read Insurgent and didn't do any studying. And the weekend will be even longer because I'm not going to class on Monday--I'll be in Atlanta for the CDC veterinary day! We're leaving early tomorrow morning. I'm definitely looking forward to it. I already have my bag mostly packed!
So of course I'll be very busy next week making everything up (me more than most). Luckily I'm only missing anatomy lab on Monday. That's bad enough, but I was worried they'd try to make up neuro lab then, too, since the sheep brain dissection was supposed to be yesterday. Looks like I'll be watching a bunch of recorded lectures! I'm pretty sure it's worth it, though. :D
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