How to tell you're in the 2nd semester of vet school

• Markedly less stress. After all, we all passed the first semester, so we ought to be able to do it again.
• Nobody giggles when the professor says diarrhea, or virtually any word related to genitalia or reproduction.
• It's been beaten into you that sick animals have "clinical signs," not "symptoms."
• Instead of peeing, pooping, and throwing up, you talk about urinating, defecating, and vomition.
• Your vocabulary is full of acronyms like AVMA, CVMA, SAVMA, SCAVMA, EEE, WEE, WNV, EPM, CDV, CNS, PNS, ANS, ECF, CSF, ECM, DIC (2 completely unrelated meanings), PCR, AIHA, AAHA, VDL, VTH, VIN, and those are only the ones I could think of in about 90 seconds.
• At a moment's notice, you can recite what CVMBS stands for.
• You can, with a marginal level of confidence, find a half dozen specific locations in the teaching hospital.
• Everybody is so used to cutting up cadavers and sitting in classrooms all day that the opportunity to interact with a real, live dog is a bit surreal.