Pie in the face!

The freshman class came up with what I thought was a pretty clever fundraiser. They got 4 of their professors to volunteer to be candidates to receive a pie in the face. The 'lucky winner' was determined by which professor got the most money given in their name. The freshmen set up 4 jars, one for each prof, and you could put as much money as you wanted in any jar, with the idea that whoever has the most money at the end is the victim.

The four professors:

1. The professor for freshman and part of sophomore pathology, a really nice guy: "Dr. Path"

2. The small ruminant-focused clinician who lectures to the freshmen in nutrition and the sophomores in clinical sciences about GI disease, also a really nice and popular instructor: "Dr. SR"

3. The sort-of-creepy guy who doesn't teach anything, as far as I know, but whose main job is making sure we have enough properly prepared "specimens" for anatomy dissection and other labs: "Dr. Death"

4. The parasitology professor who is enthusiastically despised by most of the freshman and much of the sophomore classes: "Dr. Parasit"

When I first heard about the fundraiser and who was involved, there was no doubt in my mind that Dr. Parasit would be getting a pie in the face, giving her extreme unpopularity, which may or may not be due to the horrible and difficult subject she teaches.

Apparently Dr. Parasit had the same thought I did, because the day before the deadline for contributing money, she put $100 in each of Dr. Path and Dr. SR's jars.

Hehe.

I didn't get to attend the actual pie-throwing event (mainly because I had PBL, but also because I forgot it was on Thursday), but apparently it was decided that the remarkable difference between Dr. Path/Dr. SR's jars versus Dr. Parasit/Dr. Death's jars demanded a pie in the face for both Dr. Path and Dr. SR.

Dr. Death had the least amount of $$ by far and reportedly didn't even show up.

Dr. Parasit, however, did show up, with what I heard was a surprising amount of enthusiasm. She even brought gummy worms to top the cream pies that were thrown. Onlookers report that Dr. Path commented, "I didn't even know Dr. Parasit had a sense of humor!"

Although I still have horrible memories of parasitology class last spring, my interactions with Dr. Parasit since then have been more positive, and after this week's fundraising events, I must admit I admire her conniving and dedication to not getting a pie in her face. I was initially surprised to hear she even volunteered, so I now wonder if she had planned this all along.

And the freshman scholarship fund is now $200+ richer!

You can always count on classmates to improve your self-esteem

After talking to about 5 of my classmates today who revealed that they had not yet taken our impending 3 exams*, I felt pretty good about how productive I was over spring break, and this week.

*Exam #1 = surgery final, due tonight; Exam #2 = ClinSciI final, due tonight; Exam #3 = BoD midterm, due tomorrow

I can't imagine getting out of class at 3 this afternoon and knowing that you had to take one final within the next 2 hours, another final within 6 hours after that, and a midterm in the following 24 hours. I also don't understand how people can be posting on Facebook all during spring break about the fun things they are doing, traveling, partying, hanging out with friends, and then they end up skipping most of our classes today so they can study for the 3 exams they procrastinated on during the 12 days that the exams have been open!

Anyway, I guess different strokes for different folks?

My week so far

No time like the present, I suppose. At least in relation to getting right back into things following spring break.

Monday:

6:30 am: Wake up (begrudgingly)

7:15 am: Leave for school

8:00 am: BoD lecture, first of seven lectures about the hemolymphatic system; instructor actually brings us notes!!!

9:00 am: Anesthesia lecture; instructor turns down the lights (completely unnecessarily); struggle to stay awake while learning about cardiovascular monitoring in the anesthetized patient

10:00 am: First Clinical Sciences II lecture; main cardiology instructor seems very nice; lights are turned back on!; start reviewing basic material from freshman year (it is still horrible the second time around, but only slightly less so)

11:00 am: Radiology lecture; lights back down; fight the urge to nap until 5 minutes before the end of class

12:00 pm: Business Law lecture; start talking about different types of contracts; marvel at the confusion expressed by much of the class about basic material; wonder if my undergrad classmates are still a little hungover?

1:00 pm: A second hour of ClinSciII; continue cardiology; material gets harder; suffering flashbacks to freshman physiology

2:00 pm: Yes, a third hour of ClinSciII (because two hours a day just isn't enough); find it difficult to avoid looking at the clock every 12 seconds

2:45 pm: ClinSciII is over slightly early! Thank goodness. Study BoD for upcoming online exam in the common room; fight urge to work on the 6x6-foot, 28,000-clue crossword someone taped to the wall

4:10 pm: Drive to the VTH; stop for gas

4:30 pm: Organizational meeting for Saturday's shelter medicine mini-conference, for which I volunteered to help; agree to help with registration (7:15 am!!!) and clean-up, plus tours if needed

5:00 pm: Leave shelter meeting early when CLH arrives to pick me up for a "date"

5:10 pm: Park on main campus and walk to library; help CLH find and check out some music books

5:30 pm: Leave library; drive to nearby Culver's for a quick dinner (complete with "Turtle Dove" custard: vanilla custard with chocolate flakes, pecans, caramel, and marshmallow creme)

5:55 pm: Leave Culver's; drive back to VTH

6:05 pm: Sneak in late for a lecture by an Ohio vet who runs a small animal practice in what he describes as Cleveland's "ghetto" and treats a lot of low-income patients/clients

6:45 pm: Lecture over sooner than expected; part ways with CLH and head home to Windsor

7:20 pm: Home! Plan to study but end up Facebooking for awhile, then remember I have a PBL assignment so spend 45 minute researching proper housing and environmental needs for cockatiels (whoo hoo)

9:00 pm: Ready for bed

Tuesday

6:20 am: Up (ugh)

6:30 am: Running on the treadmill

7:15 am: Stretch, shower, get dressed

7:45 am: Make scrambled eggs while CLH makes sausage

8:00 am: Eat breakfast together!

8:20 am: Leave for school

8:45 am: Pick up friend #1 who lives by campus and usually walks to school, but class isn't on main campus today

8:50 am: Arrive at VTH with friend #1

9:00 am: Anesthesia recitation; hands-on practice with different types of cardiovascular monitoring equipment (by "hands-on" I mean practicing on ourselves, not on actual animals)

9:40 am: Recitation over early; drive friend #1 back to main campus; get my textbooks and notes from my locker

9:55 am: Arrive at friend #2's house for a BoD study session; actually accomplish effective studying despite friend #2's springer spaniels

12:00 pm: Brains fried; no more studying; time for lunch

12:15 pm: Notice it's raining outside; uh oh

12:30 pm: Get call from friend #1 back on main campus saying she needs a ride to Therio lab at the Equine Reproduction Lab

12:40 pm: With friend #2 in the car, pick up friend #1 from main campus and drive 5 miles east to ERL

12:50 pm: Arrive at ERL

1:00 pm: Therio lab is supposed to start

1:10 pm: Therio lab actually starts; brief intro then break into three groups

1:15 pm: Watch ultrasounds of non-pregnant mares (who tolerate a grown man's arm in their rectums up to the man's shoulder remarkably well)

1:30 pm: Stand in the pouring, freezing rain watching a teaser stallion interact with mares in and out of heat

2:00 pm: Go inside! By inside I mean a horse barn with a roof, although all of the walls were open and the wind and snow (formerly rain) were blowing in; fear ensuing pneumonia due to being completely soaked from the rain

2:30 pm: Go to another barn to watch a stallion mount a big fake mare and have his semen collected

2:40 pm: Actually enter a real building with four walls and a roof

2:45 pm: Lab is over; shovel two inches of snow off the car while trying not to curl up in the fetal position and enter a happy hypothermic slumber

2:50 pm: Drop friend #2 off at her house

3:05 pm: Arrive at main campus with friend #1

3:10 pm: Get to shelter medicine lecture late, but it's okay because they haven't started yet

3:15 pm: Shelter medicine lecture (the "non-traditional" shelter animal, i.e. small mammals, birds, and reptiles)

4:00 pm: Meeting about junior practicum and how to sign up for rotations; learn some actual useful information

4:35 pm: Meeting ends; consider the weather outside and opt not to stay in town for the behavior club meeting I'd only be able to attend for half an hour anyway

5:10 pm: Arrive home; blog; contemplate making a frozen pizza

Upcoming

Tuesday: Handbells from 7-9 pm

Wednesday: Anesthesia machine review session from 3:30-4:30 pm, then come home to study for (and hopefully take) BoD exam

Thursday: Expected to have a pet hospice meeting (cancelled!); drive to Denver for choir +/- dinner +/- handbells

Friday: Get to stick around campus until 4:30 pm for my anesthesia machine exam

Saturday: Shelter medicine conference, probably leaving the house at 7 am and returning between 5 and 6; intend to attend a friend's choir concert in Fort Collins at 7:30

"Spring" is here!

At the end of classes today, a classmate complimented me on my creative use of an umbrella to ward off the driving-snow-slash-freezing-rain on our trek to the parking lot. "Smart," he said.

"Well," I replied, "I wasn't smart enough to bring a coat or a hat or gloves or mittens or a scarf or boots. But I do have an umbrella. So thanks."

Good sign or bad sign?

In preparation for the beginning of our "Clinical Sciences II" course on Monday, I put the class notes into a couple binders and checked out the syllabus to see what assignments and exams I needed to get on my calendar.

(It's actually much less stuff than we had for Clinical Sciences I during the first half of the semester, which is a relief. That first class was intense.)

We have 3 take-home, open-book, open-note, work-with-your-classmates "problem sets" that are due at various points during the semester. Two years ago, when I came to look at this vet school, I sat in on an hour or two of ClinSci II lectures and I remember seeing some of the homework problems.... they looked challenging, to say the least.

We also have 2 open-note, in-class exams. Open-note = awesome. In-class = pros and cons. Pros: it's often nice to have actual class time set aside for an exam, as opposed to having to take it during your own free time while you are still in class for the usual number of hours that week. Cons: I have really gotten to like the online exams, specifically the freedom to take them whenever you want; also, the online exams usually don't have a time limit so there is no pressure to get them done in a one or two hour period.

Although I think it will be great that all of our graded material is open-note, that also has me worried a little bit. ClinSci I was all GI/liver disease, and ClinSci II is all respiratory and cardiac medicine. Which, if it's anything like our basic intro to resp/card physiology during freshman year, will be ugly.

Plus it's bumped up to 11 hours a week instead of 10 like pre-spring break. On the other hand, the syllabus states that "the emphasis will be on self- and group-learning and problem solving, rather than memorization of facts." Which I approve of. As long as that's actually how things play out.

Oh well, in any case it's nice to continue to learn relevant and applicable information! Even if it does make my brain hurt...

8 weeks till I'm halfway through vet school!

Junior practicum!

This week, the vet school opened up the newly updated descriptions of the clinical rotations we will take next year as part of our junior practicum.

(Review for those who haven't been paying attention: Junior year is divided into half classes and half clinics. You take a different clinical rotation every week, in the morning. Classes are held every afternoon. We get to start "tracking" which means you decide on small animal, large animal, or mixed ["general"] and you can then focus your elective rotations and lecture courses on the species of your choice.)

We have a series of "core" rotations that everyone takes, regardless of your selected track. They are:

1. Anesthesia 1 (both semesters)
2. Anesthesia 2 (both semesters)
3. Client Communications (both semesters)
4. Clin Path (fall only)
5. Parasitology (both semesters)
6. Emerging and Exotic Animal Diseases (both semesters)
7. Independent Study (both semesters)
8. Large Animal Procedures (fall only)
9. Radiology (both semesters)
10. Small Animal Procedures (fall only)
11. Surgical Principles (fall only)
12. Task Booklet (a list of clinical tasks that a mentor has to check off for you) (fall only)

In addition to the core rotations, we get to fill out the rest of our 15 or 16 weeks a semester with elective rotations. There is a huge variety, but the ones I'm interested in are:

1. Community Practice/Medicine
2. Community Practice/Surgery
3. Dermatology/Exotics/Ophthalmology (not too keen on the Exotics part, though)
4. Junior Surgery Lab (surgical practice on live pigs)
5. Orthopedic Diagnostics
6. Oncology
7. Small Animal Surgical Anatomy
8. Small Animal Medicine
9. Small Animal Nutrition
10. Soft Tissue Diagnostics
11. Shelter Medicine
12. Spanish for Vets (though I really am not a fan of the instructor)
13. Advanced Surgical Technologies
14. Complementary/Alternative Medicine & Integrative Pain Management
15. Cardiology

So, no, I obviously won't be able to fit in ALL of those electives, at least not this year. Senior year is structured much the same (except it's all clinics, no classes), with multiple weeks that we can fill with elective rotations, independent study, externships, etc.

We have to rank our most desired electives for both fall and spring semester, with the idea that the higher we rank something, the more likely we are to get it in our schedule, but with no guarantee of getting anything we want....

Registration for our fall courses starts in early April. Looks like we will be taking Clinical Sciences III and IV and Principles of Imaging Interpretation II (all a continuation of this semester's courses). There is also an Alternative & Complementary Medicine elective that I'd like to take -- although I think I'll stick to just that one credit of electives next fall, as opposed to my current 5 credits for 3 elective courses. (Whose bright idea was that?)

Spring break: how quickly the time flies

Sadly, there's no denying it: spring break is almost over.

It seems like just yesterday I was so excited to be posting about an upcoming respite from my academic responsibilities.

The last week of classes before break went well. As I could have predicted, I wasn't especially productive, anticipating that I would have plenty of time during break to catch up on studying, take my two finals, work on my shelter med project, etc.

Dad came for a visit last Friday and stayed through Wednesday. We had a really good time - fortunately CLH basically had this week off from work, too, so we did fun things like going to see "She's Out of My League" (a perfect me+Dad movie), going out to eat a couple times, wandering around Old Town, checking out the outlet malls in Loveland, and hiking in Lory State Park.

We also did some more ordinary/less-fun things like finish filing taxes, fill out two FAFSAs, go to church, and have an organ recital with CLH in Fort Morgan.

After Dad left on Wednesday, though, I was solidly hit by the undeniable fact that I was 5 days into spring break and I had done zero studying/schoolwork so far.

Oops.

So after we went to the Body Worlds exhibit at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, it was time to get to work.

I struggled on Wednesday and Thursday to get through some surgery notes, but my main focus was on Clinical Sciences: namely, equine and food animal tetany, flaccidity, weight loss, diarrhea, parasites, GI disease, and colic. Yuck.

This morning, I finally had what turned out to be a clever epiphany: "studying" at home, with the laptop and the radio and Hulu and cats and food and 5000 other distractions wasn't working so well. So I loaded up my study materials and headed over to the Windsor library.

And two and a half hours later, I had studied most of my ClinSci material nonstop, while maintaining focus! Whoa! Who knew that could happen??

I'm giving a tour of the VTH this afternoon, and my ClinSci exam has to be taken on campus, so it worked conveniently for me to have a quick lunch and then head over to the university to finish studying and take that darned test. (Which I did, and got 58.3 out of 60, and now I feel like I have actually done something productive on spring break.)

Unfortunately, I also just remembered today that I have a big BoD exam opening up online next week (Tues thru Thurs), and I have been totally ignoring all of the material in BoD for the last 4 weeks thinking that I would just spend a lot of time learning it over spring break. That was, until I forgot about it until now. Whoops.

On the plus side, I picked out a topic for my shelter medicine project (feline leukemia virus) and have a good idea of where to get references and the info I need to complete it. I don't think it'll be as bad/time-consuming as I thought, and it's not due till the end of next month anyway.

Plans for the rest of spring break: Tour this afternoon, then home for dinner/games with CLH and a friend. Sleep in a moderate amount (9 am?) tomorrow, then be productive: study more surgery notes (final exam due on Wednesday), get a good start on readings in the BoD textbook, and get my notes and backpack organized to get back to school on Monday (plus laundry, groceries, etc.). Sunday: continue whatever is leftover from Saturday.

And..... done

As of 8:30 pm, I am officially done with all of my academic responsibilities until after spring break!**

**Caveat: Of course, I still have to go to class for 4 more days.

Last weekend, I got ahead on all of my homework assignments due this week.

This afternoon, I successfully completed my dreaded Food Animal Medicine exam online.

(Wait, who am I kidding? "Successfully completed"? I meant to say I got 100%.)

My last exam for the week was my Shelter Medicine midterm, worth 25% of our grade, and open online today and tomorrow. I figured I would be feeling pretty awesome about myself if I got it done today.

So after a pathetic 20 minutes of studying before I totally lost my concentration, I decided to just go for it.

And also got 100%.

So, although there are certainly things I should and probably will do this week, it is sure nice to know that I don't HAVE to do anything for, oh, another good 10 days or so.

Relaxation, here I come!

Freshman vs Sophomore Year

As a sophomore this spring, I see the current freshmen trooping over to our Pathology building every Friday morning for their "Biology of Disease I" labs.

Ah, yes, I remember Biology of Disease I. That was way back when we were first learning what "inflammation" meant. What the differences between "benign" and "malignant" tumors are, and how to tell. When our weekly BoD labs consisted mostly of "Let's Play: 'What the Heck Organ Is That?'", or you'd spend 10 minutes examining a gross pathology specimen believing it to be a pig's lungs, only to find out in the end that it was actually a liver and everything you talked yourself into thinking you "knew" was totally wrong.

So when I get to school on Friday mornings, and as I approach my locker I get a big whiff of the gross specimens wafting out of the adjacent pathology lab, and I see the freshmen huddling around tables with ugly preserved globs of flesh on them, I reminisce.

I also muse about what it would be like to be a fly on the wall of that freshman lab, knowing what I know now after being halfway through the last of the three-semester series that the freshmen are just starting. When I'm feeling down about being behind on school stuff and struggling to stay motivated, sometimes I think that on a Friday, sitting in with the freshmen is just what I need to make me feel smart again.

So I've also been thinking about the differences between the freshman and sophomore years of vet school. Here are the advantages of each, as I see them:

The Good Things About Freshman Year:

1. More coddling. The professors know you're just starting out and are scared about this huge undertaking that is vet school, and they are there supporting you every step of the way. You get reminders about out-of-class assignments, due dates for online exams, unusual times when you have to go to classes. You even get some hours off during classes when you have online exams that have to be taken outside of class.

2. You aren't expected to know anything, especially first semester. Because everybody's science background is a little variable, they really start from the ground up and teach you everything you're expected to know, either in lectures or in a readily accessible format outside of class.

3. Eagerness and enthusiasm. You're in VET SCHOOL! Your dream has come true! You will actually be a doctor someday! This is exciting!

4. Hands-on activities. This especially pertains to gross anatomy/dissection labs during first semester.

5. Live animals. Despite what you might expect, we actually saw more live animals in school for physical and neuro exam practice during freshman year than as sophomores.

6. Club meetings are interesting. Everything is new, and you are excited to go discuss pros and cons of declawing with the behavior club, or attend an internship/residency panel hosted by AAHA, or learn about gowning and gloving with the surgery club.

7. Better classroom technology. The classroom has a lighting setting that sets a great balance between "I can see the screen" and "I am falling asleep." The microphone works consistently, and never produces eardrum-exploding feedback.

8. The Cubes! I think this is one of my school's most brilliant ideas. What better way to acclimates students to vet school, to each other, and to the rigorous demands of our new curriculum? A quiet place to study, a sort of "forced" friend-making, a place to hang out, to relax, to party, to get to know each other, to learn to trust your classmates, and to cope with the stresses of being a freshman vet student.

The Good Things About Sophomore Year:

1. Brains. You are smarter (in theory) than at least 25% of the other students in the vet school.

2. Better classroom. The sophomore lecture hall has wide tables with swivel-ly chairs, and you're not packed in like sardines.

3. More clinical applications. Most professors are really good about recognizing that there are esoteric, useless things that they could teach us, and there are readily applicable, clinically relevant things they could teach us, and opting for the latter.

4. Past the basics. No more hours spent memorizing bony protrusions on long bones, foramina in skulls, the many twists and turns of the equine intestine...

5. Light at the end of the tunnel. You are one year closer to graduation and being a real vet, but perhaps more importantly, you are in the last year of your life (potentially) that you will have to do nothing but sit in a classroom all day!

6. Know the system. For me, at least, the last 3.5 semesters of vet school have really taught me how to learn the material I need to know, how to prioritize my studying, and how to look at a new professor's teaching style right away and know how I will need to study to learn from them. You also are past the apprehension of doing online exams (that's old hat now) and you know how just about everything else in the vet school works.

7. Know people doing clinics. Typically, each class gets to know the class above them and the class below them pretty well. That means that as a freshman, you really only know the sophomores, none of whom know anything about clinics or have advice for your latter two years of school. But this year, I know a number of juniors who can give me tips about electives, rotations, etc.

8. Knowing that you can do it. This is a big one. If you are a sophomore, that means you've made it through 1/4 of vet school. You've survived two semesters, passed two sets of final exams, and gotten through a capstone exams. You learn to worry a little less about the nitty-gritty stuff. Yeah, you might mess up a midterm or forget a homework assignment or fail a quiz, but in the long run, the odds are that you'll be a junior next year.

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Although vet school has had its ups and downs (particularly this semester, it seems), I think it's good that I can look back at two years and find good things about both years. Yes, there have been negatives during the last two years, but it seems liike most of the bad things about freshman year are fixed during sophomore year, and most of the bad things during sophomore year were the opposite as a freshman. Overall I like vet school, although I can't wait to get into clinics...

Crash

For whatever reason, this has been a really loooooong week.

It probably has something to do with spring break now being a mere 7 days away.

It probably also has something to do with the massive numbers of exams, homework, and other assignments that have been filling up my days recently.

And with the inevitable accumulation of a massive sleep deficit caused by having class at 8 am four days a week.

So when, at 9 this morning, yesterday's intermittent headache returned in full force, I knew that was not a good sign.

Despite several hours of attempting what I like to think of as "multimodal analgesia" (thank you, vet school, for making me an even bigger nerd than I was 2 years ago) -- including napping for most of one class, popping a couple ibuprofen, chugging large amounts of water, eating some real food, and downing a bar of Dove dark chocolate -- the headache only got worse until, at 11:50, the prospect of attending three more classes on a Friday afternoon was just too daunting and I headed home.

To no one's surprise, after falling asleep at 12:45 pm and waking up at 4:15, I felt remarkably better!

I cannot wait for spring break. I think what I really need is just a couple days when I don't have to do anything. Yes, I have spent several weekend days this semester doing just that (nothing), but I can't pull that off without the nagging feeling that I'm just digging a deeper hole, and knowing that I'm going to pay for it in the near future with an even greater workload.

I need a Saturday when I can sleep in, AND spend multiple hours zoning out while listening to the funny shows on NPR (Car Talk, Whaddya Know, Wait Wait, This American Life), AND run weekend errands (grocery store, library, laundry), AND play a game or watch a movie with CLH after dinner, AND still have multiple free days coming up when I can buckle down and get my real work done.

Except for that one week in February ("Finals in February"), I haven't necessarily had any other periods of time in which my academic responsibilities were catastrophically large. But I have had a constant influx of new assignments, new material, new homework, more and more and more exams to do (mostly online, so we have to do them in our own free time, not during class time)...

I'm also having some attitude issues, because several weeks ago we transitioned from "small animal stuff" in Clinical Sciences to "cow and horse stuff."

I really hate to sound like one of those people who just "knows" what they want to do as a DVM and doesn't want to learn the rest of it. Yes, I 95% expect that after graduation I will never touch a large animal in a medical capacity ever again. Yes, all I'm really interested in doing is fixing cats and dogs.

But I know that I have to learn the other stuff - if for no other reason than to pass national boards so that I can actually be licensed to actually practice as an actual veterinarian.

All of my curriculum thus far has actually been half small animal and half large. It hasn't really bothered me. Sometimes the large animal stuff is even interesting, especially when compared to small animal medicine.

I think it's this semester's class schedule that has been creating my attitude/focus/motivation issues. We've transitioned into having 10 hours a week of ClinSci lectures about large animals, which has happened to coincide with 4 hours of surgery lectures a week that are also about large animals, and 4 hours of therio a week that are mostly focused on large animals.

I can't take that much large animal medicine all at once!

Really, could any of YOU sit in a lecture hall for 6 hours over two class days learning about diarrhea in cattle? (Diarrhea in baby calves. Diarrhea in juvenile calves. Diarrhea in adult cattle. Diarrhea in beef cattle. Diarrhea in dairy cattle. Invasive diarrhea. Septicemic diarrhea. Hypersecretory diarrhea. Inflammatory diarrhea. Malabsorptive diarrhea. Infectious diarrhea. Source-unknown diarrhea. Yellow diarrhea. Brown diarrhea. White diarrhea. Red diarrhea. Clostridial diarrhea. Rotavirus diarrhea. E coli diarrhea. Coronavirus diarrhea. Parasitic diarrhea. Coccidial diarrhea. Diarrhea. Diarrhea. DIARRHEA.)

But: 5 more days of class, and I am home free on spring break!

(Well, except for the Surgery and ClinSci finals I have to take over spring break. And the shelter medicine project I have to do over spring break. And the BoD test right after spring break that I have to study for. And the imaging, anesthesia, and therio material I've been neglecting and need to catch up on....)