Friday, April 15, 2011

Senior year countdown

We are frighteningly close to senior year, as we are reminded just about daily by the faculty who used to say "When you're in the clinics next year" and now say "When you're in the clinics in a few weeks." (At which we cringe in unison, cover our ears, and go to a happy place.)

Here are some numbers to give you an idea of what the rest of my semester looks like:

2 more weeks of junior practicum in the morning, including 5 mornings of client communications and 5 mornings of independent study in ophthalmology

2 papers to be written next week for client communications

3 more weeks of classes in the afternoon, including 30 more hours of lecture

4 more exams in Small Animal Med/Sx II

4 more "closed-book homework assignments" (= "quizzes") in Small Animal Med/Sx II

1 final in animal behavior

1 animal behavior case study paper to write

17 days(!) until our 12 hours of capstone exam begin (OK, I'm freaking out just a little bit)

125 lectures from last semester that I'd love to at least pretend to study before capstone (13 down -- gotta start somewhere)

27 days(!!!) until our first day in the clinics as seniors

Which for me means potentially 31-32 days until I start spaying and neutering dogs and cats all by my very lonesome. Yeek.

And a partridge in a pear tree.

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