Professor awesomeness continues

With tomorrow's anticipated class schedule consisting of lectures from 8-10 am and 2-3 pm, I am pleased to say that our professors continue to be accommodating and awesome. Thus, our 2-3 pm lecture will be moved to 10-11 am, just before our potluck/cube party at 11. And, bless her heart, the professor who moved her lecture also offered to come back at 2 pm to give the same lecture to any students who were upset with or had a conflict with the new 10 am lecture time. Hooray for professors who not only want to see their students succeed, but who also want to make students' lives easier!

I had no better use for that $540 anyway

The next time anyone complains to me about paying $15-20 for their pet's rabies vaccine, I plan to inform them that they should be thankful it was so cheap, given that I'll be paying $180 for each of my own three required rabies vaccinations (starting today).

Cons: Ouch! (Ouch to my arm and ouch to my May Visa bill.)
Pros: I shouldn't have to be revaccinated for several decades (as long as no unvaccinated animals bite me... and they'd better not!)

Way to go, professors!

As it has gradually dawned on the freshman class that our lecture schedule for the rest of the week is really messed up, our few remaining professors have decided to be extra cooperative and awesome. Thus, tomorrow's lecture schedule has been altered to 1-3 pm instead of 8-9 am and 2-3 pm. Hooray for not having class till 12! (Finance.) Thursday will still be pretty spread out, but we are supposedly having an end-of-the-year potluck and party, so that ought to liven things up.

What am I doing here???

So this week has turned into MAJOR slacker week for us freshman vet students.

We finished neurobiology a couple weeks ago, so that means that our normally scheduled 8 hours of neuro lecture/lab this week are empty (except for a 2-hour optional equine neuro exam lecture).

We finished nutrition last week, so our 2 normally scheduled hours of nutrition lecture are free.

We finished writing last week, so we have an hour of free time when we'd normally have writing lecture.

And, we just found out today that our Biology of Disease professor ran out of things to do for the end of the semester, so our 4 normally scheduled hours of BioDz lecture this week will also be empty.

Now, I'm all for free time. The more of it, the better. Free time = sleeping, relaxing, studying, etc.

Except our remaining classes that are going until the end of the semester (i.e. Bacteriology and Virology) are the first and last class of the day.

So today we had BacT from 8-9, then Virology from 2-3. (I had finance from 12-1.) Thus, 9 am to 2 pm = sitting around trying to be productive. You know the schedule is messed up when it turns out that going to Finance was the most productive part of your day.

Tuesday's schedule includes BacT 9-10 and Neuro 10-12. (Free afternoon! Go home! Have fun! [a.k.a. stay at school and take online nutrition exam].)

Wednesday's schedule is BacT 8-9, Finance 12-1, and Viro 2-3. (= 4 free hours to fill.)

Thursday's schedule is Food Animal Production 8-10 and Viro 2-3. (= 4 free hours to fill.)

This is one of those times when I really regret living a half-hour drive from campus! Ah, the naps I could have if we lived in FoCo....

Countdown update

With merely 1 week of classes remaining in the semester, let's take another look at the rest of my tasks for this year:

- 1 cumulative virology final exam
- 1 cumulative bacteriology/mycology final exam
- 1 neurobiology lecture
- 1 neurobiology final grade to be revealed
- 1 cumulative online biology of disease final exam
- 1 online nutrition final exam
- 1 finance final exam
- 1 tour of the teaching hospital to give
- 1.5 weeks before the bittersweet move out of the cubes
- 1 food animal production lecture
- 3 bacteriology/mycology lectures
- 4 biology of disease lectures
- 3 virology lectures
- 3 finance lectures
- 7 school days in May

Looks better than my last countdown!

Hypothesis

I think Sudafed is made of magic and happiness.

P.S. I am really, really ready to not be sick anymore. Going on Day 12...

My new favorite website....

...is http://www.punditkitchen.com/!*

Here's one of my favorite pictures to whet your appetite: http://punditkitchen.com/2008/07/11/political-pictures-george-bush-something-wrong-banana-corn/

*Disclaimer: might only be appreciated if you are a Democrat/liberal, and/or a Republican with a very good sense of humor.