First Year 2/3 Complete

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I HAVE PASSED MY FIRST YEAR OF VET SCHOOL…. we'll 2/3rds of it at least!

Anatomy….. dear god… I got exactly a 50% Pass.. I do not know my individual grades for theory or prac, but I think this semester I may want to know how I actually did. Theory had to have saved my bum because my mid semester exam was only a 39% :D Either way I am DONE with anatomy YAY!!!!! Now I can learn it in a more enjoyable way! haha

Animal Systems - again, I have no individual grade for my farm handling component but I will email them for it as well as my theory final (WHICH WAS HELL LONG) It was 180 questions… 100multiple choice but they were all like paragraph form to read and it was soooooo hard to make it to the end and all the breed ID photos up on the projector all just started to look the same!! Oh great… its another cow I don't recognise! but I ended up with a 68% in the class. SOOOO EXCITED FOR THAT TO BE OVER!!!

Physiology - well the bright side is that I got a 60% in the class overall which is a C. however the class guidelines stipulate that you have to get a minimum of 50% on the final NO MATTER WHAT grades you previously received in the class. Lucky me had a GREAT midterm (in the 80s I believe it was); however I decided to move right before my physio exam (like 3 days before it) and I ended up with a 46% on the final! The multiple choice I got 54% and then just sucked at the short answer. I met with my teacher and I have a supplementary final exam to take in January! I am really happy to really learn the neurophysiology over again because I know it is going to be sooooo relevant in later years and I better wrap my head around it now!

So even though I have passed all my classes, I still have to sit a supp for physio to get the official pass and then I can announce that I didn't flunk out of my first year in vet school in a crazy hard new educational system! Not to mention the CRAZY housing situation here! I have never lived in a place like Australia, and I love and hate it all the time for how crazy laid back and disorganised this place really is! All I can hope is that this farm house continues to be a saving grace and I show Vet School who is boss next year! :D


Side notes: I HATE WAITING SOOOOO LONG FOR MY RESULTS TO COME BACK!! I HAVE BEEN A CRAZY STRESS TORNADO FOR WEEKS!! Not cool, not cool! And we were supposed to have to wait until Monday for them to come out! BEST WEEKEND PRESENT EVER!!

2nd side note: Brian and I rescued a golden retriever today! It was amazing good karma to know it all worked out. We were heading down our road to head to nomsa's house to give her, her walk this AM when there was a doggie running on the side of the road with no person near by. In Australia it seems like no dogs are EVER on leads when on a walk so before panicking and thinking the dog is lost the owner is usually just far behind. With no one in site, Brian pulled over, I hopped out and tried to coax her to me. She decided to run into the road… thankfully no cars…. THEN she just kept running around me, so Brian tried.. She really liked the male figure and Brian was able to catch her, AFTER RUNNING INTO TRAFFIC again! This time a guy honked at us, didn't slow down and swore at us as he drove off - really??? how in appropriate… super upsetting! But anyway, the doggie had a collar on with two phone numbers and we called them both and left a message and then we were just going to go over the hill and take the dog to my work, but they said they were too full for a non-emergency and so we took the dog to the regular vet hospital down the street from my work! Within minutes of turning her in the owner had called me back and was on her way to pick her up! Molly was the sweetest dog, and if today hadn't been so cloudy, I am not sure she would have lasted very long out in the sun! She was super panting, we had hot water but she didn't know how to drink it dripping from a bottle and I was terribly scared of her getting heat stroke because she was so fluffy! All is well in molly's life now :)

And Next Years course load looks like:
Sem1:
VET340 - (4 credits) Process of Animal Diseases
VET342 - (3 credits) Animal Systems 2
VET346 - (4 credits) Nutrition and Toxicology
VET348 - (1 credit) Veterinary Professional Life 2

Sem2:
VET341 - (4) Microbiology
VET344 - (4) Parasitology
VET347 - (4) Immunology and Molecular Genetics