I've heard from various people that vet school is like trying to take a drink from a firehose.
It is exactly like that so far. I just get a ton of information thrown at me at once, and so far it isn't hard, it isn't complicated, it's just a lot. For example: the shoulder blade, or scapula, has around 15 little bits on it. Different faces, sides, bumps or tubercles, cavities and tuberosities. And that is the easiest of the bones we have learned so far.
But we do get to dissect things.
We each have a dog and cat to dissect. They are kept on the left side of the freezer and we can get to them whenever we want to. We have to walk past the cows and horses that are chilling in the freezer (haha accidental pun) for us to dissect next semester.
Now we have named our dog Cujo. Because his face is frozen in a snarl and he is a pit bull. During dissection I frequently pat him on the head and when I bump into him, I apologize. Because as much I like dissecting him, I like seeing the muscles and how things work, I get excited when I see an organ and know what it is, but I also appreciate that he used to be a dog. And because I think that he was a shelter dog and probably unadoptable, I feel bad that he didn't get a family but at least that means that I get to learn about how a dog is supposed to work so that I can fix them when they are broken.
But I have been having fun with my CVM classmates, both my year and the year above us are really fun and great so far. I'm hoping our class stays that way so that anyone could show up at anything and everyone will think it's fine.
But the week is pretty good. I am out at noon on Mon and at 2 some Wed and Fri. It's the Tues/Thurs that suuuuuuuuck. We get there around 8:30 for our 9am class and then we are there until 5pm with a one hour lunch break at 1. And you think to yourself, "well if you had a full time job you would be there from 9-5." But there is a major difference, once we come home, we have studying to do. But it is going well so far.
Ask me again when it gets closer to test time :-)
