I swear I don't know how time flies this quickly.
Actually that's not true, would y'all like to know exactly how it happens?
Well there is a giant finals week of awful
Then you dog-sit for you and your boyfriend's dog
You spend a very short quick evening with your boyfriend while he is in town for grad school interviews
Then you go for a long 4 day weekend to West Lafayette Indiana
Then you have a week of 4 tests
Then you drive 8 hrs to Ohio
Then you spend all day visiting with people
Then you sleep.
At that is pretty much the gist of what you have missed in my life.
But to go into a little more detail....
I was at Purdue University for a symposium. The school gives us 2 days off to go to the SAVMA (Student American Veterinary Medicine Association) symposium which was held at Purdue this year. It was a very busy weekend. Myself and 2 friends drove down on Thursday, went to the opening ceremonies and then to the bar where they had set up dinner, dancing, and drinks. I think if we didn't know the whole time that we had 4 tests coming up the next week, it could have been a little more fun focused. But either way we had an absolute blast. We woke up early the next morning, attempted to catch the shuttle, which was taking 40 min instead of 20, and eventually made it to the bus to Chicago. 3 of my friends and I were lucky enough to get signed up for a day trip to The Shedd Aquarium which is one of my favorite places on the planet. We also got to see the whole veterinary clinic and stuff, which isn't very big because they do most stuff tank side. It was still another step in hopefully, at some point, maybe, figuring out what I want to do with my degree. But the coolest part about the Shedd was that one of my friends had never seen a body of water as big the lake. It was so cool watching her get all excited about it.
We also got dinner or lunch served to us most nights and we spent most of Saturday listening to lectures. They always had about 10 lectures going on, each in a different category of veterinary medicine. They had shelter med, exotics, behavior, forensics, food animals, production medicine, all kinds of different lectures, so many that you feel like you were gonna miss something just by picking one over another.
There was also a big closing gala and I got to hear Temple Grandin speak. If you don't know who she is you can go to her website
here. But it was really amazing and I bought her book which she signed for me. All around another great vet med experience!
And I'm pretty darn sure I did ok on all my exams that week, yay!
But now I am chilling on the bf's futon, watching Felicity (show from the late 90s, wikipedia it
here!) and thinking about maybe getting dressed at some point...or maybe not. Luckily I don't have to until the dog decides he absolutely has to go outside. Viva Spring Break!
