Exam Season

Cell Phys exam was last Friday, and I think that went well (I think that because I looked up the answers to almost all the questions on the exam in my past exam files--I love the test file, and it's even legal!).  This Friday is anatomy.  I am not so sure about that one....  I can point to all the muscles and tell you what they are but as to where they originate and insert and what they do, that is another story altogether!  Not to mention the bones, tendons, ligaments, fasciae, retinaculum, menisci, joints and radiographs.  Sometimes it feels like my head should be drooping from the weight of all the STUFF crammed into it.  I have about 100 flashcards of just simply muscle (ask Eli how much fun I was having with those).  Fortunately everyone else in my class is in the same boat and we all have funny ways of remembering things to trade back and forth.  I would list some here but they are mostly highly inappropriate (we're still immature college students, after all).  And as we all know I am never inappropriate and do not approve of that sort of thing.

Ahem.

One of the greatest things about being a vet/professional student is all the free stuff.  I suppose that after it's all said and done, it's $120,000 free stuff but hey, I'll take it.  There is almost always a lunch lecture with free subs or tacos and tonight is oncology rounds, and they provide pizza.  I guarantee you every student in this vet school will know more about oncology than any other service in the hospital by their fourth year if they keep this up.  Also, we're members of all kinds of organizations--Student American Veterinary Medical Association (SAVMA) which gets us lots of discounts and sponsored travel to the SAVMA symposium, and memberships to the AVMA and that sort of thing.  The Graduate and Professional Student Association is great at getting you into things (sports, theater, climbing wall) for free or really really cheap.  They  had a ripping barbeque on Sunday with brisket and pulled pork and amazingly good cookies.  They're also good about allowing you to bring your significant others to these sorts of events and so almost every time Eli is here I haul him off to some free thing or the other.  So far no complaints.

Speaking of Eli, he was here this weekend and we got probably our last camping trip of the year in.  He's just gotten a big shiny new truck so naturally we went and found some gross dirt roads to bomb around on (this is a lie-he was not going to bomb anywhere in his swanky truck no matter how much I pleaded.  But we did mosey through some places that would have had my Volkswagen crying out in terror).  We ended up in the national forest in north central Idaho camping on a little dammed-up creek.  It was beautiful, but especially neat because the resulting pond was the local watering hole for all the range cattle in the area.  Eli and I had fun watching the cows wander around; Indy was less than amused.  She will not make a great cattle dog but she did get a chance to practice her Big Scary Guard Dog Voice.  She also collected every burr in the Idaho panhandle in her paws.  I'm still pulling them out.

PS Regarding my recent Embryology quiz: 102.5%

Vet School: 0

Kate: 1

GO TEAM!