1 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:11,120 Hello everyone, welcome back to the Vet Files with Gretel and 2 00:00:11,120 --> 00:00:14,280 Mckaylin. Today we are talking about a 3 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:19,240 reflection of the past semester, to be exact, our first semester 4 00:00:19,240 --> 00:00:22,360 ever in vet school. Earlier in the year we talked 5 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:26,040 about our first month in vet school and now we we have 6 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:29,760 succeeded, we have passed, we have made it past semester 1. 7 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:33,840 Great. Yes, 12.5% done if you're in a 8 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:37,120 four year program like us, and I know a lot of people are 9 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:38,480 celebrating that at the end of the semester. 10 00:00:38,480 --> 00:00:40,720 And I was like, technically it depends on the school you go to, 11 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:46,120 but we are 20% done with classes because we do 2 1/2 years of 12 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:49,920 classes and I think you do, you're at 2520%, yeah. 13 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:54,000 Right, closer to 20%, Yeah, as we go a little into the summer. 14 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:56,560 Right. But the two by two and we have 15 00:00:56,560 --> 00:00:58,680 like a 2 1/2 by 1 1/2 essentially. 16 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:02,120 So it's definitely interesting, but if you had to describe your 17 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:05,120 semester in one word, what would it be and why? 18 00:01:05,960 --> 00:01:09,520 This is a tricky one. I've been trying to think of the 19 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:12,640 perfect word and I'm like I'm going to go with adaptive. 20 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:16,680 A lot of changes. Yeah, I don't even know what I 21 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:19,120 would say. I guess just we're talking about 22 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:23,480 whirlwind before that word is kind of settling with me right 23 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:25,280 now. So definitely a whirlwind. 24 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:28,360 Lots of different things going on for me, personal, academic, 25 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:32,880 it was crazy. But yeah, I, so I think compared 26 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:35,520 to undergrad, one thing I was worried about it was the 27 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:38,120 transition between undergrad and vet school. 28 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:40,720 And I was really worried because I wasn't always like, I don't 29 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:43,840 want to say I was a bad student, but my academics weren't always 30 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:47,320 my number one priority. I was very focused on my social 31 00:01:47,320 --> 00:01:49,640 life, not a party girl, but you know, I had friends. 32 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:53,440 I like to hang out with my friends and I had, you know, 33 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:57,080 clubs and I had jobs and my last focus was school, to be honest. 34 00:01:57,080 --> 00:01:59,120 Like I was pretty much a straight B student. 35 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:02,280 A's and B's, some C's, some D's, some I don't know. 36 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:05,120 Anyway, so I was really worried about, you know, was I going to 37 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:08,440 be able to withstand academic rigor That is vet school. 38 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:10,600 And overall, I think I did really well. 39 00:02:10,759 --> 00:02:13,920 I don't know my GPA. I'm just choosing for my piece, 40 00:02:13,920 --> 00:02:17,120 not to keep track of that. But I passed all my classes and 41 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:18,640 everything is good. What about you? 42 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:23,920 The same kind of feeling like it was weird going from, you know, 43 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:27,920 A's and B's. And then like also, Michaela, 44 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:31,240 you were a great student. We're in vet school, so 45 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:36,040 everything we did was good enough for us to get in and go 46 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:38,680 well beyond it. So I was nervous because in 47 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:41,800 undergrad, you know, I love school, but I was a 48 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:45,200 procrastinator. Looking back now, I realized 49 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:49,040 like undergrad could have even gone better had I attained the 50 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:53,200 skills that I know now. So my procrastination ultimately 51 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:56,240 stopped me at the same time, like you were talking about 52 00:02:56,240 --> 00:02:59,320 Michaela. And like, I saw friends, like I 53 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:02,880 worked a million jobs, I was in a million extracurriculars. 54 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:04,600 And guess what? I'm glad I did. 55 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:07,440 And I'm glad I didn't just sit and study all day because we 56 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:10,040 have multiple years to do that now. 57 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:13,040 So I'm glad that we ventured out. 58 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:17,640 And let's think about it. Was it as hard as we were warned 59 00:03:17,640 --> 00:03:19,840 it would be because we were always folded underground? 60 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:23,160 Don't do it. It's like the worst thing ever. 61 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:24,920 What are your thoughts, Mikaelin? 62 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:28,280 Yeah, I remember somebody told me or I don't, I don't even 63 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:29,320 remember. Everything is a blur. 64 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:32,600 Like once I got again, whirlwind of the semester, like it's been 65 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:34,560 crazy. So it's slipped to my mind now, 66 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:36,960 but somebody told me or Eyewitness, I don't know, a girl 67 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:39,960 I went to undergrad with, you know, was sitting, she got into 68 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:42,400 vet school and her first semester she was sitting on a 69 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:44,680 little wall outside of the vet school smoking a cigarette. 70 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:45,840 And I was like, how are you doing? 71 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:49,160 And she's like, I'm OK, don't go to vet school. 72 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:50,960 She was like, I love it, but it's hard. 73 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:54,320 And I was like, OK, well, that's about, you know, that makes me 74 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:56,480 scared. But honestly, I don't know if 75 00:03:56,480 --> 00:03:58,840 it's because we're on the new curriculum or I don't know. 76 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:01,240 I didn't think I've said this before. 77 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:05,640 It was not easy by any means, but I had psyched myself out for 78 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:10,000 it to be so bad that when I got here I was like, OK, this is 79 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:12,640 like, manageable. Like people graduate like, this 80 00:04:12,640 --> 00:04:15,160 is fine, you know? And so I was glad to make it 81 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:17,800 through this semester. And it's OK to fail test. 82 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:21,399 A lot of people I know that they had this arc that was, you know, 83 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:24,080 they started at the bottom and then they slowly went up as we 84 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:26,160 got through the semester. I kind of had the opposite. 85 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:27,920 I started really high and I was doing good. 86 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:30,400 And then at the end of the semester there, I just had so 87 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:33,240 much lifestyle going on and I just, you know, I think I ended 88 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:36,760 up with 1C, which is fine, I don't care. 89 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:40,280 But it's like very important to me to be open and honest and 90 00:04:40,280 --> 00:04:42,440 say, like, I didn't make straight A's and B's when I 91 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:44,680 first got to that school. Nobody's required to share their 92 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:46,200 grade. But I always feel comfortable 93 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:48,360 and open saying like, hey, it's OK to struggle. 94 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:50,680 It's OK to like not do so hot in a class or two. 95 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:53,440 It's OK to fail out and restart next year. 96 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:55,440 You get there when you get there, you know. 97 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:59,720 Definitely, I think looking at it, they knew it was going to be 98 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:02,640 hard. And I've also spoken to, you 99 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:05,720 know, we had our episode with operating and everyone and 100 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:08,040 talking about comparing veterinary schools. 101 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:12,440 So looking back on the year, well, the past six months and 102 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:15,040 then talking to my other friends who go to different veterinary 103 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:19,640 schools that I hadn't spoken to yet, I have gotten the consensus 104 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:24,400 that right now Mizzou with the two and two is a bit more 105 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:27,800 intense than their programs now. I don't know if that's like 106 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:32,880 forever the but that was what I was warned about when I chose 107 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:36,080 this. So for me, I constantly felt 108 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:40,400 like I was drowning and exhausted and there weren't 109 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:43,920 enough hours in the day. Especially the first two months, 110 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:48,800 we were really rough. Like over 1/4 of my class was 111 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:54,040 asked to like possibly have to repeat, and I was not in that 112 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:56,320 group. But at the same time, it kind of 113 00:05:56,320 --> 00:06:00,000 felt like at any moment one bad test and you could be there. 114 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:03,520 So the first two months were incredibly draining. 115 00:06:03,840 --> 00:06:07,120 But you figure it out as you go, you get better, you learn 116 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:10,440 better, study tactics. I remember going home and 117 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:13,200 sitting after the first couple of weeks and not really 118 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:16,520 comprehending that I should be like studying. 119 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:19,560 It's that like arrogant assumption because in undergrad 120 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:22,320 I was a procrastinator. Like I'll just study two to 121 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:26,400 three days before the exam, but that's like not how to do it. 122 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:28,400 And Mizzou were constantly tested. 123 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:33,880 So every test is like 2 weeks of material except our program you 124 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:37,560 do a semester in eight weeks. So really it's like 4 weeks of 125 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:42,160 material and and it's so much more material than undergrads. 126 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:44,120 So that had really like clicked in my brain. 127 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:48,840 So then you learn though, and you get better and you roll the 128 00:06:48,840 --> 00:06:51,000 punches. And now I look back in the exams 129 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:54,720 I was really afraid of were like my easier exams by then. 130 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:58,880 Anatomy though is like everything else went fine except 131 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:01,080 for anatomy. So I'm in the same boat as Zema 132 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:02,640 Caitlin. There's always that one class 133 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:05,560 that just doesn't job with you. Yeah, and I think what was 134 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:09,280 interesting is I actually really liked everything we were 135 00:07:09,280 --> 00:07:11,440 learning. I just didn't have the 136 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:16,480 wherewithal, the motivation, the energy to study it and to get an 137 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:19,200 A on the test. So I like bombed my last two 138 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:20,880 exams. And ours is called Form and 139 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:23,240 Function but anatomy and Physiology and Histology all 140 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:26,120 combined. Anyway that class I like bombed 141 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:29,440 my last two exams and it was only it was like 40% of our 142 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:31,800 grade and I was like I passed hands up. 143 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:34,800 Like I did what I could. Barely made it out alive with 144 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:38,360 like a 71. I'm happy because genuinely, 145 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:41,440 like I thought I've been saying for months, I'm cool with the C, 146 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:43,760 I'm cool with the CA Lot of people say I'm cool with the CI 147 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:46,000 just want to see and then they get really upset when they get 148 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:47,280 an air B, which is about that's fine. 149 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:50,000 I thought I was going to be that way too, but whenever I got ACI 150 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:53,120 was like, oh, Hallelujah. I genuinely didn't even care. 151 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:56,120 I was like, I'm so over it. I'm done. 152 00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:58,640 I just want this semester. I had a lovely semester. 153 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:01,400 I love my vet school. I just, it was, I just had a 154 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:03,880 rough end of this semester and so I was just kind of like, I'm 155 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:06,080 ready for it to be over. I passed it's whatever. 156 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:08,880 And now we're moving forward and now we're starting. 157 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:11,520 Gretel and I are both starting on large animal, which is more 158 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:13,880 our Forte. And so we're both like, yeah, 159 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:16,480 let's get into this. You know, it starts off I'm 160 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:19,440 starting off with bones and so I was in love tails like coffin 161 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:21,200 bone. I'm going to ace this test and 162 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:23,760 then don't quote me on that because in about two weeks when 163 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:25,520 I'm testing on it, don't ask me that like. 164 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:29,600 Exactly. It's like, I'll retain it for 165 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:31,640 the exam. Actually, this morning the 166 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:34,480 professor was like, OK, write down everything you remember 167 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:37,799 from the axial skeleton. And we all sat there like, oh, 168 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:39,520 and she goes, this is not good, guys. 169 00:08:39,520 --> 00:08:42,640 I'm like, I know, I know. OK, it's Monday. 170 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:46,200 It's 9 AMI guarantee we know more than we think. 171 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:49,600 So that was funny. But anatomy was not my favorite, 172 00:08:49,680 --> 00:08:53,280 my favorite and said, let's see. See, sometimes I felt like I 173 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:56,600 just had to study so much that I didn't even have time to pick a 174 00:08:56,600 --> 00:08:59,040 favorite because it's like, I don't have time to have an 175 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:01,200 emotion about this. I just have to do that. 176 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:03,440 That sounds horrible, but it's true. 177 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:06,560 Like people were like, oh, aren't you miserable or 178 00:09:06,560 --> 00:09:08,240 anything? I'm like, no, I don't really 179 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:10,800 have time to have emotions about it. 180 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:15,280 I just have to do it to survive. And So what? 181 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:17,120 That's OK. That's just my reality. 182 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:20,160 And while I was away for the two weeks, I was like, you know 183 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:21,360 what? I can come back. 184 00:09:21,560 --> 00:09:24,360 I can do this again and I'm looking forward to coming back 185 00:09:24,560 --> 00:09:27,480 and doing this again. I know like our professor did 186 00:09:27,480 --> 00:09:30,240 the same thing, you know, 8:00 AM or I guess it was 9:00 AM 187 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:31,920 this morning. They were like, OK, write down. 188 00:09:31,920 --> 00:09:34,360 We started with the thoracic limb and they said write down 189 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:38,240 proximal to distal every bone and then another list, write 190 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:41,280 down every joint from proximal to distal of the thoracic limb 191 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:42,920 of the canine. And then I'm going to teach you 192 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:44,920 about, you know, the differences between that and the horse. 193 00:09:44,920 --> 00:09:47,800 And we're like, OK, apparently there was pre work. 194 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:49,320 Apparently we were supposed to do that as pre work. 195 00:09:49,320 --> 00:09:51,120 Didn't read that. I didn't look at that. 196 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:53,320 I was like, I'm not starting before 8:00 AM on Monday. 197 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:54,680 I'm going to write my schedule down. 198 00:09:54,680 --> 00:09:57,640 I'm going to make sure I don't have like quizzes before 8:00 AM 199 00:09:57,640 --> 00:09:58,960 Monday and then I'm just going to show up. 200 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:03,080 And so I was OK, didn't do that. Of course, that's not the 201 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:06,040 hardest thing in the world, but you know, doing it off of memory 202 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:08,560 without like a model, I think it's easier with the model to 203 00:10:08,560 --> 00:10:10,240 say, oh, this is this joint, this joint, this joint. 204 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:11,960 Then you have to go in your head and think about that. 205 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:14,560 But yeah, that was definitely not what I expected first out of 206 00:10:14,560 --> 00:10:17,360 the gate lecture because we started off with an intro to 207 00:10:17,680 --> 00:10:21,280 this current course because it's still new and there's a lot that 208 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:24,160 doesn't make sense to some people at first because it's the 209 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:26,600 new curriculum and it's set up a little different. 210 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:29,480 Our lab is completely different than what we did last semester, 211 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:32,200 which I think is pretty consistent across the board 212 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:35,840 because you go from dissecting a full dog because you know dogs, 213 00:10:36,080 --> 00:10:39,520 they're not easier to get, but they're easier to fit 200 or 214 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:41,280 however many you might have in the room. 215 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:44,160 Whereas not every student is going to be able to dissect out 216 00:10:44,160 --> 00:10:45,520 a whole horse. It's not reasonable. 217 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:48,800 So we were kind of prefaced by saying like, OK, here's how it's 218 00:10:48,800 --> 00:10:50,200 gonna go. We're gonna have stations, we're 219 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:52,000 gonna have this, which I much prefer. 220 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:54,960 But I think you can't really get through vet or Med school 221 00:10:55,160 --> 00:10:57,800 without doing a dissection. It's like a rite of passage. 222 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:00,080 Even though I didn't really enjoy it, I worked at necropsy. 223 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:03,480 I was like I'm over this but. You've seen it too many Times 224 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:06,160 Now. I'm not a fan of like cleaning 225 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:11,760 the fat and fat Shaw off, but I am so excited that we're doing 226 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:16,400 horses and ruminants. I would say anatomy was my least 227 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:20,920 favorite just because of the sheer volume of everything in my 228 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:24,440 brain. I have found its Max capacity. 229 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:27,600 And with Mizzou's, like we're tested every two weeks. 230 00:11:27,680 --> 00:11:31,120 So really like even if you went into the anatomy lab every 231 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:36,880 single day before the exam, it's really not that much time 232 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:40,120 because just to get through a little chunk of it takes hours 233 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:42,440 and then you have to go back and do it again and again and again. 234 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:45,040 But I am figuring it out as we go. 235 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:48,320 And obviously I passed, so I survived on to the next. 236 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:52,560 My favorite course is probably cell bio because we learned a 237 00:11:52,560 --> 00:11:55,160 lot about cancer and that's one of my biggest interests. 238 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:59,600 And it actually came in handy a lot because unfortunately I had 239 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:01,760 one dog who passed away from cancer this year. 240 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:04,800 And I have another one, the one who just jumped on the bed 241 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:07,440 behind me who just got diagnosed with Melanoma. 242 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:12,680 So it's horrible and it's sad, but I, I do understand it and I 243 00:12:12,680 --> 00:12:15,800 feel like that's helped me a lot throughout this process. 244 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:18,920 Like it even helps to grieve it because you understand how it 245 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:22,520 works or treat it like, Oh my gosh, I've thrown everything 246 00:12:22,520 --> 00:12:25,520 that I can think of and researched at them. 247 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:29,760 So I'm probably hopefully prolonging their life a little 248 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:32,080 bit. It definitely changed my view on 249 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:36,080 Vetmed being able to understand these kind of conversations now. 250 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:38,400 Yeah, it's hard to go in. Like, similar to you. 251 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:41,000 We both had a crazy year with animals. 252 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:44,080 And one of my dogs said, like this crazy massive mystery 253 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:47,560 mineralized tumor from his eyebrow to the back of his ear. 254 00:12:47,560 --> 00:12:49,320 And it was like, what is that? I still don't know. 255 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:50,960 I don't even want to know, to be honest. 256 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:52,560 I was like, I don't, I'll learn about it later. 257 00:12:52,560 --> 00:12:54,400 I've asked vets about it and they're like, I've never seen 258 00:12:54,400 --> 00:12:55,280 that. And I was like, then I don't 259 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:57,440 need to know. You know what, keep it out of my 260 00:12:57,440 --> 00:12:59,240 head. I don't need that anyway. 261 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:01,600 It is definitely interesting. It made me think about, you 262 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:04,520 know, well, what if I did? I genuinely considered it for a 263 00:13:04,520 --> 00:13:06,680 minute. I was like, I think oncology as 264 00:13:06,680 --> 00:13:08,320 a specialty is really interesting. 265 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:11,840 I could possibly do it, but I mean, I cry when I see it like 266 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:14,800 Internet dogs die. And I was like, I can't, I 267 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:18,320 probably shouldn't do that. Like I'm not like tough enough 268 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:20,080 in front of the patients. I'll just cry because when 269 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:21,840 somebody else starts crying, then I start crying. 270 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:25,400 So I was like I can't. And then I did not know that 271 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:28,920 holiday season with was peak euthanasia season. 272 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:34,360 And so going into a externship, 2 externships during the break, 273 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:37,160 both small animal GPS and just doing euthanasia after 274 00:13:37,160 --> 00:13:41,160 euthanasia after euthanasia. I had no idea I put two of my 275 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:43,600 dogs down unrelated. I'm not, I'm killing my dogs. 276 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:46,880 It was just bizarre. Anyway, putting that out there 277 00:13:46,880 --> 00:13:48,320 because that sounds kind of crazy, you know? 278 00:13:48,520 --> 00:13:51,400 Anyway, I had to put two of my dogs down on the week of 279 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:53,360 Christmas, on Christmas Eve and the day after. 280 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:56,000 And I did not realize that so many families go through that. 281 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:58,520 And then I started seeing on social media a couple vet 282 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:01,000 influencers that I followed were like, oh, it's peak euthanasia 283 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:02,400 season, you know, give your vet a hug. 284 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:05,240 And I was like, what? So I tried to look it up and I 285 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:08,080 thought it was very interesting. Getting off topic here, but I 286 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:09,880 don't know, it's something to look into if you want to be a 287 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:11,360 vet. I didn't really find any 288 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:14,920 definite answer on why, but basically a lot of reasons, 289 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:18,120 something to be aware of because I was not aware of that and not 290 00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:20,680 prepared for that going into my little externships and putting 291 00:14:20,680 --> 00:14:24,680 down like 7 dogs, 10 dogs a day. I was like, OK, that's fine. 292 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:29,280 But as far as my courses going back to school, I think my least 293 00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:32,000 favorite course, I don't know, I'm going to say fundamentals of 294 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:35,040 diagnostics and surgery because it was pretty much just 295 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:37,680 radiology all semester and we had to learn like how an X-ray 296 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:40,040 is formed and learn about photons again. 297 00:14:40,040 --> 00:14:42,000 And that just like triggered me and I just couldn't, I didn't 298 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:45,440 want to hear that. So I, I got through it, I 299 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:48,920 actually did fine in the class and it was very, very helpful to 300 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:51,520 go into an extranship after that and look at all the X-rays and 301 00:14:51,520 --> 00:14:54,480 say, I can actually understand what I'm looking at now, other 302 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:56,640 than looking at like ATV show and being like, no, that looks 303 00:14:56,640 --> 00:14:58,960 bad. Now I can say like, OK, here's 304 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:02,200 what that structure is, here's what opacity that might be and 305 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:06,440 what might be going on. And then also my favorite class, 306 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:09,840 opposite of you, I would probably say anatomy as a 307 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:13,360 lecturer or clinical skills lab was always really fun because 308 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:16,720 personally I'm severely lacking in like basic tech skills. 309 00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:19,040 They teach you from day one. They're like, OK, we're going to 310 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:20,880 assume you have absolutely no knowledge and we're going to 311 00:15:20,880 --> 00:15:24,120 train you tech jobs. Instead of just as dismissing as 312 00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:26,320 a vet saying, oh, that's a tech job, I'll learn that later. 313 00:15:26,560 --> 00:15:29,400 They're saying, OK, I want to teach you from a text 314 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:32,200 perspective how to train your texts in the future. 315 00:15:32,280 --> 00:15:33,880 You know what I mean? I thought that was really 316 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:37,160 helpful for me as somebody who had never teched personally to 317 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:39,680 go in and say, OK, here's how you do a blood draw. 318 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:42,480 Here's how you take an X-ray, not interpret it. 319 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:45,640 Here's how you do basic, you know, restraints. 320 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:47,440 Cool, that was very helpful to me. 321 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:50,520 So I really like that class. It's interesting to hear like I 322 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:53,080 have friends at three other veterinary schools or three or 323 00:15:53,080 --> 00:15:57,720 four and comparing with them like the order of things that 324 00:15:57,720 --> 00:16:00,360 are taught because we are all taught the same exact things 325 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:03,480 just at completely different times for some people. 326 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:06,240 So that is really interesting to hear about because we did a 327 00:16:06,240 --> 00:16:09,480 little bit on radiology and a little bit how it works, but it 328 00:16:09,480 --> 00:16:12,720 was like a couple slides. It wasn't something huge. 329 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:16,680 Speaking of like things being different, Mizzou, we constantly 330 00:16:16,680 --> 00:16:18,960 are tested. We have like 2 to 3 quizzes a 331 00:16:18,960 --> 00:16:23,200 week and then we have let's say it'll like skip a week, but I 332 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:25,920 normally have one or two exams per week. 333 00:16:25,920 --> 00:16:29,200 Once we move further into the, we call it IP. 334 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:32,480 That's like our version of like an 8 week semester. 335 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:37,240 So for me, it was constantly like you're in a state of I need 336 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:41,400 to be on, like my brain needs to be working to keep up in order 337 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:44,840 to like prepare because there's so many coming at you. 338 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:47,520 And I think that was the hardest adjustment because I used to be 339 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:50,400 a procrastinator, but I can't do that anymore because you're 340 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:54,080 constantly on. So it was kind of like my brain 341 00:16:54,080 --> 00:16:56,960 had to work like a muscle. Like when you go back into the 342 00:16:56,960 --> 00:17:00,440 gym and you're exhausted the first day because you haven't 343 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:03,600 used it in a while. Like, I felt my brain being so, 344 00:17:04,119 --> 00:17:06,079 so tired, and then you just got used to it. 345 00:17:06,119 --> 00:17:08,359 And then I'd be able to take shorter breaks. 346 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:11,079 Like I couldn't do long breaks because I could feel myself like 347 00:17:11,079 --> 00:17:13,480 needing to go back to the work. I don't know, Michaela, how did 348 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:15,880 you feel? I kind of so different than 349 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:18,400 yours our there's pros and cons to both. 350 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:21,240 I'm not going to sit here and say that I hate mine or I hate 351 00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:24,160 yours because really they're very different and you can't 352 00:17:24,160 --> 00:17:25,720 really compare them. It's comparing apples and 353 00:17:25,720 --> 00:17:28,600 oranges truly because you like you said you're tested more 354 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:31,800 often but in theory on less lectures. 355 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:35,560 I have the opposite problem where I'm tested less often but 356 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:41,000 it'll be on like 81214 lectures. So you have to pull information 357 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:44,760 from however long ago that first lecture was and relearn it to 358 00:17:44,760 --> 00:17:46,160 the fullest. You know? 359 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:48,800 I don't know. It's very interesting comparing 360 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:50,000 the two. I've thought about it a lot. 361 00:17:50,080 --> 00:17:52,880 I still can't choose a favorite. I think I like this one just 362 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:56,800 because I don't really try. I don't personally struggle too 363 00:17:56,800 --> 00:17:59,960 much with exam anxiety. I struggle with Oh my God, I'm 364 00:17:59,960 --> 00:18:02,160 not studying right now and I have an exam next week Anxiety. 365 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:04,920 Does that make sense? It's like not the exam itself, 366 00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:08,400 but the studying for the exam is what makes me anxious because 367 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:09,480 I'm like, I'm not studying hard enough. 368 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:12,280 I'm not studying good enough. Once I get into the exam I'm 369 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:13,360 over. I don't even study the day of 370 00:18:13,360 --> 00:18:15,560 exams. I'm like whatever I know now is 371 00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:16,680 what I'm going to know in an hour. 372 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:19,360 I'm not learning anything new between now and 2:00 PM 373 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:22,080 whatever. So that's usually how I go into 374 00:18:22,120 --> 00:18:23,280 it. But did you deal? 375 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:26,680 I know you test way often. Does that kind of just negate 376 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:30,000 pre exam anxiety or is that something you still have to deal 377 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:32,160 with? I think you get used to it, at 378 00:18:32,360 --> 00:18:36,240 least for me. I don't sit down and exam and 379 00:18:36,240 --> 00:18:39,440 freak out because I know that will not help me. 380 00:18:39,520 --> 00:18:43,640 Like by the time I get to it, like I know I've already put in 381 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:46,120 the effort to do like as well as I can. 382 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:50,440 Like I'll go over a Quizlet that's like 405 hundred terms at 383 00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:54,360 least once or twice. I've read all the PowerPoints. 384 00:18:54,560 --> 00:18:58,560 I've gone through everything that I possibly can and for me 385 00:18:58,560 --> 00:19:01,720 that has to be enough. So if I get above, you know, 386 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:06,120 let's see, let's just say like my goal is to pass every single 387 00:19:06,120 --> 00:19:10,640 exam and by the time I move through like a 400 to 500 term 388 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:14,360 Quizlet, take practice exams, look at all the PowerPoints. 389 00:19:14,360 --> 00:19:18,000 I know I can get that. So after learning that, even 390 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:22,320 though it takes hours, I cannot explain hours in order to 391 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:25,880 prepare for even one exam that's supposed to not be that hard. 392 00:19:26,040 --> 00:19:27,640 That's not true. It is always hard. 393 00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:30,880 Like don't listen to others, like prepare like it's a hard 394 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:33,080 exam always like it will be fine. 395 00:19:33,280 --> 00:19:39,240 So I'm just like, I know what I need to do in order to do fine, 396 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:43,400 but if I don't manage my time well and I can't prepare in the 397 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:46,280 way that I know I need to prepare, that's when I have 398 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:49,200 anxiety and stress, not the test itself. 399 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:53,240 Exactly I always get stressed in like the week of but not the 400 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:54,800 actual exam. Actual exam. 401 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:56,720 Like I said, I know what I'm going to know, but I adopted 402 00:19:56,720 --> 00:20:00,560 that habit in like high school. Like I never studied in high 403 00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:02,880 school, but when I got to college, I would study and I 404 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:05,800 would go and sit in the exam other than Okem, Okem is the 405 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:07,920 exception. I would always get anxious 406 00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:10,360 during those exams. Anything else, I never really 407 00:20:10,360 --> 00:20:13,440 struggled with that because I was like, genuinely in my mind, 408 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:15,800 I'm if I'm screwed, I'm screwed. If I'm good, I'm good. 409 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:18,800 Like I'm not changing that in the next 30 minutes that I'm 410 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:21,400 going to take to take this test. And I got a lot of like, I don't 411 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:23,920 want to say hate, but you know, teased got teased a little 412 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:26,480 because I'm always. One of the first people done 413 00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:29,160 with my tests and I always tell people I'm like, that does not 414 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:31,840 mean I did well. That just means I read fast and 415 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:35,200 maybe I didn't know anything. I guessed like to be clear, but 416 00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:37,040 I always thought that was funny when people came up to me and 417 00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:39,320 they're like, Dang, like, do you feel good about that test? 418 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:41,920 You left after like 10 minutes and I'm like, no, I read fast. 419 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:43,840 I did awful. I bet I failed that test, but 420 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:46,400 that's always interesting to me. People think I'm so smart 421 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:48,480 because I finished fast. I'm like, no, it's quite the 422 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:49,840 opposite. I probably didn't read half of 423 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:52,920 those, bad habit. But that is another thing that 424 00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:56,360 helps me with my test anxiety. And I developed that in like 425 00:20:56,360 --> 00:20:59,400 junior high or high school when I used to get really bad test 426 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:02,720 anxiety. And it's not for everybody, but 427 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:05,840 the method that my teacher and I came up with over the couple 428 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:08,600 years that I was with her small town schools, You have the same 429 00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:12,160 English teacher for eight years. Anyway, I was like, OK, 430 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:15,440 basically I was going back and second guessing myself on all 431 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:17,480 these answers. And you can see the eraser where 432 00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:19,080 I'd gone back, everybody's done that. 433 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:20,880 You know, you put the right answer, you erase it, you put a 434 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:22,520 different answer. That's essentially what I was 435 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:24,400 doing for my whole life because I got so anxious. 436 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:25,960 I was like, Oh no, no, no, no, it's wrong. 437 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:27,720 I put A, I'm actually going to change that to B. 438 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:28,960 And then I went back. It's actually A. 439 00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:31,160 So to negate that, I don't review my tests. 440 00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:34,400 I take my test, turn it in and leave and not forget about it 441 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:38,240 because that's the only way that me personally not recommending 442 00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:41,000 that for everybody because some people misread questions a lot. 443 00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:43,960 A lot happens here and there for me, but for the most part I just 444 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:47,160 am intentional when I read the question the first time and try 445 00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:50,200 not to miss anything. Also in vet school, not always 446 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:54,000 true, but a lot of times they try to be cognizant of the fact 447 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:56,960 that the Navali is multiple choice. 448 00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:59,120 Straightforward. There is no, or you know, it's 449 00:21:59,120 --> 00:22:02,520 advertised to us as there should not be a lot of questions that 450 00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:05,240 say all of these are true, except there's no true or false 451 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:07,120 questions. There's no, I don't believe 452 00:22:07,120 --> 00:22:09,080 there's any fill in the blank question, things like that. 453 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:12,600 So they try to cut those sorts of questions out where you could 454 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:16,280 miss read something that said all of these are true, but or 455 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:20,080 all of these are false except they try to cut those out and 456 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:21,760 it's just straightforward multiple choice. 457 00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:24,000 And then a couple fill in the blank and we do something called 458 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:26,280 hotspot questions where it's like a picture and you drop a 459 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:28,240 pin on whatever the answer might be. 460 00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:30,280 So I think it's very interesting. 461 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:34,640 I like our style of exams. Wish I liked her style of exams. 462 00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:39,440 We do have the all but true and false six options. 463 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:43,240 Pick what's the most right and also some questions. 464 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:46,200 It depends on your professor but I swear they were them. 465 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:49,720 Exactly. If you didn't have an in depth 466 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:52,120 understanding you could not get that question right. 467 00:22:52,360 --> 00:22:57,040 It's not just the pick information out from your 468 00:22:57,040 --> 00:22:59,280 memory. It's like a 2 full understand 469 00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:01,000 it. That's more for Physiology. 470 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:04,000 For the other ones, it's like can you recognize the 471 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:07,480 information? I would say I agree with 472 00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:10,280 Michaela and something I never did an undergrad that I do 473 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:14,400 constantly know as like I take the test, I star the ones I 474 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:17,920 didn't know. And I never ever go back to the 475 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:21,680 ones that I didn't star. Because your brain, you will 476 00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:24,320 remember stuff that you don't think you did because there's so 477 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:26,680 much information. You're not going to be able to 478 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:29,200 recall it all. But if you can recognize terms 479 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:32,080 that go together and you don't know why, but you just hit it, 480 00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:34,800 move on, move on. Like only go back to the ones 481 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:36,600 that you truly, truly don't know. 482 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:40,160 And that's my strategy. And I am doing way better than 483 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:42,840 the start because if you doubt yourself, you're going to change 484 00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:46,360 it and think long, think wrong. That's what our associate Dean 485 00:23:46,360 --> 00:23:47,600 always says. That's true. 486 00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:50,680 People will sit there. I used to be one of those people 487 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:53,400 until like, I don't know, whenever I found out this method 488 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:55,720 that I've made-up or maybe other people do it. 489 00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:58,000 Still not recommended. I'm not telling you to finish 490 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:00,440 your test in 10 minutes and then walk out and be like, I didn't 491 00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:01,840 need to review that. That's not what I'm saying. 492 00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:04,680 I do, I forgot to mention, I do star the ones that I don't have 493 00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:06,720 any idea or I need to go back on for sure. 494 00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:08,680 And then at the end of the test, I go through those and if I 495 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:09,960 don't know them, I don't sit on them. 496 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:12,200 If I don't know it right now, I'm not going to know it in a 497 00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:13,320 minute. I'm not going to know it in 30 498 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:15,160 seconds. I'm just going to guess and move 499 00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:17,440 on. That's what we were taught in 500 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:18,880 high school. And that's just what I live by. 501 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:20,520 I'm like, if I don't know it, I don't know it. 502 00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:23,080 I'm not going to just pull an answer out of like thin air. 503 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:27,040 So I just guessed and I move on and hey, it worked for me. 504 00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:29,280 Find your own method. That's important because that 505 00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:31,440 doesn't work for everybody. Some people need full assurance. 506 00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:33,320 They'll walk out of the test and they'll say, you know what? 507 00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:36,920 I reviewed every single question and I got 2 wrong and I'm like, 508 00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:39,320 OK, I don't know why you know that, but sure, go ahead. 509 00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:42,800 Anyway, Speaking of exam methods, what are your favorite 510 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:45,200 study methods? You mentioned association. 511 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:47,880 I don't know how to put into words what I want to say, but 512 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:50,600 association is key. And your professors will teach 513 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:52,320 you that. If it's like, it depends on the 514 00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:55,840 curriculum, but if you're learning all of the bones, 515 00:24:56,280 --> 00:25:00,320 they're usually, I say usually they are named after the muscles 516 00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:01,880 that insert on them and vice versa. 517 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:05,320 So if you're learning the bones, it's good to start associating 518 00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:08,720 those terms with muscle names, if that makes sense. 519 00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:12,600 The deltoid tuberosity, the deltoid muscle, it all kind of 520 00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:15,400 fits together. So using association that 521 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:18,000 applies through all of my my personal classes, because then 522 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:21,720 you go to radiology or something and it's, it's all the same 523 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:25,120 repeated, but you have to connect those dots, apply them. 524 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:27,680 But I don't know if that's a study method so much as a 525 00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:30,080 mindset. I think it is because you have 526 00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:34,520 to think of it as like a system. If you try to memorize it like a 527 00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:38,040 list of 1000 words, your brain just can't help. 528 00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:41,520 My brain just can't do that. So trying to make sense of it, I 529 00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:45,080 think I have to get the only way to make sense of it is to like 530 00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:47,360 get out of the panic. And that was the hardest part 531 00:25:47,360 --> 00:25:50,200 for me is because I would be stuck in the panic mode of Oh my 532 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:52,480 God, I have to know all this and all these itty bitty details. 533 00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:54,240 But like trying to make sense of it. 534 00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:58,440 What helped me a lot to make sense of things is looking at 535 00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:02,720 other people's study materials. So like at Mizzou we have 536 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:07,560 password protected quizlets that we share that are approved by 537 00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:09,960 the school. So I would look at my friends 538 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:14,640 Quizlets and seeing how they decipher the PowerPoints is 539 00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:18,440 incredible in comparison to me because they pick up on 540 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:20,560 information that I didn't pick up on. 541 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:25,640 And they also spend an insane amount of time like doing 542 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:32,320 Quizlets all the time and I cannot form a Quizlet as amazing 543 00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:34,440 as these people. I have tried and failed. 544 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:39,440 So me doing their 400 term Quizlet helps me so much and 545 00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:42,760 I've spoken to them about it. I'm like, I did like 10% better 546 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:46,600 on an exam after I started using their Quizlets and I told them 547 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:50,400 I'm like, you read and I cannot read like that. 548 00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:52,880 I don't know how you're so perceptive because they will 549 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:56,960 describe an image on a PowerPoint and my brain doesn't 550 00:26:56,960 --> 00:26:59,480 really look at that. It just looks at the words and 551 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:02,280 they'll like form questions about that image. 552 00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:06,200 And somehow they like have a better gauge of what the 553 00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:10,280 professor is going to ask, like in the depths that they will ask 554 00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:12,680 because my brain will only go to the words. 555 00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:17,120 So I love using their material, which I know Michaela and you 556 00:27:17,120 --> 00:27:19,480 guys don't do as much of that. As much quizlets. 557 00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:23,160 Or as much your school doesn't like share as much mine does. 558 00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:26,280 Right, so I'm on the opposite end of the spectrum. 559 00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:28,000 You're right. We don't do like school 560 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:30,840 protected Quizlets. As far as I'm aware, We're not 561 00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:33,680 as long as you're not sharing privileged information or 562 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:36,640 advantage information as in the professor or somebody you're 563 00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:38,280 cheating is here. If you're not cheating, you're 564 00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:40,440 fine is basically the rule. That being said, they don't 565 00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:44,160 provide us with passwords or you know, protect us in that sense. 566 00:27:44,360 --> 00:27:46,920 But I was, I'm actually the person who made the Quizlets, 567 00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:49,360 and I'm on the opposite end of the spectrum as you. 568 00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:52,160 I could study somebody else's Quizlet and I'd be like, I don't 569 00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:53,080 know. I'm not paying attention. 570 00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:55,640 I don't know what you're looking for, if that makes sense. 571 00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:58,760 But whenever I make them, it takes so much time. 572 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:02,200 Yes, but it's like I'm going through those PowerPoints and 573 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:04,480 looking for what is the professor going to ask me on 574 00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:06,880 here and thinking of a question they would ask me. 575 00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:08,400 And you're thinking to that higher level. 576 00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:10,480 That's how I do it when I make them. 577 00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:12,920 I don't do that when I'm just filling out somebody else's 578 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:15,360 Quizlet. But again, I know my Quizlets so 579 00:28:15,360 --> 00:28:18,160 I send out to people help people so much. 580 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:21,720 I have no problem sharing all of my study sources or resources 581 00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:23,480 cuz I made it. It's not like I'm cheating. 582 00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:26,160 I'm not doing anything wrong. I made it from the PowerPoint 583 00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:30,120 that we all have access to. But I really benefit from making 584 00:28:30,120 --> 00:28:32,200 them. It does take time, but that 585 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:36,040 being said, usually depending on the class, don't go back and 586 00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:38,760 review them like just making it is my studying. 587 00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:41,040 It's a method, especially if you're short on time. 588 00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:45,200 It's more not active recall, but certainly a higher level of 589 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:47,880 thinking to say what question are they going to ask me on this 590 00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:50,320 instead of just copy, paste, copy, paste, fill in the blank. 591 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:55,320 You know what I mean? So that's my method that yeah. 592 00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:59,680 And as far as bad study methods, I tried a lot because like 593 00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:01,400 Gradel said, it takes a minute to get in your flow. 594 00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:05,040 Also, my study methods has changed every single class that 595 00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:06,800 I've ever taken. I I need a different study 596 00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:08,720 method. I used to use like solely my 597 00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:12,560 iPad for all of my classes. Now I keep everything in Google 598 00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:16,040 Docs, all of my notes unless it's like a drawing heavy class, 599 00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:18,920 which is rare for anatomy, all of my notes are stored in Google 600 00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:20,960 Docs separated by class and exam. 601 00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:24,800 So I'll have Foreman function one exam, one massive Google doc 602 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:26,360 with all of my notes highlighted. 603 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:29,120 I've gone through it four times and edited that and added 604 00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:31,040 questions, added review questions, you know what I mean? 605 00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:35,080 I do everything off of these Google Docs and then if I really 606 00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:37,840 need help with that subject, I will make that into a Quizlet 607 00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:39,920 like immunology, which is just rote memorization. 608 00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:42,320 Anatomy I don't really make Quizlets for because that 609 00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:45,440 doesn't help me. It's more thinking and I don't 610 00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:48,520 know, it's just not one of those things that I have had an easy 611 00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:51,920 time translating into a Quizlet. I think there are different 612 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:53,400 approaches for different classes. 613 00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:55,440 Like one thing doesn't work for all of them. 614 00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:58,720 And I swear like preparing for anatomy, Histology and embryo 615 00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:03,240 are a little bit more similar because it's like memorization 616 00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:05,720 like crazy. But anatomy, I have to spend a 617 00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:08,680 lot of time and then anatomy lab, like I have figured out 618 00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:11,800 that some people in my class can just like draw it out on a 619 00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:15,960 sheet, take a look at it. My brain can't translate it from 620 00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:18,720 images on the Internet to the actual cadavers. 621 00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:23,800 So like I have to go into the lab and see it and find it, not 622 00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:27,280 just watch like the videos. Like some people can watch like 623 00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:29,760 Quiet Night. Uh, that's one of them. 624 00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:33,520 Or the Minnesota videos like Carnivore canine or something 625 00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:35,480 like that that is not as helpful. 626 00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:38,120 It's helpful when I am physically there and watching 627 00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:40,120 the videos. So I'd like, it's a lot of 628 00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:42,440 figuring out. I remember panicking and trying 629 00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:46,200 like 6,000,000 methods, which is not the way to do it, but what 630 00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:48,240 else you're going to do? You're just trying to survive. 631 00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:52,200 So I recommend asking other people what works for them and 632 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:54,960 try that. Don't just like panic and try 633 00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:58,200 6,000,000 things at once. But not just talking about 634 00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:00,320 academics. Why don't we talk about some of 635 00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:03,920 our favorite memories? Should say some things that come 636 00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:08,680 to mind are we had something like the smoker, the toaster. 637 00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:12,280 We have like 3 different events over time so we had our first 638 00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:15,880 one and that was like a cute BBQ with the vet students. 639 00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:19,640 We also the dog dog which is like money for charity and 640 00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:23,680 people run with their dogs in costumes and it was so cold that 641 00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:27,920 day but that was really fun. And then Savma Elections and 642 00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:31,440 like working on this team and like seeing what difference we 643 00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:34,240 can make in the future with training has been really, really 644 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:35,440 cool. What about you Michaela? 645 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:37,440 What are your favorite moments? I had a lot. 646 00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:40,440 It was really fun. Will never regret coming to bed 647 00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:41,920 school. It's been one of the best 648 00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:43,880 decisions. At first I doubted it for a 649 00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:46,880 while because I think I've talked about it, but I didn't 650 00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:48,040 think I was going to get in this year. 651 00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:51,080 I applied because my dad said you can't win the Lotto if you 652 00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:52,560 don't buy a ticket. And I said OK, I'll try it out. 653 00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:56,400 So then when I got in I was like, oh, oh, I have to, I have 654 00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:58,960 to go anyway. So it's definitely like I don't 655 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:00,200 want to say it threw me for a loop. 656 00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:04,000 I was hoping I got in, of course, but I thought I wasn't 657 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:06,640 really prepared. Of course, you'll never be fully 658 00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:07,880 prepared. There's nothing you can do to 659 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:11,560 make yourself 100 prepared, 100% prepared before you're like 50. 660 00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:13,400 You know, you have to really work at that. 661 00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:17,960 You just got to go in and do it. So my favorite memories, I would 662 00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:20,840 say finally, like finding a good group of friends that I feel 663 00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:23,480 comfortable with. For me, I struggled socially and 664 00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:26,240 I don't know if you can tell, but I'm a talker. 665 00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:29,040 So that's really weird for me. I was like, why can't I make any 666 00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:31,600 friends? And I think the main reason is 667 00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:35,120 because if you're only going to class and you're focusing in 668 00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:38,600 class and not talking and made it really hard for me personally 669 00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:41,440 to make friends. So I, it took me a while, but I 670 00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:42,920 got there. That was something that was 671 00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:46,280 frustrating to me. But now that it's there, I love 672 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:49,120 everybody that I know. Just love hanging out with 673 00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:52,720 people and I'm a people person. Obviously my other favorite 674 00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:55,880 memories, I don't know, I mean like there's just so many. 675 00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:59,200 I genuinely couldn't tell you. I would say probably like first 676 00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:01,600 day doing clinical skills. That was so fun. 677 00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:04,240 Like being like I'm doing something, I'm putting my hands 678 00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:08,360 on something, you know, and then I know you did Savna. 679 00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:12,360 I got not elected, but I was chosen to be our hills primary 680 00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:14,320 representative. That was important to me. 681 00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:17,000 That was exciting. So accomplishing goals and doing 682 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:20,120 extracurriculars while you're in bed school is possible. 683 00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:23,160 It's interesting. I'm also an officer for two 684 00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:26,120 other clubs, but they're very, it's different than undergrad in 685 00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:27,800 high school. They're very low commitment 686 00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:30,040 level. Like not Savma, I don't think, 687 00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:33,520 but you know, they're like smaller clubs, the more niche 688 00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:34,920 clubs. They're very low commitment 689 00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:36,600 level. It's up to the school and up to 690 00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:41,160 the place, but I would say most LSU clubs do a lot of lunch and 691 00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:42,560 learns. They're very lunch and learn 692 00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:46,720 heavy and then actual meetings and fundraisers and all of that 693 00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:49,720 is, you know, minimal. They know we're all vet 694 00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:51,960 students. Like we're all busy and I rarely 695 00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:55,080 have meetings for much, but I think it was very doable. 696 00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:57,280 That was one thing I was worried about as somebody who was very 697 00:33:57,280 --> 00:33:58,440 involved. I was like, am I going to be 698 00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:01,200 able to do extracurriculars? Like it's important to me and 699 00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:05,160 I've had no issue truly. Yeah, extracurriculars have been 700 00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:08,080 really fun. I would say I was really 701 00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:10,440 overwhelmed in the first couple months of school. 702 00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:15,320 So I didn't do as many like of the individual clubs, like I'm a 703 00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:18,880 part of them, but I maybe went to like one or two meetings, 704 00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:21,960 which is unfortunate. But also like we have some wet 705 00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:27,360 labs, but our upperclassmen get chosen first, so we also have 706 00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:29,880 lunch and learns. I went to a couple of them. 707 00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:33,520 That is something I do regret, but I think because I was trying 708 00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:36,840 to survive and like figure it out, it's like what I needed to 709 00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:41,159 do that I have like a handle on things like I am determined like 710 00:34:41,159 --> 00:34:45,560 2026 is the year of the horse. That is my favorite animal 711 00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:47,440 effort. It's supposed to be like a year 712 00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:49,840 of resiliency and I do feel that. 713 00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:52,120 So that's my goal. I'm going to go to more 714 00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:54,000 meanings. I'm going to be more involved. 715 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:56,840 SAPMA is not a small undertaking. 716 00:34:57,160 --> 00:35:01,560 And so I kind of like it because on APV MA, like Michaela and I 717 00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:04,520 were be, we could be involved with everything. 718 00:35:04,720 --> 00:35:09,840 Like we had small commitments into all these, like tons of 719 00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:11,520 organizations. And that's what I love. 720 00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:13,480 I love being able to like witness it all. 721 00:35:13,720 --> 00:35:16,920 So I do love my other clubs because I love horses. 722 00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:20,000 I love equine time. But at the same time, I love 723 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:22,600 being like a little bit involved in everything. 724 00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:24,040 And I get to do that through Sava. 725 00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:28,400 So I'm really excited for that. And the friends that I've made 726 00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:33,400 have been incredible. They are so like, emotionally 727 00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:35,840 intelligent. They're just intelligent in 728 00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:37,160 general. They're funny. 729 00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:40,240 They're there for me. And I feel like it's easier to 730 00:35:40,240 --> 00:35:43,680 relate to them than a lot of people, like throughout my life, 731 00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:47,360 because we all have the same common goal and we all work 732 00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:51,400 really, really hard and we've all been like deliriously tired 733 00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:55,720 and stressed and hungry and crazy together. 734 00:35:55,720 --> 00:35:59,480 So it really does bond to you. I'm excited for anyone who gets 735 00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:04,000 to go to veterinary school, even though it's it's a lot, but we 736 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:07,000 can do it. Yeah, I would say overall this 737 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:10,800 semester, even though it was tough in my personal life, it 738 00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:14,000 was just so many high points, not a lot of low points. 739 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:15,560 My low points were still midline. 740 00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:17,920 You know what I mean? There was a lot of them, but it 741 00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:20,520 was like there's so many high points that evened out your your 742 00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:23,080 average is still a see you girl. Like you made it through the 743 00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:25,120 semester, You had fun, you made friends. 744 00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:27,880 I joined clubs, I got positions. And that's another thing. 745 00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:30,920 I I know grandma and Braden are both Savma president-elect. 746 00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:32,720 That's so exciting. I didn't try out for our 747 00:36:32,720 --> 00:36:35,400 president-elect position, but I tried out for other unrelated 748 00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:37,800 positions and it's OK to not get something. 749 00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:40,840 Don't feel like a failure. Like it took me like 2, maybe 750 00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:43,880 three tries of trying out for stuff that I was interested in. 751 00:36:44,240 --> 00:36:47,600 And I don't want to say I'm glad I didn't get chosen, but if I 752 00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:50,080 wasn't the right fit, then that wasn't the right fit. 753 00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:51,560 You know, they chose that for a reason. 754 00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:54,480 So if I didn't get something, I was like, OK, that's OK, let me 755 00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:56,400 move on to the next thing and try something else. 756 00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:59,040 And then eventually I landed on, you know, the Hill student Rep 757 00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:01,400 and it finally, like I clicked with the team, everything was 758 00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:05,160 great and it just worked out. And I was like, I didn't, I 759 00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:07,560 don't know, by the end of it, I think I'm done signing up for 760 00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:11,360 positions with stuff, but all of our positions and elections were 761 00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:13,720 at the same time. So I was like, OK, I have to try 762 00:37:13,720 --> 00:37:15,720 out for like these three things that I'm really interested in 763 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,560 and whatever, you know, six of the wall sticks. 764 00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:23,640 And I ended out with like 2 very small officer positions as like 765 00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:27,040 wet lab coordinator and then the hills position, which was 766 00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:29,880 important to me. So I was like, OK, I'm happy. 767 00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:33,560 Like I'm involved enough. I'm checking out, not committing 768 00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:36,240 myself, and I did join a lot of clubs because I didn't know what 769 00:37:36,240 --> 00:37:38,960 I was going to do yet, but I never went to a single lunch and 770 00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:40,080 learn. I don't know why. 771 00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:43,080 I just didn't really have a lot of friends for the first few 772 00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:44,200 months. So I was like, I don't want to 773 00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:46,600 go sit by myself. Like I would rather go hang out 774 00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:49,360 with my friends or my boyfriend outside of that school. 775 00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:52,400 And so I did that. Yeah, Overall it was crazy, but 776 00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:56,960 it was a good semester. So looking ahead, what are our 777 00:37:56,960 --> 00:38:00,120 main goals for this semester? Mine are to pass. 778 00:38:00,240 --> 00:38:03,960 I don't care about using these, pass all of my classes, not have 779 00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:08,120 to remediate, hopefully apply a lot of the clinical skills that 780 00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:10,280 I've been learning to my externship. 781 00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:13,000 In the middle of this semester. We get this two week externship 782 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:16,560 and I'm going to rural Louisiana as it was advertised to me. 783 00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:19,280 I don't care. All I want to do is take what 784 00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:21,560 I've learned in class and apply it in a clinical setting. 785 00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:25,080 And when I did externships over the break, I didn't have goals 786 00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:28,040 in minds when I went in, but I didn't have goals in mind. 787 00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:30,360 So I was just like, I don't know, teach me something. 788 00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:34,200 But now I know ahead of time to go in and say I want to do this 789 00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:36,080 and that's what I'm going to do. What about you? 790 00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:39,200 I do have a lot of goals this semester. 791 00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:42,360 I am trying to like challenge myself to have more of a life. 792 00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:46,360 And I know that sounds awful, but I truly like only did school 793 00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:49,680 and not a ton else. And that was not the healthiest 794 00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:52,840 thing because you put so much effort in and then if like one 795 00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:56,040 thing goes wrong, you're like you're just distraught because 796 00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:59,240 you put in so much work. I knew I had to do that to like 797 00:38:59,240 --> 00:39:01,360 survive and figure it out. So it's OK. 798 00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:04,160 But like on Friday evenings, go and take a break. 799 00:39:04,240 --> 00:39:06,800 And I actually found when I took breaks I performed better. 800 00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:10,600 So definitely that. Let's see not to get myself over 801 00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:14,440 involved, which I already feel like I'm doing, but it's fine. 802 00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:21,200 So biggest takeaways from the year of 2025 and then maybe also 803 00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:23,840 the vet semester because we did talk about this semester this 804 00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:28,480 episode, but from the year I would say I've been living by 805 00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:30,440 this. You can't win the Lotto if you 806 00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:32,640 don't buy a ticket. I say all the time, but it's 807 00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:33,920 true. It applies to so many things. 808 00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:35,800 You don't even know. It's just like Gretel's, you 809 00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:38,840 know, you're of yes, same thing. You can't buy, you can't win a 810 00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:41,080 Lotto if you don't buy a ticket. You can't do something, you 811 00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:42,880 can't win something, you can't accomplish something if you 812 00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:45,480 don't try. So I would say the same thing 813 00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:47,040 for my semester. That's my take away. 814 00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:49,840 You know, you can't make friends if you don't try. 815 00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:52,960 You can't get a position in a club that you want if you don't 816 00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:54,840 try. Can't get into bed school if you 817 00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:57,160 don't try. I'm not saying it's guaranteed, 818 00:39:57,160 --> 00:39:59,880 but throw your hat in the ring and if it works out, it works 819 00:39:59,880 --> 00:40:01,280 out, you know? What about you? 820 00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:04,440 Oh, definitely. I think just because you're 821 00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:07,520 struggling, that doesn't mean it's going to be forever and 822 00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:11,200 that you can figure it out over time and like understanding, 823 00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:15,360 like gauging what success means. It doesn't have to mean like 824 00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:18,080 being perfect. I will never be like that in vet 825 00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:19,840 school. It is way too hard to be 826 00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:23,280 perfect. Just like doing enough and like 827 00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:26,880 giving yourself time to breathe is exactly what you need to be 828 00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:31,000 doing. And also just it's OK to not be 829 00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:33,240 doing super well and then figure it out later. 830 00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:36,000 Like that I think is the biggest theme in vet Med. 831 00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:38,840 It's like even we're told in when we're done with school, the 832 00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:40,720 first five years are incredibly hard. 833 00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:43,680 So it's OK because you have to be comfortable with the 834 00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:45,640 uncomfortable. That's my biggest take away. 835 00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:48,920 Exactly. And I say it all the time that, 836 00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:50,680 you know, failure is never the end. 837 00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:53,520 I failed so many things you wouldn't even know I failed. 838 00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:55,640 Oh, come to, I never passed it. Didn't need it. 839 00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:58,320 Hey, I'm here. You know what else I failed? 840 00:40:58,320 --> 00:40:59,600 I failed. I don't know. 841 00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:01,880 But enough things that I know what I'm talking about. 842 00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:03,840 And it's OK to not get something. 843 00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:07,040 It's OK to get CSD's. Whatever grade doesn't define 844 00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:09,800 you, GPA doesn't define you. All the cheesy sayings they 845 00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:11,880 aren't are true. Sun always rises tomorrow. 846 00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:15,480 What other cliches should I say anyway? 847 00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:17,360 But they're all true. They're all cliches for a 848 00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:19,600 reason, because they happen, because they're true. 849 00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:22,040 So maybe listen to them here and there. 850 00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:25,680 But finally, one word or phrase you're carrying into the next 851 00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:27,440 semester. This is a good one. 852 00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:31,080 I have to think about it. Oh, it's year of the horse. 853 00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:33,520 It's my year. That's just, it's what I'm going 854 00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:35,080 with. I asked you that and I didn't 855 00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:37,200 even have an answer for myself. I'm just going to say 856 00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:39,200 positivity. I always try to live by that, 857 00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:40,760 but I'm going to continue that trend. 858 00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:45,200 One thing I never do is try to intentionally be negative. 859 00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:47,440 Sometimes you get down. Everybody has bad days. 860 00:41:47,720 --> 00:41:50,720 But All in all, you know if you've ever seen those blankets 861 00:41:50,720 --> 00:41:52,240 where they chart like the weather throughout the year and 862 00:41:52,240 --> 00:41:54,160 it's like pixels, mine should be all green. 863 00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:57,840 I want all positivity this year. So that's my word for the 864 00:41:57,840 --> 00:41:58,840 semester. All right. 865 00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:02,440 Thanks guys for listening and we'll see you next time.