A light at the end of the tunnel...

...well, at least at the end of the lecture learning tunnel! Eight years of college have already flown by, and in just 4 months we'll be learning in clinics. It definitely makes me nervous but I'm excited for the change.

Since I didn't have time to post much last semester, let me summarize it in one word: HELL. Or what I imagine hell would be like...I had truly never been more stressed out in my entire life. Thanks to weekly surgeries and Monday/Friday exams, I had zero rest or relaxation. No weekends off, no evenings off. It was really rough but by the grace of God I made it through, and I really did learn a lot so at least there's that! Nobody said it'd be easy...

In other news, I thought I'd post a list of our last round of classes since that seems to be a tradition of mine. They're mostly food animal/equine focused this semester. We have surgery 2 (large animal), medicine 2 and 3 (one small animal, one equine), practice management/finance, nutrition, clinical pharmacology, advanced exotic animal medicine, public health, and surgical skills. Sounds a little intense but so far I've had way more free time than last semester (granted we are only 2 weeks in). We have Thursday/Friday exams, which means I can use Friday evenings to refresh my brain and recharge. We also only had one equine castration for the semester, which I've already completed. It was pretty exciting and was on a client owned horse! We just have a few more afternoon labs - an advanced equine lab this week, small animal ophtho and a few food animal handling labs later in the semester. It's nice to touch a live animal every now and then :)

Our first surgery exam is coming up this Thursday, the day after my birthday of course. As if that isn't lame enough, Kansas is VERY sweet and has planned a low of 5 degrees for me on my birthday... -_- Bah! Can't wait till spring gets here! It's actually slightly above 50 today though, so time to head out for a walk with Rhyley!

Oh and before I forget - please check out my flickr account by clicking this link! I've had it for 4 years now and always forget to mention it on here. I've recently had some really great opportunities to shoot photos of wildlife in Florida, so check it out if you're interested :)