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Just a blog about a vet student in New England and her guinea pig

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Monday, 10 October 2016

Thank goodness today is off because I have an awful lot of studying for CATT Exam 2 next week, which will be mainly histology, and Anatomy Exam 2 in 2 weeks. Didn't do great on all the exams but at least I beat the mean. But that's not good enough for me. Anatomy is really kicking my ass this week and on top of the pelvic limb, we have to learn the epaxial muscles and the vertebral column. Did I mention that the vertebral column is for self study? But it will definitely be on the exam? Frustrating but at least I have a study plan and if I stick to it, I should be okay. Maybe.

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Monday, 3 October 2016

Finished the first round of tests today! Still waiting on the Anatomy test score (which was promised to be released today) but I'm overall happy with my scores. I guess I learned how to better prep myself for tests and doing a little bit at a time and not procrastinating did not actually work for me. I don't advocate cramming but there's got to be middle ground - like semi-procrastination. How ironic is it that the class I actually kept up with might actually be one of my lower scores?

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Friday, 30 September 2016

I’m clearly avoiding studying for my biochemistry exam on Monday so I went and roasted the pork tenderloin I bought this week. I rubbed it down with Dijon mustard and then added shallots, garlic, sage, thyme, and rosemary.

My mother brought me up to fear touching raw pork with my bare hands so in my hurry to minimize all the meat touching, I forgot to salt and pepper it. It didn’t need pepper in the end but I went and added a little salt.

Turned out pretty good. A little too done but I’ll work my way up until I can accurately gauge when something is done (or I can stop being a poor student and go buy a thermometer or something).

Anyway, time to go focus on erythrocytes or something before the med school & vet school mixer.

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Wednesday, 21 September 2016

It’s officially been over a two months since I’ve moved here from Cali and I miss it and I don’t miss it. It’s kind of hard to describe.

What should I be doing right now? I have an Anatomy test on Monday - less than 72 hours of study time (I calculated out sleeping time and class time but I’m sure I’m missing some) and I have to prep for a histology lab for tomorrow.

What did I end up doing? Well, I did get some anatomy studying done, but not nearly enough. And instead of prepping for histology, I’m obviously on tumblr, writing this post and watching videos on YouTube of the TCA cycle put to song.

I don’t have much else to write about now so maybe I will get that prep work out of the way.