Vet Adventure

22 year old / 4th year vet student. Trying to survive vet school.

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17/02/2022

So I finally got the opportunity to practice sutures, online school is not easy when you’re supposed to become a vet, however sometimes you’re lucky I guess. School is closed but it turned out that we’re allowed to visit our practical skill centre which is great!

Please ignore my terrible stitching.

Yaaaas 🥳

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14/02/2022

Last time I posted I was in 3rd year, escalation occurs and now I’m in 4th year, cheers! Hopefully this semester I’ll make more than a single post.

Cheers

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Nobel Awarded Women In Medicine and Physiology

Gerty Theresa Cori - 1947 Discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen (also known as Cori Cycle)

Rosalyn Yalow - 1977 Development of radioimmunoassays of peptide hormones

Barbara McClintock - 1983 Discovery of mobile genetic elements

Rita Levi-Montalcini - 1986 Discoveries of growth factors

Gertrude B. Elion - 1988 Discoveries of important principles for drug treatment

Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard - 1995 Discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development

Linda B. Buck - 2004 Discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi - 2008 Discovery of human immunodeficiency virus

Carol W. Greider - 2009 Discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase

Elizabeth H. Blackburn - 2009 Discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase

May-Britt Moser - 2014 Discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain

We can be the next. WE CAN DO IT!

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1/3/2021//

I guess someone wants attention 💁🏼‍♀️

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8/02/2021

Exams are finally done, and the semester has started.

Hope is not having it at all, but she’s participating anyway 😴

Cheers and good luck with the spring semester people!

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30/01/2021

Saturday vibe, pre (last) exam 😎

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23/01/2021//

Guess what?

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22.01.2021//

Studying microbiology all day every day.

Generally it is interesting, but when it comes to the genetics of the microorganism (or genetics overall) I hate it 😂... SO MUCH

Anyhow carry on

Cheers 🥂

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12/01/2021//

Long time no seen

Let me introduce my new best friends and my studybuddy Hope! She is 7 months old pup’ and she will be a part of this tumblr from now on. 

As you guy can see; she is definitley not a fan of microbiology. She’s not having it at all hahah. 

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02/10/2020//

Hiiii

It's been a looong time since last, and a lot of things have changed not only in my life but also around the world.

Since Corona begun, as you already may now, our university, as probably many many others, decided to start online teaching. To be honest I loved it the first week, I mean we didn't have to wake up early, go to school in the shittiest weather possible, we actually did not have to study as we didn't get any material from our professors...I mean, it was a dream after a long and hard exam period full of sweat and tears (literally). The weeks suddenly started passing by and we still didn't have anything to do as nobody knew what was happening except the fact that people basically prepared for a war with something invisible; the virus. The restriction got worse and worse and during the easter we were almost under a full lockdown.

Anyhow, May came and it was time for the summer exam period. It was online, and it was easy...almost too easy. It felt good to pass the anatomy exam, the physiology exam etc etc...but somehow it did not feel good anyway.

...Passing an anatomy exam without "stress reading" the structures of the ruminant stomach, in the hallway between the dissection rooms, overcrowded by other students doing the same things in their lab coats. Sweating like a pig and shaking out of the adrenaline as well as the nervosity. Seeing students coming out from the dissection rooms, taking their coats of after the first round of the exam because they already failed. Feeling the sweat running downwards your face because you think the same thing will happen to you. Then it's finally your turn, you open the door with your sweaty hand, the professor smiles at you says hi and asks for your name and if you are ready to start. You are not ready, at least that's what you think but you say "yes I'm ready". You feel the disgusting smell of all the dead animals around and the organs because its summer and they have been out for a while, but at the same time you are already used to it. The professor starts to ask, and suddenly you either knoe the answears or you have forgot them due to the nervosity. Take a deep breathe, you know this! And you start answearing the questions. When you answear incorrectly, the professor gives you a look and asks "are you sre" and you say "no....oh I think its this...." the professor looks at you smiles and says yes. Yes, you answered correctly, now breathe you know this! And you continue answering. After, the professor takes a deaph breath and say "okay" and your name, and gives you a grade. You want to cry because you have been studying for so long, and now finally it pays off and you couldn't be happier. the professor is satisfied and so are you. You are thanking the professor for teaching you this stuff and say good bye. You open the door and all of your colleagues looks at you with that curious look, and you just smile and say that you pass, and tell them what questions you've got. Then you take your white coat off, you go to the changing room through the hallway still full of the students in their lab coats to take your bag and leav with probably the best feeling in the world for that moment.

This is exactly the reason why it didn't feel that good, but at the end of the day I can't say that I was unhappy of course.

Then also, I have got a new family memeber, her name is Hope and next post will be about her and her sister. Stay tuned people. I really hope all of you are healthy and safe!:)

Hadeee

Ps; excuse my spelling, my English is not on point after not speaking it for 6 months 😅

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22/4/2020//

Thought I’d be done with this report in nutrition in like 2h, well I was wrong...took me two days.

Have a nice day folks!

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16/4/2020//

Got a second breath today and started studying a bit for the incoming exams 👏🏻

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11/4/2020//

It’s been a while, and still, as I wrote in my last post everything feels so strange.

The newest rules here in Slovakia are that we’re in a total lockdown during the Easter holidays, so I’ve been sitting home since the 8th, and will remain seated on my ass at home until Tuesday, so thank god it’s only 2 days left.

Anyways, I have to say that I really didn’t plan to study today but I was soooo bored, and the only thing I can do is to study right now. Why? Because I have been renovating, cleaning and basically doing a lot of unnecessary stuff.

However, as I said I decided to do some work today and to begin with I was so freaking frustrated. The assignment we have is from a course named “Nurition and animal feeding” and a lot of different types of calculations are included. So I ref through the assignment, and did literally not understand a thing. It took me like 5-6 times to read through it to actually understand what formulas to use and what to do. To be fair it wasn’t that difficult but it was a lot, so it took me like almost two hours to calculate. But now it’s finally finished and hopefully correct👏🏻

Also, you’re maybe wondering why there’s an empty document on the screen? As we’re having online studies we have to send it to our professor as a protocol, kind of, so I have to put all the calculations into tables (probably the easiest way) and send it. I will probably do that tomorrow, but that’s the easy part. The hard work is already done.

Alright guys, Happy Easter to all of you, enjoy with your friends and families and most important of all WASH YOUR DAMN HANDS!!

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30/3/2020//

Long time no seen

I have been really bad at updating my blog lately, which is kinda shitty as my creativity disappears together with the time that flies away in quarantine.

I’ve been struggling a lot with studying since the Slovak government decided to close all the schools. I don’t know but I guess that I’m that kind of person who needs someone (aka a prof) to explain stuff, I’ve really realised that.

Anyways, as I mentioned; I’m struggling a lot with studying by myself, and also with the fact that I cannot find a suitable routine. It sounds so wierd to say, but I really miss school. But actually now after almost three weeks spent between 4 walls, I managed to start doing something and out teacher gave us some tasks to do, and I think all of us in the year appreciate that. The tasks we get gives us at least some guidance to what we should focus on and also we HAVE to read through the material we get as we have deadlines for them.

I really hope all you other people out there are healthy and are having a higher level of productivity than me! 🤓

Take care, be healthy and WASH YOUR DAMN HANDS! 🖐🏼

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16/3/2020//

Monday 1/14

Doing some microbiology while the entire country is in quarantine

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12/3/2020//

Mornings

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COVID - 19

Okay, wow.  So first of all I’m studying abroad in Slovakia, and the Corona virus just arrived here last week or this week, I’m not sure. Basically Slovakia is one of the last countries in the Eastern Europe getting it if I’m not totally wrong. 

Okay so first of all; all elementary schools, high schools and universities are closed, it doesn't matter if its technical uni, or med uni or vet uni EVERYTHING is closed. Cultural events as theatre, opera, cinema, sports etc are cancelled until I don't know when (nobody knows when actually), but all this is cancelled for a reason!!Toilet paper, detergent and other things that lasts long are basically missing in the stores and people are going crazy. 

I have understood that the Corona virus is a life threatening virus in some cases and everything, but I have only now realized how dangerous this can be. Maybe not for us young, healthy people with a good immune response, but for the newborns and the older people or people with “reduced” immunity. 

Our university as many others are closed as I mentioned, and they will probably remain closed for 14 more days. The flight tickets back to our home countries are really cheap, because the virus is basically everywhere and especially in the big cities to which most of us would fly to. I mean, we have no school, we could go home, and some of the foreign students are even going back home...

And this is where my point comes in: 

I have been making a lot of jokes about this epidemic (which btw has been announced to be a pandemic by WHO), jokes about how it will come and get us. Whenever somebody caught we were saying “gosh you’ve got corona, back off”, and all that. Well sh*t just got real and it’s not fun anymore. I live with my 80 years old grandmother who barley made it through the flue last year. if I would get this virus, the chances for me to recover are big, but there is a big chance that I will infect my grandmother too. She is 80 years old, she has different types of diseases and even diabetes. There are plenty of older people like my grandmother who can live for 10 maybe even 20 years longer if they don't get the virus. Not only that, there are also people in their 40′s - 50′s that got maybe a reduced immune system or even younger people as teenager with some types of diseases, cancer patients, whatever, you name it. 

My point is that, we have to stop being selfish, and think “School’s closed, lets go home to Sweden/Norway/England/France/Spain” whatever country you're from. Why? Well because you as a 20-year old healthy human being, will most probably recover from this, but what about the people you got infected, that aren’t 20 years old, or that have some other medical problems? What about them? Should even more people die because of you wanting to visit your family? No. That’s not fair. It’s not even fair against your family who can get infected because of you traveling. Just think about it twice, for you, and everyone else around you. Don’t be selfish. Be kind to each other and respect other people. I'm not traveling back home. 

Also, I don’t want to spread any kind of panic, I know most of the people recover. I just want people to realized things that I've realized. 

// Vetadventure Alex

Ps; WASH YOUR HANDS MATE!