Dear Lord, it's Week 4 already!!

Time is flying... I wish it would slow down because these have been the best three weeks of my life by far!!! I want to savour them...

Professional Welcoming Ceremony:
Fantastic morning of a whole bunch of veterinary organization representatives and our Dean telling us how awesome we are and welcoming us officially into the veterinary profession. The moment I walked up on the stage and they gave me my lab coat and stethescope made it all seem real. WOW! I can't even believe I made it here. <3





Being piped in by a Scottish Bag Piper in Alphabetical order! Everyone dressed up nicely, very weird to see the people I party so hard with can actually clean up! Hahaha. Everyone looked fantastic!



All Official!!!

Had lots of family and friends wandering around, mothers crying, people hugging, absolutely EVERYONE smiling!!! Such a great feeling! I was lucky enough to have my parents and aunt come to support me. They have helped me get here so I was glad they got to see me up there! OVC also had it's 150th Anniversery Fall Fair afterwards full of games and activities. Way to go OVC for being the oldest vet school in North America!!!

Anything But Clothes Party at OTS:
So we had a pub crawl that was an ABC theme. If you don't know, the rule is to dress in things that are not traditionally used as clothing. We all looked great! Not everyone from my class came, just those in the frat. Everyone was really creative, and managed to look hot in platis bags, beer boxes, shower curtains, duct tape, vet wrap, twister mats, envelopes, post it notes... you name it we were wearing it!! We played some sweet games. In one we had to 'Suck-and-Blow' a card down the line of people on your team, then run to a pitcher of beer full of straws and chug the pitcher dry!! Another was we had 60 cc syringes and the team had to line up and one by one get 60 cc's of beer shot into their mouth... first team to empty their pitcher doing this wins! hahaha SO MUCH FUN!! messy... but fun!

Here's some creative costumes:

Duct Tape Tuxedo and our American classmates in Canadian Flags!!

Matching 'Simpsons' Sleeping bags!!!

Horse feed bags! (Leave it to the vet's to think of that!!)



My friend in a sexy Biohazard bag!! And I in some scarves and hats that I sewed together.
The strap is a tensor bandage!

 Hockey:
Played my first game with our team tonight. The Co-ed 2015 Stags vs. 2014 Elephants. We lost 4-3 but man was it close! We played very well together considering that 1/3 of us (including our goalie) had never played hockey before! So much fun. And what a work out! We play a regular intramural season within the University of Guelph, then we do an OVC Challenge Cup in the Winter Semester!!! Last year a very dedicated prof (and a player on the OVC Prof team) learned how to WELD so that he could make us a 'Stanley Cup'. It is engraved with ALL of the winning teams from 1932, which was the first year they had a Challenge Cup tournament. It looks AMAZING!!!! I hope that we can get good and have a chance at winning this year! It would be an honour to get the Stags up there!

Speaking of the Scarlet Stags... We chose a mascot!

OVC 2015 Scarlet Stags

Can't wait for our merch to come out!!!!

School:
Ok, I guess there has been some school in between all of our tomfoolery! We started our dissections in Anatomy last week. Dog, Cat, Sheep, Calf, and Horse. The small animals can lie on the table, but the large animals have to be hanged from the ceiling.... which makes dissecting difficult. There is also other species' prosected and on display, but our prof and TAs do those. The OVC has quite an osteology museum, which is not only impressive, but makes comparative learning very easy. The department even has their own BUG BOX (a box of flesh eating bugs to clean of skeletons)!!!! We got to see an Orka skull almost cleaned completely... have to be careful none escapse when you lift the lid though! Histology is actually not so bad... yet. I know I will feel VERRRY differently about that soon enough. We have motored through epithelium, glands, nervous tissue, and muscle tissue... Labs are, well, boring... but he goes over every cell type and slide very thoroughly so if you pay attention, it makes studying MUCH easier. For physiology we are still on Neuro... and plan to be there until the end of October. In Clinical Medicine, we have ALREADY finished our Small Animal lectures and are now on our Large Animal ones. We have learned the theory behind history taking, building a problem list, a close and far physical examination, and a differential diagnosis (which obviously we won't be good at til we are in fourth year) so in our labs in a couple weeks we will start practicing on the teaching animals, doing TPRs (Temp - Pulse - Resp Rate), checking eyes, ears, nose, mouth, feeling joints and lymph nodes... blah blah blah. You all know what I mean. Health Management is boring because we are on Epidemiology... which I have taken. And the notes are EXACTLY THE SAME!! Very tempting to not go, but I am trying to be a good student... no promises. No Biochem or Genetics yet. Art of Veterinary Medicine (AVM) is again, boring. We are doing animal welfare, which again I have taken, and again the notes are very similar, so again trying to stay motivated and go to class.

Now we also hae some mandatory stuff outside of class that we have to do; Teaching Animal Enrichment (TAE), Primary Healthcare Center (PHC) shifts, and 4th Year Shadowing. Now I have not done any of this yet, so once I do I will fill you in on the details. Unfortunately we were told that their is a STRICT no camera in the hospital rule, so no pics of actual cases, but I will try to do my best and get what I can.

So until next time my furry little friends!!!! Hope you all are enjoying the Winter shows coming Back! Big Bang Theory, Grey's Anatomy, Community, Revenge, New Girl, PanAm, How I Met your Mother, and The Office!!!! w00t. I totally study....