All I Want for Christmas is Poo....

Ellie Engelen - Minnesota

V:50 I:4 Foot in Mouth Disease Honorable Mention

This past winter I finally found time to take a break from my finals studying to take holiday photos with my family. We took a quick photo and headed back to our house without thinking twice. While uploading the photos, we noticed that our pug, Pete, had managed to sneak into our photo....

BullFrog

Anna-Marie Ruoff - Western

V:50 I:4 Creative Corner Winner

BullFrog (Serenely surveying his pond [kingdom])

 Van Gogh (Agalychnis callidryas, a red-eyed tree frog)

Diablo (Lives up to his name)

Curiosity & Wisdom

Megan Sullivan - Florida

V:50 I:4 Creative Corner Winner

Pencil

Curiosity

Wisdom

The Darndest Things

Tom has exceptional talent for telling a story. This Foot in Mouth piece is hysterical.

Tom Wootton - Cornell

V:50 I:4 - Foot in Mouth Disease 2nd Place

The Darndest Things

When a close friend, Keri, asked me to give a talk to her sixth-grade class, I was pretty hesitant.  I’m not generally intimidated by sixth-graders, but I wasn’t given a whole lot of guidance.  Our multiple times discussions always devolved into the same questions, and the same ambiguous replies.

“What should I talk about?”

“Whatever you want!”

“How long do you I have to talk?”

“Whatever you need.”

“What are you working on in class?”

“(Insert some topic I haven’t considered since 6^th grade)”

“Should it be related to that?”

“It can be… if you want it to be.”

Thanks Keri. Keri is a fantastic teacher—young, enthusiasticmart, etc.—but I got the impression that with only 3 days before winter break, she was on the verge of checking out.  As a vet student, home for winter break, I understood the sentiment. And I figured that any class time I filled would be a well-deserved break for her.  So I decided to hop in.  I’d talk about sharks.

I’ve always been interested in marine biology (I was

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More Winning Memes from Life as a Vet Student!!

Here are the other three of our favorite veterinary student memes from the Life as a Vet Student category:

Ann Abress - St. George's University

 Eric Littman - Tufts

 Joe Swartz - Texas A&M