Cake Decorating

Creative Corner

Chloe Matelski

Texas A&M

I am a cake designer. This is my art; my way of combining cake decorating and science!

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Congratulations to Vol. 47 Issue 3 winning submissions!

Thank you to everyone who submitted to the latest issue of The Vet Gazette!  Listed below are the winners for each of the categories.  Look for their submissions to appear in an upcoming post.  A special congratulation goes out to Texas A&M, whose students sent in the most submissions this issue! Keep those submissions rolling…

I’d also like to use this post to introduce myself as the newest editor of The Vet Gazette.  You can check out my bio for a little bit more about me.  Feel free to send me an email with any thoughts or questions you might have (savma.editor@gmail.com )

I look forward to hearing from you!

-Melissa Andritz, Editor

And now the winners:

Creative Corner:

Chloe Matelski, Texas A&M

Shannon Orth, Iowa State

 

Life as a Vet Student, Mentors

Winner: Chase Crawford, Texas A&M

Honorable Mention: Erica Burkland, Cornell

 

Life as a Vet Student, Our Future Plans

Winner: Becky Lee, UC  Davis

Honorable Mention: Alicia Agnew, Virginia-Maryland

 

Foot in Mouth

Winner: David Kim, UC Davis

Honorable Mention: Alicia Agnew, Virginia-Maryland

 

Trivia:

Ashley Ballew, University of Georgia

Brandon Gates, Colorado State

 

Forum:

Winner: Oneal Peters, Colorado State

Honorable Mention: Stephanie Silberstang, Cornell

 

Cases and Abstracts:

Winner (and Best Overall Submission): Alexander Robb, Tufts

Honorable Mention: Paige Mackey, Oklahoma State

 

Experiences:

Winner: Oneal Peters, Colorado State

Honorable Mention: David Kim, UC Davis

Honorable Mention: Stephen Reichley, Ohio State

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Some Slight Weight

By Elia Susskind

Cornell University

Class of 2013

Arriving at Fazenda Teotonio Wednesday evening, I took in a sigh of relief. We had left Fortaleza at 17:30 as the sun was beginning to set. As the land fell under a darker shadow, the traffic got heavier, the roads we took contained more ditches and potholes, and just as we escaped the rush hour traffic and picked up some speed, the air conditioner sputtered, spat, and cut out.  Our open windows provided relief from the stifling heat, and I quickly learned to keep my mouth shut as fat, biting grasshoppers (which I swear must have been waiting on the side of the road for the precise moment to successfully launch themselves in through the window of a passing car going 100km/hr) would find their way onto my lap, in my hair, or deflected off my forehead into the car’s crevices only to later find their way to my heels to take mouthfuls of my skin. For one who was slightly squeamish around sporadically moving insects to begin with, having them attack me in silence through the window at night was an event that took some getting used to.

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Sandhill Cranes- Creative Corner

By Ian Feilman

Iowa State University

Pigs, Castles, and Pickled Herring: My Summer in Europe

Josh Duff

North Carolina State University

College of Veterinary Medicine

Class of 2014

I could have gone to Iowa. I could have stayed in North Carolina. I could have worked with a pharmaceutical company, a feed company, a large integrated company or even a private practitioner. But I wanted something foreign, something exotic. So, I went to Denmark in search of those things. What I found was a country full of pigs, castles, and pickled herring. To be exact, I found 25 million pigs (5 for every Dane), a country that exports the largest volume of pork in the E.U., inspiration for Shakespeare, and delicious local cuisine.

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