Our Freshman Year of Vet School….A year in review
Thursday, June 21, 2012 at 09:06PM Winner, Foot in Mouth Category
Courtney Butts, Florida State University
They say, “Hindsight is 20/20.”
Well, looking back on our first year of vet school is anything but pretty.
We started the year off naïve, excited, and ready to take on the world.
But, after that first day in gross anatomy I thought, “I’m definitely going to hurl.”
The lectures kept coming and the material was overflowing,
We thought, “How can we manage all of this?”, but we just kept going.
We learned origins, insertions, innervations and blood supplies,
We memorized PDA, PCR, and millions of histology slides.
We overcame lecture after lecture and anatomy practicals galore,
White cells and red cells and T-cells and more.
Classes like Molecular Biology had us asking, “What was the point of this class?”
While Embryology made us say, “It was truly a miracle that I even passed.”
Then came our first hell week of many that year,
After immunology, ophthalmology, and endocrinology we thought we were in the clear.
We thought it would all be downhill until winter break and that we had reached our peak,
Oh, but wait kids, you still have Neurology to try to learn in four weeks.
The pain was so terrible, but we finished it somehow,
We actually finished our first semester!! It’s time to relax meow!