Week 1

Oy ve! I have survived my first week in veterinary school, although not without a few bumps and bruises. There is a nasty bronchial infection going around, and I woke up this morning with some seriously icky lung junk. School, however, is going well, although it is entirely different from anything else I have ever done. While you have very little (if any) homework, you are expected to have EVERYTHING the professor tells you memorized and ready at a moments notice. Several of the professors walk around the room as they teach and, at random, stand in front of students and grill them for an answer to one of their many questions. I've had to break my sodoku and cross-word during class habit!

I've also discovered that for all the work and study we do, there is a party at the end of the week to help you lose those brain cells. I have never seen a group party so hard and for as long as the folks (both students and islanders) here. I guess the theory is if you are working this hard, you have to have an outlet somewhere, but after two weekends of getting home at 3 and 4am, I think I'm going to have to go into hiding...

Ok, back to the books. Take care, and drop me an e-mail sometime! They make my day :)