I read an article in some economic or money-oriented publication earlier this year about investing strategies and stupid mistakes that people make… Like thinking that just because you’ve already lost $10,000 in some investment you should stick it out because you’ve already put in so much. The author’s argument was that you can’t [...]
It was by no means my first CPR. I’ve been the intubator, the breather, the drug-giver, or the ECG reader what seems like dozens of times before. But today, today was the first time that I was the one pounding on the chest - compressing a dying, malfunctioning heart, hoping to provide just [...]
You know why it’s great to have a boyfriend who can appreciate the finer elements of web design and blog geekiness? Because when I say things like, “You know, just a bar graph,” he comes up with that little gem over there on the right.
I like statistics and I thought you might [...]
“We’ll go over this tomorrow,” she said waving our long-awaited, much-anticipated schedule in front of us. “Now it’s time to talk about garbage and recycling.”
Cruel. Just cruel.
When I graduated from college the word “commencement” didn’t strike me as being nearly as appropriate as it felt yesterday. This one really does feel like a beginning.
Just before someone decided it was appropriate to call me “doctor.”
Newly minted doctors in our doctoral hoods.
Checking my transcript to make sure I had everything all set to graduate next Sunday, I was sort of amazed at the list of classes and rotations that I endured. (Endured? Yeah, that’s the right word).
Doctor of Veterinary Medicine [...]
William Orbit - Surfin’
I found out this week that I passed my national veterinary board exam. Not with flying colors per se, but my arbitrary numerical score was above the arbitrary passing point, so that’s really all that matters. Now I just have to survive 10 more weeks of rotations (easier said [...]
Despite being enrolled in a professional degree program I love to say things like, “when I decide what I actually want to do with my life…”
I know it frustrates my classmates who can’t understand my persistent doubt in our career and probably think I’m just taking some other dedicated veterinary student’s place in our school.
My [...]
Today I had one of those “only in vet school” moments.
We were doing a bone scan where we inject radioactive isotopes intravenously and observe with a gamma camera to monitor the vascular, soft tissue and bone phases for areas of uptake which indicate pathology (in short). There is about an hour time lapse between the [...]
1. 100+ bobby pins does not a happy Anne make…
This I learned at my brother’s wedding. Apparently I’m a real hairdo wimp. I guess that’s a result of my having never had to endure the pain of the 8 hour hairdo before. I lasted from about noon to mid-way through the reception before I had [...]