Things I’m Tired of Hearing

There are some things that they tell us a lot during vet school that I’ve gotten really tired of hearing.

1) “Grades don’t matter!”
That is just, quite frankly, not true to me! It may be that nobody’s really going to look at your GPA when you get a job (though, I don’t really believe that), but that doesn’t mean grades don’t matter. What if you want an internship or a residency? Or what if you just don’t not want an internship or a residency? (You just don’t want to close that door yet?) Or, what if you’re just accustomed to getting good grades? What if just the getting of good grades is what matters to you?

2) “You’ll get this later.”
We hear this a lot in lecture. They’ll be talking about something and mention a caveat or a detail (or even sometimes another major concept) then backpedal with “but you’ll get that later.” Uh, guys, we’re nearing the end of third year; there’s not a lot of later left!

3) x% of you will be divorced
That’s not very nice… but they’ve been telling us that throughout vet school. In orientation it was that some percent of you will get divorced by the end of vet school (and some more by the end of vet school.) Later they start telling us that x% of us that have gotten married in school or made it past the relationship killer that was vet school will get divorced once we start in practice because we apparently can’t balance our lives. It feels kind of like the people who tell you that you shouldn’t bother getting married because half of marriages end in divorce (although, I read recently that statistic is changing and fewer marriages are ending in divorce.)