To the tune of "It's a Small World"
It’s a life of classes; A life of fear.
It’s a life of textbooks, A life of beer.
Eight to five every day,
And for this we must pay.
It’s a vet school after all.
It’s a vet school after all,
It’s a vet school after all.
It’s a vet school after all.
It is our vet school.
There are just four years but it seems a ton,
And there’s lots of pets, some for everyone.
And although we may fret,
We will conquer this yet!
It’s a vet school after all.
It’s a vet school after all,
It’s a vet school after all.
It’s a vet school after all.
It is our vet school.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Monday, January 26, 2009
Horses
I think this may become a common complaint over the course of this semester, but...
Horses are SO WEIRD.
There are so many things about their anatomy that seem like design flaws. And then, the horse people had to go and give everything weird names.
For an example of a design flaw, their eustacian tube (between the middle ear and the mouth... so, like if a kid has tubes in their ears, it's keeping this open) dilates out and makes this huge pouch along the back of their head. If they get an ear infection, this pouch tends to get infected and fill with pus... and can lead to significant nerve damage, because there are lots of important nerves there. And, nobody has any good reason for this pouch to exist.
As to weird names... They call what amounts to our wrist the knee. And they have fetlocks and pasterns and coffin joints.
Also, they basically walk on the tip of their middle finger.
Crazy beasts!
Horses are SO WEIRD.
There are so many things about their anatomy that seem like design flaws. And then, the horse people had to go and give everything weird names.
For an example of a design flaw, their eustacian tube (between the middle ear and the mouth... so, like if a kid has tubes in their ears, it's keeping this open) dilates out and makes this huge pouch along the back of their head. If they get an ear infection, this pouch tends to get infected and fill with pus... and can lead to significant nerve damage, because there are lots of important nerves there. And, nobody has any good reason for this pouch to exist.
As to weird names... They call what amounts to our wrist the knee. And they have fetlocks and pasterns and coffin joints.
Also, they basically walk on the tip of their middle finger.
Crazy beasts!
Monday, January 12, 2009
First Day of Second Semester!
This semester should be quite an experience. We spend a lot more time in class, therefore we have a lot less time during the day at school to study and a lot sadder schedule (we have physiology at 8AM every day... instead of having it every day but at different times so we had 9AM Monday starts and 10AM Friday starts.)
Overall, the classes seem like they won't be so bad. There's a lot of reproduction, which is not my favorite, but it should be ok. It's just 1 unit of physiology and 6 weeks of embryology.
Schedule:
Monday
8 - 8:50 AM -- VTPP 912 Physiology II
9 - 9:50 AM -- VIBS 913 Microscopic Anatomy II
10 - 10:50 AM – VIBS 912 Gross Anatomy II
11 - 11:50 AM – VTPB 911 Veterinary Microbiology
1 - 2:50 PM – VIBS 913L Microscopic Anatomy II Lab
3 – 4:50 PM – VIBS 912L Gross Anatomy II Lab
Tuesday
8 - 8:50 AM -- VTPP 912 Physiology II
9 - 9:50 AM -- VIBS 912 Gross Anatomy II
12 - 2:50 PM -- VIBS 912L Gross Anatomy II Lab
3 - 4:50 PM – VMID 913 Clinical Correlates II
Wednesday
8 - 8:50 AM -- VTPP 912 Physiology II
11 - 11:50 AM -- VTPB 911 Veterinary Microbiology
1 - 2:50 PM – VTPB 911L Veterinary Microbiology Lab
3 – 4:50 PM – VIBS 913L Microscopic Anatomy II Lab
Thursday
8 - 8:50 AM -- VTPP 912 Physiology II
9 - 9:50 AM -- VIBS 913 Microscopic Anatomy II
10 - 11:50 AM – VTPP 912L Physiology Lab
1 - 2:50 PM – VIBS 913L Microscopic Anatomy II Lab
3 – 4:50 PM – VIBS 912L Gross Anatomy II Lab
Friday
8 - 8:50 AM -- VTPP 912 Physiology II
9 - 9:50 AM – VIBS 926 Public Health
11 - 11:50 AM -- VTPB 911 Veterinary Microbiology
Overall, the classes seem like they won't be so bad. There's a lot of reproduction, which is not my favorite, but it should be ok. It's just 1 unit of physiology and 6 weeks of embryology.
Schedule:
Monday
8 - 8:50 AM -- VTPP 912 Physiology II
9 - 9:50 AM -- VIBS 913 Microscopic Anatomy II
10 - 10:50 AM – VIBS 912 Gross Anatomy II
11 - 11:50 AM – VTPB 911 Veterinary Microbiology
1 - 2:50 PM – VIBS 913L Microscopic Anatomy II Lab
3 – 4:50 PM – VIBS 912L Gross Anatomy II Lab
Tuesday
8 - 8:50 AM -- VTPP 912 Physiology II
9 - 9:50 AM -- VIBS 912 Gross Anatomy II
12 - 2:50 PM -- VIBS 912L Gross Anatomy II Lab
3 - 4:50 PM – VMID 913 Clinical Correlates II
Wednesday
8 - 8:50 AM -- VTPP 912 Physiology II
11 - 11:50 AM -- VTPB 911 Veterinary Microbiology
1 - 2:50 PM – VTPB 911L Veterinary Microbiology Lab
3 – 4:50 PM – VIBS 913L Microscopic Anatomy II Lab
Thursday
8 - 8:50 AM -- VTPP 912 Physiology II
9 - 9:50 AM -- VIBS 913 Microscopic Anatomy II
10 - 11:50 AM – VTPP 912L Physiology Lab
1 - 2:50 PM – VIBS 913L Microscopic Anatomy II Lab
3 – 4:50 PM – VIBS 912L Gross Anatomy II Lab
Friday
8 - 8:50 AM -- VTPP 912 Physiology II
9 - 9:50 AM – VIBS 926 Public Health
11 - 11:50 AM -- VTPB 911 Veterinary Microbiology
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Oh, Dr. Blue-McLendon
This article quotes my Correlates professor... she really does sound this insane in real life when she talks:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081219/ap_on_fe_st/rudolph_s_gender;_ylt=Ark3k5NJxHWlM.h3lwtYkV3tiBIF
There may be a perfectly good reason why Santa doesn't get lost on his annual Christmas globetrot: His flying reindeer just might be female and don't mind stopping for directions.
The gender of Rudolph and his or her sleigh-hauling friends — the subject of goofy Internet chatter every year around this time — is now being pondered by renowned wildlife experts at Texas A&M University.
"Santa's reindeers were really females, most likely," said Alice Blue-McLendon, a veterinary medicine professor specializing in deer who cites the depictions of Santa's helpers with antlers as the primary evidence. It turns out reindeer grow antlers regardless of gender, and most bulls typically shed their fuzzy protrusions before Christmas.
But Santa's sleigh helpers might also be castrated males, known as steers, said Greg Finstad, who manages the Reindeer Research Program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Young steers finish shedding their antlers in February and March, just as non-expecting females do. Bulls generally lose theirs before Christmas, while expectant mothers retain their antlers until calves are birthed in the spring. This allows them to protect food resources through harsh weather and to have enough for developing fetuses, he said.
Sledders most often use steers because they maintain their body condition throughout the winter, he said. Bulls are tuckered out from rutting season when they mate with as many as a dozen females in the months leading up to December. That leaves them depleted and too lean to pull a sleigh or sled through heavy snows, Finstad said.
Many females are pregnant after rutting season, which lasts from summer and into the fall. That would mean long hours of backbreaking work for an expecting Rudolph, as well as Donner, Blitzen, Cupid, Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Comet and Vixen.
"You don't hook up your pregnant females to a sled," Finstad said. "That is not good animal husbandry."
But other aaspects of the Christmas story support the all-girl sleigh team theory, Blue-McLendon said.
For example, would a boy reindeer really sport a shiny red nose that almost glows?
"Females like accessories," said Blue-McLendon, who in 2003 led the school's cloning of a white-tailed deer. "I think that fits because females like bling. We like shiny stuff."
As for the reindeer games, forget the rough antler-smashing stuff. Blue-McLendon suggests a female Rudolph would be more up for "games of wit."
And as for the name, Rudolph could certainly still work.
"Why not?" Blue-McLendon said. "I know women named Charlie."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081219/ap_on_fe_st/rudolph_s_gender;_ylt=Ark3k5NJxHWlM.h3lwtYkV3tiBIF
There may be a perfectly good reason why Santa doesn't get lost on his annual Christmas globetrot: His flying reindeer just might be female and don't mind stopping for directions.
The gender of Rudolph and his or her sleigh-hauling friends — the subject of goofy Internet chatter every year around this time — is now being pondered by renowned wildlife experts at Texas A&M University.
"Santa's reindeers were really females, most likely," said Alice Blue-McLendon, a veterinary medicine professor specializing in deer who cites the depictions of Santa's helpers with antlers as the primary evidence. It turns out reindeer grow antlers regardless of gender, and most bulls typically shed their fuzzy protrusions before Christmas.
But Santa's sleigh helpers might also be castrated males, known as steers, said Greg Finstad, who manages the Reindeer Research Program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Young steers finish shedding their antlers in February and March, just as non-expecting females do. Bulls generally lose theirs before Christmas, while expectant mothers retain their antlers until calves are birthed in the spring. This allows them to protect food resources through harsh weather and to have enough for developing fetuses, he said.
Sledders most often use steers because they maintain their body condition throughout the winter, he said. Bulls are tuckered out from rutting season when they mate with as many as a dozen females in the months leading up to December. That leaves them depleted and too lean to pull a sleigh or sled through heavy snows, Finstad said.
Many females are pregnant after rutting season, which lasts from summer and into the fall. That would mean long hours of backbreaking work for an expecting Rudolph, as well as Donner, Blitzen, Cupid, Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Comet and Vixen.
"You don't hook up your pregnant females to a sled," Finstad said. "That is not good animal husbandry."
But other aaspects of the Christmas story support the all-girl sleigh team theory, Blue-McLendon said.
For example, would a boy reindeer really sport a shiny red nose that almost glows?
"Females like accessories," said Blue-McLendon, who in 2003 led the school's cloning of a white-tailed deer. "I think that fits because females like bling. We like shiny stuff."
As for the reindeer games, forget the rough antler-smashing stuff. Blue-McLendon suggests a female Rudolph would be more up for "games of wit."
And as for the name, Rudolph could certainly still work.
"Why not?" Blue-McLendon said. "I know women named Charlie."
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Grades
Grades are mostly in (at least in the unofficial grade display online) and I did pretty darn well, if I do say so myself.
Physiology (6 hours): A
Anatomy (4 hours): B
Histology (4 hours): A
Immunology (2 hours): A
Clinical Correlates (1 hour): A
Professional Development (1 hour): A
Physiology (6 hours): A
Anatomy (4 hours): B
Histology (4 hours): A
Immunology (2 hours): A
Clinical Correlates (1 hour): A
Professional Development (1 hour): A
Monday, December 1, 2008
Vet School Jokes # 3
Caroline and I have composed another song, because the first one went over so well! (We sang it to the whole class and won a contest with it for a $50 prize we split between the 2 of us!)
This one takes a little more slurring/creative liberty, and wasn't quite as popular. Oh well, sequels never are.
The 12 Nerves of Cranial
1:
On the first day of classes
Doc Hoffman gave to me
One olfactory.
2:
On the second day of classes
Doc Hoffman gave to me
Optic, to see!
And one olfactory.
3:
On the third day of classes
Doc Hoffman gave to me
Oculomotor
Optic, to see!
And one olfactory
4:
On the fourth day of classes
Doc Hoffman gave to me
Fourth, trochlear
Oculomotor
Optic, to see!
And one olfactory
5:
On the fifth day of classes
Doc Hoffman gave to me
TRI-GEM-IN-AL!
Fourth, trochlear
Oculomotor
Optic, to see!
And one olfactory
6:
On the sixth day of classes
Doc Hoffman gave to me
Abducens abducing!
TRI-GEM-IN-AL!
Fourth, trochlear
Oculomotor
Optic, to see!
And one olfactory
7:
On the seventh day of classes
Doc Hoffman gave to me
Facial nerve as motor!
Abducens abducing!
TRI-GEM-IN-AL!
Fourth, trochlear
Oculomotor
Optic, to see!
And one olfactory
8:
On the eighth day of classes
Doc Hoffman gave to me
Vestibulocochl’r
Facial nerve as motor!
Abducens abducing!
TRI-GEM-IN-AL!
Fourth, trochlear
Oculomotor
Optic, to see!
And one olfactory
9:
On the ninth day of classes
Doc Hoffman gave to me
Glossopharyng’l
Vestibulocochl’r
Facial nerve as motor!
Abducens abducing!
TRI-GEM-IN-AL!
Fourth, trochlear
Oculomotor
Optic, to see!
And one olfactory
10:
On the tenth day of classes
Doc Hoffman gave to me
Vagus a-wandering
Glossopharyng’l
Vestibulocochl’r
Facial nerve as motor!
Abducens abducing!
TRI-GEM-IN-AL!
Fourth, trochlear
Oculomotor
Optic, to see!
And one olfactory
11:
On the eleventh day of classes
Doc Hoffman gave to me
Accessory, who cares?
Vagus a-wandering
Glossopharyng’l
Vestibulocochl’r
Facial nerve as motor!
Abducens abducing!
TRI-GEM-IN-AL!
Fourth, trochlear
Oculomotor
Optic, to see!
And one olfactory
12:
On the twelfth day of classes
Doc Hoffman gave to me
Hypoglossal, tongue
Accessory, who cares?
Vagus a-wandering
Glossopharyng’l
Vestibulocochl’r
Facial nerve as motor!
Abducens abducing!
TRI-GEM-IN-AL!
Fourth, trochlear
Oculomotor
Optic, to see!
And one olfactory!!!!
This one takes a little more slurring/creative liberty, and wasn't quite as popular. Oh well, sequels never are.
The 12 Nerves of Cranial
1:
On the first day of classes
Doc Hoffman gave to me
One olfactory.
2:
On the second day of classes
Doc Hoffman gave to me
Optic, to see!
And one olfactory.
3:
On the third day of classes
Doc Hoffman gave to me
Oculomotor
Optic, to see!
And one olfactory
4:
On the fourth day of classes
Doc Hoffman gave to me
Fourth, trochlear
Oculomotor
Optic, to see!
And one olfactory
5:
On the fifth day of classes
Doc Hoffman gave to me
TRI-GEM-IN-AL!
Fourth, trochlear
Oculomotor
Optic, to see!
And one olfactory
6:
On the sixth day of classes
Doc Hoffman gave to me
Abducens abducing!
TRI-GEM-IN-AL!
Fourth, trochlear
Oculomotor
Optic, to see!
And one olfactory
7:
On the seventh day of classes
Doc Hoffman gave to me
Facial nerve as motor!
Abducens abducing!
TRI-GEM-IN-AL!
Fourth, trochlear
Oculomotor
Optic, to see!
And one olfactory
8:
On the eighth day of classes
Doc Hoffman gave to me
Vestibulocochl’r
Facial nerve as motor!
Abducens abducing!
TRI-GEM-IN-AL!
Fourth, trochlear
Oculomotor
Optic, to see!
And one olfactory
9:
On the ninth day of classes
Doc Hoffman gave to me
Glossopharyng’l
Vestibulocochl’r
Facial nerve as motor!
Abducens abducing!
TRI-GEM-IN-AL!
Fourth, trochlear
Oculomotor
Optic, to see!
And one olfactory
10:
On the tenth day of classes
Doc Hoffman gave to me
Vagus a-wandering
Glossopharyng’l
Vestibulocochl’r
Facial nerve as motor!
Abducens abducing!
TRI-GEM-IN-AL!
Fourth, trochlear
Oculomotor
Optic, to see!
And one olfactory
11:
On the eleventh day of classes
Doc Hoffman gave to me
Accessory, who cares?
Vagus a-wandering
Glossopharyng’l
Vestibulocochl’r
Facial nerve as motor!
Abducens abducing!
TRI-GEM-IN-AL!
Fourth, trochlear
Oculomotor
Optic, to see!
And one olfactory
12:
On the twelfth day of classes
Doc Hoffman gave to me
Hypoglossal, tongue
Accessory, who cares?
Vagus a-wandering
Glossopharyng’l
Vestibulocochl’r
Facial nerve as motor!
Abducens abducing!
TRI-GEM-IN-AL!
Fourth, trochlear
Oculomotor
Optic, to see!
And one olfactory!!!!
Long Absence
Sorry about disappearing off the face of the blog-o-sphere.
The end of the semester rush caught me up. It's been crazy busy with end of semester exams and social activities... and, now, brought to you by people who seem to hate students: FINALS!
I have a final every day this week, except Friday:
Monday: 9 - 11 AM: Physiology
Tuesday: 8 - 10 AM: Immunology
Wednesday: 1 - 5 PM: Anatomy
Thursday: 8 AM - noon: Histology
The end of the semester rush caught me up. It's been crazy busy with end of semester exams and social activities... and, now, brought to you by people who seem to hate students: FINALS!
I have a final every day this week, except Friday:
Monday: 9 - 11 AM: Physiology
Tuesday: 8 - 10 AM: Immunology
Wednesday: 1 - 5 PM: Anatomy
Thursday: 8 AM - noon: Histology
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
