Fail fast. Fail often. Fail forward. That’s how you got into veterinary school, right? A series of failures? That’s probably not how you think about it. You probably had a great GPA, lots of relevant experience to put on your resume, and a fine-tuned essay. Any time you did experience failure, and you did because…
Hello, ladies and gents! Just in time for the start of the new semester, we’ll be starting a new series on the ins and outs of stress. How it works, what it does to you, and most importantly effective (backed by science!) methods to cope with stress. Most of this information comes from the book…
Week 1- sleep | Week 2- do nothing | Week 3- be grateful | Week 4- create margin | Week 5- seek solitude | Week 6- slow down Week 6 Habit: Slow down salmagundi (noun) – a salad consisting of chopped meat, anchovies, eggs, vegetables, and seasoning; a general mixture; a miscellaneous…
Week 1- sleep | Week 2- do nothing | Week 3- be grateful | Week 4- create margin | Week 5- seek solitude | Week 6- slow down Week 2 Habit: Take 5 minutes everyday this week to do absolutely nothing How did it go working on the last habit? If you…
Did you know Luke Skywalker liked animals? Apparently, he had a dog. He also apparently massacred womp rats like it was no big deal… And just like Luke, life as a veterinary student involves animals, a light side, and a dark side. Animals necessarily interact with people, either as pets, a food source, or in…
Here’s one student’s take on the contributing factors towards the high incidence of mental health problems in veterinary medicine. Sometimes I feel that this mental health “crisis” is just a normal response to the conditions of vet school. They put us in a classroom all day, we get very little positive feedback and mostly negative,…
This blog is a platform for veterinary students to discuss and bring into the light the highly stigmatized topics of mental health and suicide in veterinary medicine. This post, however, is about a topic everybody loves to discuss: student debt. With mental health and suicide, a lot of efforts are encouraged at the individual or…
Veterinary Student Survey Please help answer this quick, anonymous survey about alcohol consumption and your perceptions of alcohol consumption among your classmates. Results will be used in a future blog post. Share with your classmates, and thank you 🙂 This post will begin with a message shared through the Vet Confessionals project (if…
Here is one for those of you who think, “What is the big deal? Yes, vet school is hard, but what is the big crisis that there needs to be a blog to discuss the topic? Everyone just needs to get it together.” But does anyone really feel this? In my experience, there is more…
It’s every student’s dilemma. Should you keep studying and delay your bedtime, or shut the books and hit the hay? In college, I regularly stayed up until midnight or 1am studying and writing lab reports, even though my alarm went off at 5 each morning for rowing practice. It was always so tempting to stay…
Beasts, Unburdened 