I want off this train!

Because it's going too fast! 

Seriously, where has the semester gone?!?  Only four more days of class (and two pesky little exams in the way) before Spring Break is here!  After that, only three more weeks until Easter and the end of semester classes.  I do NOT feel ready to face the fact that I'm almost 1/4 of the way to a DVM.  I don't know enough yet...

School is rolling along, but it's not even funny how "out of love" I am with anatomy right now.  Last semester, yes, it was a pain in the neck sometimes to be learning all of these itty bitty pieces of animal and how they connect and where they go.  But it was bearable.  It was still very new, sometimes interesting, and usually only mildly painful (ahem, neuroanatomy).  This semester?  Ouch.  I'm so, so, so sick of that class.  I'm sick of sitting in lab for eight hours.  I'm sick of cramming my brain with a bunch of teeny details that I know I won't remember next year or use in practice.  I'm sick of the smell of moldy cadavers.  I'm sick of hugely ridiculous exams that are worth two credit hours a piece.  Don't get me wrong, it's still kind of fun to joke around with labmates and learn some of the really weird or cool bits of anatomy, but overall?  I'm over it.

/end whiny rant.

Ooooother than that, same old, same old.  Immunology and renal physio exams this week which, hopefully, will go okay.  We just about wanted to kiss our current physio teacher because she decided to make the test multiple choice - a first for the semester in any of our classes and a huge load off!  It's probably bad, but I definitely study for a multiple choice test differently than for an essay test.  My brain is slightly fried, and I'm excited that recognition and recall rather than regurgitation and comprehension is the name of the game on Thursday.

After that, I get to pack up and head home for a few days to see  my mom and puppy dogs!  Hoping to visit a few friends in the area and get some nights of good sleep before then flying out to Omaha to spend a weekend with the boy at his  new project site (how's that for an exotic vacation locale?).  As much as I don't want to...I probably will have to do some work over break seeing as how we have an exam the Wednesday we come back.  Ugggggh.

I also got word that I got a position in the research program here for the summer!  I'll be doing work on respiratory epithelial cell transitions that occur during fibrosis, which is pretty nifty.  Hope to learn a lot!

And, in happier news, I'll be on a baking frenzy this week for the many bakesales at school.  On the docket?  Pumpkin pie bars, white chocolate coconut blondies, and cinnamon rolls.  Tasty!

P.S.  I want a dog.  Bad.  *sigh*

Three more weeks (give or take a few days)

Break was fantastic...but way too short as most school breaks tend to be.  I got to spend a lot of time hanging out at my veterinary hospital back at home - helped, observed, caught up with friends.  Also read a few books, walked the puppies a half dozen times, and spent some time with my family (well, parents but no siblings).  One of the dogs broke with ringworm while I was home, so taking care of that was a joy.  She looks incredibly goofy now with a shaved patch on her back.  On Thursday I picked the boy up from his day at work, and we drove to his place in Pittsburgh for the weekend.  We didn't have very much time together since I had to drive back east then get to the Philly airport on Sunday, but it was still great seeing him (as always).  He'll be out here for a visit not this weekend but the one after.  Can't wait!

I was really hoping that break would get me all excited and refreshed to come back to school and power through the last few weeks of the semester.  But mostly it spoiled me and made me not want to do much yesterday after school.

Tonight has been more productive so far but I'm definitely looking at a steep hill of information to climb before this is all over.

There's a histology quiz coming up on Friday, but I'm not super-concerned about that one.  We started the skull/cranium/head in anatomy and holy cow is there a lot of stuff to learn.  About two dozen bones, three dozen little holes and divots, random muscles and papillae, and things that like to run in and out of said holes and papilla.  Yikes.  I also have paid zero attention to physiology stuff outside of class since the last exam, so I need to buckle down and start studying for the final in a few weeks.  And that class has been involving a lot of pathways and endocrinology, so it's definitely not light material.  Lots and lots to do.  We only have six quizzes to worry about until finals week, but there isn't a whole lot of grace time until that rolls around.  I have a feeling the next few weeks are going to fly by.

Still haven't found or come up with a Halloween costume yet...hope I have time to pull something together before the vet school party on Saturday!

And before I get too comfortable with this "study break", back to my notes.