Pfft, I talk a lot of rubbish on here, don’t I? So, holidays came and went, I did my equine placement (…interesting…), did some studying, did some fun stuff, went to Paris to sing in Cathedral Notre Dame de Paris (thank you Wills and Kate for getting married that week so I could have an extra day off and longer in France! Westminster Abbey? Pah, been there, done that, moving onto bigger and better things!). On the subject of Royal Wedding… got slightly obsessed about marrying a prince for a few days. Not necessarily royalty, just *my* prince will do! Got to find him first though. I’m increasingly finding that the life of a vet student isn’t hugely compatible with normal relationships. But this sort of thing should probably be kept off an increasingly un-anonymous blog.
So, what next? Exams. They were absolutely horrendous. I’ve never known such a large group of people work so incredibly hard, only to feel so useless at the end of it. Everyone is extremely demotivated at the moment because of it. I take consolation in that everyone tells me second year and fourth year are by far the hardest. So far I’ve said the course isn’t hard as such, there is just a lot of work to get through. Well now I can officially say, it’s bloody hard. Not just the sheer stamina to get through such a massive volume of work, but to be able to understand and apply it. We get results next week, so we’ll just have to see how everyone gets on, and I really hope my hard work pays off – as long as I get that crucial 50% I’ll be happy, and that’s not usually like me!
My main concern for getting that 50% is that I am off on my travels this summer, and I’m praying that myself and the colleague I’m travelling with won’t have to come back to university for resits. I’ll write more about it when I come back, but basically I’m off to milk cows far far away, and to start my clinical placements, as well as spend a few weeks travelling around the globe. Two vet students, two rucksacks, one great big adventure. Can’t wait. More on that on my return!
Then I’ll be into third year and doing my research project. I’m really excited about this, and am getting my teeth stuck into it already. Don’t want to go blabbering about it on the internet at this stage; it’ll probably bore you to tears anyway. I get way too excited about these things! In fact there was an email go round this week about a potential integrated PhD, which would carry on nicely from my project, and I’d be really interested in it… but I should probably concentrate on my goal of becoming a vet asap, riiiight…?!!?
