First week!

I can officially say I have survived week one of vet school. It's been a crazy long week, but looking back, it went by so fast!

The first day was nothing to worry about, no labs or anything, thankfully. Just lectures with some housekeeping. Then, every day after that, we had 3 hour anatomy labs... not so fun, at least what we are doing right now. It is pretty dull to me, though important (muscles, nerves, vessels of the thoracic limb). Somehow, we had to have it 4 days last week and then every week on we have it 3 days a week. What a way to start off. Now, if only I can figure out a good way to get the anatomy stench out of my hair!

Microanatomy is really boring. The lecturer we have right now... well, he is right after lunch and I basically could not keep my eyes open to save my life on Thursday. And, I apparently cannot stare into a microscope very long until I start getting a headache. I had a headache every day this week (minus Saturday). It really sucks to have borderline migraines when starting your first week of class. Today, I started to wear my glasses again, though I don't like to, I am hoping they will help with that. If not, I'm not sure what else to do at the moment besides just shoveling in excedrin every day. My glasses are over 4 years old, so I really need to go see another eye doctor at some point.

Other that those things, I'm really enjoying things we are learning about! It is hard to adjust being in class from basically 8 or 9 until five at night and then coming home and reviewing all the things you learned that day for another 3 or 4 hours. So, yeah, we basically have no life. But, I came in knowing this was how it was going to be, so not a shocker there. Just an adjustment.

Also, this week was pretty hellacious because my pup, Beamer, wasn't doing right. I took him in 3 different times over the course of a week and we still have no idea whats going on with him, but he seems to be back to his normal self, thankfully, for the moment.

Today, I studied on and off until about 3pm and I called it quits. I studied a lot yesterday as well, so I think I'll be alright for this coming week. We have 3 quizzes at the end of the week. We had our first quiz on Friday in anatomy and it was super easy (I apparently just cannot spell a certain word... OH WELL). I still got a 90% on it, so that's a good way to start the year.

I'll try to update when I can, but I know it won't be weekly at this point. Maybe only when I have interesting things to talk about.