Thursday, June 07, 2018

Diary of a Third-Year Vet Student: I'm Not A Third-Year Vet Student Anymore

At 9am this morning, my class sat down to fill in bubble sheets for our last lecture-based exam of our vet school careers (Small Animal Medicine dermatology unit).

After the exam, almost the entire class decamped to a parking lot across the street from the vet school, in order to create a plausible-deniability barrier, and proceeded to become raucously, publicly intoxicated.

Fourth-year clinical rotations begin in just a few days (more details on that in the next post). We will no longer be a cohort of fifty-six, and that's both exciting and bittersweet. I will not see some of my classmates again until graduation, a full year away.

We of course all face one more exam: the national veterinarian licensing board exam, known by its acronym NAVLE. The testing period is mid-November to end of December. More to come on that too.

But that seems a lifetime in the future. Right now, we are still together, celebrating this momentous transition.

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