The inner workings of a vet student

The last 10 days or so have been pretty boring. That was until wednesday when it was Dick Day, the day when the mighty Dick vets take on the weegies in sport! I'm proud to announce that once again we put them in their place and showed them that we are in fact the best Scottish vet school (and for that matter the best in Britain!) However, my favourite part of Dick day is not the sport but the drinking that follows. Needless to say I was feeling a little tired and hung over during lectures yesterday
I also found out this week that Boyzone are reforming and going on tour during 2008, this made me extremely giddy with happiness . I know its lame but during my early teens they were my favourite band and i never got to see them on tour and I always regretted it. I still remember mum talking me out of buying tickets and saying I could go to the next one which obviously never happened. I'm not about to let this opportunity slip me by. Luckily I have friends who are equally lame and want to come with me So got an early start tomorrow to make sure I get these precious tickets.

I'm very excited at the moment. I'm in the process of applying to do an externship at Cornell University next Summer and hopefully also next Christmas Cornell is an Ivy League University and is alleged to have the best vet school in the USA, although pretty much everywhere tries to make that claim! Either way it is definitely one of the best schools in the world. I am hoping to join in the small animal medicine rotation and also one of the the large animal rotations although currently I'm in a quandry about which one to choose. Large animal medicine is what I'd hopefully like to get involved with once I qualify so that would be fun to do, however, it's not often that you get the opportunity to do large animal surgery so that would be a really good opportunity, also orthopaedics would mainly be equine lameness work up's which although I enjoy, I sometimes find it difficult and is definitely something I need to work on. I need more time to think this over, but unfortunately time is not on my side. Provided that my references and CV are satisfactory places are given on a space available basis so the earlier I apply, the better my chances of getting the time and rotation of my choice. Fingers crossed!!!
The revision plan has completely gone out the window due to all the extra time I have spent preparing my application. Silly really considering that I want to go to Cornell the weeks that the resit exams would be if I fail. Basically failing is now not an option if I want to do all the things I have planned for next Summer
Now that I have almost everything sorted out it's back to the grindstone! I have a lot of catching up to do

PS. I haven't quite worked out how to add links and stuff properly yet but if you click on the blue text a link is provided!