BrownSheep- It's been a while

[BrownSheep]

What schools are you thinking of applying to? My best friend started vet school last fall. She applied to many schools and got accepted to the University of Glasgow. Yes, that is Glasgow, Scotland.

I know that vet school like to see lots of stuff like work at vet clinics, but I bet your research would be a plus too. A couple years ago, when my friend first applied to schools, she got an interview with Glasgow. She didn't get in, but was put on the wait list. She asked what she could do to make herself a more appealing candidate, they told her she needed more diversity on her resume. She had done a lot with large animal vets, but not a lot with small animals. She worked on that over the next year and got in this time.

Can you find vets that will let you volunteer in their offices or let you ride along on farm calls on top of doing the research?

I'm mainly looking at the Utah State, Washington, Oregon...but plan on applying wide and far.
If I do decide to go the research route my back up plan is to find a place that will let me volunteer on saturdays.

 

[jodief100]

Do the research- it will make you stand out. Everyone applying to vet school worked in a vet's office, very few will have any research experience and even fewer will have any experience with birds of any kind. Volunteer on Saturday's with a vet, my vet usually brings a high school student with him when he comes to my farm.

 

[BrownSheep]

That's kind of what I am leaning towards. I've applied to the program but there still isn't a garuntee that I'll get it. The program ends in July so I would still have a month or so to work at my vets.

 

[jodief100]

I saw you are applying to Washington. My ex's dad has a ton of contacts at the vet school at WA State in Pullman. He taught at the med school there and UI across the border in Moscow. Unfortunately, my ex and I had a falling out and we haven't spoken in awhile. I feel bad, I wish I could help. Good luck! Don;t limit yourself to the west.

 

[OneFineAcre]

Do the research- it will make you stand out. Everyone applying to vet school worked in a vet's office, very few will have any research experience and even fewer will have any experience with birds of any kind. Volunteer on Saturday's with a vet, my vet usually brings a high school student with him when he comes to my farm.

I agree

 

[OneFineAcre]

I saw you are applying to Washington. My ex's dad has a ton of contacts at the vet school at WA State in Pullman. He taught at the med school there and UI across the border in Moscow. Unfortunately, my ex and I had a falling out and we haven't spoken in awhile. I feel bad, I wish I could help. Good luck! Don;t limit yourself to the west.

I agree with this too
Many schools like to admit students from diferent geographic regions
Definitely check out NC State

 

[BrownSheep]

Ah thanks guys !

 

[BrownSheep]

Not a whole lot going on but there really never is during the school year.

We are pretty much done lambing with one left to go. Some of the yearling ewes might be in lamb for May babies but we'll see when we get there....Can you tell we don't have a lot of control with the lambings?

This last year has been a complete fence-o-rama for us. This included taking down and putting up acres and acres of fence. Some of it was new and some of it was re-fenced. Our fences were all close to 80-90 years old and probably older. We lost a lot of our handling facilities in the process ( will be rebuilt this spring). Meaning we had no place to put our 5 rams ( down to 3 ) let alone a way to sort them out. Sadly, our agressive ( depending on the day) Henry is the easiest of the rams to handle without catch pens. Eli is over 300 lb, his head hits my shoulder and, as mannerly as he is, he panics during sortings ( not fun and not safe!). Black ram is smaller ( roughly around 200lbs) and still isn't fun to handle but we're pretty evenly matched.

We had babies born starting on December 4th, a full two months a head of usual and I suspect some of the early lambing ewes have bred back already. That isn't a huge issue seeing as they are in good condition now and we don't plan on lamb next year until April or May.

To end my rambling rant I merely ment to say it frusterates the bejeebies out of me to have to such little control over my sheep! I won't be complaining (much...I won't work through lunch! You can't make me! ) when it comes time to rebuild our chutes.

Anywho moving on.

My summer plans are still in formation and I don't have anythign to share as of yet....Except one of my H.S. friends is planning a post-21 trip to Las Vegas . It sounds like it would be me, her mom, a couple of college friends, and our other best friend from high school. The other friend and I are both no-so Vegas-y...It would probably end up with them drunk, mom included, and us babysitting. There would probably several activities I wouldn't be comfortable with and I don't drink or really gamble ( if I lose money it may aswell be on livestock or ice cream!) She wants to go for 4-5 days which I really don't think I can swing...Finacially, I could probably hack it. I'm only mildly ashamed to say my parents cover a lot of my expenses as my dad has a no working during school policy...an exception made for my research gig....But I don't want to ask for 5 days off from an employer when I know I will have a couple of weekend family things I'll need time off for.

 

[BrownSheep]

I'm still at school, well my apartment, this weekend. I generally try to go home. Theres just so much more stuff to do at home than in the largest city in my state .

I'm taking the GRE tomorrow. I will still probably take it at least one more time. I've been studying for the past week and right now all I want to do is spin or knit!

I've been pondering what a wonderful, amazing thing the internet is. It truely enables to people to connect with those they otherwise wouldn't. Just look at this forum. The likelihood of me meeting any of you in the real world is slim. Even those of us who do live close to one another most likely wouldn't meet eachother.

On Instagram I interact with shepherds in Europe and other "fiber artists" across the globe...and it really just blows my mind.

 

[BrownSheep]

So, GRE take one is complete. All in all, not bad! I compared my scores with average vet school gre interance scores and they are pretty much at or right above average . I ran out of time on the math sections. For the math sections it wasn't so much do the math (no time!) but know the theory so you can look at it and just know the answer. So, I'll be brushing up on my concepts. Seeing as the last math class I took was two years ago there is quite a bit to brush up on.

I'll be taking it agian but it's nice to know I'm still playing ball.