My first semester of vet school is over! I had my last exam
yesterday and now I have 6 days of nothingness before lectures start again next
week. :)
I passed all my exams thankfully, but some of them were
quite difficult. Certain exams were definitely harder to pass than the ones I
took for my zoology degree. I could always be fairly confident about passing my
zoology exams, but here I have a feeling there’s always a chance I could fail!
Most of the exams are oral here which means we get the marks back almost
straight away. My final marks for this semester are:
Anatomy – C
Genetics – C
Milk Hygiene – A
Latin – A
Slovak – A
Anatomy – C
Genetics – C
Milk Hygiene – A
Latin – A
Slovak – A
There are a few different dates for each of the final exams
so you’re able to choose when you take them; you can either cram them all in
before Christmas or spread them out over the whole exam period. I took 3 before
Christmas (Latin, Milk Hygiene and Slovak) and I left Anatomy and Genetics
until the end of the exam period. I definitely needed the extra revision time
for Anatomy and Genetics; they were by far the hardest exams! It meant I got a
good long time at home for Christmas which was really nice and I managed to
work a few days at my job at the zoo to earn some extra tuition fee money!
I also got to get better acquainted with this little man:
He’s still a bit wary of me; I think he might prefer my mum, who looks after him while I’m at uni. He will follow Ruby over to me if he thinks there are treats but he doesn’t climb all over me to get them like she does! I’m pretty impressed with the amount of hay he eats. I’ve never had a proper hay monster rabbit. Ruby eats a lot of hay but she eats it because it’s food rather than because she enjoys it. Willow seems to really love it and I’ve tried him with a few different types as a treat. For any other rabbits out there, he especially recommends Burns Green Oat and Excel Herbage Camomile ;)
These last few months have gone so quickly, I’m now 1/8th
of the way through the course! I’m looking forward to starting lectures for
next semester now (although a bit of a break is very welcome). We got our new
timetable yesterday and it looks very busy. A few new subjects we are starting
this semester are Animal Hygiene and Welfare, Nutrition and dietetics, and
Diseases of Fish and Bees. We are also starting to study organs in Anatomy,
which sounds really interesting!
Bye for now!
Lucy