More work experience out in the country for me, and this time I have been so busy with exams I didn’t manage to arrange any guest posts for you. But rest assured, I will have lots of interesting things to post about when I return.

In the mean time, for your enjoyment, here is a photo of a cute Yorkie puppy, just a day old.

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Oral Exams are always a challenge to study for. They could ask you anything, which means you can’t help feeling like you should study for everything. And you can’t, so you don’t, and then you get anxious about it.

As such, a number of people have developed strategies that they think helps them pass their oral exams. And so far, I’m yet to see evidence to the contrary. These are some of them.

Sexy clothes. The theory is that the mostly male examiners will be distracted by your neckline, or your legs, and care less about your mistakes. They will also ask nicer questions. Apparently.

Direct the coversation. You know the topics, lead them into something that you already know you can answer well. Make sure you do actually know your chosen topic well.

Cry. If the first thing you do when you walk into an oral exam is cry, then maybe the examiners will feel bad and be nice.

 The strangest thing about oral exams is lunchtime. Students and examiners sit down to lunch in the same room (different tables) and talk about each other, and what they’ve said. We talk about the questions we were asked, and the examiners chat amoung themselves about all the stupid things we said.

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What’s the last thing you see before deciding not to be an Equine Veterinarian?

Well it could be a hind hoof hurtling towards you, or it could be the equine exam I just sat.

Of all the many options for careers I have in front of me, equine practitioner is the only one I have scratched off the list. It’s not that I don’t like horses, I don’t like equine medicine.

Well, I actually quite like the medical management of various cases so far, it’s fairly logical if you remember not to give the things morphine. It’s mostly the lameness that makes my head explode and my brain go cry in a corner. It’s something in the way it’s taught because every other student in the year level (and the one before us) feels the same way.

Lameness is lame. Why do horses have to have such stupid legs?

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On the twelth day of Swot Vac I started to Study…

• 12 Spinal Tumours
• 11 Sows Aborting
• 10 Sheep a-striking
• 9 Dogs a-limping
• 8 Cows a-milking
• 7 Equine Colics
• 6 Sheep a-dying
• 5 Downer Cows
• 4 Scouring Pigs
• 3 sick old cats
• 2 itchy ears
• and a geriatric dog that can’t see.

Exams are now.

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