Weekend

I'm wondering where the time goes. Last thing I knew I'd finished an exam and was looking forward to a few hours of being lazy before work. Now it's Sunday night and I'm no closer to knowing anything for the exam on Tuesday than I was previously.

Friday night was busy. Saturday day was empty until the last hour. Saturday night was mainly spent at work drinking, although I did accomplish some odd jobs that had been needing to be done. And now its Sunday. I have worked for 4 hours, done some revision, but nothing that really defines a day. I did spend about an hour on the phone to my Mum trying to explain how to fit a new power supply in to her PC. I also found out my Dad is engaged. Not too sure what's going on there.

Strange weekend. Dare I say I look forward to the week? I think this exam will be OK, it just depends on the examiner. Some seem to take delight in tripping people up and have warned us they will "take us apart" if we don't know our stuff. Others are much nicer and will offer useful advice. Either way it's only 15 minutes. I can do this. Then maybe some climbing to relax. Alien Rock here I come!

Its over

Finished! For this week anyway. Written exam wasn't too bad, I could answer some of the questions and I didn't have to resort to the backup plans of writing in a foreign language or running out screaming and not stop til I reached the borders or the batteries on my iPod died.

Now I am going to enjoy the rest of my day. When I say the rest of the day, I mean up until 1800 when I have to deal with idiots wishing to drink themselves stupid. Which doesn't take long. On the plus side it gives me time to plan my assault on the seagulls. Evil creatures were barking at 6 this morning. This must stop. They are now gathering in a herd around the bins. Maybe some form of net and an angry ferret. Hmmm...

Revising

Revision is over for tonight. I should probably do more, but I can't see anything else going in to my brain tonight. I'm just wondering why I'm finding this so difficult. I can remember loads of other irrelevent stuff like the train timetable at home from 3 years ago, or my last 5 postcodes, but nutrition doesn't like me. Or I don't like it. I think it's possibly due to having 5 practical exams in 4 days, a written exam and the added bonus of another oral exam next week. So many different species, so little time.

Practicals Done

Part one of the tortue is over, now for part 2 - the written exam. Today went ok for the most part. The horse exam was predictably evil with stupid horses doing stupid things and me also doing stupid things like forgetting how to age a stupid horse by its teeth. Follow? Good.

Exotics was slightly better. Loads of different animals to play with, but I had a total mind blank when asked what an iguana was. I managed to recover and figure out what a rabbit was, hold it, sex it etc. I even managed to hold a ferret properly and discuss their silly hormonal system which tries to kill them when they don't have sex.

Tomorrow is the written exam. I know nothing for the written exam. I've tried to learn, but it's really not going in. Looked over a past paper and nothing! Doomed. Doesn't help that I'm rather tired - apparently I can no longer cope without proper sleep for 2 days. Ah well. Back to the joys of animal nutrition. It'll all be over by 1200 tomorrow, then I only have to revise for the exam next week. Oh and work all weekend. Yay!

Soggy

Today was some practical exams out at Easter Bush. Some of them were running late so there was a lot of standing around. In the rain. For 20 minutes. I got soggy. Made handling sheeps all the more fun though.

On the down side I think I may have failed. I had a complete brain fart when it came to breeds and pretty much couldn't remember anything. I got a few of the sheep right, but not many of the cattle. On the plus side my handling was ok, and I got most of the feed rights. We shall see.

Tomorrow more exams. Exotics and horses. I hate horses.

1st post!

An exciting first post! Or perhaps not. A little about me first. I'm a vet student at Edinburgh as the name suggests. I won't be posting my name on here for various reasons. I also won't be posting my year as there aren't that many of us, but I'm sure you can guess. I'm actually still debating whether this is a good idea or not. We shall see.

More info as the days go on. It may be a little slow at first as it is exam time. The usual disclaimers apply. These are my ramblings and in no way represent the views of The University of Edinburgh or the Royal (Dick) Vet School.