The diary of Chris Allen through his vet student years.
Today I decided the check out the University Falconry Club, my only previous experience has been with rescue birds in rehab and playing host to Ben Long who gave a talk to my old society last year. Anyway the UVM Continue reading My first falconry experience… (Day 13)
What a week, it feels like a month!!! This week has been a total high (even with the 6:30am starts!) and I am still on a total buzz. I have to keep reminding myself that I am actually here, apparently Continue reading Highs of my first week in Vet School (Day 12)
Today was Friday, and was probably one of the lectures I’d been dreading most as the older years have said that this professor loves to fail people… So I headed to genetics and prayed that he wouldn’t pick me to Continue reading The end of my first week in Vet School (Day 11)
Ok so for the first time since I arrived here in Slovakia I awoke to grey skies and rain, last night there was also thunder as well though I did not see any lightening. Anyways this morning I did rush Continue reading Bones, Latin and Rain (Day 10)
My head really does hurt… Today started with Milk Hygiene, basically a major role of vets is food production as many products are animal based. Within the UK animals are inspected both antemortem (before slaughter for signs of disease or Continue reading Milk and a day of languages (Day 9)
Well this morning was Microbiology and Immunology, the lecture was spent as a general introduction to the module structure, an explaination of the credit system (which is different to the UK) and the way it is taught here. Basically here Continue reading I think I got a 2:1 Bsc(hons) Degree… (Day 8)
Tonight I am exhausted so this won’t be very long, however today was my first day of Vet School, or in other words I AM OFFICIALLY A VET STUDENT!!! To be honest it’s still not entirely sunk in, however today Continue reading My first day of Vet School!!! (Day 7)
One of the biggest differences to the UK is that it is allowed to smoke inside buildings within Slovakia. Last night I slept really badly and spent most of the night coughing which is something that I have not done Continue reading The smoking culture (Day 4)
Well today was registration day, so at 9am we all headed into uni, we’d been told we were meeting at the Office for foriegn studies but were in the lecture room downstairs. We were given a talk by the vice-rector Continue reading Vet School Registration! (Day 3)
Well I’ve now been in Slovakia for over 24 hours, waking up to my room painted was nice, though I still have to organise my furniture the way I want it. Today a lot of the international students arranged to Continue reading My Second day in Slovakia (Day 2)