The diary of Chris Allen through his vet student years.
It is Easter, for me that mean I have a couple of extra days in surgery as there are no classes on the schedule. However it is Easter so that means no scheduled surgeries so I am hoping for some Continue reading The vanishing year… And the state exams…
Todays Diary Entry is sponsored by Online Pet Education So today I sat my veterinary pharmacology final exam, this is one of those subjects where you can choose whether to memorize loads of stuff, or understand some. In my case Continue reading Passing Pharmacology and my thoughts on memorising stuff… (Day 637)
Something that still strikes me about Slovakia is the different culture, people are so happy here and this evening I went to see the lighting of the Christmas lights in town. The entire main street (Hlavna) has been transformed into Continue reading Official residency, and the lighting of the Christmas tree… (Day 86)
So this morning was all on the different type of immune cells in the body which was pretty cool however the really cool bit came next. Not because of the lecture but because of all the recent breakthroughs in the Continue reading Immunoflourescent Assays and the power of light… (Day 71)
Today has been long, our first lecture Milk Hygiene has now been moved to 7:30am meaning that I have to now be up before sunrise. This morning had a beautiful red sky, and surprisingly failed to rain which is normally Continue reading Red sky in the morning, and some tiling… (Day 44)
Milk Hygiene this morning was cancelled as the lecturer was out on a trip with the Slovakian students so i got an extra hour in bed (yay!). The rest of the day was then devoted to languages and self study Continue reading The frustrations of Language… (Day 23)
So Tuesday is solely Microbiology and Immunology, I kinda enjoy it as many of the why’s that previously confused me are being made clear. The morning starts with a lecture, before then having a practical session a couple of hours Continue reading Looking at Bacteria and Microbiological Staining (Day 22)
Just a really quick entry today. Basically I decided to take some downtime and so took some time to catch up on my emails, tweets, facebook and diary entries over the past week. As well as stealing a lie in Continue reading A day of rest… (Day 19)