This is your brain on vet school

[cjsmith]

"Diagnosis is made by post modern tissue examination." --student's notes

"Cuterebra larvae developing under the skin of the host can lead to discussion." --student's notes

Comments

[ladycelia]

I think that larvae developing under the skin would lead to screaming, more than to discussion;^)

When do you finish up? Will there be a residency?

[cjsmith]

I think it was supposed to say "lead to infection" (since now there's a yucky open wound).

I graduate in 2015, and if I'm lucky there will be an internship somewhere within striking range of Sunnyvale.

[ladycelia]

You could always come out my way ;^)

[cjsmith]

Not sure how easy it would be to find an internship - you're nearly an hour's drive from ANY vet clinic, right? :)

[cjsmith]

[thumbs up] Yeah, there are a lot of days when I just plain need some funny. I like the fact that humor can help almost any situation.

[cjsmith]

Ha! Yep. I get that feeling too, when I look over my lecture notes and I find either

- something seemingly lucid that I have NO MEMORY OF WRITING
- the first half of one sentence stuck to the second half of a different sentence (I type pretty quickly, but not as fast as professors talk)
- several PowerPoint slides covered only with stuff like "WTF?", "Listen to podcast :34", "I give up", "huh??", "figure this out", "important???", "podcast :38" and the like.

Often I "discover" these things only a week later. It's really incredible what happens to my brain when it is this overloaded.