Recently, crism and I were at a restaurant which served us baked squash that was so good that we demanded the receipe. From what they said, plus input from RKt, this recipe was born ( Read more... )

For my birthday, my brother has purchased for me three years of The Open Laboratory, which are compilations of the year's best science blogs from scienceblogs.com. Yay! Reading science blogs is my latest obsession. But I'm finding myself enjoying the social ones the most -- not blogs about the social sciences, but blogs about the social aspects of ( Read more... )

Yesterday was Research Day at Tufts. It is the day when all the veterinary students who did summer research projects under the summer research program presented our findings. A few students who did projects funded by different programs also chose to present.

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• Morning of contract programming followed by analyzing a video of a dog and doing some writing for my research project: T-shirt and pajama pants
• Lunch on campus to conduct student club business: slacks and nicer T-shirt
• A few minutes in the hospital to leave a note in the file of tonight's dog: throw a white lab coat over the previous ensemble
• Home for ( Read more... )

A friend of a friend has been asking me questions about being a veterinarian, and I wrote up some information for her on all the different things a vet can be. I figured it would make a good post, because a lot of the people I talk to don't seem to know many more career options for vets beyond small or large animal clinical practice.

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LPK wrote up a "goodbye to V'11" note to say goodbye to our old class of V2011, and let them know that we will not be with them as they start their third year of vet school in two days, since we will be doing our Master's year. She noted that in our two years with V'11, we have taken 63 exams together. (Of which anatomy exams account for six exams ( Read more... )

[This post was written on July 30 and typed in to LiveJournal later ( Read more... )

I've wanted to learn more about horse behavior for a while, so recently I contacted a horse trainer whom I'd met at a club workshop last spring, and asked if I could shadow her for a while. This weekend, I watched her working with one client on Saturday, and attended a Parelli workshop with her as her guest all day Sunday ( Read more... )

I've been doing a lot of setup work for my study this past week. Earlier, I had been mostly reading about cortisol and spit and dog stress studies. Now I'm on campus more, doing things like making sure our A/V setup works to film dogs. There was a lot of carting of equipment back and forth between where it had been stored previously and its storage ( Read more... )

Puppy mills are just one of my favorite topics. Yesterday, the driver of a delivery truck with 51 puppies in it was arrested for animal cruelty outside of Elite Puppies in Webster, MA (read more here). My roommate, who encountered some of the puppies recuperating in Tufts' hospital, reports that the store that was receiving the deliveries is being ( Read more... )