This article introduces a new Vet School Diary Writer, Jennifer, who is planning on a trip to New Zealand to start her veterinary school career. The Vet School Diaries are a collection of posts from various veterinary students around the world, each in their own "diary" section of the Pre-Vet/Career Forum. Now viewers can see what life is like inside of vet school!
Best wishes Jennifer!
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My login is lazyjayn, and my real(ish) name is Jennifer.
I've been accepted for the February 2006 BVSc intermediate at Massey, in New Zealand, meaning I get to go head-to-head, not quite death match style, against anyone else paying international fees that semester, for one of 8 real spots. I must be more daring that I thought.
Hmmm... background? I'm 26, freezing in Wyoming (which is a state, not a town or part of a province, and is very much in the US (yes, people ask... seriously) and marking time untill I can quit my crappy job, get rid of my apartment, and take off for the other side of the world. My mother (grandmother, sister, aunts, uncles, cousins.... yeah) says I've wanted to be a vet since I found out there was a doctor just for animals. My father seems happy just to be able to brag.
I've done the off and on school thing, dropping out, feeling it's never going anywhere, bored off my er... behind? ... with classes that had nothing to do with anything but making me a well rounded person -- and seemed just to be a sneaky way of getting more money out of me.
So I quit the college/university thing, traveled and moved some, and looked into areas that interested me and taught what I actually wanted to learn -- no extra classes -- and was down to vet school overseas, normal university overseas, or pastry school. Normal university was never going to hold my interest, pastry school might still happen some day, but would never pay off its' loans, but vet school... somewhere where I could just send them my stuff, take 4 classes and a test, and maybe get into the class? I was all over that.
Guess I like a challenge, huh?
