A new year is a chance of starting again in every aspects of your life, you learn about your old mistakes and you grow as a person in every sense. With your academic life it happens the same, although you keep studying the same career, every year is completely different. Each year has it challenges and easy things, you meet new people and you make new decisions. During this year, there were good things and bad things, things that could be done differently or things that should not have happened.
Reflecting about the good things, first of all, the courses were more interesting. First year was a year were the teachers try to level the knowledge of the students so the courses were not so interesting, but still they were hard. Second year, on the other hand, the mayority of the courses were more linked to the career itself. During the first year, people have to get use to a completely different system, is not like the school that teachers try to help you in every aspect, now you are "alone". The good thing about second year is that you gain the practice of how to do the things, how you can get the things so it does not make the year too hard (without counting the courses and the evaluation itself).
Like there are good things, there are also bad things. Maybe bad is not the right word, because from everything people can take a lesson so at the end is not as bad at it looks like. Things that were not so thrilling are related to the difficulty of the year. As in every career, the next year has newer and bigger challenges (many people say that the first years are the hardest and then it is not so bad). This year the courses were harder and the teachers expect more from a student because now they have the "tools" to overcome more difficult situations.
Rewinding in the year, good things were that the grades got better as now the habit of studying got better and it feels like what teachers taught is more useful for life as a veterinarian. On the other hand, new and bigger responsabilities appeared, the academic exigency is higher and sometimes students feels like if they can not lead with everything, but as everything in life a new year is a new obstacle from which they can learn.
Concluding, second year at veterinary school was not as bad as people can imagine at the end of the year. Sometimes it feels like if it is too much and that the fatigue is so big that the only thing people want to do is just throw everything and do nothing. This year was hard in many aspects, but the only thing that helped was to be perseverance because nothing in life will be easy and next year will be a new year with new challenges and things for remember.
Friday, November 27, 2009
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Challenges in your discipline
I think, first of all, a big challenge is that it is a discipline in which you can't stop studying. Like human medicine, everyday appears new diseases that a pacient that arrives to the consulting room can have and we have to be prepared. Also everyday new technology appears, new vaccines appear, so in general it is a discipline in which we have to be updated everyday.
In my point of view, although it is a discipline that requires love towards the animals, I think that sometimes that could play against us. I mean, that if someone loves a lot the animals, at a level that you can't see an animal suffering, maybe these career is not the right choice. Sometimes people could confuse and think that veterinary is what it whole life have wanted because they care for the animals, but if you can't see an animal suffering, there are other ways of helping them beside becoming a veterinarian.
Being a veterinarian means that you will deal everyday with pacients and their owners, so you have to learn how to deal with the owner. Sometimes the owner will refuse in a treatment you have to do, and you will need to be able to make him reconsider it. Also, maybe, the owner wants a treatment for it pet that is not the right one and you have to convince him not to do it. As we will have to deal with pacients and owners, we'll also going to deal with coworkers.
Veterinary, beside being a discipline in which we have to heal the animals, it's a discipline that implies the necessity of ensure that the animal it's in a safe place, to teach the people how they have to treat animals because taking care of an animal goes beyond what you could do at the consulting room.
Finally, veterinary it's a career where you learn about a lot of things, they teach you about many areas, different animals, but when becoming a professional the best thing is to specialize in something in particular and try to be the best you can in what you do. It isn't useful to learn about everything if at the end you won't be able to give your best.
In my point of view, although it is a discipline that requires love towards the animals, I think that sometimes that could play against us. I mean, that if someone loves a lot the animals, at a level that you can't see an animal suffering, maybe these career is not the right choice. Sometimes people could confuse and think that veterinary is what it whole life have wanted because they care for the animals, but if you can't see an animal suffering, there are other ways of helping them beside becoming a veterinarian.
Being a veterinarian means that you will deal everyday with pacients and their owners, so you have to learn how to deal with the owner. Sometimes the owner will refuse in a treatment you have to do, and you will need to be able to make him reconsider it. Also, maybe, the owner wants a treatment for it pet that is not the right one and you have to convince him not to do it. As we will have to deal with pacients and owners, we'll also going to deal with coworkers.
Veterinary, beside being a discipline in which we have to heal the animals, it's a discipline that implies the necessity of ensure that the animal it's in a safe place, to teach the people how they have to treat animals because taking care of an animal goes beyond what you could do at the consulting room.
Finally, veterinary it's a career where you learn about a lot of things, they teach you about many areas, different animals, but when becoming a professional the best thing is to specialize in something in particular and try to be the best you can in what you do. It isn't useful to learn about everything if at the end you won't be able to give your best.
Improving your faculty
First of all I like my faculty because, in a way, you feel that your are studying veterinary as it has a lot of landscape with "Mundo Granja" where you can relate with many different animals. Is not like a convecional faculty with just buildings and where everything it's indoors. Although is nice being in a more "natural" enviorment, when it is winter it's not very nice.
First of all I would improve the computers and the internet conexion. There's not enough computers and when you find a computer available, the internet doesn't work or it is too slow. At the end, as we have some free time between classes, we can't use it wisely because we can't advance in other things.
The other place is the cafeteria. It is a little bit small and the problem is not when it is summer (because the people prefer sitting on the grass, enjoy the nice weather), it's during winter. In winter everybody is looking a place to be warm, or maybe not being too cold, so they decide to go to the cafeteria. As the cafeteria is too small, and considering that the line for buying food starts at the entrance, it's kind of difficult to mobilize and at the end many people have to stay at their feet because there isn't enough chairs either.
From everything, the computers and cafeteria is what I would improve. Obviously there could be other things but I think that many things (that someones could like, but others don't) is what makes unique our faculty. I think that if we try to improve everything, the enviroment and the feeling, of studying veterinary, that generates will be lost.
First of all I would improve the computers and the internet conexion. There's not enough computers and when you find a computer available, the internet doesn't work or it is too slow. At the end, as we have some free time between classes, we can't use it wisely because we can't advance in other things.
The other place is the cafeteria. It is a little bit small and the problem is not when it is summer (because the people prefer sitting on the grass, enjoy the nice weather), it's during winter. In winter everybody is looking a place to be warm, or maybe not being too cold, so they decide to go to the cafeteria. As the cafeteria is too small, and considering that the line for buying food starts at the entrance, it's kind of difficult to mobilize and at the end many people have to stay at their feet because there isn't enough chairs either.
From everything, the computers and cafeteria is what I would improve. Obviously there could be other things but I think that many things (that someones could like, but others don't) is what makes unique our faculty. I think that if we try to improve everything, the enviroment and the feeling, of studying veterinary, that generates will be lost.
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