tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-127465422011-10-14T16:51:25.129-05:00Well, I got the DVM/MPH! Now I get to navigate private practice and the ever-present learning curve!Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07659856625610011343noreply@blogger.comBlogger471100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12746542.post-33724198210727840742009-06-22T13:50:00.001-05:002009-06-22T13:50:30.162-05:00

There are no, or at the very most very very few dermatologic emergencies. Also, if we haven't given you meds for your problem in over a year, you can be pretty sure that we're going to want to see your dog again. We may not consider it a recurring problem, thus giving you your coveted discount for a "recheck" exam if we haven't seen this problem in your pet for 16 months. Please don't show up at

Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12119971380979126774noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12746542.post-85452441555925292352009-01-06T17:04:00.003-06:002009-01-06T17:17:22.124-06:00

My best friend asked me an interesting question yesterday, after getting the response to the standard question "what did you do today?". She asked, "how often do you actually do what you tell your clients to do?"Well, frankly... not often. You see, I know better. What I tell my clients is what I need to tell them to give them the best chance to get through a circumstance that I don't necessarily

Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07659856625610011343noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12746542.post-43252240591328697202009-01-01T22:37:00.003-06:002009-01-01T22:48:04.973-06:00

This is unfortunately the season of euthanasias. Some animals can't make it to the new year, some families finally have children and extended family all in the same place, some people are finally home enough to be able to make a decision. Regardless, no euthanasia is every easy for me.I hate being with people who have spent a lifetime with a pet and now have to say goodbye. I was lucky when I

Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07659856625610011343noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12746542.post-290776669134278172008-12-16T20:46:00.003-06:002008-12-16T20:49:57.264-06:00

I frequently give out "brownie points" to my technicians (and sometimes my fellow doctors) at work. These aren't anything that I keep track of, much less remember from day to day who I've even given them too.Sometimes it comes in the form of, "brownie points to whoever can tell me where I left this chart", or "brownie points if you come up with a good treatment plan for this patient".Other times

Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07659856625610011343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12746542.post-69768928619841640042008-12-15T22:14:00.002-06:002008-12-15T22:19:42.977-06:00

First time for everything - and today it was an cranial cruciate ligament tear in a 90-pound 5-year-old yellow Labrador Retriever.She was the perfect candidate for the tear, and I had diagnosed her after seeing her for a mere 5 or 10 seconds in the lobby. She bounced towards me, completely non-weight bearing on her left hind leg. I asked her to sit for me like a good girl, and when she did she

Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07659856625610011343noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12746542.post-50783200207639175952008-12-13T17:46:00.001-06:002008-12-13T17:50:46.715-06:00

I first saw her, S, for drinking more water. She was a 9 year old Chow crossbreed dog. She had never been spayed, but otherwise was kept well by a young man without too much money to spare. After careful interrogation, I determined that there was really nothing at all wrong with her other than she had quadrupled her water intake in the past week or so. As any good new grad would, I looked in my

Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07659856625610011343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12746542.post-81305103318493152152008-12-12T16:12:00.001-06:002008-12-12T16:12:53.700-06:00

This blog needs to change direction I guess. I graduated from vet school this past spring and am now working at a 3.5 doctor practice in a moderately affluent neighborhood. To sum up: I received my masters in public health in september of 2007 and my doctors of veterinary medicine in may of 2008. I took 3 weeks off and started full time at this small animal practice. Another new grad started with

Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07659856625610011343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12746542.post-26245877338643986992008-04-02T08:15:00.000-05:002008-04-02T08:16:18.029-05:00

And so another year has passed, and I have continued to be incapable of updating this blog on even a monthly basis. I can't decide if it's because no one actually reads it or because I'm not invested in it. I'm not sure it actually matters. Vet school will be over in 4 weeks, so this blog naturally must come to an end.I defended my MPH in September and received my degree. My thesis was on MRSA

Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07659856625610011343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12746542.post-69655577865102272482007-09-24T20:58:00.001-05:002007-09-24T20:58:39.314-05:00

His name was E.J. I never asked what it stood for... only now does it occur to me to wonder. He was a middle aged cat. A gray tabby with longer fur. He started off beautiful, but days of hospitalization, eventually with an e-collar, caused his coat to become grungy and gross.He had bladder stones that he couldn't pass. And when he tried, they got stuck in his urethra, and he became blocked. A

Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07659856625610011343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12746542.post-54785141226314522562007-09-24T20:56:00.000-05:002007-09-24T20:57:25.561-05:00

S is a 11 month old Doberman Pinscher. She is not spayed. She is purebred with papers. She has a class III malocclusion, an anterior crossbite (example in picture below), and "rostral flare" of her lower incisors. A class I malocclusion is just when the front teeth (between the canines) don't quite meet the way they're supposed to. It is presumed to be some combination of factors including

Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07659856625610011343noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12746542.post-80708913902220155292007-04-18T18:04:00.000-05:002007-04-18T18:08:43.217-05:00

Monday:The first case I had in the morning was a dog with progressive vision loss and cloudy eyes for the last month. She's a 5 year old Papillon (the most ADORABLE dogs ever, I love them). Her history is actually of stomach problems, which is more unusual in smaller breed dogs - so that threw us for a loop. She'd never really had any issues before with her eyes. When I looked in here eyes,

Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07659856625610011343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12746542.post-90477067443351022482007-04-14T10:43:00.001-05:002007-04-14T10:43:32.349-05:00

I gave my self a break last night from posting, because the week just completely drained me. It's rough to go from a 20 hour a week "desk job" to a 50 hour a week running around like craziness!Yesterday was kinda fun, though absolutely insane. I was about 3 minutes late due to an important trip to pick up bagels and cream cheese before school. I remain convinced that the bagels maintained

Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07659856625610011343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12746542.post-82379605590101149162007-04-12T19:48:00.000-05:002007-04-12T19:49:26.890-05:00

Today was relatively low key, which was much welcomed after a first week that gave me a ton of blisters! I got in at 8 this morning, we talked about what was going on today, and went to watch Dr P give Grand Rounds. Her talk was about aldose reductase inhibitors for the prevention of diabetic cataracts in dogs. It looks cool, but because results for peripheral neuropathies in humans have been

Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07659856625610011343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12746542.post-39962978534054338972007-04-11T21:47:00.001-05:002007-04-11T21:47:37.291-05:00

This morning was fun, but actually went fairly slow.We started off the morning at 8am with a case that J took. I went in to restrain the golden retriever while she did her exam. [Note: how many golden retrievers named Bailey do you know?] All we found was some scleral injection (the white of her eye was red), and very slight aqueous flare (inflammation between her cornea and her pupil). Since

Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07659856625610011343noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12746542.post-31938928092522086062007-04-10T23:05:00.001-05:002007-04-10T23:05:34.888-05:00

Today I did surgery on a "boxer" cross named Angel. She looks like a pitbull to us, but who are we to judge the parentage of our patients? She had entropion surgery on her right eye this morning. Her eyelids were so rolled in that the eyelashes were almost completely and totally rolled under and rubbing against her cornea. She's been like this for a year, and the owners just got around to surgery

Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07659856625610011343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12746542.post-3459071219466067332007-04-09T22:33:00.000-05:002007-04-09T22:34:09.566-05:00

I was up at 6, partly because I actually got enough sleep over the weekend (yay naps) and partly because of first day of school jitters. I was showered and out of the house fed and coffee'd and everything by 7:15, and made it to school by 7:30 by bike.I did my locker stuff, checked my mail and hung out and finished my coffee until about 7:50, then headed over to Ophtho for orientation. The other

Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07659856625610011343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12746542.post-46888569303817865642007-04-08T08:05:00.000-05:002007-04-08T08:10:43.936-05:00

Rotations start tomorrow. Orientation was overwhelming, but was an incredible amount of useful information. I NEARLY feel prepared to start tomorrow!!I spent much of yesterday reviewing my ophtho notes - today holds much of the same for me. I'm REALLY excited though.And, we (me, helen, carrie) found the perfect 6-holed tiny binders for rotations. Along with folders, calculators, refills of paper

Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07659856625610011343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12746542.post-79870327427371371072007-03-23T15:33:00.000-05:002007-03-23T15:41:47.448-05:00

Today was the last day of classes!! It's been so long coming, yet it seems kind of surreal. We don't start clinics for another two weeks though. Next week is a course on law, ethics and practice management - technically still a class, but an 8-5 pass/fail kinda class. Trust me, it doesn't count. Same prof, same expectations, same classroom - it's not the same as having 2 hour blocks of class.

Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07659856625610011343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12746542.post-7286604099864225082007-03-11T09:07:00.000-05:002007-03-11T09:13:55.277-05:00

I had this great illusion in my head when I opened the blogger dashboard that I was going to be updating in less than a month from the last time! Then I saw that I last updated just three days short of a month ago, and realized it probably doesn't count.We are getting so close to rotations it's ridiculous. I've really adored my classes this semester - I've been learning a lot and getting to feel

Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07659856625610011343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12746542.post-41494004705845659362007-02-14T19:56:00.000-06:002007-02-14T20:15:19.144-06:00

I've been poked. Apparently I don't post often enough. It's probably true, this blog really gives very little indication of what it's like to be in vet school. Unless you can surmise that my lack of updating means that I have a lot to do, and I don't spend my time on blogger. To be honest, I spend my time on livejournal ;-) my first and true love. :-)This semester is kinda awesome. We have 3 week

Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07659856625610011343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12746542.post-1159722236201815312006-10-01T11:57:00.000-05:002006-10-01T12:03:56.216-05:00

We had our first exam of the semester last week. I really like toxicology, and the exams are straight out of the notes/book (it helps that Dr. Murphy wrote the book). I'm so far loving the increased number of take-homes and assignments this semester over just having an exam in every single class. We have our first metabolic exam on Tuesday - but it's about 80% take-home and only 5 lectures are

Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07659856625610011343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12746542.post-1158248195755820312006-09-14T10:32:00.000-05:002006-09-14T10:36:35.763-05:00

Yesterday during large animal gastrology lab:- I put an alfalfa bolus down the throat of a cow- I put a speculum down the throat of a cow- I inserted a (more different kind of ) speculum into a cow's mouth- I heard the bubbles in a cow's rumen while someone else blew into a properly placed esophageal tube- I learned how to put a speculum into a horse's mouth- I floated a horse's teeth- I put a

Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07659856625610011343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12746542.post-1157666260628520982006-09-07T16:45:00.000-05:002006-09-07T16:57:40.686-05:00

Where did the summer go, anyways? I swear it was just May... Anyways, someone's been bugging me about not posting all summer, so maybe I'll do a quick summary for y'all. I did Summer Scholars, a program where I received a stipend to work with a professor on a research project. I chose to look at MRSA (methicillan-resistant staph aureus) in animals that live in a nursing home in Saint Paul. I'm

Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07659856625610011343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12746542.post-1147654619968973402006-05-14T19:43:00.000-05:002006-05-14T19:56:59.980-05:00

I was the primary surgeon this past week. Our patient was a 6 month old male Australian Shepard crossed with a black lab. This gave the effect of a black lab puppy on the small side for his age, and with a disproportionally small head. He was ridiculously cute. Two of his littermates, one male and one female, accompanied him to be sterilized by us tentative second year vet students.It was kinda

Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07659856625610011343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12746542.post-1146707331369095692006-05-03T20:45:00.000-05:002006-05-03T20:48:51.380-05:00

Finals are "over". I lived. Looking back, it's almost hard to understand why I've been so stressed for the last week. But there's an exhaustion that comes with having exam after exam after exam that is hard to shake.Left in the semester: 2 surgery exams (lecture and lab), and surgery number 3! Also a week of Avian Core and another of Integrative medicine (and elective). I'm actually pretty

Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07659856625610011343noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12746542.post-1145586352440417722006-04-20T21:25:00.000-05:002006-04-20T21:25:52.453-05:00

We found out on Monday at lunch time that we'd been assigned cat number 265418 (I've written that number a lot). We went upstairs to the cat room, looked around and finally found the kitty that matched the number. A beautiful talkative purring cat. Gray tabby, long face, talkative (siamese in there somewhere maybe?). So beautful. We started doing a once-over on the kitty(we had a 1pm class,

Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07659856625610011343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12746542.post-1145164801570460332006-04-16T00:15:00.000-05:002006-04-16T00:20:01.583-05:00

Last Monday afternoon we got to meet our surgery animals for the first time. We were assigned a funny looking little dog named Toggle. His paperwork had him down as 10-11 months old and a Cocker Spaniel/Rottweiler mix. I'd put him at closer to a year and a half and a Chow cross. He certainly had more than two breeds in him. His legs are stubby and his ears hang low on his head, but they're

Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07659856625610011343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12746542.post-1144602937615513032006-04-09T12:06:00.000-05:002006-04-09T12:15:37.633-05:00

Happy April! It's getting beautiful here in Minnesota. Really pretty - over 60 today! It makes me just want to play outside and clean everything instead of studying for everything that I have coming up soon. I'm definatly getting a tiny bit fed up with the semester. Certainly not as bad as last semester, when Pathology ate my life, but still pretty tired of studying all the time. This was a rough

Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07659856625610011343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12746542.post-1141946670519176662006-03-09T17:08:00.000-06:002006-03-09T17:24:30.556-06:00

I guess this is the official "Start of March" post... I'm so bad at updating.SAVMA Symposium starts for me in just a couple of hours, I'm heading over to the Hilton to pick up my registration stuff and go to the "Taste of Minnesota" event tonight. I'm excited to see some of my friends from other schools, I'll admit.I do have to admit that I'm a little cranky about how spring break is going so far

Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07659856625610011343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12746542.post-1139074277423739862006-02-04T11:31:00.000-06:002006-02-04T11:31:17.600-06:00

Wow, it’s been a while since I’ve updated this thing. There’s just so much to say that I feel I can’t do it justice unless I sit down and write a super long thoughtful post. Like I have time for that.We’re done with the first three weeks of the semester. We’ve already taken three exams – two of them were finals. It’s kind of weird to get used to classes rolling on and off the schedule, but at the

Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07659856625610011343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12746542.post-1134236337529811562005-12-10T11:33:00.000-06:002005-12-10T11:38:57.543-06:00

5 more days left in the semester, and I'm almost looking forward to them. I have my parasitology final on Tuesday, and the parasitology lab exam (which needs to be taken at my leisure between Monday and Friday), as well as a written final for my Epidemiology of Zoonoses elective followed by an oral exam with a partner. Parasitology isn't too overwhelming to me, because I know that there isn't any

Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07659856625610011343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12746542.post-1133530365652534492005-12-02T07:25:00.000-06:002005-12-02T07:32:45.663-06:00

Somehow that final that was 2 weeks away is suddenly on Tuesday. We had our antimicrobials/anthelmentics/chemotherapy final yesterday - and I think I did well on it. Time will obviously tell on that one.I've spent 8+ hours studying daily, plus between 1 and 4 hours of class a day (I love the end of the semester for the latter reason, not the former). I woke up this morning with an excruciating

Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07659856625610011343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12746542.post-1132764233005492452005-11-23T10:36:00.000-06:002005-11-23T10:43:53.020-06:00

This semester is... going. I love that it's finally wrapping up, I love that I'm finally beginning to have some free time in which to do things. I hate that my computer (that I love, adore, and have gambled all my notes on) broke last week and had to be sent to Texas. She got shipped back yesterday, and I think it's 2day shipping, so she should be back either today (if I'm very very very lucky)

Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07659856625610011343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12746542.post-1131405895147821162005-11-07T17:17:00.000-06:002005-11-07T17:24:55.156-06:00

Everything hurts. My brain, my body, and my apartment.My brain hurts because I'm running on waaay too little sleep. I had a fun and exciting weekend with the DNR here in Minnesota. I spent 2 days cutting lymph nodes out of hunter-killed deer (parotid, submandibular and retropharyngeal for those of you who care) looking for tuberculosis lesions (pyogranulomatous lymphadenitis, of the sort NOT

Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07659856625610011343noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12746542.post-1129758351400462172005-10-19T16:38:00.000-05:002005-10-19T16:45:51.410-05:00

Puppy class observers: DoneSummer research: DoneBacteriology final exam is on Tuesday, then there will be neither Bacteriology nor 8am classes MWF. I made it through last week, only have several small breakdowns, which were usually resolved by remembering the importance of deep breaths.Things that have got me thinking recently include Old Exams: when, why and how to use them.This stems from the

Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07659856625610011343noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12746542.post-1128827139803143062005-10-08T21:54:00.000-05:002005-10-08T22:05:39.810-05:00

It's Saturday night, and I'm supposed to be studying. I had a friend here from out of town for most of the week, so it definatly stifled my studying ability. In a perfect world, I'd be ready to go and super productive, but instead I'm exhausted and unmotivated. We finally got our Path exams back on Thursday - I thoroughally passed, though I didn't quite hit my target grade. We took Bacteriology

Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07659856625610011343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12746542.post-1128128080233374272005-09-30T19:49:00.000-05:002005-09-30T19:54:40.240-05:00

The exam went well enough - we were supposed to get them back today, but the last time I checked my mailbox was at 2pm, and they weren't there yet. I have to go in on Sunday, so I'll check then. Most people are pretty panicky about the exam, for any number of reasons. Some include the fact that these two profs have never taught the course before, so we had no old exams, and that many people

Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07659856625610011343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12746542.post-1127688964987185372005-09-25T17:50:00.000-05:002005-09-25T17:56:04.993-05:00

First exam, in Pathology, is on Tuesday morning. I think that I can honestly say that I want nothing to do with it. Studying is a pain in the neck, and while I'm no longer sick, my energy and enthusiasm levels still aren't quite back to 100%. Come to think of it, perhaps it's just about studying that I'm unenthusiastic.Of course, the less I study, the more stressed I get. And the more stressed I

Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07659856625610011343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12746542.post-1127339322008059912005-09-21T16:42:00.000-05:002005-09-21T16:49:50.270-05:00

This semester I'm taking: Infective Agents: Bacteriology and Mycology (3.5) Infective Agents: Parasitology (4) Pharmacology: Anti-Infective Agents (1.5) Pathology (7) Clinical Skills (1) Professional Skills (2) Advanced Clinical Epidemiology (2) Epidemiology of Zoonoses Common to People and Animals (3) Swine Core (2) For a total of 26 credits. Which actually doesn't

Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07659856625610011343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12746542.post-1122251473058580162005-07-24T19:02:00.000-05:002005-07-24T19:31:13.070-05:00

The AVMA annual national convention was held in Minneapolis this year, last week (July 16-20). It was five days of the Minneapolis Convention Center being filled by veterinarians from all over the United States and the world.I had the opportunity, thanks to the generosity of the AVMA towards students, to attend for free (unless you count the absurdity of parking in downtown Minneapolis). As I

Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07659856625610011343noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12746542.post-1121226908018480102005-07-12T22:29:00.000-05:002005-07-12T23:01:33.306-05:00

Spring semester seems to have passed by in a blur. Day to day activities took forever, and a single class seemed like it would never end. But at the end of each week you're amazed that it's over, and I seem to have made it to this summer unscathed.Last semester I took:Science classes: Organology, Veterinary Neurobiology, Veterinary Physiology, General Veterinary Pharmacology, Host Defenses (

Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07659856625610011343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12746542.post-1121224713564680682005-06-12T21:24:00.000-05:002005-07-12T22:26:20.956-05:00

*Note - I dropped the ball on writing these things - so this one is written horribly after the fact and backdated.Advances in Molecular Epidemiological TechniquesThis was a pretty good course, though it was very much review on things that I already knew. I have a pretty strong background in molecular techniques, and I think that I was expecting this course to focus a little more on the

Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07659856625610011343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12746542.post-1121225085665821132005-06-06T22:19:00.000-05:002005-07-12T23:06:06.363-05:00

I volunteered to go with one of the large animal hospital clinicians to a goat dairy on Saturday. We left the large animal hospital at 8am, and got to the farm about 9:45. This is a very very poorly managed farm, sadly. The owner is not very involved, instead hiring farm managers to take care of the herd. After a slew of managers over the past couple of years, the most recent one realized shortly

Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07659856625610011343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12746542.post-1121221371036552312005-06-05T21:21:00.000-05:002005-07-12T23:11:16.556-05:00

Food Safety Risk ManagementSame professor as Food Safety Risk Asessment, which was both a good thing and a bad thing. Different guest speaker, which was cool. This time it was a guy from Industry giving us his perspective. We did a project on Scombrotoxin in fish, which was pretty cool. Not only did I get to learn about a new disease, but we did a management assessment on it, and mostly I learned

Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07659856625610011343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12746542.post-1117405711025471552005-05-29T17:27:00.000-05:002005-05-29T17:28:31.030-05:00

Food Safety Risk Assessment: This class was definately worth taking, and got me thinking a lot about all of the steps that our food goes through between where it begins and when it ends up in my tummy. We downloaded two programs as a part of the class, Analytica and @risk plugin for MS Excel. Sadly, due to poor planning on the part of the professors, the software wasn't really working until

Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07659856625610011343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12746542.post-1115952187284005272005-05-12T22:43:00.000-05:002005-07-12T23:12:52.043-05:00

It's been quite a school year, these past nine months. I have completed the first year curriculum at UMN and been successful.Last semester I took what seemed like an impossible number of credits (22.5). Some of it was review, some of it was new. Some classes were interesting, some seemed like a waste of time. Sadly, it wasn't everything that was new that was interesting, nor was everything that

Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07659856625610011343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12746542.post-1115584446616276162005-05-08T17:30:00.000-05:002005-07-12T23:13:39.976-05:00

To start from the beginning:I'm just finishing up my first year in the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Minnesota in Saint Paul. I have also recently been admitted to a Master's of Public Health program in Food Safety and Biosecurity. I'm not sure what I want to do when I graduate (in 2008), but I'm pretty sure that I can do just about anything with a combined DVM/MPH!I'm

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