What an interesting week....last week I did my advanced avian elective, a one week course in advanced avian (bird) medicine. It was great! We did some hands on with live parrots from the school's employees, and then did '"surgery" on cadavers from the wildlife clinic, and had TONS of lectures on various subjects from great lecturers. We took a field trip one afternoon to Rhode Island to visit Foster Parrots, quite an amazing site with hundreds of abandoned birds in a sanctuary situation where they can live out the rest of their lives well. I loved it, and was overwhelmed by all the sad stories of birds with mental issues or birds being given up for adoption for sad reasons...people should not be allowed to have birds for pets if you ask me, but I could see myself with one if it was adopted since I would know what to do (the only birds I would want for pets are chickens and ducks though).
Poor Mark's apartment has been being renovated for over a week now, and he has been living with me for the week. It has been interesting. I enjoy the opportunity to cook dinner and do other domestic things on a regular basis, but I also have grown tired of running the laundry every 3rd day since he is allergic to my cat, and while he has not had any problems yet I think it is mainly because keeping a fresh pair of sheets and blankets on the bed every 3rd day keeps him healthy.
I went to Montreal this past weekend. A nice thing about being with Mark all week was that while I would of liked it if he had come, I was able to have a great time doing girly things without him as well. On Saturday Heather and I went dress shopping and I got a hot purple and black short, professional dress for Alicia's wedding. That evening we watched Star Wars, classic, it is so awesome that Heather and I are both such good fans. Even though I never watch except when with Heather and Denis, I strangely like formula one and watching some of the race on Sunday morning was fun. Tina reinforced that I do in fact love dogs and my resentment towards my roommate's dogs is not me being a bad person, but that they are not the best dogs. Tina, however, is the perfect dog, I wish I could of kidnapped her. It was a long drive home Sunday in the bad weather, but I was able to enjoy it by listening to the first book of the twilight series on cd.
This week I am in the conservation medicine elective. A lot of the grade is based on participation, and I was surprised how confident I was and really me and one other girl seemed to dominate most of the conversations. I wasn't trying to keep other people from talking, but the other 6 classmates in the course are shy, and I realized I have a great background in this area, (too bad international didn't think so and kicked me out of their program).
Monday, March 30, 2009
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
google yourself
Yes, I have googled myself before, I find that I can find the most websites by putting in "Lindsey Nielsen Animal" since almost all my online publications are in regards to something animal related.
Well, I got a big boost of self confidence today. I have the list of all the interns I will be starting with at Darien in June. I googled all of their names followed by the school they are at and "veterinary student". Of the 9 I googled, I found stuff for 5, one is actually the daughter of a famous washington post columnist, so she wasn't on any websites, but her dad was and she was mentioned in some of them. Another was a co-manager at the wildlife clinic at her school. Another spent 2 months with the humane society on a mission in Latin America spaying and neutering dogs. And the last was on a veterinary school basketball league that one a tournament. I really wanted to find pics, but it was neat reading small parts about the people I will be spending most of the next year getting to know well.
Then out of curiosity, I googled "Lindsey Nielsen Tufts Veterinary Student" since I had never googled that before and wanted to see what others would find if they did the same for me. I was pleased that the first 6 slots were all publications or references in Tufts magazines to the things I have done around campus. I still wish I have done more in the last 4 years, but having that much come up on a google search made me feel a little better about myself.
Well, I got a big boost of self confidence today. I have the list of all the interns I will be starting with at Darien in June. I googled all of their names followed by the school they are at and "veterinary student". Of the 9 I googled, I found stuff for 5, one is actually the daughter of a famous washington post columnist, so she wasn't on any websites, but her dad was and she was mentioned in some of them. Another was a co-manager at the wildlife clinic at her school. Another spent 2 months with the humane society on a mission in Latin America spaying and neutering dogs. And the last was on a veterinary school basketball league that one a tournament. I really wanted to find pics, but it was neat reading small parts about the people I will be spending most of the next year getting to know well.
Then out of curiosity, I googled "Lindsey Nielsen Tufts Veterinary Student" since I had never googled that before and wanted to see what others would find if they did the same for me. I was pleased that the first 6 slots were all publications or references in Tufts magazines to the things I have done around campus. I still wish I have done more in the last 4 years, but having that much come up on a google search made me feel a little better about myself.
Monday, March 2, 2009
MATCH RESULTS!
I matched at VCA Darien, my top choice, which is in Norwalk, Ct. 40 minutes outside of NYC. I am excited and nervous as hell. Time to start figuring out the living situation, etc., but I will have 3-4 weeks after I graduate to get it all settled. I am 95% happy, the 5% is a wish that no matter what Mark could come with me, I know things will work out no matter what, but I am bummed that in these financial times it will be difficult.
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