Summer 2017 and Upcoming Year!

The college cliche is that summer goes by way to fast. I honestly don’t agree. This summer I felt I had more than enough time to be home, see friends, have a job, travel, and do everything I wanted. By the end of July, the few weeks left at home could not move fast enough! Columbus, I was ready to come back.

I was able to spend time with my local equine vet and ride along with her during the day. It never ceases to amaze me when we would walk into a barn and preform something like an enucleation on a horse standing up in its stall. An eye removal on a human would be in the most sterile surgical suite and they would be under anesthesia. With veterinary medicine, field surgeries are necessary. Vets do not have the luxuries that medical doctors often experience and the quick pace and intensity of the field draws me to vet-med even more! Keeping a journal of my time spend with vets over the summer was one of the smartest things I could have done. It is so important to look back at it and connect everything I saw and assisted with to the things I am learning in class.

As summer concluded, I thought about my freshman year and what changes I wanted to make going forward. I thought about my performance in class (leaving room for improvement for sure!) and my involvement in extracurriculars. As a sophomore, you know how campus works and I think that leaves more room for you to be an individual on campus. Last year I struggled to maintain my point of view and this year I want to pursue clubs and events that I feel strongly about no matter the opinion of those around me. Sophomore year I want to be true to myself and show OSU who I really am.