Vet school has begun! I've relocated successfully, wrangled a dog intent on killing herself via consumption of foreign objects (two surgeries later, she's doing much better) and have officially begun my first year. We've had the first of all of our classes except Radiology, and so far, so good. Mostly, the professors have started us gently, so the sheer mass of Stuff To Know hasn't really kicked in, yet. But it will, and soon, and that will be something.
Today, we got our dissection teams and canine cadavers in Gross Anatomy, so we all learned what spending two hours in a formalin-thick space does for one's personal aroma. Despite changing out of scrubs and shoes at the end of the lab period, we were all still "wafting" as we headed out to lunch. I though eating outside would have sufficiently aired me out, but when I got back home and took a shower, as soon as the water hit my hair there was a sudden miasma of formalin in the air. So, possibly, that may just be what I smell like, on and off, for the next nine-ish months.
