Vet Student at Košice

I've talked a little about how difficult vet school is, and I'm not the only one who will say that. There is an unbelieveable amount of information that is necessary to know. The best piece of advice I could give a prospective vet students is "yes, you need to know that".  Me and my dad have spent ages learning about learning. Ali Abdaal on YouTube has made a few really helpful videos about studying at med school, although some of his more recent videos aren't so helpful. One of the most amazing tools that we came across is the flashcard app Anki. Honestly life changing. I always tried to make flashcards to revise from before, but I never found them very helpful. Being able to make cards really quickly and easily on my laptop has been a gamechanger. The image occlusion tool and being able to put screenshots in really ups the usefulness.    I've come back to this post from the future - as of 24/10/2022, I've been using Anki solidly for 711 days. It will be

     It has been 285 days since I started vet school. I finished my first year a couple of weeks ago, and I have been catching up on sleep, TV and books ever since.       I finished the year with a pretty good GPA (1.16, or 3.68 in American terms). I worked harder than I thought I could but I still feel like an imposter. Hopefully that feeling will go away, the more I learn. Some of my coursemates have organised clinical rotations and work experience for the holiday, but I haven't yet. I'm hoping to get a job at the Seal Sanctuary for a couple of weeks, as this is really the only "free" summer I'll have until the end of vet school.      I found the list of subjects I have to do next year. It's a little daunting, with subjects like parasitology, toxicology, and pharmacology but I hope I'll manage. There are 12 weeks between now and the start of semester 3 , so plenty of time to get a head start on some topics.      In my time off, Rob has cycled from Land&#