Vet Student at Košice

Going back to school as someone who took some years out of education was a big adjustment. I remember saying (any my parents love to remind me) "I never have to any exams ever again!" when I graduated the first time. It's been a big learning curve, and I do think it was softened by the pandemic - online learning in my own space was much more comfortable than being alone in a different country. That isn't to say that it was easy (it wasn't), but I did make some purchases that made the learning process easier. Technology purchases 1. iPad     This, unfortunately, was the best purchase I've ever made for learning. I got the iPad mini 6 (2021), and I absolutely adore it. I use it every single day - mostly for looking at the lecture slides, making notes in practicals, googling things on the fly (and not looking super rude by pulling my phone out). I went for the mini over the regular sized ones because it makes it 100x more portable. I prefer writing on smaller not...

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 ...

I still don't have WiFi! Unfortunately we haven't had internet access since we arrived on the 4th of September. The WiFi network requires our student email to log in, and I won't get access to that until the 21st! The last few days have been concerned with signing papers and payments. We had to sign multiple copies of the same document, many times, which got a bit tedious. We're so close to starting though I don't even mind.  I got my ISIC card and it's beginning to feel real! Very exciting that I'm actually a student again, and finally a vet student! We have to apply for temporary residence permit within the next 90 days which is a little daunting (I've got to prove that I've got a clear criminal record, prove that I've got enough money in a Slovak bank account, and a bunch of other things. The uni is helping us out a little bit, which is great because I really wouldn't know where to start otherwise.  Nicole and I bought some textbooks at th...