Vet Student at Košice

This exam period started as they all do, with a million credit tests in week 13, and me feeling far too unprepared. I had more oral exams than I've had previously (4), which was a bit nervewracking.  I didn't track all the time I studied this exam period, but this is the majority of it. I sort of fell off the wagon using the Forest app this term, but I will be more diligent with it next term. For some reason, I decided it would be a good idea to try for my andrology exam on the saturday at the end of term, before going home for a couple of weeks. Luckily, my study/sleep alternation worked, and I walked out of the room with an 'A'. My first exam back after my short break was diseases of exotics. I was a bit apprehensive, as I'd heard some things about the teachers asking difficult questions. I try to disregard that sort of talk as much as possible, and there's only really been 1 unpleasant teacher interaction. My method for this exam was rereading a bunch, t...

I've defeated the final bosses of semester 1 of vet school! 8 exams, some very difficult, some a little bit easier, and I'm set to finish with a GPA around 1.2/1.3 (which is good. American's talk about a 4.0 being a perfect GPA, but in Slovakia 1.0 is the best mark you can get). I'm actually retaking my ethics exam tomorrow, because I missed out on an A by one mark. It wasn't too awful the first time so I'm hoping tomorrow I'll do better.  Pretty exciting that I have finished my first semester of vet school. 1/8th of the way to a full vet!