Hi everyone, So I’m officially starting this blog about my work here as a veterinary student abroad. I’m a little late, as I’m already a 2nd year veterinary student at the University of the Philippines: Los Banos, but this idea has been ruminating in my head for quite awhile now. I wanted to record my exploits here at the university so that after I graduate, I’ll be able to look back and see all of the things I was writing…
Hey everybody! Here are the handouts needed for our ZOTC 115 – Ruminant Production lab test that we’ll be having Tuesday, at 4:30pm in the Tabon Hospital/Teaching Facility. There are three (3) handouts here about goats, carabao, and cattle. Since I couldn’t upload all three of them onto the ZOTC 115 class web-site Yahoo! group that Doc Abalos started awhile back, here they are, in all their glory: Goat Handout Carabao Handout Cattle Handout They are all printer-friendly and have…
So I’m coming up on something that many medical students like myself like to call: Hell Week. Here in the University of the Philippines: Los Banos, my life as a veterinary student has mostly been hard. Really hard. I’d say that this in some aspects, even trumps the work that I usually had to do when I was at Cornell University. While I did fairly well at Cornell, I didn’t really have to study so hard to get good grades…
In what seems like a whirlwind of weeks flying by, a lot has happened in the last month. To recap for a bit, I went home from graduate school back to the US during late December. Being happy that I was finally going to see my family, friends and girlfriend for the first time in seven months was something that I looked forward to and I had been counting down the days. The morning after my return flight and after…
So, I’m just writing here to let you all know how happy I am. Since I got here to the University of the Philippines Los Banos, I was always afraid that I might not adjust here as easily as I had my other colleges. After all, I was a foreign student, who didn’t know the native language and was there just to learn about veterinary medicine. I knew that I needed the practicality that was taught at the University of…
Hey guys, Sorry I haven’t updated in a couple of months. I’m sure some of you are going to kill me, but I’m going to have to take an extended hiatus from the comic. If you haven’t already figured out from my previous posts, I’ve moved to the Philippines to take up graduate school in veterinary medicine. I decided that while I’m here, I’m going to fully devote my time to my studies. The comic here was only meant to…
…and all I can do is ask you to believe me. This is all very hard for me, it really is. There are times when I want to tear my hair out. It gets so very difficult sometimes that my patience is tested–to the brink where I actually think I’m going to break. I’ve gone over that threshold so very little times, but when I do it isn’t very pretty at all. Being half-way around the world from the one…
Hey everyone, It’s been such a long time since I’ve last updated, but there is a good reason for that and that reason is that I have just been so busy. And I really mean it. In the past 5 months I’ve acquired a new job externing at the Animal Medical Center down in Manhattan, and learning as much as I can about veterinary medicine before I head off to the Philippines for vet school. Because of that I’ve left…
It’s almost noon here in Queens. I’m just sitting in my bedroom. I just woke up not too long ago and took a look outside. My outdoor deck was wet with rain from the weather early this morning. It looked like a gloomy day. That’s too bad because I had planned to go out and do some things. Maybe watch a movie or two at the theater, but with weather like this, who wants to go out? These are the…
Jesus Christ, what the hell is up with my headache right now? At first, it just stemmed from me sitting in the kitchen thinking about everything that has happened lately and suddenly I felt the onset of this headache. It didn’t feel so bad at first, but unfortunately, the more I thought about what has happened recently, the more the headache started to increase in intensity. I guess I really do think too much about trivial things. It’s funny though…
That’s what I feel like right now.
God, parents can really make you feel lousy, especially at the worst times. Sometimes I believe that it happens too often to be considered real, but then again I wouldn’t feel this frustrated if it wasn’t. After talking to a couple of friends about my problems at home and the dynamics of power that I’m currently fighting with I have found out something. There’s a correlation between my frustration and the frustration of other young adults in their households. It…
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