Category: The Filipino Vet Student

Looks like another week is over! I don’t know why, but it just seems that lately time has been flying. Week after week just seems to go by and everytime I find myself relieved that another week of school is done. I guess though that it’s important when tests and more quizzes start coming by again. But for now I’m happy that another week has past. The last week was kind of filled with ups and downs. I’ve been studying…

Today was a majorly busy day. I stayed on campus pretty much from 8am through 5pm. I started off the day with a parasitology lecture and then headed into a 3 hour lab session with presentations on pharmacological drugs and reports. After that I had some lunch and then headed into my immunology class where we were given a quiz not on things we were supposed to study, but actually on the lecture that he had just given to us…

Alright guys, so here it is… the new revision to the JoNPiNoY Productions web-site. It’s pretty isn’t it? I have to thank my friend Craig (www.craigpfau.com) for helping me integrate this new theme into my current WordPress and ComicPress web-site setup. Thanks to his CSS/PHP knowhow, I was able to get the functionality out of the ComicPress template and also get the modern look I wanted. There are a few kinks that need to be worked out, but for the…

Hey to the girls in my VPHM 141 group. Here you’ll find the two articles I’ve found for our topics. Click below to download each of them: For Opioids: Taken down For Anticonvulsants: Taken down An additional article on Anticonvulsants: Taken down Although we only need 2 articles, I’ve printed out all three and will skim them tonight. I’m sticking with the first article for Opioids, but will have to choose between the two articles that I’ve uploaded here for…

So guess what everyone? I’m studying!! Hahaha… Alright, alright… so what’s new. I’m in the middle of a 3-day weekend right now and I’ve got a test and quiz coming up. One in Zootechnics 115 – Ruminant Production and the quiz is on Immunology. I’ve been taking some time out to study for both of these courses and will post up some interesting information about it once I run through the material and feel somewhat comfortable about it. I had…

As a vet student, I don’t doubt that things are hard. In fact, here in the Philippines, I think the curriculum is extremely difficult to handle. I’ve been staying afloat with the amount of work that we have had to do so far, but quizzes, tests and other things just seem to keep popping up. Apparently for tomorrow, there is a rumor that there will be Immunology quiz, which means that I’m going to be spending a good amount of…

Hey guys, So I’ve had a good weekend. It was full of good friends, good places and good times. My friends James and Rosebelle and I headed over to Manila and visited Alabang and Fort Bonifacio. We only spent a night there with James’ cousin’s family, but we had a pretty relaxing time. When we got there we met up with Tanya, James’ cousin, at the Festival Mall and caught GI Joe at the nearby Alabang Town Center. Although I…

So I’m done studying for the Parasitology laboratory exam that I have tomorrow (or should I say later today! It’s morning here already… =P). To be specific, I don’t only study parasites in my VPAR 131 class. The class is actually entitled Veterinary Entomology & Protozoology. So not only do I have to learn about the different types of parasites that affect different species of animals; I also have to learn about what they particularly transmit and what diseases they…

This is just one of those days where you do not want to hit the books, but have to regardless. While I’m studying for tests I believe that I’ll probably post up some interesting things that I learn and post some pictures as well. Seems like a good way to go to start off this blog. Alright, back to studying–just wanted to drop a line. =)

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…