Orientation Day One

Happy Wednesday!

Today was my first day of orientation for vet school!  I am already beginning to wonder if I'll have time to keep up my blog (let alone sleep, eat, and exist outside of Trotter Hall), but I promise to do my best!

Here's a quick update of the day:

We began with an introductory session where we each had to introduce ourselves and give a unique fact about ourselves.  In the past my fun fact has always been that I want to be a vet - that didn't seem to be a very unique fact today.  I stuck with the fact that I was once in show choir :)

We also learned some statistics of our class:

My "study carrel" - aka my personal desk in the building

-112 students in my class out of over 1300 applicants
-24 men and 88 women
-the youngest person is 20 and the oldest is 38
-47 students from Kansas

To end the introductory session we all took the Veterinarian's Oath, which we are to memorize for graduation. 

We then split from our parents (who they referred to all day as our "support team") and got our class schedules, which I had already seen online.  We also got a run down of all of the procedures for missing class, how to find our mailboxes, where to park, etc.  Basically all of the basics.

After a quick break for lunch we came back and got our new tablet laptops.  It's an adjustment from my Mac, but am loving getting to use the stylus to write on the screen.  All of our notes are preloaded onto the computer, using a program called OneNote.  It's a little confusing, but I assume with all of the notes I'll be taking, I'll catch on pretty quickly.  We then finished the afternoon having computer orientation and library orientation.  During the library orientation we took our pictures and got our ID cards.  We will have 24/7 electronic access to the building using our ID cards to let us in the buildings.  I am proud to say that I actually took a decent picture :)

Day 1 ended with a BBQ for students and their families.  That's all for today!  Tons and TONS of information - completely exhausting and overwhelming me, but also making me really excited for school to start.  The next two days are also full of orientation activities, including getting my first rabies vaccination.  I'll try to update again soon :)