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- Brady Commons also know as the Student Center
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- This is Conservation Auditorium where my chem lecture takes place. We fill this room with 500 students.
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- The large animal section of the teaching hospital.
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- Teaching Hospital
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- Where my Biochem hospital
Next week is finals and so far my grades are looking good. As far as finals go I have a fairly easy week. I only have one final that is truly a final in the fact that i covers all the material from the entire semester. That is my chemistry exam which will by far my hardest exam yet. The only good thing is that i have done fairly well on the other three exams in that class so the final exam does not as vital to my achieving an A. As far as my other finals they are just like normal exam.
I have had mentioned the last post I am currently a biochem Major. Due to the difficulty of trying to get the nessacery credits to apply for vet school and trying to fill my requirements for biochem it is very difficult to do in only 3 years (Ionly have 3 years because i want to apply for vet school no latter than juinor year). So i have decided after this semester i will be changing my major from biochem to animals science and a minor in biochem. This will allow me to take the courses that i need for vet school, and yet still take the courses that i wanted to take in biochem to help understand the processes in the bidy alittle deeper than i would be able to learn other wish.
Pre-vet club had a very intersesting guest speacker a couple weeks ago, a vet from the kansas city zoo, Dr. kirk Suedomyer. He had a wonderful presentation and he has a great since of humor and was able to build it in and make the presentation much more interesting. He told us of a normal day as a zoo vet, he described the vast variety that he can see in the couse of any day. The most interesting thing that he told us he did in more of a question form, and i would like to ask you one of those questions:
A women brings be a chicken in and asked me if its toes are normal, I look at one foot and it has eight toes. He then asked us….is that normal?
Now this is the greatest reply that any doctor who has no idea can give… he proceeded to tell us that he then looked at the other toe and it also had eight toes. He then told the women that for this chicken yes that is normal. He used this example to show us that in a zoo you can deal with many very exotic species and there are no textbooks for if it has the same number of toes on both feet and it is not hindered by this then yes it is normal.
After i left that lecture i was thinking about Dardenne, and i realized that we kinda have to do the same thing sometimes. such as if we get a dog in for surgery and run blood work, we notice that it may have one enzyme that is high. We check the blood work in a few weeks and the same value again. Then we check it in 6 months, the same value. Well then for that animal even though our machine says he is sick but he has no signs of illness then that value is normal for that dog.
We could say the same thing for the clinic cat Jackson, he is about 18 or so, but he has a lot more toes than a normal cat, but for him that is normal.
