Month: August 2022

It’s here again: August 29th. It is one of the happiest dates and one of the saddest dates in my life. On August 29, 2008, Flint officially came to live with us. On August 29, 2017, I woke up to the cytology report from Penn saying that he had little sarcomas all over his abdomen,… Continue reading August 29th

I recently read a book about what students learn in and take away from vet school and how their perspectives change between matriculation and graduation. The researcher met with and followed a small cohort of students throughout their veterinary education at an unnamed university in the Midwest. I think this group of students graduated in… Continue reading Starting off on the wrong foot

Some people have recurrent, often unsettling, dreams about being back in school: they missed attending a class for an entire semester, they forgot about a final, etc. Some people dream about losing their teeth or falling through indefinite space. The stressful dreams I remember most often are work-related. Sometimes, they’re so ridiculous that, in hindsight,… Continue reading Stress dreams