Student Blogs

Kelly holding an Eastern Box Turtle on a Turtle Team trip with the University of Illinois Wildlife Epidemiology Lab.

The field of veterinary medicine offers very broad career options, and many students come in with different ideas of what they want their future career to look like. But because students are in class all…
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Whenever I mention to someone that I am studying veterinary medicine, they always comment on how fun it must be to work with dogs and cats. While I do love traditional pets, there is an…
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Erica Jackson It was truly a once-in-a-lifetime experience! I learned so much about surgery, shelter med, Greece, Rhodes, and so much more. During our two weeks, we were able to complete about 150 spays and…
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In veterinary school, students unofficially think of the summer between your second and third year as your “last free summer.” Meaning that, once fourth-year clinical rotations start (and subsequently your career), you won’t have any…
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After finishing a challenging first year at vet school, I knew that there were more difficult subjects to come in second year. That was an understatement… First Quarter The first quarter started off as expected:…
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Morgan Garrow “Rhodes was amazing! One of the best experiences I’ve ever had. We had the opportunity to perform so many sterilization procedures on the huge stray cat population as well as shelter dogs. The first week…
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