I make sangria pretty often, but the best I've made was for the Halloween party we had at our apartment. Click 'read more' to see the recipe!
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As previously blogged, I highly recommend all pre-vets to attend the UC Davis Pre-Health Conference this year, occurring this weekend! This year, I plan on attending the following workshops:
Check out http://ucdprehealthvet.weebly.com to find out more about the veterinary workshops offered this year.
Recently it was my first last day of school at UCD!
I decided to take it "easy" this quarter with only 12.5 units, the lowest number of units I've ever taken at once! I took summer classes in order to reduce the load during the regular year, but boy was it non-stop. My brain and body are definitely appreciating the lighter course load. A week after Spring Quarter ended, Summer Session 1 began. Then Summer Session 2 began. A week later, Fall Quarter started. I'm taking exercise physiology, ecology, beer/brewing, tennis, golf, and abs/back conditioning this quarter. I always love to take PE classes, I'd go out of my mind if I didn't! My exercise physiology class is awesome, so far it's been a wonderful meshing of physiology and biochem/metabolism I learned from prior classes. Job, lifestyle, and educational funding opportunities like those in the Army Vet Corps make me really want to commit-- to get them to want me for their Health Professionals Scholarship Program (HPSP). I've been on and off about the whole HPSP thing for the past few years-- friends and family bring up a lot of valid points against joining armed forces such as MST (military sexual trauma) and the potential of serving in active war zones. But I'm drawn to it once again. I just met with an AMEDD/HPSP recruiter and I'm talking to the veterinarian at Travis AFB to start shadowing to get a sense of what life *could* be like in a few years. A lot of the California and Hawaii veterinary job descriptions are really appealing. In many cases their vets get to treat an amazing mix of animals. I really think the Vet Corps is looking for the best veterinarians for their excellent positions that make them even better veterinarians with the leadership expected and types of animals they may treat- horses, marine mammals, military working dogs, and pets of service member's families. To top it off, bases have rock climbing walls, outdoor rec programs, fitness centers, preschool and daycare.
Check out this amazing job opp at Hawaii's Kaneohe Marine Corps Base. http://vetopportunities.amedd.army.mil/hpsp/hpsp_dutysites_view.cfm?DutySite_ID=61 I wrote this narrative with the intention of giving other dive students an idea of what to expect on their own check-out dives. I ended up sending it to my dive instructor in case he wanted to share it with his future students. Here, I share it with you, aspiring diver! Check out www.anchorshack.com for excellent dive instruction in Concord/Pacheco (East San Francisco Bay Area), CA.
Fifty-two degree water rushed over my ears and into my neoprene hood. My hand flew to the zipper at my clavicle to draw it all the way up and over my chin to close off the flow. Chilled, I bit my teeth down hard into the regulator’s silicone mouthpiece as I exhaled, sending a stream of bubbles rushing out and up to the surface three feet above me. A squeezing sensation suddenly grew in my forehead, yielding when I pressed my nostrils shut with my right hand, blowing gently into my pinched nose to equalize the water pressure. When I un-scrunched my eyes, I could see the rest of my classmates’ big yellow fins flapping in the water a few feet above me, waiting their turn to descend on the first of four check-out dives we would do to earn our open water SCUBA certification. Note taking using shorthand is valuable to all kinds of learners- visual, auditory, and kinesthetic!
By developing your own bank of shorthand words, you can increase the time you spend synthesizing the main ideas presented in lecture-- the point of notes is to take away lecture CONCEPTS, not practice your calligraphy! Notes provide physical evidence of the lecture for you to refer to later, and by using shorthand you will be able to both get all the information down PLUS have time to actually listen to the teacher. When you are spending time writing, you miss out on paying full attention to another student's question, or worse, miss out on asking your own question because you did not have time to synthesize the notes in your head to even begin to develop a question. Energy allocation, people! Or should I say, NRG alloc'n, ppl !! If you are pre-vet (or any pre-health professional), I highly encourage you to attend the Pre-Health Professionals Conference at UC Davis this year!
Last year I attended the conference, learned a TON, made new friends (even pre-vets from other states!), and simply had a great time from beginning to end. It was awesome to meet so many other students who were equally ambitious, hard-working, and passionate as I about vet med (shout-out to Amanda C. and Meredith F. !), and am ridiculously excited about attending again this year. You don't have to be a UCD student to attend-- better yet, UCD offers free housing and, in some cases, free transportation to the conference. Right now the ticket is $45 for both days, but rises as the conference date approaches. You can even become a conference volunteer to attend the conference for free (even if you are not a UCD student)! Check out www.ucdprehealth.org for conference info, and read on for some strategic advice for attending getting the most out of the conference. I'm sure you are well aware that veterinary school is going to be expensive, but you may not have realized that the costs actually start with the applications. Application cost may be constraining when trying to select how many, and which, schools to apply to. Though I am only applying to four schools (UC Davis, Colorado State, Washington State, and Oregon State), I was surprised that I've already spent a thousand bucks towards vet school applications. So, this post serves to guide you as you budget and plan your application strategy. This is a summary of what my costs have looked like; it will be slightly different for each applicant. Itemized details follow VMCAS general application: $495.00 Sending transcripts: $10.00 GRE prep: $13.00 GRE exam: $195.00 Sending GRE scores: $27.00 Supplemental applications: $250.00 PPI evaluations: $0.00 Interviews: See more recent post from 1/18/2016 Total= $990.00+ (still to be added are interview costs (transportation/housing/food))
A few overarching goals inspired the start of this personal blog:
1. Throughout college, I have been incredibly busy with volunteering, work, internships, extracurricular activities, outdoor adventure trips, and heavy course loads even through summers. Without a doubt, friends and family will see even less of me in the coming years, as I will be even more deeply immersed in the study of animals, not to mention potentially leaving California for veterinary school. As such, the foremost purpose of this blog is to be a way for family and friends to find out what I'm up to, especially for those family and friends who are not using Facebook. 2. I want a medium where I can provide useful advice for pre-veterinary and veterinary students (based on my own experiences). 3. I want to share my passions and what I learn from experience with anyone. You may be wondering: why "apachegirl"? No, I am not of Native American descent (though I am flattered to get that question a lot!). "Apache" was the name of one of the most wonderful creatures to ever walk this earth. She and Meg, my two sweet, beautiful, intelligent black Labradors whom I essentially grew up with. I actually got to pick Apache out from a litter of Lab puppies when I was five years old. We took her home in a cardboard box in the trunk. Oh, memories. Which I can save for a future blog post. |
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