Welcome to the fourth post in the Vet Viernes series!
Let me share with you my experience in the first year of vet school at the University of Sydney…
In your first year, it’s mainly lectures, practicals, and tutorials. The units you will be studying will mostly be very broad subjects such as Chemistry, Life and Evolution, or Statistics, rather than specifically vet-focused units of study. You can read more about these subjects in my ‘Vet Student: Week in a Life’ post!
What I really enjoyed about university this year was that it was quite flexible as to how you distributed your classes across your weekly timetable.
You could space out your sessions evenly throughout the week, or have a few go-hard days and then some less busy days. Or if you were like me, and were only able to be at university ~3 days a week due to sporting commitments, then squeezing all (or most!) of your sessions into 2-3 days was actually surprisingly doable (well, in the first year anyway)!
So, what did our days look like?
Example 1: My least busy day in a life
10am: Concepts of Animal Management - lecture
Day finished! :)
Example 2: My most busy day in a life
9am: Chemistry – lecture
10am: Economic Environment of Agriculture – lecture
11am: Economic Environment of Agriculture – lecture
12pm: Economic Environment of Agriculture – tutorial
1pm: From Molecules to Ecosystems – lecture
2pm: Concepts of Animal Management – lecture
3pm: Concepts of Animal Management - lecture
Um, where is my lunch break?!
The prospect of having no breaks in between any of your classes, as in Example 2, might be horrifying. Yes, it may be mentally draining and physically exhausting to learn from 9-4, non-stop, but it doesn’t have to be your typical uni day!
The reason it had to be so crammed was because of sport and so I wasn’t free the entire week for university. Even then, I only subjected myself to this kind of fast-paced frenzy of a timetable for just two days. In compensation, every other day was basically uni-free!
I’ve shown you the least and most busy days, so now I guess you’re wondering what the happy medium looks like?
Example 3: A day in a life
8am: Statistics – lecture
9am: Chemistry – lecture
10am:
11am:
12pm: Animals and Us – lecture
1pm:
2pm:
3pm: Statistics – practical
4pm: Statistics – practical
I sometimes skipped the 8am lecture! Naughty!
Example 4: A day in a life
8am:
9am: Chemistry – lecture
10am: Life and Evolution – practical (labs)
11am: Life and Evolution – practical (labs)
12pm: Life and Evolution – practical (labs)
1pm:
2pm:
3pm: Life and Evolution – lecture
4pm:
And Fridays were for farm practicals and nothing else! Read all about our lessons with the pigs, sheep, cattle, chickens, and aquaculture here.
Example 5: Farm practical day in a life
8:30am: Arrive on the farm, sign-in, change into overalls and gumboots
9am: Pigs
10am: Pigs
11am: Pigs
12pm: lunch break
1pm: Beef Cattle and Pasture Agronomy
2pm: Beef Cattle and Pasture Agronomy
3pm: Beef Cattle and Pasture Agronomy
Does it sound interesting?
If you want to know more about the units of study I’ve mentioned above, you can read about them here!
I hope this helped in some way to give you an idea of what a university daily schedule might look like for a vet student. Remember, this is only for first year! I have a feeling that the days are going to be longer and busier next year. You can do it!
Enjoy your weekend and the last few days of 2018!
Love, Young and Unheroic
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