I like cutting things :)

Helloooo from London! I decided to come home for the weekend because it's UWO's homecoming (and my first homecoming as an actual alumnus who isn't living in London anymore!). I also figured I wouldn't have the time to go home until Thanksgiving so I might as well take the opportunity now.

Recap of this past week: I LOVE DISSECTING ANIMALS. We had 2 anatomy labs this week, and in addition to the fact that they're soo helpful for visualizing everything we've been learning in lecture, I'm also a little scalpel-happy. One thing I was thinking while dissecting thoracic muscles, ribs, lungs and hearts was that 1. internal anatomy is so complicated but body systems work so perfectly together, it's amazing, and 2. it isn't as intimidating as I used to imagine it being. Of course it'll be a different story when I'm cutting into a live animal, but I always think of surgery as being a mess of arteries and nerves that only a magical surgeon could manoeuvre around. These anatomy labs have shown me that once you know the anatomy of that region, everything falls into place and it isn't as scary as it may seem! Now let me do a heart surgery... Hahah just kidding.

In non-academic news, our class (Ivory Owls!) is working on a crest that will be on all of our merchandise. I can't wait to finally vote on a badass owl design so we can get those jackets that I've been wanting forever - and of course walking around all over Guelph showing odd that "Veterinary Medicine" embroidery on my back ;)

Or this could be on our jackets? 

Next weekend is our professional welcoming ceremony where we get our embroidered blue coats (blue coats > white coats, sorry MDs ;)) and stethoscopes. I'm ready to feel even closer to being a vet :)

But for this weekend I'm a Mustang, not an owl! I'm going to get some sleep so that I can be ready to celebrate tmrw in purple and white attire :)