10. None of your classes apply to you or your career. You’re required to take everything from psychology to art classes and you will never be able to relate to any of the material. On top of it all, the one class geared towards studying animals will actually be about bacteria growth and population. Complete waste of time.
9. Every time you tell someone your major, they have random animal stories to offer back to you. Even if you couldn’t care less you have to sit and listen to the time when they were 5 years old and they seen a bird get stuck in a fence. The awkward head nods and short responses usually aren’t enough to end the conversation either.
8. You’re always stressing out. Veterinary medicine is such a competitive field that every single exam, conference, and ounce of experience counts. There’s never really a time when you feel like you can relax about your future. Be prepared to call your mother crying. All the time.
7. You get asked to help with the craziest stuff. Even though you actually have no clue what to do when dogs swallow foreign objects or how to chase a squirrel out of a house, you’re the first person on the call list. We actually don’t learn much about saving animals at the collegiate level. But, if you need to know how to say “bathroom” in Spanish or anything about the cell cycle, you’ve called the right person.
6. Pre- vet is that blurry middle between being it’s own category and being merged with pre-med. There’s never really many events held for us. If there is, it’s usually an event for pre- medicine majors with one person who has volunteered at a humane society speaking to veterinary students.
