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rockstar i havent got a eureka moment yet. i worried a lot about not knowing my focus. my ideas and proposal is so broad and when i went for my interview, that was pointed out to me. i came back so upset thinking that i wouldnt get an offer and then i was offered a place :-) im finding now from browsing on this site and reading the posts, that seems to be the norm(?) i start in january and ive been worring when il get my eureka moment. Mmm....!
sorry post went on twice. im not saying notts isnt good. its too new a course. and certainly not good enough compared to the RVC and others that have been going for years and are fully accredited. having a working hospital on site as the RVC has is just amazing. it costs the earth funding kids through vet school and we dont want to be part of the early guinea pigs at notts. thats how we see it. its too new and not enough facilities. they'd have to bus pupils out to get any clinical experience and certainly not with large animals like the RVC can with their link with london zoo. RVC is well known and well established with very high reports. that is where she aims to go and she wont even apply to notts. if she doesnt get into RVC, she will do a biology degree elsewhere and apply to RVC as a graduate entry. she doesnt want to go anywhere else not after visiting RVC. we also found on the day we visited notts that the same guy who started the course, gave the talk, rushed out to put an overall on to give a talk in the lab. and he rushed out of lab again to take his overall off to give another talk in the main hall again. from that, we felt they didnt have enough staff. at RVC there was a plethora of highly qualified staff. u didnt have the person in charge of the course and department running around giving the parents talk and rushing to the lab to give the talk there. we thought that was hilarious at notts :-)
She's aiming high. gosh! have u seen the place? its absolutely amazing (RVC). we went on their open day and it was all so organised and so knowledgeable. the staff were so knowledgeable. they have a hospital on site. students deal with an amazing array of animals. the hospital at RVC is a fully working hospital linked to London zoo. u cant help but want to go there. everything was amazing. we went to notts open day and were very disappointed. there is no hospital there. they do not focus on the clinical aspect and they told us so. so i cant see how they can ever get accreditation unless they can offer the kind of level of education the RVC do. we also found the staff at notts not as knowledgeable as RVC. we were shown into a sandschool where we were given a talk by a farrier for the army who asked us if we knew what a farrier does ..lol. ud think we were primary school kids. we actually decided to leave after as we felt it was a waste of time. chatting to others there who had gone to other unis offering vet courses, they felt the same. we havnt gone to check out other vet schools and my daughter says there are some very good ones, but notts in our opinion was a no-no. and RVC was certainly the top. even others we chatted to said if they could, that would be where they'd choose to go first. i loved the place and all the facilites. even the hospital there accommodates giraffes! :-)
She's aiming high. gosh! have u seen the place? its absolutely amazing (RVC). we went on their open day and it was all so organised and so knowledgeable. the staff were so knowledgeable. they have a hospital on site. students deal with an amazing array of animals. the hospital at RVC is a fully working hospital linked to London zoo. u cant help but want to go there. everything was amazing. we went to notts open day and were very disappointed. there is no hospital there. they do not focus on the clinical aspect and they told us so. so i cant see how they can ever get accreditation unless they can offer the kind of level of education the RVC do. we also found the staff at notts not as knowledgeable as RVC. we were shown into a sandschool where we were given a talk by a farrier for the army who asked us if we knew what a farrier does ..lol. ud think we were primary school kids. we actually decided to leave after as we felt it was a waste of time. chatting to others there who had gone to other unis offering vet courses, they felt the same. we havnt gone to check out other vet schools and my daughter says there are some very good ones, but notts in our opinion was a no-no. and RVC was certainly the top. even others we chatted to said if they could, that would be where they'd choose to go first. i loved the place and all the facilites. even the hospital there accommodates giraffes! :-)
hi. eternal voyager..what is zotero?
also - PhD journal - should/can this be in paper form? or better on laptop/comptuer? should i get a filing cabinet and store hardcopies?
thanx for all ur tips. i start jan and would love to learn from others who have been there, done it, worn the t-shirt :-)
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