Experience.
Funny how one word could mean the difference between having your university application considered and having it thrown into the round draw of the filing cabinet (affectionately known as The Bin).
Of course, it’s not as simple as that. From the start, veterinary medicine is all about applications. You apply to college or sixth form. You apply to vet school. You apply to vet practices, hospitals, farms and zoos. You apply to junior vet positions. You apply to keep those. And even before any of that, you apply to 101 places for experience called ‘Seeing Practice’.
The reason it is called ‘Seeing Practice’ is because that is mostly all you can do. You have no formal training, so you are not therefore qualified to do anything. My hopes, while I’m still at the application stage, are that I will at least get to clean cages, or fetch things (woof), or help with feeding. But mainly, I will be watching and learning. And possibly dropping in the occasional animal-related pun, but seeing as I have no sense of humour at all, that mice not be a good idea.
Hahahahahahahahahaha...ha.
It’s probably best if I go back to writing letters now.
No. 102
Dear sir/madam...
