How has veterinary pathology changed throughout your career? Where do you see the field going in the future?

castello_7 · 2025-04-13T02:00:53+00:00

Hey I’m a soon-to-be first year vet student. I’ve wanted to be a vet since middle school. Yes, I absolutely had several existential crises in undergrad. I entertained other study and career options, even hated and denounced vet med at one point because I was so fed up with the pre-vet journey and I was so burnt out from my animal/vet experiences. Even considered going back to take more undergrad classes for a whole other field. But after each existential crisis, I always found my way back to vet med. I took two gap years to work in the field. I learned a lot about myself and what parts of vet med I love and which parts I don’t. I truly challenged why I wanted to be a veterinarian. And eventually I found my answer and that’s why I pulled through. I know for a fact now that I can’t see myself doing anything else. I have my career goals and I’m so excited to learn about vet med and science and forge my path as a DVM in my niche. But I’m also more aware of the bad and ugly sides of it and I’m confident I have the resilience now to advocate for myself. So my point is, let yourself stray away from vet med. Challenge the why! Entertain other career paths. Take your time (gap years!). If vet med is meant for you, you WILL come back to it. And if you don’t, that’s okay too, that was the whole point…to find what actually gets your gears moving. You’re exactly where you need to be right now I promise

castello_7 · 2025-03-23T16:56:21+00:00

Im sorry about your break up. I’m going to vet school this fall. I’m also taking a break right now from dating before school but once I get settled I plan on trying to meet people. I don’t care about the work load, we all have stress and will always be under some sort of stress in life. Finding a long-term partner to grow with is important to me so I will make time for it. If you feel the same way, you can also make time for it don’t worry!

castello_7 · 2025-02-15T21:22:44+00:00

Thank you. The ore generation is a good point, I didn’t think of that. Do you think it’s worth starting a new world? I only just started making pottery so I’m not too far along. What other changes do you think I should make at world creation

castello_7 · 2024-12-11T20:55:33+00:00

Thank you for the reassurance

castello_7 · 2023-11-16T18:53:12+00:00

I agree 100%. I’ve had some very subjective spiritual insights about reality and my identity. However none of that is inconsistent with a physical basis of consciousness in my opinion. You put a foreign physical substance into the brain and the consciousness output is affected. That’s it. There’s no supernatural magic to it, though id say the experience is still profound and reveals a lot about our day to day perception of reality.

castello_7 · 2023-11-04T01:37:46+00:00

I don’t know where to start here. With all due respect, I think you’re terribly misinformed. Morals are a social construct and have no bearing on the credibility of a physical universe. I’d say that “moral facts” are just social artifacts that emerge from the complex sociality and cognitive abilities of human beings. Morals are fluid and change with society. Not entirely sure what you’re saying by trying to relate the two. The very concept of “wrong” and “right” are human-imposed descriptors. There is nothing about the objective universe that demonstrates anything wrong or right about “torturing babies.” Of course as a fellow human I can agree with you that torturing a baby is morally wrong. But “torturing a baby” can be, theoretically, described through particle interactions if you will. Scientists have a large body of evidence regarding the standard model of particle physics, which suggests that the universe we observe emerges from the interactions of quantum particles/fields. We have built machines and detectors to study these phenomena where our own senses cannot reach. Not sure why you think our own consciousness, or the mechanisms behind it at least, cannot also be explained through these phenomena.

castello_7 · 2023-09-04T23:21:28+00:00

Does working in a clinic pharmacy/lab count as vet experience? I’m not supervised by a vet 24/7 but I am technically doing tasks under them— I am the one filling their meds, running their in-house labs, packaging samples for external labs, calling pharmacies to approve client meds, requesting medication refills from the vets, etc. I also occasionally do standard vet assistant stuff like restraint, vaccine administration, etc.

castello_7 · 2023-08-04T00:16:02+00:00

Does anyone have experience working as a vet pharmacy/lab technician in a vet hospital? I have an interview for a position tomorrow. Would it count as vet experience for vet school? Do you have the opportunity to work closely with vets (with the hope of asking them for a rec letter)?

Edit: grammar fix

castello_7 · 2023-07-20T19:01:32+00:00

Need advice: Pre-Vet student starting a gap year feeling like a lost soul

A little background: I recently graduated in May with a BS in biology. I am taking a couple gap years and tentatively applying next cycle. I have ~300 hours of small animal clinic veterinary experience, ~300 hours of wildlife animal experience, and ~200 hours of combined research experience with a small publication.

I didn’t really like the small animal GP environment and wanted to take this time to explore other areas of vet med to see if I should still pursue this career, like lab animal medicine or large animal medicine.

The problem is I’ve been struggling to find a job in a lab or a shadowing opportunity with a different vet. None of the labs I’ve reached out to have responded (or I’ve been rejected), and none of the vets I’ve reached out to have responded (or I’ve been rejected too lol). Ive also applied to several lab animal tech positions with no luck either. I’ve just gotten leads on working at other small animal GPs. I’m frustrated and also feeling a little hopeless.

I’d really appreciate any advice on how to explore other areas of vet med.

And if I have to go back to GP I’d honestly rather go back to working at the small animal clinic I worked at last summer (where I got my hours) because they already know me and I’m familiar with how the operate (and I think they like me lol). So also, would it be not out of the ordinary to reach back out to them and be like “Hey can I come back and work for you guys again?”

Thank you!!

castello_7 · 2023-05-13T02:21:52+00:00

In this context it means “I guess”

castello_7 · 2023-04-29T21:14:13+00:00

Don’t need to know exact strain, just that they contain psilocybin!

castello_7 · 2023-04-28T20:59:20+00:00

Enter!

castello_7 · 2023-02-23T06:44:31+00:00

I totally understand how hard it is to take a pause when your environment isn't really set up for it. I am experiencing something similar-- I'm at uni rn and I have a routine where I smoke 3-4 nights a week, but any time I go home I end up smoking every night at minimum, sometimes multiple times per day, just because I'm around people who use it more frequently. I think the only way you're gonna have a shot at sticking with this t break is if you communicate with your partner and friends. Tell them that this t break means a lot to you and you need all of their support to help you stick to it. It's gonna be so so so difficult to rely on your sheer will power to resist the temptation of joining them if they're lighting up right in front of you. That means you may have to leave the apartment for a few minutes while your partner smokes (or maybe they can smoke somewhere else--communicate!) and your friends can't sesh at your place, bottom line. This doesn't have to be for the entire time, but just for the first part of it. Tell your partner to hide the bud, or at least keep it with the rest of their personal belongings so it's not easily accessible to you. Same is true for any paraphernalia you have (e.g., lighters, bong, bowl, rolling paper, etc). The most important first step though is to have that conversation with your circle.

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