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These are wonderful! I don't suppose you had encountered your Vet during Vet school? There are some behaviours inclusive in this event that are truly mind-boggling.
1) Do not expect to spend 'quality' time with your Vet student unless you enjoy the smell of necrotic tissue, formaldehyde, and other noxious odors associated with labs. To spend time with your Vet student, you must be willing to spend time where they are and they are in the lab(s) studying.
2) Your Vet student may indicate their need to study anatomy, either small animal or large animal, at all hours of the day and night. This study may include very close inspection of an organ when the student awakens to find themselves face down in the liver. Don't worry, your Vet student will survive this trauma only to be exposed to more gook and goo.
3) If attending your Vet student in their lab, do not be surprised or stunned by that which you may encounter. Carcasses of animals will likely be present in the labs and they are likely to be in a various state of 'undress' or displayed in a rather surreal method, like hanging from the ceiling.
4) Your Vet student may develop a method for memorizing things that includes composing songs and diddies listing the various pharmacological labels and items. This is normal and you may find yourself remembering the terms as well.
5) Unlike baseball, there is crying in Vet school…and swearing. Especially at the professors who get to sleep in their own beds at night.