I was away from home for 358 days. I started missing my dog, my family and friends the moment I stepped on the plane to Scotland. What I did not realize was how much I missed being home, like the physicality of being in Los Angeles, until I was sitting in an …
Hi! It is me again, Yii, your friendly final year vet student! I will keep my promise to share my recent trip to Italy and Croatia with you. You can probably already expect to see lots of photos about food as I am a foodie. My sister and I visited …
EMS (Extra Mural Studies) is maybe a term you have heard before while looking into Edinburgh Vet School. It’s basically work experience for us all to learn and grow outside of university and learn from many different vets. You can get EMS credit for clinical experience, research, and conferences alike. …
Coming home for the summer from such an extended amount of time away, was a first for me. I was excited, sad to leave Scotland, but eager to have some time off. So far the summer is only half way through, and it is already different to what I imagined. …
I have spent the majority of the past two months on a farm of one type or the other as I work my way through the remaining weeks of our Extra Mural Studies (EMS) requirement. This brings the sum total of my lifetime farm experience to….drum roll, please….two months! There …
Hi everyone! It is me again! Some of you might recognise me from my previous blog, but for those who are reading my blog for the first time, I will do a little introduction on myself. I am Yii Soong, a final year student from Malaysia. I …
Spring Equinox, when the Earth is equally balanced in daylight and darkness at all latitudes and signals the beginning of the Spring season. This time of years also signals a beginning in the veterinary student world… Spring Lambing! Students head to all over the UK to help farmers during this …
Flowers are blooming everywhere you turn in Edinburgh which means that Spring is here! School is out for the next four weeks and vet students are dispersing around the world. A lot of us will be on Extra Mural Studies (EMS) placements during this break. I am excited to be …
Many students have visited the vet school for their admission interview over the past few weeks. It was great to see the relieved expression everyone had on their face when the interviews were over. This reminded me of when I was in the same position 4 years ago. HAS IT …
I just can’t believe how fast time has actually flown out the window. It has been three years since I started vet school, and I just finished my last week of lectures. It seems so cliche to say “that is seems like yesterday that I was starting vet school”, but …
