After our trip to Utah, we were ready for some rest. Well, that didn't happen. BYU-I's winter semester starts January 5, which is over a week earlier than Austin Peay State University's spring semester which starts January 14. So of course I ordered my books online (saving over 200 bucks by the way!) and didn't have any of them when school started. Good thing my classes are easy! Michael was smarter than that and was able to buy some books from friends and the rest from the bookstore for a pretty good price. This is my first semester at this school and let me tell you, things are SO different! There's a dress code, no shorts/ capris, no holey jeans, no facial hair, and lots of other things. Pretty much you're supposed to look well groomed and well dressed. There's also an honor code. Since it is a private school and it is a church school, that's to be expected. No lying, cheating, philandering (if you know what I mean). What I got out of it is uphold the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints standards or go to a different school. I had a hard time with this at first. Especially after coming from a public school that was very.... lacking in any kind of rules. But it makes sense. We all have a choice and if you can't do what is asked of you, then pick a different school. It's that easy. But if you can uphold the standards, then your tuition is super cheap. It's 1700 a semester for tuition here, that's about half what I was paying to go to a smaller school in Tennessee. Michael is so smart he gets a full ride tuition scholarship from his grades when he previously attended. He also gets the Idaho grant that if you live in Idaho and stay in Idaho to go to college they give you like 200 bucks a semester. Which is nice. I don't qualify for any of the scholarships yet. As a transfer student, you have to wait 1 semester for them to review your grades from this school and decide whether the grades you received were high enough to get a tuition scholarship. As a sophomore you have to get something like a 3.89 or higher to get a full tuition scholarship.
Enough about that. My schedule is awesome! Here's what it looks like.
Animal Anatomy and Physiology MWF 9-10 Lab M 3-5
Math for the real world MWF 11:30-12:30
Book of Mormon MW 12:45-1:45
Veterinary Medical Terminology TR 9-10
Intro to Lab Animal Science TR 10:15-11:15 Lab T 3-4
Animal Care and Management 1 TR 12:45-1:45 Lab R 3-5
Yea, my classes are awesome, except for my math one. Because it's dumb. Here's Michael's schedule.
Natural Disasters MWF 9-10
Developing World MW 10:15-11:15
Homer to Tolkein: Quest in Arts MWF 11:30-12:30
Energy Issues and Alternatives MWF 12:45-1:45
Intro to Business Management F 7:45-8:45
Intro to Family History TR 10:15-11:15
So far my classes are so much fun. I've learned a lot about animals. I've been able to perform physical examinations, how to do subcutaneous injections, trim nails on dogs and rabbits, and tons about the ethics and the laws regarding what veterinary technicians can and can't do. I'm also the President of the Student Chapter of the National Association of Veterinary Technicians in America at BYU-I. This is the first semester we've had the club so organizing it is kind of interesting. The vet tech program has only been at BYU-I for 2 semesters. We're not yet accredited and we don't have a technician on staff, so technically we can't join the actual NAVTA yet. We're working on it. All the classes I have on Tuesdays and Thursdays are taught by the same teacher and I've got all the same classmates for those classes. It's a small group about 17 of us. It's nice. So the good side to the program being so new is the classes aren't as intense as they could be, I get the same teacher for my important classes, and the group is really small. On the other hand, they're in the process of building a veterinary teaching hospital that won't be done til I graduate. We have classes in an old house that's super ghetto. And we don't have as much equipment or animals to work on. Paving the way for the future students is pretty neat though.
Michael likes his classes, for the most part. He always has tons of homework and all his classes want him to work in groups. He had to create his own website for his business class. wmplr.weebly.com It's been pretty crazy. I work Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Michael is on a rotation for weekends and Tuesdays at work. So we don't see each other very often. And when we do, we're doing homework. So the fun of school has already gotten us super stressed out and thinned our wallets more than we thought. That's probably the only down side to having a name at the end of the alphabet, the government FAFSA stuff goes alphabetically so we haven't received our financial aid yet. FUN!
Hope this has been educational. :]
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