The Kitty Doctor

There's just two weeks left until I move into my apartment at VT! I was able to check a few more things off of my to-do list this week. I ordered two lab coats and a pair of coveralls online that were delivered, plus a rice cooker. I also called the electric company to request service and paid the first deposit. It seems like my roommates and I have most of the shared items we'll need covered, like living room and dining room furniture, kitchenware, etc. Everything is slowly coming together! Echo has already gotten his hair on the new items! 

Today I got an email from VMCVM's Director of Admissions and Student Support, who has been sending emails to the class of 2021 over the past few months to help us transition. The email was about the White Coat Ceremony, which "is a very important event as you begin your professional life." The email instructed us to make a recording of ourselves stating our name so that it will be pronounced properly at the ceremony. Such a great idea! After listening to deans struggle to pronounce some students' names at the Rutgers SEBS Convocation in May, you'd think that more schools would implement this tactic. As veterinary schools focus more on diversity during the application process, incoming classes are bound to contain more minority students. Like myself, some students have names whose pronunciations aren't intuitive to native English speakers. I think it's great that VMCVM is making an effort to be considerate toward all of its students. A name is who you are

Hello! My name is Miranda - welcome to my blog. I recently graduated from Rutgers University with a Bachelor of Science in Animal Science, and next month, I'll be starting my new journey as a first-year student at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine! VMCVM is located at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA. I'm a DVM Candidate for the Class of 2021. As the blog title may suggest, I've wanted to be a veterinarian since I was a child. In fact, I came up with the name "The Kitty Doctor" a long time ago, and I've owned the domain name and the blog since 2006 (to put that into perspective, I was ten years old when I made my first blog post!). At the time, cats were (and still are) my favorite animal, so naturally the title was born. In just four years, I'll have my degree and officially be able to use that title! In one month, I will be moving to Blacksburg, where I'll be living in an apartment with two roommates. I'm not familiar with t