I'm 18 year old college freshmen at a community college and as of now my major is Liberal Arts or AA degree. For awhile now since enrolling I still don't know whether if I should go the career path of a veterinarian or just go to art school to do something graphic design related. I went to an arts highschool and was encouraged by my teacher to attend art college. However I've also always wanted to work with animals. As cliché as it sounds I've always felt a connection with animals and making them feel better whenever they're sick or injured.
Any time we have to take our cat to the vet for an emergency and they prescribe meds I'm always studying their functions and keep track of dosage schedules and such.
But I'm still very undecided. And I understand the competiveness with gaining admittance and all those hours of experience and making sure you have your prerequisites and a solid gpa. Right now I'm taking my general eds but If so, I am looking into double majoring in art and bio-related 2 year degrees due to the certain number of credits needed for art school but this is just a back-up plan that I need just in case things don't work out.
So far for me first semester I feel that I'm doing pretty well. I can expect to have at least a 3.5 or higher. But this is mostly due because I'm not taking math yet as it's not one of my favorite subjects. But I do like biology. As far as experience goes I still don't have any animal experience yet. I'm going to be sending out an application for a pre-vet summer volunteer program at an animal hospital, and I'm going look into the animal clinic across the street for the vet and ask if I can shadow for a couple days to see how things are. In addition to others that I've found. My only concerns are. I don't know If I'm really smart enough because I don't really like math but I've learned to cope with it. whether If I should do the double major- art school as a back up. And making sure I'm really content with these scary sounding prerequisites.
I'm from New York City so finding a vet to shadow can be pretty tough, all these insurance policies. Any how, the closest Vet school to me and instate is Cornell. Its in ivy league school and Its one of the best vet school there are. But this won't discourage me entirely. I've taken biology in highschool, but never taken chemistry, organic chem, and physics is part of the pre-vet courses.
I'm a hard worker and have good study habbits but just the thought of this whole process and the rigorousness seems daunting.
any advice?
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nontrad is vet med right for me?
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