The semester is winding down. Exams are looming—or finally behind us. Assignments are being submitted, practicals are wrapping up, and somewhere between the last lecture and the last deadline, we're all starting to realise: we made it through another academic year. But how are we actually doing? Maybe you're feeling proud of how far you've come. Maybe you're exhausted and counting down the days until you can sleep without an alarm. Maybe you're somewhere in between; relieved

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Some things only make sense if you've survived vet school. Every Christmas, my family slaughtered a chicken. It was routine. Someone would pluck the feathers, someone else would cut it into pieces, and before long it would be in the pot. I never thought much about what happened between "alive" and "dinner." Then I went to veterinary school. After one semester of anatomy practicals, I went home for the holidays carrying something I didn't even know I'd learned. While everyone

Different paths, same destination. If you ask any group of veterinary students about the toughest part of vet school, you'll hear stories of endless practicals, sleepless nights, impossible exams, and the constant pressure to keep going. But there's no experience we rarely talk about openly: failing an exam, resitting a course, or repeating a year. For many students, it's one of the loneliest moments of their academic journey. It can feel as though everyone else is moving for