I feel as though it was just yesterday I last posted and not nearly a week ago. But finals have begun in earnest and being the last-minute crammer that I am, I've had my nose to the grindstone.

So many of my classmates are posting on Facebook about this being their last final exam period ever but I just can't get into that mindset. I wonder if it's because I'm hoping to do a residency afterward - which require you to do a concurrent Masters degree or even a PhD (which I've been considering more lately...I think I may have finally lost my mind) - instead of a "normal job" that isn't geared toward taking another mammoth exam (hello, board certification!) but I just don't feel the excitement to the level that I perceive my peers to be experiencing. Don't get me wrong, when I think about not having to sit in a classroom all day and cram for tests like this ever again, I feel happy; but I think my true jubilance will be reserved for when I get to go home with my DVM in hand.

Aside from finals (I have ten of them...blech), I've also been dealing with finding a place to live for fourth year. My current place is a cottage that gets rented to tourists over the summer months, which has been great because I don't have to find a sub-letter or pay rent year-round. However, I will be up here over the summer months this year and I needed to find a place to stay that would allow me to rent month to month. I looked at three places and settled quickly on the last place, a little apartment with two huge bay windows down near the water. I'm really going to miss my quiet country house, but driving only four miles round trip to school every day is going to be a dream compared to the normal 24.

So my next two weeks will consist of cramming for final exams, packing and impatiently awaiting April 28th when I head for home. I'll be there for a month - seems like a long time but I have so many people to see and little things to accomplish that I know it'll go by much too fast. But when I come back at the end of May, it's only six months until I'm home for good! Talk about jubilance :)