Breaktime- The Penguin Suicides

In the spirit of the dreaded Block I Finals, I thought I would share the immortal analogy of Dr. Linda Mizer, about how the vet student's brain works. She said this sometime last year, and it has since been embraced by most of the students here at Cornell for its downright scary accuracy.

Your brain is an iceberg. All the information you put into your brain are penguins. In vet school, there is a penguin population explosion of epic proportions, and that iceberg gets pretty crowded in short order. So, penguins start jumping off... first little penguins like where you last put your pen down, or forgetting your lunch. Then bigger penguins get squeezed out... when was the last time I ate lunch, exactly?... and finally, in the hope of keeping the vet penguins squarely in the center of the iceberg, things like "what's my phone number?" and "how to talk" jump off into orca-infested waters. It's quite the frightening scene. Of course, post-final, I believe there is a penguin-kicking party where all of the vet penguins are unceremoniously shoved off, and a rescue attempt is made for some of the more important penguins. We'll see how that goes.

Anyway... that is how we think. That is why we may not appear "normal" during school time... we've just lost a few penguins. Or a lot of penguins. But hopefully you get the idea.

Back to penguin-cramming!!!