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I graduated from Dominican University in 2018

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with a major in biology and minors

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in chemistry and business administration. After

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graduation from Dominican, I went to University

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of Illinois College of veterinary medicine to pursue

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and obtain my degree in the doctor

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of veterinary medicine and I graduated in May of

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2022 and then in June

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of 2022, I started working

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as an associate veterinarian at Morton Grove Animal Hospital where I

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see dogs, cats and small mammal exotics.

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Dominican helped me to go and kind

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of achieve my goal going to veterinary school and become

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a veterinarian. Having the small class sizes really gave

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me kind of that one-on-one attention that I needed to be

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able to fully understand all the information that I was learning while

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in school and then being

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able to connect with professors to ask

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questions and having that more

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one-to-one relationship to ask for networking,

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resources, things to do to help build up my

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resume to seem more competitive for veterinary school. In addition,

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I got the opportunity to be a research

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assistant with the Neuroscience department for

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two and a half years working with

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Dr. CJ and Dr. Bob on

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learning and memory, specifically on sea slugs.

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So I've known that I wanted to be a veterinarian since I was

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around 12 years old. At that age I always really loved

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animals and science and whenever I would

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see like an injured animal outside I would want

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to try to help them and so I thought veterinary medicine is what

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I want to do. There are those times when

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you see a sick animal and then you do

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testing to figure out what's going on, you do treatment, you give

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them medication and then a few days afterwards because of the

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medication that you gave they start feeling better. And that is

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one of the parts that makes it very rewarding because you

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see a dog that was super sick and then you with

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your knowledge and your diagnostics

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and the help of and working with the

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owner then that pet a few days after are like

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a hundred times better and they're able to live their

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life like they were before they got sick.