Things for Edinburgh are starting to move slowly, but surely along. My transcripts were finally available on June 25th, so I rush ordered those and then sent them express mail to Scotland. The school received them and I was officially updated to Unconditional Firm, meaning I have satisfied all of my pre-requisites!
Now I have to secure my visa. Unfortunately I’m going out of town, so I couldn’t make a biometric appointment to be fingerprinted and face-scanned until the day I get back – July 10th. It’s later than I had hoped, but I will send off all of my necessary paperwork to the visa-issuing centre in LA either after the appointment or on Friday, and hopefully it will arrive on time to be processed before I leave! It has been very stressful graduating from a university that is on the quarter system, because deadlines for Edinburgh correspond with semesters which tend to end a month earlier than my school. This means transcripts were due June 30th and mine weren’t even available until June 25th! I’m getting very anxious that I leave in just over a month and I do not have a visa, but I couldn’t get one any sooner. Anyway, I’m glad I’m that much closer to school.
I’m also very excited about the clothes we have to buy:
This is what I wear for fieldwork. Vet schools in the US require scrubs but it seems that UK and Australian schools use boiler suits in their place. As a heavy girl, these will be an extra fashion faux pas, but also think they’re a little bit fun. They certainly identify you for what you’re doing: field work with stinky, unclean animals.
They’re 40 USD each, which isn’t terrible considering that, with perhaps a jacket or vest, that’s your entire outfit planned out. I think it would be nice to have at least 5 pair, so I’d have one for each day of the week, but considering that I also need to buy wellington boots (80 USD) and waterproof jackets, trousers, and lab coats (about 40 USD each) we will see how fashionable of a vet student I shall be.
I also came across a very nice image of the front of Summerhall, where lecture occurs.
More updates as they occur!
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