I have wanted to work to help animals in developing countries ever since I visited India when I was a child and saw emaciated dogs and cats roaming the streets.  However, I never really thought about what helping them would mean until I got to vet school.  My childhood ideal of all of the animals ending up plump and laying around in homes was not at all realistic.

A rundown of the realities of Block IV in vet school.

The benefit of having an institutional hierarchy.

What does veterinary medicine, and medicine in general, lose with increased emphasis on specialization?

How the language we choose can impact those around us.

A recent New York Times article calls Nikhita Parandekar's grad thoughts on today's journalism into question.

A year ago I wrote a column about problem-based learning, in which I said that I thought it was a conceptually brilliant teaching strategy but maybe didn’t live up to all of the hype that surrounds it. Two semesters later, I think it’s time to re-evaluate.

How being a student changes after undergrad. 

Reflecting on the unexpected over the first year of vet school.

Why taking extracurriculars as seriously as academics, at least in vet school, has a big pay-off (and not just for your résumé).