Onwards and Upwards

“My experience growing up in Clay Center was realizing that I had a very tight knit community and [that] knowing one person can get me connections to others. Having those connections to everybody really helped me get through living in Clay Center.

Clay Center has influenced me by always encouraging me to go for what I needed or what I wanted, [and] always building me up. I never even thought about going to Colby until someone in the community told me I should.

I want to be a vet just cause I love animals with everything in me. I love learning about them. I always want to know what I can do to help them [and] how they work. Working with animals can be such an influential part of life. There are so many ways I can work with people and animals in different fields, not just veterinary. I’ve always been fascinated with animals.

Here at Colby, the college has its own shelter for animals that are also used in the program and then are adopted at the end of the school year by students and community members. We’ve slowly started gathering all different kinds of animals. This week we got to watch a couple spay and neuters on some cats to see how it is done before a test next week. We began to pay attention to this one cat and we realized the cat was a hermaphrodite. I’m not sure the percentage of hermaphrodite cats that have existed, but I know for a fact it is extremely rare!

I think coming back to Clay Center [after college] would be amazing. I loved working at the vet clinic there with all those doctors and vet techs; that was amazing. But if I get called somewhere else, I get called somewhere else.”