My name is Angela Pummill. I am a senior earning a bachelors' degree in biology. I am the President of the Pre Vet Society and a Pre Vet Mentor. My ultimate goal is to get into a College of Veterinary Medicine and pursue a career as a veterinarian.
I decided I wanted to be a veterinarian at the beginning of my junior year at WSU. By Winter quarter I had started up WSU's first Pre Vet Society and had a surprising number of people interested. It was great knowing that there were at least twenty other people who were interested in the same career goal.
Since the start of the Pre Vet Society we have brought in a number of speakers from the area including large, small, shelter, and laboratory animal veterinarians. Over the summer I offered a group volunteering opportunity where members participated at the Humane Society. In addition we visited the Exotic Feline Rescue Center in Indiana and volunteered for a day over this last holiday break.
I am also a peer mentor for pre vet students at Wright State. This pre-health peer mentoring program was started this year and allows students to ask questions to an upperclassman student who is actively pursuing their common goals. This program is a unique opportunity for students pursuing a career in a pre-health profession. The program has allowed me to share experiences that have been successful in helping me to obtain my goals and also those experiences that were not so helpful. Sharing this information to my fellow classmates will ultimately make their journey a little less painstaking.
I have volunteered at the Humane Society, a Nature Center, and a Wildlife Rehabilitation Center. In addition to volunteer experience I have worked part-time with a small animal veterinarian as an assistant for four years.
To improve my application when I re-apply to vet colleges this summer I have taken classes here at Wright State such as Vertebrate Biology, Parasitology, Histology, Genetics, Entomology, and Food Microbiology. Over the summer I will also be studying very hard in attempt to obtain a higher score on the GRE test (a standard test required for entrance into vet colleges and most graduate programs).
In addition to preparing academically it is required that you have a variety of experience with various types of animals. I will be shadowing a large animal vet, continuing my volunteer work at the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, and starting to work at an emergency veterinary clinic in order to offer an array of experience on my next application to vet colleges.
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