1) Constantly explaining to people that you can do more with your degree than just go to vet school: Sales, marketing, customer service, HR, PR, nutrition, reproduction, management, breeding, research, pharmaceuticals, meat science, grad school...there's actually little we can't do.
2) People thinking that because you're not going to vet school you are dumb, including your pre-vet peers: Sorry I wanted to enjoy my under grad years not studying all the time or spend the $200,000 it takes to get through vet school.
3) Having class at the teaching farms in the middle of the day: Not only will I show up late to my next class, but I will do so smelling like poop. You're welcome liberal arts student sitting next to me.
4) When the department makes you learn about more than 1 species: But I just want to talk about pigs all day, every day. Why are you trying to force companion animals on me?
5) Anatomy and Physiology: Pre-med students just have to learn about the human body. We have to remember the differences between cattle, small ruminants, pigs, horses, dogs, cats, and chickens.
6) Remembering that few people understand your An Sci language such as "small ruminants": Goats and sheep here people.
7) Arguing/Blocking your friends on social media that share posts from HSUS/PETA/Food Babe and other anti-livestock groups: Sometimes you just can't fix stupid or uneducated.
8) Those pre-vet kids who kill the curve: You know, the ones who sit in the front row, ask a million questions every day, never come to class hungover, and complain about getting a 95 instead of a 98. My GPA loathes you.
9) Shopping for meat takes 100x longer: I will dig through all 20 packages of sirloins to find the one with the absolute best marbling.
10) You are quite comfortable using the anatomically correct words no matter the situation: Semen, testicles, penis, vagina. If used in public, which happens frequently, this usually leads to judgemental stares from those around you.
11) The guy to girl ratio sucks: Hard to find a husband with 3 girls fighting over 1 guy. #ForeverAlone
12) When your advisor suggests taking some agronomy classes to be more "well-rounded": Then you remember that plants don't talk, move, and normally die when they're sick which makes you bored out of your mind for a whole semester.
13) Biology: 5 classes, 3 labs, many many tears.
14) We aren't afraid to get down and evaluate some poop: That shit says a lot about what's going on inside (pun intended).
15) That awkward, unofficial divide between the livestock kids and the companion animal kids: You don't really want to learn about pigs. I don't really want to learn about cats. Why don't we just get seperate majors and call it good?
An Sci struggles are all too real, but at the end of the day we know we are preparing to be a part of an industry that provides a safe, wholesome, nutritious protein source to the growing global population and we can't help but be proud of that.