Is Mount Ida College A Real University or A Trade School?
Mound Ida College is a school in the United States of America. While some people feel it is little more than a joke ‘vocational’ school with high school calibre frog disection experiments as an upper-division course in its ‘accelerated’ two-year certificate of science program, others will contend it is a real university in league with East Coast schools such as Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth.
Is Mount Ida a good school? Instead of speculating and drawing a reasonable analysis based upon scholastic review, today we are simply going to go straight to the source. The students of Mount Ida College.
Is Mount Ida a Real School or a joke? Mount Ida College students speak out.
Source: Mount Ida College Students
Here is one First Year Freshman female’s account of Mount Ida
i went to this school i advised u to never go or step foot on the premieres .They scam your money showers have mold in them spiders in dorm i had dirty carpet there are rapes on campus knife fights public safety is a joke your better off calling fighting your own battles. Residence life is so rude no heat at all in the winter no ac the campus is dark and gloomy and i felt very unsafe thanks for sucking mount ida worst college ever and oh wen i transferred i lost 18 credits
Notice all the misspellings in her analysis of the school and she still did not find it to be a good school. Let’s continue.
Next, we have a Fashion Major from the school. Mount Ida offers such challenging courses of degree study. Here is her review:
i was a fashion major at mount ida. Good luck trying to transfer mount ida credits relating to your major into the same major at a new school. Most schools dont recognize them as anything but an elective. Do not go to this school unless you’re 100% sure you’ll stay there for graduation. Otherwise mount ida is a waste of time and money. Most students are spoiled and have nothing to do but gossip. The campus is nice but the residence halls are out of date (except the new building, which is poorly designed.) the teachers are excellent. There is a lot of pot on campus and excessive drinking. I would not reccomend this school. Faculty Accessibility: A+, Education Quality: F Have a Question?
The teachers are really nice, but the education quality per this student rates a grade of “F”. Failing is what that F stands for, for you vet tech students who are keeping up with this. Oh, and this student makes their thought clear that “Mount Ida is a waste of time and money.” Next!
Here is a student who went there for Psychology. Let’s see what their Mount Ida experience was like. Note that people tend to stay for two-year ‘stints’ at Mount Ida, a classic sign that you’re attending a vocational tech or junior college.
I went to MIC the years of 04-06. During my expierence at the time, the facilities were disgusting. def not cleaned properly. I didnt find the work load/classes too challenging. I felt like i was in high school, including campus life as well. I met a lot of good people when i went to school there and had a lot of fun, however it is a very small campus. Just like high school there was too much drama/gossiping/etc. The years i was there i had a really good time, and the party life was pretty good. The last year i attended in 06, it seemed the party life on campus was disapeering. looking back on it, it was a good expierience and a lot of fun, but def not worth the endless phone calls from sallie-mae. Surrounding City: A+, Innovation: F
Horrible. They felt like they were in high school. The campus sounds like a Twilight scene, full of gossip and teen angst drama. No telling if there are vampire blood orgies and intolerance, two focal points of the Twilight film series. Actually, there is a way to tell. We can read the next student’s horrifying experience:
The main beef I have with Mount Ida is the intolerance. For a school that totes diversity, they sure don’t have very much. I know multiple people that are bullied on a regular basis, which is something that SHOULD stop in high school but for some reason doesn’t here. I have heard kids called ‘faggot’, ‘disgusting’, ‘weird’, etc. If you are not ‘normal’ in some way you are looked down upon–there’s no niche to fit in here. It’s just like high school. If you weren’t popular there don’t expect to be here, either.
Walking down the hallway I hear tons of racial slurs. I don’t care if you’re african american–it does NOT make it okay to degrade yourself by using the N word all the time. That and the drinking. I live in a 24hr quiet suite…I still hear drunk kids at 3 in the morning.
It is super easy to sneak onto campus. It makes me feel relatively unsafe. That and they refuse to install cameras in the hallways when there are regular break ins, many of which involve broken windows or kicked down doors. Public safety doesn’t really do a whole lot about this except have you fill out an incident report and sit there with their thumbs up their butts.
The dorms themselves are falling apart, especially the freshman ones, and getting any sort of maintenance can take a very long time.
In short…if my program were being offered elsewhere, I probably wouldn’t be going here.
Horrible, just horrible. College should be a fun life experience, not such misery. Maybe it’s because the school is more like a high school that all these sophomoric cruelties allegedly exist. Here is another account from a disgruntled fashion major:
I was extremely disappointed with their Fashion Design program. I took two classes my first semester: Draping & Couture, Basic Clothing Construction I
In Draping and Couture, there was a pleasant older woman who taught the class but zipped through everything so quickly that nobody understood what she meant. One time she said, “Everyone get it?” and when everyone murmured and basically said no, her response was, “OK, Moving on…” Yes, seriously.
The Construction class was even worse. The teacher would literally do ONE demo at the beginning of class and that was it. I would go up to her frequently and ask her if I was doing a stitch right and her response was, “This stitch is on page 85 in your textbook.” In other words, “You’re on your own, kid. Don’t bother me.” Maybe I’m picky, but aren’t teacher’s supposed to TEACH?
Seriously, I could’ve (and have) learned more with youtube tutorials and a decent textbook (not the ones they suggested) than from the professors in this program.
Needless to say, I switched schools immediately.
YouTube Tutorials are on par with a major college? Wow. The wonders of technology. Here is a look at the school from a Criminal Tech student:
First of all, do not expect anything great from this school. If your looking for the typical college life, look elsewhere. Most students go home on the weekend, and since I’m from out of state it feels like a ghost town. The students are dumb, potheads, alcoholics who only care about thirsty Thursday. No one goes to class on friday mornings. The food is even worse! Its either greasy or tasteless, expect to find the same food every week. The freshman dorms are quite old and nasty. The campus is so small that you will run into the same people everyday. People know everyone’s business. Most of the guys are jock meatheads, don’t expect to find a love interest here. It gets so boring, Boston is ATLEAST an hour commute, the shuttle to the T is terrible and freshman cant have cars on campus! In conclusion, come here if you have lowered your expectations about what college is or should be! Faculty Accessibility: B+, Collaboration/Competitive: F Have a Question?
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This school is a joke, I switched out from after a year.
In terms of social life,public safety basically ruin it. “Thirsty thursdays” are about it. Theres no frat life or much of a party scene except for trying to play beer pong inside your room quietly while you hide from RAs. Most people go home on weekends as a result. Fri-Sat this place becomes a ghost town. Most students are friendly, outgoing and not fake but some of the sports players are full of themselves keeping in mind that most of them are overweight meatheads and stoop as low as playing divison 3. People can be very close-minded.
The dorms are sh*tholes. The RAs are tools and will right you up for pretty much anything they can thin of, the rooms are small, the internet is slow and there is no proper AC/heating.
The academics are the biggest joke, good luck transferring because the credits don’t count for any other schools.
Is it true that credits from Mount Ida tend to not transfer to other schools? Any Mount Ida students who can weigh in on that one, as it is something that seems to be mentioned consistently?
Not all is glum at Mount Ida. A business student gives a rave review!
The Fashon, & Business schools are the strongest here. Work load is not to hard or easy. Lots of great contacts through the school due to the Great location 7 min from downtown Boston. Mount Ida is 100% moving in the right direction with getting a name for itself. The professors are helpful and care about you underdstanding the material so you give the school a good name when you get a job upon graduation. I would not do anything different i would go here again plenty of things to do in Boston, but have a car for sure and on campus is not bad if you know the right people. Good mix of kids some with plenty of money that drive BMW’s, Range Rovers, Audi’s and some that are the poor college kid.
A Design Arts student is feeling cramped:
The school is suffering from serious overcrowding and overall neglect. They seem more concerned for making the $10 grand for room and board than giving you what you pay for. Students are sharing desks etc. because of overcrowding. Little help from faculty to resolve the issue
So from these reviews, it seems Mount Ida is a two year school with credits that powerful Boston schools of repute are hesitant to accept. The school’s campus is a hodge-podge mix of wealthy students who want to party and say ‘they went to college’ before taking a position in daddy’s business firm and a mix of kids who may want to study.
This hardly sounds like a Harvard, Boston College or U of Massachusetts. Still, it is a regional school where you can learn good trades. Is there anything left to be said of this institution?
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Author: Adam Nelson
1:23 am
Where is Claire now a days anyway? Haven’t heard from Bruce either…are they ok? Did they ever get to…uh…you know… finish that marriage thing to completion?
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2:04 am
Sister Susan, Did she not make it to Christian Housewife Boot Camp with you? I sent her there 3 days ago. If that little hussy jumped off the bus somewhere, I may need an annulment. We haven’t “consumated” yet, so I will be able to get it quickly without sinning against God by getting a divorce.
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4:50 am
CONSUMMATED that is the word I was looking for, thank you Bruce, so glad to hear she hasnt eaten you
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12:45 pm
I was on here just last night, bitch. That’s hardly enough time to be reporting me missing.
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4:51 am
Don’t call me a bitch you feline loving whorelot! I was worried about you and your safety! And you dare call me names!
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6:11 pm
I’ll call you whatever I want to, you stupid sperm-dumpster.
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1:38 am
So you’re so butthurt over what Claire says that you devote an entire blog post to making fun of her school? Even though damn near EVERY university is like that unless it’s some high-class campus?
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1:55 am
Do you have anything to say about the article? Can you provide any insight to the reviews from these students?
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7:54 pm
I’m not the one whose mad at a girl for proving that she’s right whenever she has a battle of wits with you.
Though, in order to fight a battle of wits, you first need to actually have some, which is what you lack Adam.
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8:02 pm
Adam, this isn’t an article. It’s really just a collection of student reviews with your little comments in between.
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8:50 pm
Yes, it is quotations from a source (the students) with speculative commentary interspersed. That is fine journalism. Can you deny any of their claims, Claire? You do attend a school in this area, do you not?
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6:15 pm
“That is fine journalism.”
Uh, no it’s not.
“You do attend a school in this area, do you not?”
Don’t play stupid, you quack of a doctor.
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2:14 am
My son went to Mount Ida after he was denied entry to most of the standard schools here in New England.
Upon visiting him, the school lacked any real science or standard rounded education (GUR). It truly is a glorified “community trade college” There are many students there getting 2 year degrees and the four year degrees are just the two year programs with a little extra and a lot of extra money.
This school is more expensive than most if not all public division 1 (BCS) Schools. We were shocked to find this “college” isn’t even accredited nationally. It only has a local accreditation that is barely real.
After 1 year my son was able to transfer to a community college and then he finally moved onto Syracuse where he is happily back on track. But the 1 year at Mount Ida was a big expensive headache that I truly regret.
Another thing I’d like to note. This “College” is in the back yard of Harvard. A large percentage of the attendees are spoiled brats of Harvard faculty who can’t get into a real school. This allows Mount Ida to charge a ridiculously large amount.
The Lacrosse team is pretty good though. My co-workers son in law played there for a bit.
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3:30 am
Thank you for this review. It really helps us look into this school and students who are matriculating into a Junior College need to know what they are getting into if they choose this school over others that may be a better fit for them. Did he happen to mention anything about a ‘massive’ veterinary program at the school? Some people have told me that Mount Ida has the nation’s premier vet program, but I tend to doubt the veracity of that claim.
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1:03 pm
There is no Veterinary program at the school. It’s Veterinary Technology, and it’s the school’s most popular program thanks to the brand new multimillion dollar vet tech facility.
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12:13 am
“school’s most popular program thanks to the brand new multimillion dollar vet tech facility.”
That’s like saying something most Utah’s most popular Bar.
Good one Claire, I’ll have to share this with the guys on the back nine in the morning.
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8:00 pm
Maybe instead of bitching about Mount Ida you should be thanking them for admitting your spawn when no other school would.
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5:36 am
This is how I imagine Claire’s home life to be:
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3:40 pm
now that is an lol cat!
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6:16 pm
It’s an lol cat? I don’t see a caption, do you?
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2:32 am
You pegged this school right on the nose. I go to Harvard and I formerly dated a girl from here. Not the sharpest tool in the shed IYKWIM. Typical daddy’s girl who wasn’t smart enough for higher education. So this way she can buy a diploma and get a pretend college experience.
You can buy a fake degree online or you can buy a fake degree + get to play college student at Mount Ida.
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8:07 pm
I wonder if it,s the same thing as being reverand via Internet … what You didn’t know ?? religion is a Fraud as well a real BIG joke
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12:10 am
Excellent point mil-li. You and Harlaw2014 you should speak louder about this fake school.
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4:07 am
Trade schools like Mount Ida College are frauds and i feel sorry for the student of that pathetic scam college.
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11:11 am
While I find it hard to condemn any investigative reporting this thorough, I have come to the conclusion that Claire is almost certainly mentally unstable, and I fear for anything she may read that will worsen her condition.
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12:48 pm
“I have come to the conclusion that Claire is almost certainly mentally unstable”
Please elaborate.
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1:01 pm
“Is Mount Ida College A Real University or A Trade School?”
Neither. It’s a college, hence the word “College” in the name.
“While some people feel it is little more than a joke ‘vocational’ school with high school calibre frog disection experiments as an upper-division course in its ‘accelerated’ two-year certificate of science program”
Actually we dissect cats. Oh, and you spelled “caliber” and “dissection” wrong.
“others will contend it is a real university in league with East Coast schools such as Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth.”
Have I or anybody else on here actually tried to compare it to Ivy League schools? Dude, I’m from Cambridge, I had to walk through Harvard Yard every freaking day to get to high school; I’m well aware that there’s a difference between such schools and Mount Ida.
“Failing is what that F stands for, for you vet tech students who are keeping up with this.”
Um, it’s the fashion majors who are the airheads, not the vet tech students.
“Here is a look at the school from a Criminal Tech student:”
Actually it’s called Criminal Justice.
“So from these reviews, it seems Mount Ida is a two year school”
I don’t know about other majors, but the vast majority of vet tech students go for the four year program, myself included.
Oh, and in terms of education quality, Mount Ida gets a B+. Harvard, on the other hand, gets a B for education quality.
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4:42 am
Well, you experience dissecting cats will surely come in handy. There seem to be places out there that require such skills.
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6:22 pm
We dissected cats Freshman year and the only purpose was to teach us their anatomy. We never did any other work with deceased animals (except for Research Methods II where we each have to, unfortunately, dispatch a mouse and then do a necropsy on it).
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7:09 pm
I’d like to read Tyson’s review of the journalism program he went through at Mount Ida.
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7:12 pm
I went to UofA. A real college where my credits can transfer to any other real college in America.
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7:46 pm
Do you want a medal?
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3:49 pm
Don’t want your trade school medal. I have a real degree.
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6:24 pm
I’ll be getting a real degree as well.
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9:09 pm
Exactly. Real education is transferable.
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8:41 am
I just want to make something clear. Mount Ida College is an accredited four year college and the courses are transferable. In order to transfer to another college you need to have a C+ or better. Also, if you were placed into remedial courses – they don’t transfer. I had a friend who went to Mount Ida and transfered 57 credits to Syracuse University. So if you didn’t get transfer credits it’s because you didn’t get a C+ or better or you were test into remedial courses and that is your fault not the Colleges.
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12:06 am
Great post Claire. A real college doesn’t have “remedial courses” and all credits transfer. There is also a difference between a “local accreditation” and a nationally recognized accreditation?
Even fake online (school in pajamas) degrees have an accreditation, albeit meaningless. There seem to be a plethora of other people associated here with mount Ida who agree it’s some big joke.
Might I suggest a career in sharpening pew pencils? You might be good at it.
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8:48 pm
Why is Mount Ida listed only as a ‘regional’ school? Can it not get national accredidation?
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9:02 pm
I think the real question is, why the hell do you care so much?
There’s proving someone wrong, and then there’s petty revenge. You sir, fit in the latter. You’re pissed off at Claire for what she’s said about you (which damn near all of it’s true judging from what you’ve said while I’ve been here) and you just want to get back at her by making a blog post saying ‘her college sucks’.
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9:11 pm
Right, L.N. attack Adam instead of admitting the truth. Mount Ada is two clicks aways from Beauty School.
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9:15 pm
I don’t give a crap about the school. Not only that, but why would a man care about beauty school?
Besides, how does that invalidate my point that Adam’s just bitching a fit over Claire?
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9:53 pm
This is the sort of thing that Obama has done to this country. I bet they don’t even have prayer in this school, but probably do have a Muslim department of evolutionary studies.
I will pray for the poor children who have been tricked into spending their hard earned White parents money on this scam institution.
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2:01 am
If its not a religion based school praying can NOT be part of a class unless that class is based on that religion and the students are informed ahead of time that it may take place.
As for Mount Ida seems like a decent place I never went there but regional accreditation does not make it a ‘trade’ school it is a formal college get over it oh no its a real school deal with it and seriously making an entire article because you get trumped every time you go head to head with someone you are below pathetic
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6:27 pm
Thank you, Sith Lord.
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6:27 pm
“I bet they don’t even have prayer in this school”
Why should there be?
“Muslim department of evolutionary studies.”
Say what now?
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4:59 am
This is an investigative report? Why are the liberals saying that this is an attack piece? I seem to remember a REAL attack piece that I read a while back that claire wrote About Mr. Nelson and a fake story about his early life.
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5:03 am
Yes, found it. I believe this is a real piece of muck raking journalism from the not so innocent Claire….Sorry Mr. Nelson to dredge up such horrible memories for you…
http://christwire.org/2011/03/excerpt-from-my-name-is-unique-the-autobiography-of-adam-nelson/
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5:07 am
Yes, thank you. She tears into my life with lies and deceit, victimizing me like so many others have done. People like Claire love to bully stand-up guys like me.
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3:43 pm
and the elderly!
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4:24 pm
I see her as morphing in to something similar to this in her old age:
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4:25 pm
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/VpdR6.jpg[/IMG]
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4:25 pm
one more time with feeling
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4:40 pm
Don’t you rape your nurses and dream about killing cats? How is that being a ‘stand-up guy’?
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6:29 pm
At least I don’t bully nurses into sex and then treat them like whores afterward.
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3:51 am
I’ve always wondered- is this a serious website? Because I always leave laughing hysterically at the imbecilic articles.
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5:52 pm
Wait, Claire, I thought you went to Harvard Junior College? You are saying you go to Mount Ida instead?
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5:40 pm
I am a Veterinarian and currently the Director of a VCA in Southwick, Massachusetts. I received my DVM form Cornell University. I cannot believe I found this article.
Since becoming a licensed veterinarian many years ago, I have worked with hundreds of vet techs. I will have to say that the graduates Of Mount Ida are the sorriest bunch I have ever seen. Most vet techs get degrees at community colleges and are hardworking contributors to the clinics. The ones from Mount Ida all think because they went to this overpriced school that they have a sense of entitlement and are better than their peers. Nothing could be farther from the truth. They are the most lazy, unprepared technicians I have ever met. Most spend all their time complaining and genuinely can’t do what it takes to control and treat an animal. VCA runs more than 500 Animal hospitals in over 40 states. It is an unwritten rule here that the graduates of Mount Ida should not be hired if at all possible.
As a note to aspiring techs: Get your degree from a community college; do not waste your money on one of these fake “trade schools”. If you want to get a Bachelor’s degree anyway, go to an accredited university and Major in animal science first.
Avoid Mount Ida at all costs.
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12:08 am
This is great, how did I miss this article before. This comment must be the greatest one in the history of the internets. Praise click for you VCA-Southwick,MA.
Claire, have you applied here yet?
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11:23 am
Thank you for the advice! Listen up kids, if you’re going into being a vet tech!
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12:10 pm
This was great advice, do you think it’s too late for Claire to change direction?
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3:36 pm
Wow, what a review.
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11:30 am
All the vet techs where I take my Bible verse terrier and card cheating cat are lesbians. They are very biased towards the cat, feeding him special treats and giving him lap dances. My poor puppy always feels lonely when I have to board him. He tells me they call him dog and don’t play with him enough.
There has to be a better source of training.
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