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NICHOLAS DIORRIO

PRE-VETERINARY MAJOR

VETERINARY BUSINESS MANAGEMENT MAJOR

BACKGROUND

• Graduated from Appoquimink High 2014

• Finished top 25 of my Class • 4.3 GPA

• National Honor Society

• Track & Field and Cross-country • Captain

• Applied to Virginia Tech • Early Decision • Only School Applied for • Offered Admission December 14th, 2013

WHY VIRGINIA TECH?

SCHEDULE FALL 2014

SCHEDULE SPRING 2015

INTRODUCTION TO ANIMAL SCIENCE

• Ms. Weiner's Class!!!

• Finished 3rd out of 267 students because of Appoquimink Animal Science

• Cows, Pigs, Sheep, Goats, Companion Animals, Horses, etc.

• Class Structure • 50 minute Lecture • No Projects • Two Tests and a Final • 8:00 am

• Solidifies Veterinary Dreams

ANIMAL SCIENCE LAB Week 1 : Introduction Buildings

Week 2 : Live Evaluation Observe Animals

Slaughter House Optional

Week 3 : Carcass Evolution Observe Carcasses from Slaughter and Week 2

Week 4 : Nutrition FEEDS

Week 5 : Reproduction Pig Dissection; Cow Stillbirth; Chicken Dissection

Week 6 : Beef Cattle Herding; Head Gate; Holster

Week 7 : Swine Herding; Ear Notching; Piglet Processing

Week 8 : Herd Health Practicing Injections

Week 9 : Mid-Term Exam EWW

Week 10 : Sheep Flipping; Trimming Hooves; Drenching

Week 11 : Poultry Egg evaluation; Life Cycle Evolution

Week 12 : Laboratory/Companion Animals Foods; Boring

Week 13 : Horses Leading; Cleaning; Racing; Holstering

Week 14 : Final EWWW

QUESTIONS?