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FAQ - New Students

Parking | Dress Code | E-Mail | Laptop Computers | Class Notes and Books

Parking

Parking permits can be obtained at the Parking Services building, which is located just across Dennison street from the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital. If you order your parking permit through KATS in advance, the cost of the parking permit is just added to your tuition, and you will be able to pick up your permit at Parking Services after a designated date. If you don’t order your permit in advance, you can still go and get a parking permit at any time, but you will have to wait until after the designated date, pay for it at the time, and you may end up waiting in line for a while.
The standard parking permit will allow you to park in O, T, and Z marked lots. If the main veterinary student parking lot behind the vet school is full, you can also park in the parking lot of the Parking Services building, in the Rec Center Parking lot, or in the general lot to the east of the vet school student parking lot. You cannot park in the parking lot in front of the VMTH during open clinic hours. However, you can park in that lot from 5pm-7am Monday thru Saturday, and all day on Sunday.

Dress code

Dress code for classes is casual. You may wear whatever you would like to classes, including jeans, t-shirts, shorts, etc. However, keep in mind that visitors and tour groups routinely go through the vet school, and that you are representing your school to them in the way that you dress. (And you will make Dr. Elmore really happy if you dress professionally.)
Dress code for anything over in the clinic that would have you interacting with clients (such as shadowing a senior) requires professional dress. Nice slacks and a nice shirt are acceptable. White coats are not necessary except for seniors. Scrubs are required only if you will be in surgery rooms at any point. Jeans are acceptable only in large animal areas (although khakis are preferred). If you aren’t sure, it is best to check with someone in the area you will be in.

E-Mail

All veterinary students are given a veterinary school e-mail address. Your e-mail address is generally composed of your first initial followed by the first seven letters of your last name, @vet.k-state.edu. To access your school e-mail account, go to the main page, www.vet.k-state.edu, and click on GroupWise Web Access on the lower right hand side of the screen. It will ask you for your user name and password. Your user name is the same as your e-mail address, your first initial followed by the first seven letters of your last name. Your password is your social security number.
To send e-mail to other students or to faculty when you don’t know their e-mail address, or to send a mass e-mail, you can use the address book in your e-mail. Simply click on the little address book icon on the left hand side of your screen. Follow the directions in the address book. If you want to do a search of the entire address book, just leave the begins with slot blank, and scroll down in the number of names to display to 200, and then just hit next at the bottom of your screen for each next group of names. If you want to send a mass e-mail, just look up the name of the group that you want to send it to. For example, to send an e-mail to the entire class of 2006, just double click on Class2006, or click on it to highlight it, and then click on the To: button on the right hand side of the screen. To get back to composing an e-mail after selecting the recipients, click on the Mail button at the upper right.

Laptop Computers

All of the desks in the student labs have network hookups that will enable you to hook up a laptop computer to the KSUCVM computer network. Wireless network is also available in all of the student labs and in the vet med library. If you don’t currently have a laptop computer, but are planning on purchasing one, check out the suggested requirements at www.vet.ksu.edu/admit/comppur.htm before purchasing a laptop. First year students beginning with the Class of 2011 will be required to have a laptop computer; however many students find that it can make things easier. There are also 3 computers in each student lab for student use.
Once you have obtained a laptop computer, along with required network hookups as suggested on the requirements page, you will need to have the necessary programming installed so that you are able to use the KSUCVM network. To do this, simply take your laptop along with hookups to the computing office, which is on the fourth floor of Trotter Hall, next to the library, and they will take your laptop for a day or two and put all necessary programming on it for you.
The KSUCVM Computing and Technical Support (CaTS), also has a very informative website that covers most other computing questions you may have at www.vet.ksu.edu/depts/cats/index.htm.

Class Notes and Books

At the beginning of each semester, you will pick up your notes for that semester in the library. (Only for classes prior to Class of 2011. All classes after the Class of 2010 will be issued a tablet with the notes in digital format on the tablets.) All of your classes will provide you with preprinted notes, either copies of their PowerPoint presentations, or narrative notes. As a result, you will probably need several 3-ring binders for your classes, rather than ruled notebooks and folders. You may wish to take additional notes, and many people do, but overall, about 90% of testable material will be in your preprinted notes.
You will also be given a list of books that are required or suggested for your classes. Even though many of your classes will have required books, for those of you who are trying to cut costs, you will not necessarily use every book that is required. In addition, many classes (not all) will make the required books available on reserve up in the library. Many students choose to purchase all required books as they feel they may use them as future reference books. But, if you are trying to save money, and only want to purchase the books that you will absolutely need, you may want to check with several upperclassmen, or e-mail scavma@vet.ksu.edu to find out which books are most utilized.

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