a) I, Stephanie Soriano, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.
b) Dr. Sigdestad from the Loma Linda Animal Hospital, my mentor, has helped me complete my independent component.
c)https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sUlsStiUA28TX5cRJrEr47lj0aifPxMgNsiRZp1nsr8/edit#gid=0
d) For my independent component, I continued working at my mentorship at the Loma Linda Animal Hospital with my mentor.
Interpretive
I wanted to continue working at my mentorship to learn more about what it is like to be a veterinarian and to help me with answering my Essential Question more in detail. On the right is a link to the 30+ hours I did for my independent component 2 and on my blog in previous posts there is pictures of when I worked at my mentorship including some of the surgery room and patients from the hospital.
Applied
My independent component shows me real life examples of my findings to my Essential Question. A few examples are that I am able to restrain the animals while my mentor treats them and the attitude of my mentor every time he comes in to work truly affects how the animals will act. They could sense a person's emotions. Another thing I have noticed is that if we try to provide a comfortable environment for the animal during a serious procedure, they will act calmer meaning it will be easier to work on them. I see these types of examples every time I go to my mentorship and I learn more through going there rather than reading articles about it. Being in a veterinarian's point of view helps you understand more of what they go through every day and how they deal with their patients. Actually experiencing it in person helped me learn more and that was the reason why I did this for my independent component.
