11/10/2021
✨SWI Member Spotlight: Elsbeth Kane✨
Congratulations to Elsbeth for being one of our winners! Elsbeth is a member of the 2023 class and is interested in Small Animal GP, Public Health, Internal Medicine or Neurology. She thinks that Student Wellness Initiative is an important and extremely valuable organization because we need student groups that prioritize the whole student and that champions the interests of students beyond academia. Elsbeth believes that it's important to work on balance while you're a student, because the habits that we work on now will carry us through into our early days as practicing veterinarians. She finds that having group activities like the wellness challenge helps her to feel supported in her personal wellness pursuits. Elsbeth works on her wellness by trying hard to be kind to herself. When she wonders “why can't she focus" at 8 PM, she tries to remember that she was just in lecture for seven hours and that, alone, is exhausting work. Elsbeth thinks we forget to give our minds and bodies credit for the demanding lifestyle that we sustain, and it's important to give yourself grace and give it often. She also calls friends, family and loved ones outside of vet school, and is reminded of the beautiful things in her life that she cares about just as much as her career. Finally, Elsbeth enjoys doing small things that bring her joy: like driving over to the clock tower to listen to the bell chimes, getting dinner with friends to bring laughter into her week, taking long walks before around town before to see the world outside, or going to ballet class or salsa social from time to time.
