A silver lining to this week s most annoying internet event.
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After a 23-tweet thread in which indie rocker and podcaster John Roderick tried to show off his parenting skills by refusing to show his hungry nine-year-old daughter how to use a can opener went viral, Twitter users are now texting their dads to see if they pass ‘the Beanchdel test’.
As a refresher, ‘Bean Dad’ truly took over the entirety of Twitter earlier this week, as Roderick’s thread gained traction for its ridiculousness, and people expressed concern about his parenting abilities. His defensive doubling-down created a further layer of controversy, as sleuths found a multitude of offensive tweets from his past, which, indirectly, may end up costing potential
While many children dream of becoming a veterinarian when they are young, only a few follow this path due to the academic rigors and emotional challenges that come from working with animals. Knowing the anatomy of everything from a mouse to an elephant is no small feat and is something that Dr. Allison Bechtel, a Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School graduate, has accomplished.
âGetting into veterinary school is very competitive as there are only 32 accredited programs across the country which is vastly different from the amount of accredited human medical schools, [which is] 155,â said Bechtel.
She attended veterinary school at University of Illinois University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine from 2014 to 2018. This was followed by a one-year small animal rotating internship at VCA Alameda East in Denver, Colo., and another one-year small animal medicine internship at VCA West Coast in Fountain Valley, Calif. She began her Small Animal Internal Medicine Re