Shadowing Hours: How Should I Deal with this Burnout? So for context, I'm a Pre-veterinary student. 600+ hours of shadowing a veterinarian is considered competitive in order to get into vet school. I'm at around 250. I work 8 hours a day 5 days a week, and I go shadow 5 hours a day 5 days a week. I also am in school online. This is. Exhausting. I'm not getting enough sleep, and I'm sacrificing the quality of my personal relationships. I'm doing 25 hours of shadowing a week in order to try to be semi-competitive by August. The deadline to apply is September and they like you to apply early. Additionally, even though I have all other prerequisites met to get into vet school, I've been recently told that until I get my bachelor's, I won't be competitive either. I won't get my bachelor's until December of 2027, which, due to how application cycles work, means that if that's true, I won't be competitive until the 2028 application cycle.…