One 18-year-old, four countries, zero sponsors.
Honestly, it was never really a "decision". I was little when our dog died — from that day on, there was never any other plan. Vet, that's it. The rest of my teenage years, I spent preparing for it.
At 15, I started a little blog to organise my own research. Nothing serious — an online notebook where I wrote down everything I picked up about the profession, about entrance exams, about studying abroad. I called it BecomingVet, because that's exactly what it was: the trail of an aspiring vet learning, day by day, how to become one.
A year later, when I really started digging into how you get into vet school — from France, but also looking at the UK, Spain, Ireland, Italy —, I hit a desert. Blogs abandoned in 2018. £2,500 agencies that just copy the official sites. Contradictory Reddit posts. Nowhere to compare a Spanish public school with a British private one, with real data, in a language I could read fluently.
So the notebook became a tool. One school profile. Then two. Then an interview simulator, because I was stressed about my own. Then a grade converter, because I'm doing an IB myself at an international school in Mauritius, and nobody could tell me clearly what that meant for London, Barcelona or Bologna. Every tool was born from a question I asked myself. Three years after the first post, BecomingVet.com covers 32 schools across 5 countries and 4 languages — no account required, no ads, no sponsors, not one penny asked for.
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