18+ Event so please bring your ID

Stands for ‘Faculty Day’ and is an event not to be missed under any circumstances. Vet Students have been known to blow off mates’ 21st’s to be at FAC Day, so no excuses. If you are only going to attend one event a year make it this one. I cannot stress that enough! The day is a great way for all year levels of the vet school to come together, have a laugh, meet some new people and have a great day/night to remember for years to come!

We book out an entire camping ground for FAC Day and vet students and lots of ‘ring-ins’ (non-vets) descend, dressed in their year-specific hilarious shirts on Saturday morning around 11am (this year it is Saturday the 7h of March, make sure you have this weekend FREE). Each year has their own singlets complete with pictures on the back (voted for and designed by your year). Each year has a different colour and a different design and slogan that they get to create as a year level together. This is usually done through the individual Facebook year pages, away from the other years, making the day a special surprise!

We congregate around the dam and enjoy many cheap drinks provided by the 5th years. Numerous activities are conducted in the daytime portions of the event – ‘Running of the First Years’, ‘Slip & Flip’, ‘Miss Vet’, ‘Tug of War’, and many others.

Once the sun goes down, we move to the top of the hill to set up tents and swags. After a swim in the Brisbane river to clean off and a fresh change of clothes, we chill out for a couple of hours then move into the marquee for the evening proceedings where we enjoy cheap drinks from the Social Committee as well as the extremely prestigious Miss Vet competition for that dose of drag queen we all miss in our lives. We camp overnight and on Sunday morning have breakfast (for those who can stomach it) before heading home and lying on the couch all day... If only every day was FAC day.