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  • Beginning of the End (of year 1)

    Beginning of the End (of year 1)

    Welcome back to Med School and the first week of block 5! After spending our four-week easter break revision pretty hard, except for my missing week that I don’t talk about. It is nice yet stressful to be back in the lecture halls and learning some new stuff. Despite being back in the lecture theatre, Read more

  • Appealing recipe: Banana Bread

    Appealing recipe: Banana Bread

    With all the revision and exam stress, the amount of baking occurring in my house as definitely increased. It was my housemates that gave me some inspiration to dig out this classic recipe from my collection.  I’ve always loved banana cake, I think is a simple but tasty recipe that can be cooked whilst you Read more

  • Quotes To Inspire Your Minimalism Journey

    Quotes To Inspire Your Minimalism Journey

    I love quotes, I am tweet them a lot, use them in blog posts and write them in my planner to define my weeks aims. I find them extremely useful for providing a motivation to achieve something; they provide proof that people do understand what you are going through and that people have succeeded where Read more

  • Med School Diaries: Breakdowns, Burnouts and Bunkering Down

    Med School Diaries: Breakdowns, Burnouts and Bunkering Down

    The last week was extremely unproductive in my opinion. Its always been the same when it gets to the last week of each term; my body and brain were both ready for a break and the ability to get anything remotely productive done had long run away from me.  With my car in the garage Read more

  • Med School Diaries: Lights, Camera, Get into Action

    What a week it has been, I have made my directing debut, made a last minute trip home and finally got my revision plan for next week sorted. This week has definitely been about getting into action. This week I tried to get on top of my anatomy work, but remembering the muscles can be Read more

  • Med School Diaries: Long Days, Hard Nights and Setting some monthly challenges…

    I’ve been less socially busy this week, but much more productive in everything else. There has been an element of realisation that it is MARCH!… and I have yet to set myself up to achieve my goals for the year. This week has been all about the shoulder and arm (which anatomically is the upper Read more