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The Archive

  • Christmas as a Minimalist

    Christmas as a Minimalist

    Take a moment. Step back from the social perceptions of Christmas and the pressure to buy excessive amounts of Christmas related products. Think about the last five christmases you’ve spent with family and friends. What are your fondest memories? I have strong, fond memories about Christmas; but non of them revolve about the things I Read more

  • Determined in December

    November has been a pretty stressful time. Not only have a been pushing really hard to make this year of medical school successful. I’ve been mucked about by student financing issues and working every other hour of the day to ensure I can be a medical school. It’s been a shame, because I was really Read more

  • A letter to myself,

    The last two weeks have been hard, and until today I didn’t really know why. Yes, there were alot of things going on that were stressing me out. But it was nothing worse then things I’ve experienced before, so I couldn’t understand why it was affecting me so badly this time. Then I realised; I Read more

  • Reflecting On | Resitting First Year

    Reflecting On | Resitting First Year

    Resitting first year is a strange experience. There’s something so refreshing about the experience because I have really grown from it but at the same time it’s been a really mentally trying time. I wanted to start of my new blogging schedule after my blog down time by giving people an incite into how reciting… Read more

  • AirBnB and Minimalism

    I’ve never been someone who stayed in short term accommodation. I’m a planner, I like to know what I am doing and plan accordingly. So when I found out I was coming to back to medical school I was rushed to find accommodation. The plan was to book an AirBnB and live in it for Read more

  • The Hardest 10 Weeks of my life

    The last ten weeks have been some of the hardest of my life; Mentally, physically and socially. But I’ve come out of the stronger and ultimately happier… though maybe worse of financially! For those of you who don’t know I failed my end of year exams. It sucked massively. I put my head down and Read more