med school vlog 🩺 | productive days in my life, studying & getting my life together

Celia is going to be joining me over at the cafe, which is super duper exciting. Again, the model, welcome. Alrighty, so bit of a quick update before we continue on with our day. It is study season! It's been so long since I've actually studied for a proper exam because I've been in my fourth and final year of medical school and the big part of that is going and doing all of your electives and all of your rotations. So I haven't written an exam in, I don't even know, like eight months at this point? I don't even know if I know how to take standardized exams at this point. Today I am starting to study for something called the LMCC slash the MCCQE, which is basically just a licensing exam that's at the end of your four years of medical school and basically you need to finish that exam so you can pass and basically get your MD. The problem with this exam is that it really is a culmination of everything that we learned in med school. It covers all the different topics from peds to OB-GYN to internal to family medicine, ethics and all of that stuff and it's just it's so much and it's so overwhelming. So I have spent the last couple of days kind of researching online the resources that people use and what their strategies are for tackling an exam as big as this and I think I've kind of gotten a sense of what I want to do and today is the very very very very first day that we're going to start our full-time study prep for it. And I'm a little bit scared but you know what am I supposed to do? I gotta do what I gotta do. If all goes well it will take me about six weeks to do this. Very varying things. Some people say that they study for a week before which I don't believe. I think most people lied. And some people said that they study for three five months. Guys that's not necessary. So I like to think that six weeks really is the sweet spot. At least I hope it is because that's all I have. Let's go ahead and start studying. I literally stepped out three seconds post freezing rain. I come to see my car. You guys look like what in tarnation. Just pure it's completely frozen solid. Like every surface of my oh my gosh. I stepped out and immediately slipped off the top step of my porch and just fell because it's so slippery. You guys like look at this. Look it's just pure ice. It's like I have frosted glass. So I'm just trying to defrost everything. Oh my gosh. Like I like sure freezing rain really cold rain that freezes but then you know I kind of forget that everything turns to ice and it's very unsafe. Okay I fell again. Ow I hit the car with my boots. I've fallen down so much. It's like the ground is so icy. It is uncharacteristically empty on the road for 7 p.m on a weekday and why that's because there's a warning outside for horrific freezing rain as you have just seen me suffer the consequences from. Oh my god. We've had freezing rain before. I think anyone in kind of like whatever in Canada in general but also Ottawa specifically is very used to bad weather. Like honestly negative 30, horrific snowstorm, anything like that we can cope. We can manage. But this freezing rain guys this sucks. Oh my gosh that's so painful. I fell so many times. Everything hurts. But you may be wondering why are we on the road despite this inclement weather. Well that's because the girls want to get ice cream. So me, Cecilia and Riham are on the way to get some ice cream right now. Well it's actually like an ice storm outside but you know. Why not? I want ice cream. We did a lot of studying today. Like I told you today was the first day that I tried doing some of the UWorld and I'm starting off in OBGYN which is you know pregnancy, delivery, women's health and all that stuff. And honestly guys I have completely forgotten everything. Come into this ear and right out the other. Just completely seeped out of the ear because I'm trying to answer some of these questions and I'm like I have no idea what I'm reading honestly. And it doesn't help that the questions that I'm doing right now are for the US MLEs which is for the US medical licensing exam and there are just small things here and there that are a little bit different. Like I think, correct me if I'm wrong US healthcare providers, you guys look at hemoglobin as grams per deciliter and it's like her hemoglobin is four and I'm like oh. So she's dead. So she's dead you're saying. You guys have different units so. Those are very small differences but I think like fundamentally the core concepts are the same. We are on route to the cafe this morning. I want to have a really productive start to my day. So the crazy thing is that we no longer have really in-person classes or clinical duties. The next couple of weeks or so are really just dedicated to full-on full-time exam prep. So most of my day will just be spent doing practice questions and studying and really when I'm feeling really cooped up at home, the best strategy is to go to a cafe or just have a change in scenery to really motivate me to study. We're gonna go to a cafe, we're gonna go ahead with our UWorld questions and we're gonna try and have a really productive start and have a good jump start to our morning. Here we have a slice of burrata. So I'm currently getting the craziest deja vu because I feel like today is the exact same as yesterday especially in the filming perspective. So I've been staying over at Ozzy's Place because these really walking distance all of the cafes that I really like and now that I don't really have classes or anything it's so weird not having structure especially after just coming off of ortho and you know having to wake up at like 5 30 in the morning and having my rounds and going to the OR and having everything so like organized already for me it's so weird just like having all of this time for myself and you know having to rely on myself to come up with a schedule. Because it seems like the world is a simulation and everything is the same, we are going to be doing what we did at this time yesterday and I'm going to be heading to at least a different cafe today. The goal is to get through at least 50 of my question banks today in the OB-GYN section. I'd come to the horrifying realization this morning that I was doing the wrong questions like instead of doing the step exam questions I was doing ones for like the shelf exam whatever it doesn't really matter. Hopefully I'm doing the right questions and I can blitz through them a lot faster now that I've finally reactivated the critical thinking side of my brain. Hopefully I can blitz through them a bit faster because honestly the first two days of studying has been a very difficult grumbling return back to studying. And Cecilia is going to be joining me over at the cafe which is super duper exciting but I'm hoping to spend this very lovely Friday just studying and grinding out these cards because somehow I'm already off schedule. Oh I like the pink one. Cecilia and I are currently taking a study break and coming to one of our favorite places which is the kitchen shop and we're looking for a little gift for the camera boy man. This is getting me very excited for having a kitchen in the future because I feel like I would want my cutlery to look like this. Cecilia and I are really excited because we'll finally have our own place for the first time and I'll put Cecilia's address in the description below so you guys yeah everyone can come so you guys can visit and bring a housewarming gift. Thank you. I only take things over $30 also. How about this $29.90? Actually after tax that's okay. Acceptable. No I think I like it. Okay I don't know how this keeps happening but truly my room is perpetually a mess. I don't even have that big of a bedroom I think. Like all I'm doing is either cleaning the kitchen or cleaning my bedroom. Look at this little slug that I embroidered. Slug crossing. So this is the extent of cleanliness my room can reach at this moment but the time constraints that I have at least I made my bed nice you know whatever is going on over there and then this is still questionable but better than before. So happy Saturday you guys. I feel like it's been so long since I've vlogged during a weekend so you typically don't see what I get up to on the weekend but today very excitingly Aaron and I are going it's like weird because it's not really like pottery painting there's this really nice studio called four cats and they're having this little workshop where you are given like a mug that they made and you get to sculpt like little knickknacks and things and stick it on and paint it later you'll see it because I'll vlog it over there and do a little bit of pottery painting and we're gonna come back cook and finish some work that I've been doing um you can't see it in the background anymore as I always do I'm either editing or I'm studying or doing something in between so this morning I was editing the video that is going to be coming out tomorrow in my time and it will be the video that you watch probably right before this one it's very strange like honestly it's like time is a vortex to me oh hello are you running late okay we're running late do you want to say something here can you talk while I change talk talk talk talk Chinese nut taste test all right I brushed my teeth about half an hour ago show the camera what you're having look it's a dried nut it almost looks like a coffee bean look at the new plan the nut makeup tutorial move wow bang oh they're dry slightly sweet like a weird sweetness can I try this is from Julian actually straight from China oh oh it's sweet interesting google translate this for me what am I eating okay so my dad loves salty plums but they're like normally really red and dry and crystally there's a pit in it this is juicy this is like a dried plum oh but it's like it tastes like Christmas pudding it's good eh it literally tastes like it's just been soaked in brandy that was his snack test we'll see you guys at pottery pottery can you tell us where everything is from my pants from Grimici I like them because they have big pockets big pockets you could Jacob Elordi the books in here it's fantastic to hide a pocket book when you're going into the lab in secret okay and then this shirt that my beautiful loving girlfriend made me for my there we go okay here's my outfit for the day my jeans are from a studio nixon okay my top is from TNA I call this the tank air dupe wonder I'll have enough money to afford a $150 tank top from daycare but today is not the day and then this cardigan is from brandy mobile but unfortunately shrunk it listen so now it's a little bit too small for me and here's my clip on coffee mode and I'm on Pinterest trying to find what shape mug I want to do I think I'm gonna do this shape because I like very like circular here's mine you guys this is a lot harder than it looks and here's our final product I was really afraid that I wasn't gonna finish it in time but I'm very happy with the result this is my detail this is his ditto it's so cute and I made a calla lily and then the little leaf as the handle but I'm very afraid of the hello everybody we're back from pottery and now we're having a quick little snacky boo what time is it it's not even snack anymore it's 4.50 it's 5 p.m today I'm going to be trying what do you call this something like that tin fish for the first time explain the spread oh here we have some sardines in olive oil classic and this one I haven't tried before that's some calamari's with I believe onion and tomato in oil it should be good we'll give it a nice warming and then have it with some sun-dried tomato tapenade from the deli and a baguette remember these ones are in the tomato bread I reckon a bit of this oh it breaks apart a lot easier than I thought you can see this the spine and you just go it reminds me of if anybody knows what tinapa is in the Philippines it's like the very small fish and it reminds me of this and it honestly smells like this too you know champorado is are they just filipino sardines maybe but the very strange thing is we would have champorado which is like a chocolate rice like pudding thing and we would put the fish in it and eat it like that that's filipino as hell weird ass it sounds really gross but it's really so hard chef chef tell us your meal some mushrooms that I fried up and then some clean sauce that I put in there with some stock see guys this is 2026 me I'm upstairs I'm studying I'm working hard the man in the kitchen the man in the kitchen where he's happy to be are you happy to be here or are you here against your will no I love unfortunately none of the lights in the living room work so we have to eat by candlelight I asked for mushroom pasta for dinner and I get mushroom pasta for dinner thank you how is it mushroomy that's really good the pasta is so thick girl that's delicious good job people ask how I'm able to manage it all like youtube med school and everything and the task is to delegate all the things that you don't want to do like I like cooking but sometimes I don't want to cook this is really good it's good to find somebody who who enjoys doing what you don't like doing and vice versa what's something that you don't like doing that I do study that's why we're good here and that's the dinner guys boom