Ambitious & Caffeinated

23. European 3rd year med student. Studyblr/medblr.

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Close up of the drawing from my last post 🖊Using Goodnotes 5 on a 9.7” iPad Pro!

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Starting this module right with pretty notes 📝 Using Goodnotes 5 on a 9.7” iPad Pro!

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Best thing about working from home: More natural lighting than in my uni’s library ☀️

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tue 31 mar // 09:18
One exam down, one to go!

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tue 24 mar // 14:19

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Welcome to my “quarantine” life! I am not personally quarantined, BUT everything is closed and of course we are encouraged to practice social distancing, which means I live my life almost as if I were quarantined 🤷🏻‍♀️Staying inside, preparing for exams, watching Netflix, that is life now!

Home office has been upgraded; Added shelving as an “add-on” to my desk (as it is quite shallow) and my iMac, which has filled up 90% of this desk despite never really being used, has been sold! 

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thursday jan 16 // 22:35

4 days left to study for my next exam 😩 This is 100% representative of my usual setup during the last days before an exam, except the drawings are usually done in half the amount of time I spent drawing this 😅 (meaning; quick and dirty is my pre-exam study style ✌🏼)

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wed 4 sep / 11:09

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sunday 9 jun // 12:26

A bit more messy setup today than yesterday, but very much representative of my usual setup 😅Two days left until my last exam of the year, and I am SO SO ready to be done with genetics! Not that it isn’t interesting, but goddamn it, I am fed up of calculating risks and drawing family trees!!

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friday 7 jun // 14:26

Long time, no see, tumblr! It’s been a crazy first year of med school (although it is not quite over yet - one more exam to go) with moving to a new country, getting to know the other students and the city I now live in, a new language and not to mention a new field of study! I am currently in my last module of this year, and most of the module has been spent being social and moving to a new apartment, which means these four last days before my exam will be spent mostly studying. This is just a little peek at my new apartment (obviously filled with little (mostly fake) plants 😇), and I must say - I am thoroughly enjoying living on my own, especially now during exam season!!

(oh, and wow, such shitty quality 😫I just can’t bring myself to bring out my DSLR to take photos while I know I should be spending my time studying, not fiddling with SD cards)

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sunday 10 march, 13:21

My study essentials: Coffee, water, Notability and Anki. I recently started using a digital planner that I made for myself so that it would fit my needs exactly. Using it in Notability on my iPad Pro allows for writing longhand, and having it digitally means one less thing to carry around! I’ve gone almost completely paperless by having a digital planner, typing notes or writing them up with the Apple Pencil, as well as having all my textbooks as e-books.

My current module is molecular medicine, including organic chemistry, biochem, pharmacology and enzyme kinetics. Going over notes and making Anki cards today!

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Wednesday 30 jan // 18:47

Same setup as always! In case anyone is wondering; I mainly use MS Word for notes etc. after OneNote created a serious mess for me for the second time last year. On my iPad I use Notability for lecture notes, where I write longhand directly onto the slides during lecture. I just started a new, chemistry-heavy (and therefore equation-/symbol-/mathemathics-heavy) course, which makes the iPad Pro and Apple Pencil perfect!

As for calendar/planner: I use Fantastical as my calendar, and a digital Passion Planner (with Notability) to break down my tasks.

I also use mostly e-books, which is why you never really see physical books in my photos anymore ;) I find having to only bring my Macbook and iPad, and then having everything right there with me, incredibly practical! 

Oh, also featuring my 24Bottles clima bottle and Eva Solo to-go coffee cup, because COFFEE

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tuesday 22 jan // 11:44

So it’s been, what...? Three months since my last original post? Well, I’m almost done with my first semester of med school, as I have my exams for this module tomorrow and friday. I’ve been having some real hard time falling asleep and getting up, as well as staying awake these past weeks, so my studying has for sure been lacking. I don’t feel prepared at all, and as this is the last day to study, I don’t even know where to begin... HOWEVER, I’ve dragged my lazy butt to the library and pulled up my pretty notes/anatomical drawings to at least attempt a proper study session today. Sooo... WISH ME LUCK, I truly do need it!!

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wednesday 12 sep // 5:50pm My three absolute essentials in studying (besides some good noise-cancelling headphones!!): Planner (mine’s from personalplanner.com), water (bottle from 24bottles) and my laptop (Macbook Pro 13in, I have all my medical textbooks as ebooks!). Happy studying everyone, especially those of you (like me) who are still stuck studying at 5:50pm ;)

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tuesday 11 sep // 11:00AM Second day, second week of med school, and I’m already living at the library 🤷🏻‍♀️

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thursday july 5 // 13:21 Anatomy/physiology repetition notes in progress once again 🤓

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tuesday july 3 // 13:23 Leaving Rapallo by train, headed for Pisa! Attempting some anatomy/physiology repetition to prepare for the 6 years of med school ahead of me 🤓🤘🏼