Life across the pond

American expat in London. Feeling 24. Planning to save the world. If you're interested, grab a cup of tea and hold my hand to follow me in my life across the pond.

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Match Week

Long time no see Tumblr. 

I’ve been meaning to write to be able to look back on the chronicles of medical school stress this week in particular. Hopefully to look back and see that everything always turns out to be ok. It’s match week: where every single medical student who’s applied to the united states for residency finds out if they have their big girl or big boy job after years of schooling come July 1st. 

March 11, 2019 10am CST: Find out IF I match + My 27th Birthday 

March 15, 2019 12pm CST: Find out WHERE I match 

April 25, 2019 10am CST : Find out if I’ve passed my exams and I am an MD.

There’s less than 30min remaining as I’m writing this until I find out if I’m going to have a job starting July 1. I find out if I’m going to be a pediatrician. Becoming a pediatrician was a new dream about halfway through medical school but boy, did it hit me like a train. It made the stress, long hours and time away from family and friends almost worth it because of how happy it made me. So while I’ve been focused so heavily on the March 15 date because I desperately want to be back home in Chicago, I should remember that as long as today goes alright--I will be ok. Pediatrics makes me so incredibly happy that it shouldn’t matter where I practice, only that I will have the privilege to practice. and work with families and children during some of their darkest moments and rejoice in some of their happiest. I have to remind myself what a real gift it is to be part of people’s lives during their most vulnerable and intimate moments. I love what I chose to do with my life and I hope that as the clock ticks to 10AM I get to scream my head off in joy that I get to do it everyday. 

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To all my Medblr women!!!

@dxmedstudent @texanmdtobe @missmatchem @mistressofsurgery @miss-sassmaster @modernathenamd @nothingbutnetters @finallyalyssamd @wayfaringmd @medblurred @mudphudkangaroo @md-admissions @mj-md @dogemd @midwest-medblr @wheresonichedgehogwnt @tachycardic–tendencies @frommetomd @from-miss-to-dr @medschoolgrind

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Yissssss, bitch.

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[thechosenjuan]

honestly a good partner isn’t necessarily someone who loves the exact same things you love but rather someone who is willing to listen to you ramble on and on about a particular subject that you’re passionate about even if they have little to no interest in it

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Caffeine infusion definitely needed

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[thelovejournals]

And when you choose a life partner, you’re choosing a lot of things, including your parenting partner and someone who will deeply influence your children, your eating companion for about 20,000 meals, your travel companion for about 100 vacations, your primary leisure time and retirement friend, your career therapist, and someone whose day you’ll hear about 18,000 times.

Tim Urban, Wait But Why - How to Pick Your Life Partner (via thelovejournals)

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Capo Falcone - Sardinia - Italy (by Christian) 

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Pretty Prudent

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by Sarah Jane- Lovely Ember Photography 

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How I Moved to the UK :))

Aka Immigration is the worst.

If I wrote about this before, I can’t find it. So here’s my visa story for that anon - I hope this helps. **Obligatory side note: everyone’s visa journey is different and every country has different requirements. This is less a guide of how you should apply and more a walk through of how I did it.**

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