Med Student Diary

She/ they | MBPhD student - 4/5 years medicine, PhD in psoriasis immunology and genetics | personal: @littlegayhaven

[daftpatience]

writing in your tome

[neenarchive]

i love you films without sequels i love you limited series i love you stand alone novels i love you self-contained stories

[urgetocreate]

Andrea Calisi (Italian b.1968), The Bridge and the Blue Knight, 2026, Illustration

[thememedaddy]

[pingo1387]

having a headache while hydrated is so unfair. you were supposed to protect me.

[honeyhobbs]

Kitten square!

[codes-and-stuffs]

i do think we should normalise being like. platonically enamoured with someone. perhaps i love and admire you dearly and there's nothing romantic about it

[thephdmedic]

one of my friends I met at uni taught me this, and now I can say she is truly my platonic soulmate and I would move heaven and earth for her. she taught me so much about love and showing up in friendships.

[plague-vulture]

washing dishes is evil because you go "oh fuck there's so many dishes this is gonna take foreverrr" and then you enter the dish abyss and emerge with your abdomen somehow covered in water and your hands all wrinky and then you look at the clock and what felt like half an hour was actually 10 minutes

[greater-than-the-sword]

When you're a kid you just take trees for granted. Then when you get to be an adult you realize that a fully mature tree cannot be created in an amount of time that fits in a convenient landscaping timeframe for love nor money nor all the powers of science. Then you realize that people are very very very cavalier about chopping them down

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

re my "read books that make you feel stupid" post: reading books you don't fully understand is probably the safest way to push yourself outside your comfort zone. you don't have to embarrass yourself in front of anyone. you can do it from your cozy bed. you can easily get help from book clubs or literary analysis online. you can go as slowly as you want. there's literally no risk.

[thephdmedic]

did a whole PhD so I could switch my title from Miss to the gender neutrality of Dr

i will accept no criticism on the efficiency of this side quest

[whyenn-reader]

''what if you regret it'' then you will expirience regret - a normal and unavoidable part of the human expirience.

[whyenn-reader]

the more you twist yourself into a pretzel to avoid regret the harder it will hit when it eventually catches up to you.

[unbearable-lightness-of-ink]

thinking about how the world would be better if more people understood the differences between 'the author failed to tell the story they wanted to tell' and 'the author told the story they wanted to tell, but they told it badly' and 'the author told the story they wanted to, and they told it well, but it wasn't the story I wanted to read'

[thephdmedic]

#proudgrad Challenge - Day 1 pt 2

Went for a walk around the nature reserve and saw a bluetit going HAM on a caterpillar. Made a solid chilli but my motivation waned by the end of the day so did not do workout #2. We go again tomorrow 🫡

18/05/2025 wrapped:

- Morning walk ✅

- 3000ml water ✅

- Healthy meals and snacks ✅

- Read 10 pages of Social Class in the 21st Century ✅

- Progress picture ✅

- No phone in the morning/ evening ✅

- Workout #2 ❌

[thephdmedic]

#proudgrad Challenge - Day 1

Started running again today and BOY did my body dislike it (pretty though). Pushed through, but got a lovely headache as my reward so went to bed at 8pm instead of workout #2. We go again tomorrow 🫡

17/05/2025 wrapped:

- Interval run (died) ✅

- 3000ml water ✅

- Healthy meals and snacks ✅

- Read 10 pages of Social Class in the 21st Century ✅

- Progress picture ✅

- Organised cinema trip with a friend ✅

- No phone in the evening 🟰

- Workout #2 ❌

[thephdmedic]

A Grad to be Proud of 👩‍🎓 - Self Improvement Challenge

I have let my self care slide this year with restarting med school and submitting my thesis, but now I can breathe again, I want to be in a place I can be proud of for my grad in 63 days. I’ll be posting daily to keep me accountable, and tracking #proudgrad if you want to join!

This is what I’ll be doing daily:

- 1 outside workout

- 1 other workout

- Read 10 pages non-fiction

- Eat healthily

- No alcohol

- Progress picture

- Drink 3000ml

- Check in with a loved one

- No phone 1hr after wake up/ in the bedroom

[thephdmedic]

Life updates since being MIA:

- My gf is now my fianceeeee 🤭

- Med exams are done! Results next week 🥹

- My thesis corrections were accepted!