Tobi O.

calm down - Rema. I love the intro beats of this song so much …  skip As I write this, I’m in the library, I’m listening to this song and jamming. I’m in the library writing this and I’m trying to clear my head for creativity.  Breathe in… breathe out. Here we go! Right now, it’s semi confirmed that my MB is March. We haven’t even reached half of Biochemistry’s scheme of work, or Genetics, or Neuroanatomy, or physiology. Nawa 🫠😂 Random fact: over the past week or so, I’ve been scared about how much time I spend social media especially as my exams are so dancing closer. I think twice about checking my screen time, because of the number that I’ll see 😅. To solve this, I was recently reading Atomic habits by James Clear. He talked about how when he was writing the book and he wanted to eliminate distraction, at the beginning of every week he and his personal assistant would change each other’s social media passwords. His personal assistant would change his social media passwor...

During crossover services, I like to spend time praying for my exams of the coming year (and many other things). I’d be writing my first MB this year, so 2022’s crossover service was no different.  I usually am not a long-hours type of reader. It’s hard for me to read longer than 3 hours. Medical school has changed me very much though, as I’ve sat through a whole night of ~6 hours to read on a couple occasions. I dislike the conventionality of reading for exams, and I get genuinely bored whenever I start to feel the heat of an examination approaching. And then I become scared of my boredom because I see it as nonchalance, and that is scary. Exam years, to me, look like another time to *not go below my expectations*. That’s also scary because my expectations are pretty high. To combat this scariness/boredom and my anxiety with long-time reading, I do the little things that I know to do pretty well. Attend classes, open a book to revise during short breaks, listen in when I hear a gr...