#i love the medblr community

[ley-med]

I had a week long vacation not long ago, so I finally have enough energy to talk to non-medical friends once again. And I just realized once again, I'm not sure how to talk to them.

They tell me all the things they participated in, and I'm truly happy for them, all the while thinking I would never have half that much energy. They ask me how I am, I tell them I'm good, finally had a vacation. What did I do? Oh, literally nothing, tried to sleep off the worst of the exhaustion and tried to avoid interaction with other humans. How's work? You know, just the usual, it's good. It is good, and I love it, but how could I tell them all the horrors witnessed? That's right I don't, but what else do I have left to talk about? Most of my fun work stories are tainted with the shadows of tragedies... And unfortunately, I wouldn't trade it for anything.

So I just read their cheerful message and leave it on read, contemplating what to answer. And just hope they won't take offence to my agonizingly slow replies...

[sleep-safe]

*banging metal objects together*

if your patients don't understand what you tell them, you are not an adequate or effective healthcare provider !!!

[tmedic]

Reminiscing past memories- Neuroanatomy class❤️🧠

'From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter, and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations.'

-Hippocrates 

[mariannemedicaljourney]

I want to review the First Aid for step-1, even if I don’t have in mind taking the USML. The blank page looks scary, but I began anyways and then I could not stop. Japanes Lofi Hip Hop is my playlist to go. It gets me into the study mood instantly.

Those are the notes I took before my brother came to watch Harry Potter… ofc I said yes. Not great for aesthetics but summarized and recalled important topic from my early years in medical school.

Bonus: my cat usurping the study seat + my lil bro

[atmedicine]

Im terrible at the politics of interviews and its really hard to see beyond all the bs. Still have plenty more interviews to go but, trying to get more efficient with my time/asking important questions.

[milktea-md]

started working with my chinese-speaking (mandarin + cantonese) family medicine preceptor today and ALL OUR CHINESE PATIENTS SAID HAPPY NEW YEAR TO US and i’m SO WARM

[slowdownsimplybemd]

Because I can’t do Embryology Today

Thanks @dogemd and @medschoolgrind for the motivation to get back on blogging! 

Nickname: slowdownsimplybemd

Star Sign: Leo

Height: 5'5″

Time Right Now: 2:17 pm

Last thing Googled:  if spotify has an app for the apple watch 2 that can be used offline, and the answer was no, but in the works.

Favorite Music Artist/Band? hmm so many how do I choose?! TAYLOR SWIFT and loving Ed Sheeran’s new album

Last Movie Watched? LaLa Land on spring break with my dad and his gf! Not a movie person at all

TV Show Watched? Watched the latest How to Get Away With Murder. This show seems to be going down hill though

What are you wearing? Brown flats, with gold accents, black jeans, black shirt, hair in half bun, glasses, I call this slept until 15 minutes before class style

When did you create your blog? Oh god! I don’t even know.. let me go check archive.. July 2012. Holy cow!! For a long time and still i go through phases where I only use tumblr to look at other medblr’s posts and reblog

What kind of stuff do you blog? mostly med school stuff and dogs, AND things that make me happy or motivated

Do you have any other blogs? Nope!

Do you get asks regularly? Nope, always feel free, honestly, asks keep me more active on the blog. I love writing but it’s hard to get into it and come up with my own prompts  to get writing! SO ASK ME ANYTHING

Why did you choose your URL? I’ve always loved the quote in my about me. My life has always been so fast paced and sometimes I only feel satisfied if my life is non-stop on the run. Why does this hectic lifestyle feel so satisfying? I’m not sure, but I know that long term it will run me to death. So I am constantly trying to slow down. Enjoy what is going on around me. Take in every moment for what it is worth. Over the years I have gotten so much better at it, but still working on it. Still that crazy person that gets the greatest high after 14 hours studying at school... WHY?!

Tag 10 others you’d like to know more about: I was tagged so long ago! I feel like many people already did this, so sorry to bother you if I tag you again!!

@breathinghistories @medicineandlife @ermedicine @cnerdgroup @highlightedkidneys @cranquis @mymedlife @pleasedotheneedful @premedtomd @itsaharddocslife

Anyways guys I’M BACK!! or trying! More to come hopefully!

xoxo slowdownsimplybemd

[coishere]

Starting to study for my upcoming exam (it’s on June 13th aa) and enjoying some nutritious peaches 🍑✨

[mashupofmylife]

I know there are hateful anons out there who I’m lucky to have avoided, but recently I’ve just been blown away by how kind and helpful and supportive the communities on this site are. I’ve definitely sunk loads of time into tumblr that I could have spent studying or doing something more productive with my life, but all the warm fuzzies I’m getting now from people reaching out and commenting and sharing makes it totally worth it and I just love you all right now.

[medblur]

♡ intro

hello friends! i realized recently that i’ve been in the studyblr/medblr community for over a year now and still haven’t properly introduced myself, so here we go! i’ve been meaning to reach out to more people here and also share more about my premed journey so far <3 please don’t hesitate to send me a message or interact with my posts - i always love making new friends :) 

about me 

you can call me mia ♡

i use she/her pronouns

i’m 26

US-based

i’m a premed 

currently in my gap years & working in a hospital 

hoping to apply to medical school in the 2023-2024 cycle 

interests 

writing! (fanfic and novels mostly - i’m hoping to become published one day...... a girl can dream hehe) 

anime and manga ^.^

reading - and if you have any recs, pleaaase send my way! 

violin - i’ve been playing since i was six years old ♤

guitar 

trying to learn spanish, though that’s going very slowly lol 

also trying to become fluent in my mother tongue >.<

goals

take the mcat in 2023

apply and get into medical school 

become a physician! 

[ley-med]

Me during med school, reading patient history and status: Ah, finally, a status written by internal med, contains everything I need to know about the patient. Why can't noone else do it like internal med.

Me as an anesthesiology resident, reading an IM consult: I'm begging you get to the point already

[this-is-mdness]

med twitter

who here is on med twitter?

should i join? it seems useful...but i also really like anonymity that tumblr has. i LOVE the community here, y’all are all so friendly and supportive and i love that.

honestly, my biggest gripe with tumblr at this point is that...my medblr is a side bog. and i wish i could like/reply from this blog because this is how i want to interact with y’all. i still follow a bunch of personal stuff and i wish i could have a separate med tumblr feed for my medblr folks.

so like, idk, is twitter any better? i have no idea how to Professional Social Media and i kinda don’t feel like tackling that.

[anialogies]

hi! a quick introduction

hey there! i'm new to the studyblr/medblr community so i thought an introduction would be fitting. although i'm almost done with my academic year, i have major issues with habit tracking so i figured this would help. better late than never, right? :D

about me

- i'm ania (she/her), i'm currently 18 and i'm from india

- i can speak 4 languages + learning polish

- sag sun / cancer moon / leo rising, and my mbti is enfp-t

- i would say i'm a mix of raven-puff

- i'm currently in my 1st year of med school, doing a 6 year program for my MD

- i’m deciding between a career in emergency medicine and psychiatry (though i’d say i have a fair bit of time to figure it out)

- through this blog i want to keep track of my productivity and challenges i face, like a fun little journal for all the ups and downs - oh and i track #anialogies !

academics

- my major courses in my first year were anatomy, histology and a year long course on basic polish

- i also took shorter courses on biophysics, medical stats, history of medicine, medical latin & greek, molecular biology, first aid and addiction medicine

- in the next few months i will have to do a summer internship in nursing for 4 weeks which i am super excited to track on here!

- my final exams for anatomy, histo and polish are coming up and saying lightly i am terrified :)))

interests

- listening: matt maeson, sasha sloan, dodie, taylor swift are a few of my all time favourites and hindi dance songs are always a vibe

- watching: nothing atm but i love b99, doctor who (albeit i haven’t caught up to it), a handful of animes although i will say i tend to watch videos on youtube a whole lot more than shows

- reading: i’ve gotten very out of touch with reading tbh but i want to start again! i adore poetry so please recommend me some you like :)

- playing: i am pretty new to video games but before uni i used to play valorant, starbound, stardew valley, star wars battlefront ii, and csgo (oh and dnd when i have the time ;_;)

i think that’s about it for now! some of the studyblrs that have inspired me are: @studylustre @tbhstudying @emmastudies @studyquill @studylikegeller @studyign 

looking forward to interacting with y’all! ♡

[somuchtostudysolittletime]

3/10/20 // 15.13

It’s been a super productive but busy day today! I had a lovely lie in then baked some bread rolls to go with soup for next week’s lunch (which along with the cookies is this weeks medblr baking club contribution!!), updated my budget, did some laundry, cleaned my bedroom, half cleaned the kitchen (that’s a work in progress), and have now done some revision. Much more cleaning to do before I either carry on revising or do some sewing/crochet.

Studyblr community challenge: why did you create your studyblr?

Back when I made this blog, studyblr was fairly new and I wanted to be a part of a community that posted pictures of their notes and helpful study tips and advice! After my mid-uni hiatus, I came back because I wanted to use it as a way of holding myself accountable, and seeing everyone’s notes was so motivating for me to get up and study!!

[ramblingandpie]

So. Question for the Medblr/studyblr/momblr/parenting community.

My son is SUPER INTERESTED in anatomy. I am looking for apps for his Amazon Fire tablet.

Everything I find is either way too basic and kid-like (like... he knows what a leg is. He wants to know what the bones are called. And. Is very interested in the nervous system. And, of course, the digestive system) or way too advanced (he can’t read yet so something that talks is golden).

He LOVED the Tinybop app on my old iphone but we’ve moved away from using Apple due to repeated issues with their App Store, customer service, etc. (Great parts of that app: A menu with pictorial images for different body systems, and then once you had one loaded, you could interact with it in different ways - talking and the microphone would show the sound waves going from ear to the brain, or putting food into the digestive system and watching it go through and turn into poop).

I’ve paid for a few apps that are on the Amazon app store, and they haven’t worked. I’m willing to pay for something as long as it actually works!

He is 4 years old. One of his favorite things at bedtime is, rather than a bedtime story, we get out the kids’ human body encyclopedia that’s meant for around ages 7-10, but he has us read a few pages.

This is something we really want to encourage... and also want him to have access to because he loves it! Even if it’s not meant for kids, as long as it has an easy-to-navigate menu and will read stuff out loud (even if it’s a robot voice), it works, which is why I’m cc’ing the medblr community.

Any suggestions???

[a-young-doctors-journey]

I’m back! (I think)

Hi everyone, it’s been so long since I’ve come on Tumblr, and even longer since I posted here regularly. Insta and the blog take up a good chunk of my time, but I miss the community here, so I’m excited to restart. 

How are you? Who’s your favorite medblr? I’d love to follow some new accounts and respark the Tumblr-fire!