Thursday, 3rd July 2025

It's been a while since I was on tumblr, I actually deleted the app and re-installed it a while back.

A life update-

College has been... well, it's college, so you can guess I've been trying to balance my personal life and academic life while also trying to set foot into the professional world. With one more semester left, I feel relieved that I'll have a while to rest from having such a busy schedule, I'll have more time to do what I like outside of school, and I'll be sitting for licensing exams so I can work... while all this is easier said than done, I'm optimistic that things will work out and I'll get to where I want to be.

This year has been hard for me, and I didn't feel like posting online for a while. I'm trying to heal and get better, but despite all that, time waits for no one. So it's up to me to pick up the pieces and make something new out of them.

That said, I'm in my second last semester of college and I have finals in a few days, have I been studying consistently? Absolutely not. But will I get the content in my head? Yes. I have to, I have to get as many right answers as possible. Will I have an exam diaries post? Most likely, I'm trying to get back into posting both on tumblr and my instagram blog (it's mostly cosplay, make up and photo dumps).

As I write this, my research proposal is watching me from the computer, needing to be rewritten since I had to change topics. That's my goal for tonight, get the proposal DONE and send it to my supervisor.

I genuinely hope that I'll get to post more often and build a community of students who support each other. And I want you to know that it does get better, it really does, but it takes time. Your feelings are valid and you should allow yourself to experience them.

I hope you have a lovely day, or night wherever you're reading from.

I've pretty much been neglecting tumblr because I don't gravitate towards it as much as I did as a teen- and that's okay. But I still value my blogs and want to keep posting consistently. So for this month om challenging myself to post on both of my blogs every week.

I've started 3rd year- which for me is my final year of college and pretty soon I'll get to do my internship and graduate 🥹 which I'm generally so excited for. I also tried posting a few times on here but my posts couldn't upload for some reason- which also demotivated me from posting here but oh well.

I started a new semester which feels refreshing- although I have so many classes to attend and lots of research to do.

It's been a while since I posted, and a lot happened. For the past three months, I spent my days learning at a public referral hospital in my county. It had its ups and downs, and honestly, it was pretty stressful in some departments, and I felt as though I had never set foot in my classes because I felt so blank.

Overall, I'd say that it was a good experience. I learned a lot and was able to apply my classroom knowledge in the hospital. My favourite part was seeing my patients recover and tell me how much I helped them 🥹 I felt so happy in those moments.

Aside from learning how to be a professional, I learned that I need to be more confident in myself. I wish that I was also more assertive in some situations where some of my colleagues wronged me - it was pretty hard dealing with that, but I managed to get through such situations.

Aside from that, I also learned that making friends as an adult is not easy. I felt like I didn't belong in most of the groups I tried being a part of, and eventually gave up on trying to make friends with my colleagues, and I think I'm okay with that. I can confidently say that I dodged a few bullets.

Anyways, that's all for today. I'm really trying to get myself to post here and on my other blog @sliceofmy1ife. I'm also starting my final year of college, so I do feel like I have to get serious with my life, and I believe that using my blogs can keep me accountable.

I also started classes this week, but I've skipped some because I'm sick and have a report to write. I've not been very productive, to be honest, but I'm trying to fix my schedule so I can ahem... lock in 🤓☝🏾(I do, in fact, look like that emoji)

Pictured are my report (I absolutely loved the newborn unit) for documenting my clinical practice (that I'm still not yet done writing) and a flower in my backyard.

If you'd like to know about my clinical practice, I can make a post about it later!

Introductory post:

I realised I've never made a post to introduce myself, so here it is.

For safety reasons, I won't reveal my real name and nationality.

I'm a 20 year old second-year college student studying nutrition and dietetics in my home country. I created this blog to rekindle my love for academics- I had a studyblr that I deleted, which I regret to be honest. Academics has always been something I cared about.

Although I'm studying nutrition, I'd like to study medicine and genetic science abroad- I would love to be a gastroenterologist or nutrigenomicist one day. I never intended to study nutrition, but it was my best choice.

My hobbies include cosplaying, gaming (at the moment I'm playing genshin impact), cooking, reading, and watching video essays. Some hobbies im hoping to get back into are: writing, crocheting, painting, drawing, and crafting.

I have a personal blog @sliceofmy1ife, that I created to improve the quality of my life. It's sort of a digital diary and I hope to make posts every other day and show progress for my goals. If you'd also like to befriend me or ask about things beyond academics, send me a message on that blog 🫶🏾🎀.

As I had already mentioned, this blog is for motivating me to work harder in college (I don't want a repeat of high school 😅), and I hope that I can become the best student I can be.

I hope to post more often and show my progress in college. Hopefully this semester will be amazing for me and I'll have a blast.

Feel free to ask me any questions, especially if you're interested in the same course as I am!

Exam diaries: Results & a little life update

I received my exam results on Saturday, August 24th and I'm pleased to say that I passed, with an overall score of 80%!

I'm beyond relieved and thankful for good grades, I struggled a bit this semester and missed a lot of classes because I was sick- but I managed. I was happy to see I that I had passed Pharmacology since it gave me a hard time. All the tears were worth it 🥲✨️.

As a reward, I decided to get myself two perfumes on my wishlist, which I'll take pictures of when I receive them. Although it will take a while since my money was stolen from me by a scammer ☹️

For this new semester, I hope to increase my cumulative score to 75% and also participate in as many club activities as possible. I also want to try different study methods and start preparing for finals. Aside from that I want to self-study for Anatomy, Physiology, Organic Chemistry and Coding.

I also want to take up Arabic or German classes. I can read Arabic but I'm not a fluent speaker.

How I'll study for those, I'll figure it out, I'm considering taking a pre-med course after I graduate- hopefully it works out.

As I had mentioned in my introductory post, I have a personal blog @sliceofmy1ife, and I hope to start posting soon! It's going to focus on things like my morning and night routines, crochet, skincare, make up, and reviews of products I've bought, etc etc

I also got into the second hospital of my choice, which I'm happy about. So from the 23rd of this month I'll be learning from hospital from Mondays to Saturdays until the 16th of December. I'm hoping to go scrub shopping after we get more information on everything about clinical practice. I'm hoping to wear scrubs that are the colour of my choice (pink), but since nutrition professionals wear yellow scrubs here, I might need one or two yellow pairs.

I hope this semester will be better than the last and will help me grow not only as a student but also as a person and future healthcare professional. I plan to post more consistently now that I'm back to grinding. Thanks for reading up to this point, I hope you have a lovely day/night 🫶🏾🎀

Monday, 22nd July 2024

I woke up late today, so I didn't get to study for Food Security like I had planned to, but it's okay. Today, I sat for my Pharmacology and Food and Nutrition Security exams, and honestly, it wasn't great. The exams were delayed since they issued our exam cards late, and they changed the exam rules, so they had to tell us about that too. So I was anxious and itching to start. I also finished my exams late, I left at around 5PM and when I got home I ate, took a bath and now I'm in bed as I type this.

FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY:

I rate this paper 7/10. I loved the long answer questions and felt like I'd get full marks as I wrote my answers, I'm passionate about this module. But the multiple choice and short answer questions confused me since they had similar answers.

What I wish I had done while studying was to make mindmaps- believe it or not, I never made notes for food security. Listening to the lecturer and just scribbling down the important parts was enough. But I believe if I made mind maps or power points, it would have made recalling some things easier, same with explaining them.

I had no motivation for pharmacology ☹️ I didn't do well in the mid semester pharmacology exams but that didn't even push me to do some last minute revision. I was so tired and sleepy, and very hungry but I didn't carry lunch :(

Though I eventually got to reading the summaries I had made.

NUTRITION PHARMACOLOGY:

I rate that exam 4/10. Everything about it was bad. It was like they decided to give us hell in the form of an exam. Literally everyone in the room was scratching their heads in confusion. It was a very hard paper and I'd be grateful to score a 50%

What I wish I had done while studying was to find more examples of drugs from different classes. I also wish I read about how different drugs work to produce therapeutic effects. I also wish I hadn't stressed so much. Maybe I would have been less shaky in the exam room.

My motivation for tomorrow's exams is that I'll be done with the second day of exams, and that my studying will benefit me in the exam room. I'm going to sleep now and hope for the best when I wake up because I'm so sleepy.

I hope everyone else who's doing their exams does great 😊🫶🏾💞