It\u2019s about 1am, I can\u2019t sleep, so I thought I might as well blog.<\/p>\n
The blog\u2019s been a bit quiet lately \u2013 the opposite of everything else in my life. I can\u2019t believe it\u2019s been over two months \u2013 it feels more like two minutes.<\/p>\n
Since then, ICSM will have made all their offers to potential Freshers. So, to all of you who received offers\u2026. CONGRATULATIONS! Welcome to the best medical school on the planet (I\u2019m not at all biased\u2026)<\/p>\n
For those of you who didn\u2019t, don\u2019t give up. I didn\u2019t get into med school first time round, so I took a gap year and worked as a healthcare assistant. I\u2019m so glad I had that opportunity \u2013 I learnt so much, which has come in pretty useful. So, my advice to anyone who didn\u2019t get a place is to not give up – do something which will make medical schools desperate for you to\u00a0choose them, and have some fun along the way.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s exciting and weird thinking about the new Freshers. A year ago that was me, getting really excited about the six years ahead of me at ICSM, and now the first is nearly over. I can\u2019t wait for second year \u2013 the stuff we study sounds really interesting, I\u2019ll be living with my best friends (if we ever get round to finding a house\u2026) and hopefully I\u2019ll adopt a medic kid or two. My medic mum has been really supportive this year \u2013 my aim is to be as good a mum as she is \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
I can\u2019t remember when all the deadlines for everything are, but I\u2019m guessing that the new freshers will be starting to choose accommodation, fill in the vast quantities of forms that get sent out, etc etc etc? I didn\u2019t actually get the chance to look inside any of the accommodation before I applied. All the halls have their pros and cons, but most people are really happy with wherever they end up. I\u2019ve been lucky enough to live in Willis Jackson, one of the Evelyn Gardens halls (never again will I be able to say that I live in Chelsea\u2026) All five EG halls are closing at the end of this year, which is such a shame \u2013 they have the advantage of being a 20 minute walk from campus, and cost a lot less than the halls in Princes Gardens. Weeks hall, one of the other less expensive halls, is also closing. New \u2018budget\u2019 halls have been built out in Acton to replace them \u2013 Woodward hall is really modern, has a gym, restaurant, bar and plenty of social space, and single ensuites cost only \u00a3126\/per week. It has a lot in its favour \u2013 but then there\u2019s the issue of having a 40 minute commute to campus. As I said before, pros and cons.<\/p>\n
I have so much from the last couple of months that I\u2019ve not quite got round to blogging about, so over the next few weeks I\u2019ll try to blog a bit about everything that’s been going on. Exams start on the 8th<\/sup> of June, so at the moment life is revise, eat, sleep,\u00a0repeat. Hopefully a bit of blogging will keep me sane\u2026<\/p>\n Good luck to anyone else who has exams coming up soon \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Blog again soon,<\/p>\n Em xx<\/p>\n p.s. I\u2019ve just found half a blog post that I wrote over Easter and never got round to putting up \u2026 oops.<\/p>\n p.p.s. if what I’ve written is incomprehensible, please remember that it’s 1.30am….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s about 1am, I can\u2019t sleep, so I thought I might as well blog. The blog\u2019s been a bit quiet lately \u2013 the opposite of everything else in my life. I can\u2019t believe it\u2019s been over two months \u2013 it feels more like two minutes. Since then, ICSM will have made all their offers to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1051,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[197365,105158,109965],"class_list":["post-1712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-freshers2015","tag-exams-2","tag-icsm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1051"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}