Med School Vlog 🩺 | Productive Cafe Studying, Resetting My Bedroom, Vnd Getting Out Of A Slump

Just wanted to have a quick book chat. Had a plan to run to the cafe to get a strawberry match, and this one decided to infiltrate my plans. It's so weird being reliant on my own schedule for my studying, and you know, I'm just not doing it. Good morning, guys. Okay, I am not sure what happened this morning, but this is actually the latest that I've ever woken up. I don't even know, in like several, several years. I don't know if I'll zoom in, but it is currently 12 54 p.m. Like I completely skipped the morning and went straight to the afternoon. I feel kind of crappy about that because I actually have so much to do, and I have a pretty jam-packed day in terms of my to-do list, but let's go ahead and try and recover what we can of this day. So over the years, I've gotten a few questions about my morning skincare routine, and it's been pretty stable for the most part. I like to keep things as simple as possible. So I always start off with some kind of vitamin C. This is the Sephora Glow Super Brightening Serum. And then I use some kind of moisturizing toner. I've used the, I've used the Laneige Cream Skin in the past, which I really like, but this is the road glazing milk, which is really good. I do have dry skin, especially in the colder seasons, and so sometimes I need to add an extra layer of moisture. And then I use this to add a barrier cream. This thing is phenomenal. I think it would be a bit too heavy during the spring and summer months, but while it's still like negative six here in Canada, I will be relying on this. And lastly, of course, sunscreen. This is the Nivea Super Water Gel, and it's super duper runny, which I like. Okay, now let's get started for our day at 1 10 p.m. There's just so many things that need to be done now that I'm starting residency. There is so much paperwork and immunizations and like these record forms that need to be done. So that's what I've been doing pretty much all afternoon. I have like four upcoming appointments for different blood work and immunizations and mask fittings, and I'm really just trying to get all of that out of the way so it doesn't creep up on me as I get closer to starting residency. On today's episode of how is my bedroom perpetually a mess, I think I've had like three montages now of me cleaning my room, and I'm honestly getting deja vu. I remember my high school chemistry teacher was teaching us of the concept of entropy, and he said that entropy is just the idea that things tend to gear towards disorder. Like your room can always become messy, but it cannot become clean unless you intervene. Does that make sense? Like all things in nature are just gradually geared towards disorder. That's the natural state of things. Example, my room. If I could wake up and my room was magically cleaned by somebody, that would be great, but it would disprove the concept. So my bedroom is finally organized, and I feel already so much better. I hope this isn't coming off as repetitive. I feel that so many times in my previous videos, there's always been a montage of me cleaning something, but that truly is just the reality of the situation that we have here. I'm perpetually cleaning this darn bedroom, and I think it's also because I'm on study mode. I'm on that exam grind. Just no matter what I do, I cannot keep things neat and organized. I swear to God, I am cleaning my room 24-7, and somehow it still ends up a mess, and I really feel that that's where all the clutter comes from is when you don't have designated places for things, and things kind of just accumulate all over the room. Like I said, I've been studying for this big final licensing exam. I'm also going to be moving soon, so even though we've organized my room, I still feel like I need a full reset of everything. It's just so satisfying when you see those setups where things are very tailored, very well thought out and organized, where everything fits exactly, and it's so easy to grab. One thing that I've always wanted to try for that is a 3D printer. I'm so excited to be working with my friends over at Bamboo Labs to turn these dreams into reality. I'm not a techie person at all, so I was honestly quite intimidated with getting a 3D printer, and I thought it was going to be so complicated and so difficult, but it's like you literally just press print. The first project that I want to tackle with this 3D printer is this pegboard that holds all of my camera gear. This has honestly been my biggest issue for the longest time. It's such an eyesore for me, and it makes it so difficult for me to grab the things that I need. Welcome to my living room floor where I currently have my 3D printer set up. Guys, I told you we were moving. We're moving, you know? So this is the best place for her for the time being. I'm going to try and address whatever is going on with that pegboard camera situation by 3D printing a bunch of custom holders to hold all of my equipment. I'm going to start off by saying I told you I don't know how to design anything, but the best part of having this 3D printer is that there are so many talented people around the world who post stuff on Makerworld that you can download and just print right here. And the next thing on my list is to print these little paper clips where you can hold little papers onto your pegboard. I'm going to show you how easy it is. So all we're going to do is click prepare to print. I'm going to pick that one. There's a little 3D preview so you can see exactly what you're going to be printing, and then literally it's so easy. You just click start print. I was a little bit concerned that it would be loud and disruptive, but especially for a 3D printer, it's been super duper quiet. And there's so many times where I've just had things printing in the background while I was studying, and there's no biggie. The coolest part is that I don't have to adjust or touch anything at all. It just prints perfectly every single time. And boom, just like that, our clips have been printed. And we have our custom clips for the pegboard. And while I'm setting up this pegboard, let me talk to you a little bit more about this printer. I was honestly really impressed by how much this was. I thought it was going to be super duper expensive and inaccessible, but it's about the cost of most household appliances. Like this was about the cost of my coffee machine. Not only is it super duper convenient where you could start printing with the click of a button, but you can also print from anywhere. Like I could be on my couch or out in a cafe, and I can just start printing remotely. And in addition to checking out my pegboard, I've also been printing a bunch of other little things for my desk and camera setup. Like one problem I always have is when I'm editing, I just throw all of my small things, like my AirPods, SD cards, USB sticks. So I printed this sorting tray with all these little compartments, and it actually keeps everything nicely in one place. And when I edit in cafes, I always feel bad when I throw my hard drive and my wire into my bag. So I printed this case that fits this hard drive perfectly, and a little cable holder to keep everything together. Also randomly, as an aside, I always have fresh flowers on my desk. So I also printed this little bubble coaster so it doesn't leave any water stains on the desk. There are so many different designs and colors you can choose from. So you can literally customize everything depending on what you need. So now let's set up this pegboard. So I think I want to start off with the tripods that I want to set up over here. And this is the custom piece for this camera that I'm filming with. This is another custom piece to hold my other vlogging camera. This is to hold my extra lens. This right here is a headphones holder. Little box that just opens out like this. All of these to hold my wires and the clips that we just printed up. This is the final product. This is so amazing. I'm so happy with how it turned out. It's exactly what I wanted. It's so satisfying having things that slot so perfectly in spots. Oh, it's beautiful. I am honestly so, so excited to use this 3D printer when I move and help me set up my new space. Thank you so much to Bamboo Labs for working on this with me. If you want to check it out for yourself, take a look down below in the description box. Well, if you need two to three coats, I assume you need like... Well, that's not why I need much for... Yeah, but for everything else. Actually, I'm doing the inside. Oh, yeah. Do you think for my green, I should do... Well, I thought I would like mix, but the aqua seems like bluish. It's only aqua and chartreuse. I want like a green, but it seems like it's only aqua and chartreuse. You can mix colors too. This is mine. I feel like it baked really well, but I have a little crack on it. Can you show the people yours? Give her a spin. So the plan here is to paint it white and then we're going to do green here and then yellow here. Tell us what you made. I made a teeter. Nice. This is just the underglaze for everything and then I think we just need to put this blue over glaze on top so that it becomes fancy. Is it supposed to be this thick? I feel like I put this on too thick. The good thing about the fan brush is that it really gets into the hooks and crannies. Today's installment of the fit check. So sweater. I just bought yesterday. My jeans I thrifted. My coat I also thrifted from Scullin. My shoes are from Aldo. Hack to not getting blisters is to not zip them in the back. My bag is Telfar. And here is my lychee meow tea. Just some updates. I actually had a really good productive studying session in that cafe, which is great. I feel like I've said this a billion times, but I'm having a really hard time staying motivated when it comes to studying. Just because, I don't know, like it's so weird being reliant on my own schedule. For my studying and you know, I'm just not doing it. But that was really good. I find that studying with the USMLE resources are so strange, but I think I'm finally kind of getting into the swing of it. I just find that a lot of their questions are like very hyper specific. Sometimes like it's about like botulism or like vitamin A deficiency or a very specific like snake where there's a specific anti-venom that you're supposed to use. So I wonder the utility of this in the actual exam. But I think I'm getting better at kind of the pattern recognition and trying to find little details in the question that leads me to the answer they're looking for, which I think is the biggest thing here. And now we're going to go home and we have very exciting dinner plans because one of our friends who is a chef here in Ottawa is hosting a pop-up and a whole bunch of us are going and it's going to be a great time. It's hard very nicely. Yeah, the char is so good. It's like me trying to cook skewers on that barbecue outside. Very good char. This morning I am having my obviously very aesthetic and nutritious Chinese takeout leftovers and I have a bunch of errands to run this morning. We had kind of this, it's hard to describe. We have a mentor in medical school, a bunch of us in a group and it was our last meeting a few weeks ago and we didn't get him a card then. So I thought that I would get a card, get messages from everybody and sign it on behalf of everybody and look how cute this one is. At first, I was like maybe I'll do different colors and penmanships and stuff to try and make it look like we all signed individually but let's not, let's not do too much. Okay, our card is completed. That took so much longer than I thought it would. I wrote everybody's messages and I was like, I feel like I need to do something special because this doctor that was our mentor always went above and beyond for us. He was so lovely and so sweet. So I drew everybody. These are not very good depictions of what everybody looks like but I drew everybody and wrote their names and where they matched into so he can remember us for that. So this is the card. I am going to go drop it off with these socks. We are now on route to the hospital and I have a couple of errands that I want to run. So I have to drop off the card that we just made. Honestly, I don't even know where this doctor works. I'm just gonna go to the front and ask around until hopefully I can find his offices and drop off this card there. I have to get my TB test, return my hospital badge, return the rest of my scrubs. I still have a bunch of like patient lists and stuff that have been in my bag that need to be thrown away in a confidential bin. So a lot of these miscellaneous things that I've been meaning to do. That was a very productive session. That's like the last time I'm ever going to be in that hospital which is so crazy to think because I've been going to that hospital for the last four years and truly like that's the last time I'm gonna be there. I gave back my hospital badge and I'm very excited for the next chapter but it's a little bit bittersweet. I had to give her back. I feel so empty without it. So I did check off a lot of things on my to-do list this morning. I collected my ORC logs that still has a bit of dried blood on it. Very nice. I should change that. And then I got my TB test which is needed for residency. Returned all of my scrubs. Any other kind of patient charts I put in the confidential bin. That's just a bunch of things that I had been meaning to do and I feel so much better now that I did it and it's out of the way. Hello everyone. So I had a plan to run to the cafe to get a strawberry matcha. One decided to infiltrate my plans and now he's joining and he said he was gonna run with me and this is him running with me which is actually just running quite ahead in front of me. So now we're running to the cafe and I'm gonna reward myself with a matcha. Hello dear friends. It is much later in the evening and I am all showered up and I'm gonna get ready to go to bed. So just a bit of an updated skincare routine for anybody that cares. I'm very lucky that my skin has been pretty cooperative with me but there are the odd times where I do just get these random breakouts and I'm known to having some cloth pores so here's my routine to try and address all of that. I'm a very sebaceous filament kind of girl. Do not zoom in on this nose. Whoa, it's going bangs here. Don't zoom in on this nose. So recently I've been using this Metacube Zero Pore Pad and it has AHA and BHA in it which is really good for kind of breaking down all the gunk that's in there. I just start off with the textured side. I start off kind of in the nose area and then I just go around and wipe it around my face. I also love the Paula's Choice 2% BHA Liquid Exfoliant. So sometimes I'll honestly just take a little bit more, put some onto this pore pad and then just apply it really to the spots where I tend to get a lot of them sebaceous filaments. So I tend to alternate this every other day. So I'll do an AHA, BHA Sunday, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday and then on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday I'll use some kind of retinol. Either some retinol or some Arazatine like Araslo. That's my typical go-to and I honestly try and keep my skincare as minimal as possible. So on the days that I do this exfoliating I make sure that I just top it up with my favorite moisturizer which is this Estrela one. Put that all over and guess what? That's literally my nightly skincare. I haven't done this in a while. Just to wrap up this evening and this vlog I just wanted to have a quick book chat and although I am a self-proclaimed reader I embarrassingly have fallen off the train the last couple of months. I'm somebody that picks up a book and can like voraciously read and finish it in like a few days and then not pick up a book for four months just to repeat that cycle over and over again but I'm trying to get better at getting into the habit of reading a little bit every day instead of just trying to mass consume something. I am pretty much halfway through Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors. I read her other book Frankenstein and Cleopatra I think around two years ago and honestly I didn't really like that one very much. I thought that there were a lot of plot holes and I just have let's not get into the nitty-gritty. I just didn't really like that book but in contrast Blue Sisters I think already is so much better. The relationship between all of these different sisters and how they're all grieving the loss of their other sister and how that really interplays into their dynamics with each other and the people around them is super interesting and I do love a book about people and the relationships that they have with others and so this is really up my alley. Some of my favorite reads that I wanted to share because some people have been asking for book recommendations from me which is the biggest compliment ever. One of the books that I read more recently is Remarkably Bright Creatures. This book is so sweet. This is about a woman who lost her son and her husband and lives alone and cleans an aquarium and befriends an octopus who helps her overcome this grief. Very good book. Now listen. This needs no introduction and I hate to be those insufferable people who are like oh I know them first but listen I've been trying to put people onto Hamnet for I don't know like four years now. I had this I think as a recommendation from a lady at a local bookstore that I went to. Loved it. This is one of those books that I read in about two days. This book was so wet from me crying over it and I'm really glad that there's a movie adaptation that did it justice. Chloe Zhao you're phenomenal. This book is phenomenal. And then the last one I want to talk about is The Woman Destroyed by Simone de Beauvoir. This is an old book back in I think the mid 90s something like that originally in French and translated into English and it's a collection of short stories all about different women dealing with some kind of issue in their life and it's all interconnected with that common theme. Let me see how it was described. In three immensely intelligent stories about the decay of passion, Simone de Beauvoir draws us into the lives of three women all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises. That was pretty good. I would recommend going into this blind. I think the first story is my favorite one and there's something to learn. There's something to learn from all of these wonderful women. These are all of my recommendations. They also all happen to be women authors. I have a lot of books. You've seen them before. I have quite a bit of a collection that's stacked over there and I'm slowly making my way through it. So if you guys have any book recommendations yourselves throw them down in the comments below and I'd love to check them out. If you want some more book content from me, I'd love to do that as well. But that is pretty much everything from me. I've gotten some comments saying, Sab, we need the outros again because my last videos have not had any outros. So we'll have this as that. Thank you guys so much for watching. I think more recently I've geared towards doing a week in my life and it's different now that I'm outside of the hospital. It's kind of just me living my life and cooking and studying in cafes and doing everything in between. So let me know if you guys enjoy this kind of content or what else you want to see from me. So as always, thank you so much for watching and I'll see you in the next one. Bye.