Hey guys!
So I just got back from Amsterdam.
I had a long weekend.
It's Memorial Day today.
So I thought I could use a little bit of a break.
I'm almost at the end of my third year clerkships.
I think third year is probably has been one the hardest year.
Arguably, I think it's the hardest year of med school, so I thought I deserve a little
break so I went to Amsterdam for a long weekend.
I was there for about four days and now I'm just getting back and tomorrow I start my
neurology rotation, which is my last rotation of third year.
So do you guys notice anything different?
I finally moved into my new apartment.
I want to give you guys a quick tour even though it's not ready yet.
Everything is pretty much all out and not organized at all but I'm just gonna give you
guys a quick tour.
So when you first walk in, you have a nice view of the living room, and some of the bedroom.
And immediately to the right you have the kitchen.
It's actually a pretty nice, good sized kitchen, considering that it's New York.
It has a full sized fridge, and a new dishwasher.
And what I like it's that it's open to the living room so you can actually cook and entertain,
and have people over and still stay in the kitchen and talk to people in the living room.
On the side I have my little shoe container thing that I got from IKEA.
This thing holds shoes.
So this is the living room.
I have all the covers of my couch and the side chairs at the dry cleaners right now
which is why it's all naked right now.
I have all my books here and some of the board games and stuff.
I haven't set up my book case yet.
So they're all on the floor currently.
This is what used to be my dresser but is now my TV stand, and there is my TV.
Have a couple closets in the hallway and next is my bathroom.
I love that a bathroom can be so easily transformed by like a nice shower curtain or bath mats.
This shower curtain is actually ten years old from Target but I just love it so I just
keep it around with me.
So this is my very pink bathroom.
I have a full tub.
So that's it for the bathroom.
I have some stuff in here.
Some of my stuff here is organized.
That's the sink.
Some of the products out there.
Last but not least, is my bedroom which is not organized at all but I will show you guys
a sneak peak.
I have the mattress on the floor right now.
I'm maybe in the process of getting a new bed so that's why that's on the floor.
I have all my shoes over there.
Some of my stuff on the floor.
That's my closet.
It fits everything I have which is cool.
Some stuff in boxes still.
I haven't unpacked completely, but yes.
This is it.
This is my bedroom.
More to come, I'll do an--I'll do an updated tour when everything is set up and nicely
organized.
So back to my main station.
So Like I mentioned, I just got back from Amsterdam.
It was a really fun trip.
I wanna tell you guys a little about what I did in Amsterdam and all different sites
and things like that.
So the last few months of third year have been pretty stressful.
I had some of the more difficult rotations back to back in third year.
So the timing was really great, I have a few days off.
It was a long weekend from Memorial Day so I thought it was the perfect time to go and
have a little trip to Amsterdam and it turned out to be perfect.
So Bae and I landed in Amsterdam on Thursday and that night we just kinda walked around
and toured the city.
We called it an early night because of combination of jet-lag and being tired from moving apartments
and all that the week before.
So our real trip started on Friday, If you guys don't know Amsterdam is one the bike
capitals of the world.
So literally everyone was biking around and we decided that we should bike too.
So we biked from Amsterdam to neighboring neighborhood called Haarlem.
So it was supposed to be a 1 hour bike ride.
We got lost a little bit and we took some breaks and we finally got to Haarlem and Haarlem
is basically a similar city to Amsterdam, it's a little quieter, less crowded, but it
is just as pretty and has lots of fun things to see there.
So we got there and we were starving so we ate at this healthy place called By Lima.
Healthy Place is their label.
The food was great, the food looked gorgeous and it tasted really good and after eating
we walked around and explored Haarlem.
Afterwards, we were too tired to ride back to Amsterdam so we took the train back with
our bikes.
After we got back to Amsterdam, we took a little nap and then we went to go eat.
We went to this place called De Hallen.
I'm probably saying that wrong but it's basically a huge food hall with a bunch of different
cuisines and different food stands and different types of food.
We kinda explored all the foods, we got a little bit of everything from stands and we
ate and it was really fun.
Something that kind of messed me up is the sunset in Amsterdam around this time is really,
really late.
So I think it would be like 10 o'clock and it would still be relatively light out and
that really confused me but basically the sunset around 10pm.
So the next day a food tour.
I love doing food tours in different cities because I think it's one of the best ways
to learn about their culture.
So we toured all the different kinds of food that Amsterdam and the Dutch had to offer.
Our tour guide, her name is Ester-Hanna, she showed us some really good eating spots in
Amsterdam.
We ate all kinds of food like Indonesian food, herring, croquets, cookies, cheese, wine,
ice-cream.
It was so much fun.
After the food tour, we wanted to go to Anne Frank House but the line was super long.
Anne Frank house is one of those places that I wanted to visit but the line ended up being
too long.
It was very sunny and hot out, we didn't end up going in.
But we did get to go to the gift shop and we checked out some of the postcards, pictures
and some of the models of the Anne Frank House inside, that was really cool.
So anyway, vacation is over and tomorrow, I have to go back to my hospital and I start
my neurology rotation like I mentioned.
So I'll be going back to the grind.
And I know I lot of you guys are studying really hard especially if in you're an M2
or if you're preparing to take your USMLE Step 1 or 2 in the near future.
So I found out about a cool study resource that I wanted to share with you guys.
A lot of you guys are using First Aid USMLE Step 1 book to study and there is this app
called Lecturio that you can download and it does something super cool.
Let me show you guys.
So lets say you're using your First Aid book and there is something you don't really understand.
You can use the app to take a picture and it will show you a video explanation of that
particular topic.
So for example lets pick a random page and pick this cardiac and vascular function curve.
These always kinda mess me up, so the app is gonna upload and scan the words on the
page and find relevant lecture videos, you can see there's pre-load, Frank-Starling Curve,
different cardiac dysrhythmia, there's videos on afterload and cardiac mechanics and overall
just a very helpful companion to your First-Aid.
So if you don't understand anything, you can go and watch the lecture yourself.
And it has video lectures on pretty much any topic that you need for Step 1 and Step 2
USMLE.
All the lectures on the video are given by educators from Harvard, Yale and John Hopkins,
they also have quizzes and topic reviews so it's overall a very good companion to your
First-Aid USMLE and your exam prep studying overall.
So the service is not free but they do have some free videos so you guys can go check
it out and see if you guys like it and if you guys do wanna sign up, I have a discount
code for you guys.
You guys can go to lectur.io/strivetofit and use the code "strivetofit20" for 20% off the
subscription.
So good luck to everyone who is studying.
I know studying for a big exam like this can be really stressful but hang in there and
it will be over soon.
If you guys want some tips on how to study for big exams, I do have a video, so I will
also link that in the description box.
And before I close, I just have one more announcement and because it's summer soon, I'm gonna be
taking a summer vacation from YouTube as well, so that means I wont be uploading every Saturday
like I'm doing right now but it will be a little more sporadic.
I'm still going to upload but it won't be every Saturday.
And because I'll be uploading more sporadically, I think that you guys should definitely bell
me!
So that's the little bell next to the subscribe button so that way every time I upload a video,
you'll get a notification and you won't miss any video.
And with that, I'm gonna end the video and I'm gonna start unpacking because it's getting
super late.
I hope you guys enjoy the videos, stay tuned for my updated apartment tour later on and
I will see you guys next time.
Bye!