Hey guys welcome back to the channel if
you're new here I'm Sebastian a medical
student from Australia and today I'll be
taking you through a productive day of
study as I begin my new block
endocrinology I wake up at around 8:30
a.m. after getting my usual seven and a
half hours of sleep and hit the snooze
button a few times before getting up I
muck around on my phone for about thirty
minutes checking messages and completing
my daily flashcards on a Chinese loading
app called Skritter which helps you
write out the Chinese characters and
learn new vocabulary I then roll out of
bed and tell Alexa to play some music
recently I've been listening to a lot of
Finneas and Jack Johnson and the music
helps add a little bit of a relaxing
vibe as I fix my bed and tidy my room I
brush my teeth
splash cold water on my face and then
head to the kitchen to have my typical
breakfast of Weet-bix and milk I make
sure to drink plenty of water during
this time because I've heard that you
can lose more than a liter of fluid
overnight so it's really important to
rehydrate when you wake up after
smashing out eight weeks I switch on my
computer and remember to change out of
my pajamas to help switch my brain from
sleep to study mode it's a Tuesday which
means it's our dedicated lecture day for
the week we have seven online lectures
scheduled for today at 7:00 but I decide
to watch them later on so that I can
pause and review parts that are
difficult or speeding up parts that are
easier to times all the way instead I
begin by doing a second review of
previous lectures which covered the
pituitary gland and general hormone
physiology last week I set up a past
tracker on Notion and if you don't know
what that is it's basically a table that
lists all the lectures for the block and
you can record the number of passes or
reviews that you've completed for each
lecture in the table I record the
lecture code subject date of last review
and difficulty that way I can look in my
past tracker and find all the topics
that I rated most difficult and then
begin by reviewing those and working my
way down I'm using notion because I can
also link the lecture notes within the
table but really you can make your own
pass tracker and any other program like
Word or Excel I end up reviewing about
four lectures covering topics like the
anatomy of the pituitary fossa and
histology of endocrine glands I write
down the most important points from each
lecture onto my iPad using the app
notability as I'm going through I try my
best to compare
the lectures some of which have over 60
PowerPoint slides into 1 2 3 pages of
written notes I know that I'll forget
half of what I learn within a week so
having my own written notes instead of
searching through long PowerPoint slides
will make it easier to review later on
it approaches 12:30 so I put away my
iPad and heat up my lunch I tidy the
kitchen a little bit while I'm waiting
for the microwave and then make myself
comfy and dig into some hearty feast you
afterwards I plop myself down on the
couch and begin reading White Fang a
novel by Jack London a couple weeks back
I went on a mini trip with my girlfriend
and along the way we visited this cute
little bookstore that sold new old and
rare books while we were there I picked
up this old school book of White Fang
which also contains London's other
classics like the Call of the Wild and
the Scarlet Plague if you're interested in
seeing what books I'm currently reading
or would like to join me in completing a
yearly reading goal which I talked about
in another video feel free to add me as
a friend on Goodreads I'll link my
profile in the description below I
finished the first two chapters and then
I head back to my desk
I've always found testing and quizzing
yourself is a good way to learn so I
opened up past medicine and start
working through endocrine questions if
you've not heard of it before PassMedicine
is a free online resource which
provides practice questions designed for
medical students even though a lot of
the questions covered material beyond
what I've learned so far detailed
explanations are provided at the bottom
of each question which I take note of as
I'm going along I find that getting
experience early on with the types of
questions being asked and also the high
yield principles that you have to look
out for is really important when it
comes to exam time and so after working
through about 25 questions I closed past
medicine and open up on key and begin
going through endocrine physiology a lot
of people tell me that it's better to
make my own cards but I find that
formatting and typing them out just
takes up a lot of time and coupled with
my own laziness I prefer to use pre-made
decks from previous students or ones
that I find online I'm currently working
through a premade deck called Zanki and
after clicking through about a hundred
new cards I call it quits and take a
break if you've seen my study routine
video from last week you know that after
4 p.m. the afternoon low really kicks in
and I start to feel pretty tired but I
fight off the urge to have a quick nap
and instead hop into my bed to watch
YouTube videos with my friend Bruce
after mindless video watching and
spending way too long on my phone
looking at cue cartoons and Instagram
the Sun starts to set as it approaches
5:30 I switch on the lights and head
back to my desk through some Chinese
study sometime last year I decided to
learn Chinese as a hobby and while I'm
still not very good I've been trying my
best to put aside time each day to
practice I work through an online course
called Chinese for us and watch a lesson
on how to properly use again in
sentences by using the words die and yo
I speak aloud whenever possible focusing
as hard as I can on proper pronunciation
for the native speakers out there please
go easy on me
so hobby hula I'm sure Tahoe
sites are you good and yeah one once the
lessons done I check on some workout
clothes and drive over to the gym I live
in Australia and for us gyms reopened
about three weeks ago
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I do a workout with some friends while
making sure to clean our areas as best
as we can while adhering to social
distancing guidelines and our passes and
at this point my body is feeling pretty
tired so I make the trip home and grab
some dinner after polishing off a good
home-cooked meal
I have a shower and prepare for a quick
evening study session I continue
reviewing lectures using my past tracker
and I complete some pre-work for a
team-based learning class that I have in
the morning
tomorrow's clinical cases on a patient
presenting with classical signs of a
pituitary tumor bitemporal hemianopia
fatigue and headaches I do a final
review on pituitary hormones before
closing my notes and joining a zoom core
with some med school friends which had
over our recent exam discuss how the
block is going and rant about difficult
concepts we've been learning about we
try organize a video call like this once
per week because it's been a really good
way to keep social especially during
this time of quarantine it's also a good
chance to encourage some friendly
competition and have a laugh
the zoomkour ends and it's soon replaced
by discord call as I joined some high
school mates for a game of VALORANT
it's a new first-person shooter released
by the same company who made League of
Legends a game that I played way too
much growing up everyone tells me that
video games are a waste of time but I
think that as long as you keep them in
moderation it's a fun way to unwind at
the end of the day before I know it it's
after midnight so I go brush my teeth
and settle into bed before I sleep I
quickly call my girlfriend Deborah and
we talk about our day interesting things
that happened and just whatever is on
our minds I wish a good night snuggle in
with my favorite penguin and switch off
the light that puts an end to a
productive day in my life as I snooze
off to thoughts about how I'm going to
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