 Hey everyone, I hope you're well. Welcome back to my channel. If you're new here, my name is Sepi. And in today's video, I'm going to be answering all of your questions that you've sent me about medical school. And wow, there is a lot of questions. When I say all of them, it's not true because honestly, I'm gonna try and answer most of them and the ones that follow a pattern because in half an hour, this is how many questions I have received and I don't think I'm gonna be able to make it through all of that. So everyone sends in their questions via Instagram regarding medical school. If you guys don't know who I am, my name, like I said, is Sepi. I am 24 years old and I just graduated medical school and I'm about to be a junior doctor in a North London hospital. I studied medicine and this is one of the first questions I'm gonna be answering. I have had this question so much. Over the past like two, three years that I've been doing YouTube, I've had this question so much and it is what medical school do you go to? I went to St. George's Medical School. Wow, it's so weird to say that in the past 10. I can't explain to you how many times I've been asked that question and obviously I haven't been able to answer it because I did have a stalker like break into my uni that was really, really weird and I did film a video about that story time for you guys wanna see. But obviously for safety reasons, I didn't wanna say what medical school I went to but I absolutely love my medical school. So I went to St. George's. It's part of the University of London and it's quite a small university, like definitely much more than your average uni but I actually had a really nice experience there. I had like teachers and stuff hosted a meeting with me when I was in about third year when like my YouTube like became apparent to them and they were so nice. They basically told me like if you need any help with like cyber bullying or stuff like that, we'll be there to support you and like, you know, if you have any questions like come to us and I thought that was really, really nice of them in terms of like my medical education, I thought they were incredible in terms of giving us clinical experience. From first year, we were definitely allowed to go onto the wards and we were allowed to like see what it is that we're gonna be doing cause I feel like if you just do pre-clinical like doing the science bit of it, you might lose some motivation. So like being let onto the wards even if you're not allowed to do anything you're just watching or like doing really minor stuff to like help the nurses. It really allows you to get a feel for like the kind of job that you're gonna have and like it gets you excited for it. And I remember the first day like I went on a clinical job. I was paired with a nurse and I really didn't enjoy, I'll be honest with you. And then the second day I was paired with a doctor and I really, really loved it. So it made me more sure that I picked the right job because a lot of times you would ask you would you rather be a doctor and a nurse because your jobs are in the same kind of field of work but your responsibility is a different and the things you focus on are different. And when I had the second day where I was with a doctor, I remember the first day I went home crying. I was like, I'm not sure this is what I wanna do, et cetera, after being with the nurse. And then the second day when I came back from being with the doctor, I came to my mom and Dan and I was like, this is the most incredible job ever. Like I literally loved it. So yeah, definitely take that, bear that in mind. I've got a few questions here about picking between different roles in the medical field. So we have jobs like a physician's associate, we have jobs like pharmacy, we have jobs like occupational therapy, physiotherapy, nursing, these are all radiography. These are all really, really important scientific degrees that are to do with the medical field. So it's really important that you think through what aspect that you like and getting work experience is really helpful in helping you decide that. So I know that a lot of you guys are messaging me like is work experience really that important and stuff? And it's actually most important for you. Like I said, there's some people who do work experience and realize actually this job is not for me or wow, I need to do everything in my power to make sure I get this job because I love it. Like when I was in year eight, I had work experience, I needed a day of work experience. And I was like, oh my God, like where am I gonna find someone? I'd left at the last minute and my sister found me work experience with a dentist. And I really like loved the dentist. Like it was one of her friends, he was really nice. But the job was just not for me. Like as in I respect what they do, it's incredible. But did I see myself doing that? No, so you've got to do the work experience to see if it's what you can picture yourself doing because trust me, medical school has a lot of you invested into it. It has a lot of like hours and I can't tell you how many times like you will be like sitting there like stressed and like you'll be questioning things but you will ultimately need this to be your passion to push you through because it will test you. Okay, so I'm gonna start answering a few of your questions because otherwise I could just talk about this point blank for hours so I won't do that, I'll just answer some of your questions. Like I said, there's quite a lot of questions to get through so I'm gonna try and answer as many as I can. So first question, how did you stay motivated when you weren't or in times of hardship? So when you weren't motivated or in times of hardship? So stay motivated, like I said, all comes from the passion. If you're really, really passionate about something when it gets really tough it will be your passion that will push you through. If this is what you want to do when you're sitting there like, oh my God, like I haven't gone out the house in God knows how many days like I haven't seen any of my friends and socialized in ages. I haven't like done this and that and I've just been revising, going library, coming home, going library, going home. Like, you know, what will get you through is knowing that actually this is what I wanna do and doing this is gonna get me to my end goal. Like if you don't want it bad enough then you shouldn't be doing it in my opinion. Like you need to want it, like really, really want it and do anything in your power. If you're thinking, do I really want it? You're probably, even if you've got through all the loops you have to jump through to become a medical student you're probably not gonna last it through because you're gonna not be as passionate enough to overcome the hardships of it. So staying motivated is just reminding yourself how passionate you are about the job and like thinking back to like what it was, why you even started. Another thing that always keeps you motivated is taking regular like quick breaks. So like in the evenings I'm the kind of person where I need to kind of have a pause. Like I will go to uni all day, then I'll go library until late in the evening and then when I get back home if I wanna go and chill with my friends for an hour and it's like 10 o'clock at night or 11 o'clock at night, well not 11, but like 10 o'clock at night I will go and chill for an hour and that will just refresh me or make me feel like I've had a break and that way it will, I'll be motivated to start again the next day like properly and even throughout the day when I'm working if I know that in the evening I'm gonna have an hour's break I'll work harder so that I've earned the hour's break. If I don't have a break coming then I'll probably just sit there inefficiently and like just waste my time cause I know I'm gonna be there all night like studying. So yeah, I think taking regular breaks is a really good one too. So passionate and regular breaks. Okay, I've literally got like two back to back says is it hard finding a work life balance as a medical student? And then the one says, how did you balance having fun and medical school? So finding the balance is all about like you personally finding your balance. So I don't think for me like I couldn't overdo either. If I had too much fun, then I would come to uni and I wouldn't have any knowledge and I would be panicked like on the wards or when people ask me questions I would feel rubbish in myself like what kind of medical student am I if I have no knowledge? But at the same time, if I knew absolutely everything off the textbook and was spending no time for myself and relaxing I'd probably at some point break. So I think finding the balance was like I said knowing that it's important to give yourself regular short breaks to kind of refresh, you know? You know, once every other night just go out with your friends for an hour or do what you like for an hour. If you're tired, like let's say you've been revising all day and it's nothing's going in, stop because if nothing's going in you sitting there is just going to tire yourself out more. So finding a balance is all about finding your like altruistic level. It might take you a year. It might take you a couple of years to get it right but medical school is five years. So don't worry, by the before your halfway you will have found your right balance. So for me, it was all about doing the things that I'm passionate about in my free time and making the absolute most of my free time. So if I got free time, I would come into YouTube videos. I would go out with my friends and vlog like my time as well which kind of combined my passion of YouTube and also using my free time to see my friends, et cetera. So try and make the most of your free time and when you're revising, try and make the most of that. It's all about 24 hours that you have on a day and what you choose to do with them. Don't let anyone tell you, oh, you shouldn't be doing this. You should be revising or you shouldn't be revising all the time you need a break. You will know what's right for you. How many people, I'm sure, if you guys have been following me for the past three years then I'm sure you would have seen comments down below underneath my day in the life where people play. But how are you doing medicine and actually becoming a YouTuber and going out all the time, et cetera? So people will not understand how you do it all but that's fine because they're not you. They're not living your life and they won't have accomplished everything you've accomplished. Your accomplishments will speak for itself. You just have to live your life for you, not for anyone else and find what works for you. Not even your mum will know what works for you. Your dad won't know what works for you. So many times my dad will come in my room and tell me off like, stop now, stop revising, like no more Red Bull, no more, oh my God, the amount of time I would hear, no more Red Bull, no more revising, like take a break now, come downstairs, come, let's go eat. Why are you not coming out to eat with us? They won't know what your balance is. They won't know how much work you need to put in or how much relaxation time you need. And if you've got the opposite, if you've got parents who push you too much then go to the library, get away from them so they can't monitor you. So it's all about you finding the right equilibrium for you. Now on the subject of like controlling parents, I obviously have the absolute opposite of controlling parents. My parents could care less what I do and just want me to be happy. But if you do have a parents who are controlling, I know that it actually 99.99% of the time comes from love and them wanting to see you do well and worrying that like, oh, if I leave it to their own accord, like they might mess this up and I know how much it means to them even though they don't get it. So remember that in your heart room that your parents are just trying to guide you and help you do the best that you can to ultimately live the best life for you. So like, if you feel like that is the scenario, like I said, maybe it'd be a good idea for you to live out in halls and give yourself a bit of freedom from your home environment or just going to the library to study and not being at home, that might help with that as well. After finishing six years of med school, how did you apply for F1, F2? So my med school is actually five years in the whole of the UK medical school. It's five years long. You can take an extra year to intercalate if you like, which is basically like getting an extra like science or whatever like degree based on the fact that your first two years of preclinical have enough science in it to make up for another degree. I don't know if I explained that properly. But yeah, it's down to you as your choice. My uni had a range of courses that you could apply for and at first when I went into med school, I thought I'd really want to do that but then I changed my mind, I didn't want to do that. So I didn't intercalate. There was nothing in the courses that they offered that I wanted to really, really do and was really passionate about to dedicate a whole year to it. So I just stayed on the five year course. But when you reach your final year of med school, your med school will basically help you apply for the whole process of becoming a doctor. So we all sit a situational judgment test exam which I did in January. There is a vlog for it down below. I will have a whole medical school kind of playlist for you guys to see all the stuff that I do in regards to med school. But the SOT basically determines a school for you. The score is out of 50. I think 38 is the average. If you guys didn't see in my previous video, I got 43.2 which is well above average. I was ecstatic about it and if you wanna know how I revised, again it's in that vlog. But what you get in that exam is added to what you've got overall in med school, like your grades and 50% is your med school grades, 50% is this one SOT exam. You may add it together and you get a score. Then with this score, you then apply, you rank there's deanaries. So the whole of the UK is spinached up into areas which we call deanaries. And in each area there is like, there could be different cities or it could just be like, so for example, Scotland, the whole of Scotland is one deanary. The whole of Northern Ireland is one deanary. But London is split into three deanaries. So we've got like North, I think it's North Central and East, North West and South Thames which goes all the way down to even Kent. So it's like the deanaries are all different and you basically have to rank all of these deanaries. Once you've ranked the deanaries, then you get accepted into one deanary and in that deanary you then have to rank all of the jobs. And then, so I got my deanary and then I had to rank 327 or 328 jobs. And they are like from all of the hospitals that are in that area. So you could either rank it based on like what jobs they have to offer or you can rank it on what hospital it's at and like kind of work it out for yourself like that. But yeah, your med school will walk you through all of that and it's all done on a database called Aurel. A lot of questions are asking, how did you revise? So how did I revise? So revision is like a big one. I think it's very, very personal to you. So what worked for me might not work for you. What worked for my friend who also passed might not work for me. What worked for my friend who also passed might not work for me and vice versa, et cetera. So it's very, very personal. I am the kind of person who has to make her own notes. I can't revise off of other people's notes and I can't just read a textbook and expect it to go in my brain. So I use like reliable resources like the BMJ best practice. I use the Oxford Handbooks and I use lecture notes, et cetera, or notes from our teachers at university. And then I will create my own notes based on each specialty. And the way I make notes is I make a lot of spider diagrams. I just write down the most important points about each topic. So for example, in obstetrics there might be postpartum hemorrhage as a topic or there might be meconium stained liquor as one topic, et cetera. So you write down each topic and then you make your own notes on it in spider diagram form, just bullet points, important stuff, et cetera. And then once I have read through them, so I'll make the notes, then I'll read through them and then I will do questions on them. So I used a website called pastmedicine.com. I'm not sponsored by them or anything, I wish. But it's actually not that expensive. I think it's like 20 pounds for six months or something like that. It's not a lot of money but obviously you need to keep subscribing and they have like 5,000 questions on there and it's divided each by each specialty. So I would revise like that. I'll make all my notes on the specialty, revise all of them, so like read through all of them and then I do all of the questions on that specialty. Then I'll move on to the next one. So that's how I revised. For a lot of you who are asking how I revised for GCSEs and A-levels, I didn't make any notes for GCSEs and A-levels from what I remember. I would basically do a lot of pass papers. So GCSEs and A-levels, we had the notes that we'd make in class and if I needed them, then I would look back over them. But for that I would basically use the textbook and revise from there and then I would do all of the pass papers. So I would do all of them in one go because I would pick up the pattern. So I wouldn't do like one maths today and next week do another maths and next week do another maths because that doesn't make sense like for me. Like I need to spot the patterns that they're asking questions. It's all about with pass papers. It's all about pattern recognition. So that's what I do. I do a lot of pattern spotting through pass papers. So I would do like let's say all of the biology paper ones. I would do like one every single day and I would do like one chemistry every single day and one physics every single day. And then once I'd done all of the paper ones, I would make sure I mark each one after I've done it. So I would do like one paper on Monday and market, one paper on Tuesday and market, one paper on Wednesday market, et cetera. Because when you market, you learn your mistakes and you don't make it for the next one. So I remember on the first day when I would do it like on the Monday, let's say I did a pass paper, I would get like 50 out of 100. By the last day that I'm doing the paper, I would be hitting easily like 80s out of 100. And like if I would get something wrong, I would literally be frustrated at myself. So pass papers are definitely the ways to revise for GCSEs and A-levels and try and do them all like in one go. So like do all of the paper ones, biology, et cetera, all of the chemistries. I don't mean in one day, but I mean like don't leave a pause between doing them. Try and keep doing some every single day. How much did you score in the BMAT? I didn't do BMAT, I did UK CAT and I honestly can't lie to you. It was like maybe six years ago. I can't remember what I scored. I think I got like just above average. Okay, next question. As a current medical student, I wanna ask what was the most difficult year of studies? I found my preclinical years most difficult. So for those of you guys who don't know, medicine has kind of split up into preclinical and clinical years. So your preclinical years at St. George's were first and second year and then clinical years were third year onwards. So preclinical, you don't really spend any time in the hospital. You get like I said at the start of the video, like shadowing time where like you'll spend like a week shadowing someone, but most of the time you're in lecture theaters or you're learning about like how to examine the heart, how to examine the lungs, et cetera. It's a lot of theory work. And then clinical years is when you start being let loose onto the wards and you are never ever in a lecture theater from fourth year onwards. Like you're never like pretty much not taught. Like in fourth year we had like a lecture block before each specialty that was like one week. But for the majority of it, it's just learning in practice. So I found the years where we were just in lecture theaters the most difficult because I'm really good with when I see something in real life and I see how the situation is handled. There's no way that I'll forget that because like it just sticks with me. Like it's like a movie scene. It stays in my head. So like I will remember so much from what I've learned in terms of like clinical experience versus like learning it from a textbook which is the preclinical stuff. And you can't not do the preclinical stuff. So it has to be done, but it was just harder for me because like I said, I love the clinical aspect of medicine so much more than like sitting down and researching the science behind it. Which is again, like I said, still important but it's not my favorite part. As a long answer, sorry, the hardest year I would say was probably second year. Someone said, is medical school really science-based like A-levels or is it different and how? So med school, like I said, the first two years where you're just doing lectures is very much heavily science-based but the science is completely different to like A-level stuff. It's really related to like the human body and it's almost like where everything starts from. I would be able to know for example how someone is having a seizure if I don't understand how the electrical activities in the brain and in the whole body works and how they are fired and how it works normally. If I don't know how it works normally, how am I gonna know how someone's having a seizure? Once you've figured out how it works normally, you then learn how it can go wrong, all the abnormalities. Once you've learned all the ways that it can go wrong, you then learn what we can do to fix it so it can go right and that is our management. So like our medications, our treatments, our physiotherapy, et cetera. And we also need to know the scap in between of where it's gone wrong and knowing what to do which is our investigations. So we need to know how it's gone wrong so we can even find out how it's gone wrong with scans, et cetera, or with blood tests. So again, you need to know what all those investigations are and how each one of those works. So in the most basic way possible, that's pretty much how medicine works. So the first couple of years, you're figuring out how the body works normally. And then in the end of second year, in the third year, they start teaching you, you know, all the ways it can go wrong and how you can figure out how it goes wrong. And then in third year, you figure out how the medications and how what we can do intervention wise to make it go right. And of course, a lot of diseases that we still don't have a cure for, et cetera. So that was like the most broad way that I can describe it but that's pretty much how medical education is based. It's nothing like A-levels and it is one of the most incredible feelings in the world to study it guys because once you have that knowledge, you're just like, wow, I can't believe I know how this works. And it's not just for this. I know how, like, I don't know just how strokes work. I don't know just how epilepsy works but I know how someone who's having a sickle cell crisis could then go on to have a heart attack or et cetera. You know, like you can, the broad range of knowledge you'll have, like I'll know that the rash that this person is having is because they took that medication or this bruising they've got is because it's possible they've got this gene that's gone wrong and blah, blah, blah. Like the knowledge you'll have will just amaze you. You'll amaze yourself of how capable your mind is of taking up so much knowledge and you'll just, I don't know how to explain it but that's the feeling of like the thrilling feeling of like medicine where you're just like, oh my God, I have this much knowledge and yeah, you'll just amaze yourself. I don't know, I hope I'm inspiring you guys but that's how I feel a lot of the time. Like some of my friends will ask me questions and like, they're just like, how do you know this? And it's, I'll just be like, sometimes I even know the answers to things and I don't even know how I know it because you learn so much that like sometimes it gets to a point where you just know it. You don't even know how you learned it, you just know it. Another studying question someone said, what tips do you recommend for studying? So for studying, I think that it's important to fine tune it to yourself. I personally, I'm not the kind of person who can study like from the start of the year and like work from the beginning of the year all the way to like the end, like the same number of hours a day. Simply because the things I studied at the start of the year I won't be remembering at the end of the year and towards the end of the year I will be wanting to work a lot more in order to feel like I'm ready for the exams and I can't just keep it at my same level of like three hours a day or whatever. So I like to tend to work more in like exam season and by season I mean like the two to three months leading up to the exam. This is only for medical school. Obviously for GCSEs and A levels you're gonna need to work for that whole year which is what I did. So for medical school I work in the exam season. For GCSEs and A levels I work for the whole year. So you have to first of all know when to start studying when it feels right for you if you're the type of person who wants to study all year or if you wanna start studying exam season. And then once you get into exam season like you have to fully dedicate yourself and you have to make sure that you know you have a plan. But when I say plan I don't mean like a rigid like nine to 10 I'm gonna do this, 10 to 11 I'm gonna do this. I mean more like I'm gonna make notes on this topic today and then I'm going to tomorrow revise those notes and then the day after I'm gonna do all the questions and the day after that I'm gonna do all the questions again and make sure that in that time that you're scheduling you schedule yourself the time off that you need. If you need an hour off in the evening to go out with your friends a couple hours to go out with your friends and relax, make sure you put that in there. Regular breaks is what's gonna get you through this. Too many breaks is not good but regular breaks is important. So that's my advice for studying. Another question I got that I read as well was do you study more at home or in the library? Throughout GCSEs and A levels I only studied at home and then in medical school I can only study in the library. So obviously I wasn't able to study in the library towards the right at the end when we had the library closed down because of quarantine but in general I do study more at the library because I see my friends around me and we're medicine because it's quite complex there'll be a lot of questions that you won't be able to find the answers to just from straight up Googling it. So it's good to have friends there that you can ask them questions like relevant stuff or if you wanna take a break together you can take a break together if you wanna sit around each other to be motivated you can do that, you can sit together in huddles and practice questions or another important thing about med school is we have exams called oskies which are practical exams. They are 50% of your grade for the final year so half of it comes from written exams and half of it comes from your practical oskies. Like for example someone will come in and be like oh I've got chest pain and you have to show that you know how to ask them the right questions and how to examine them and what investigations you would do, et cetera. That's all examined with you, usually an actor and an examiner in the room and you have about 10 to 14 stations according to what year of med school you're in. So to practice with that you need to kind of practice with your peers because you can't really like sit alone and practice like hey how are you today? Oh I've got chest pain, oh where does it hurt? You know you can't do that so you have to do it with your friends and that's why it's really important to like study in the library or at uni because you can do that there. Someone said what's the junior doctor work hours and pay in London, labia. So I literally have finished med school this week. I haven't started work yet. I have never looked into the pay of a junior doctor. I've heard figures been thrown around but I can answer these questions once I start work so have your eyes peeled for some more junior doctor videos. Okay so I've got a question for you. Is it possible to get into med school without the best GCSEs? So I don't know what the best GCSEs are. If you guys want some ballpark rangers I have friends who've gone into med school with about five A stars and five A. I don't think I've met people with less than five A stars I'm trying to think. A lot of the times though my friends who've got like a week of GCSEs and A levels they end up doing biomedical science which is a degree that a lot of people do which is three years long and then they apply for postgraduate medicine. So by showing that they've got like a two one or above that kind of makes up for lower grade GCSEs. So I think definitely talk to like your advisor at like your school or call up the universities or email them and a lot of them will like give you a lot of advice about like what grades that they usually like accept including GCSE grades, A level grades, UK cat or BMAT grades, et cetera. So ask them about it. Don't feel shy to email. There's always a contact email for admissions there and uni's always tend to be really nice to like the people who wanna come or you can go to an open day and you can ask. If you guys wanna know about me I think I've said this a million times in previous videos I got nine A stars and two A's at GCSEs I know that they're numbered now so I don't know what that would translate in numbers and in A levels I got four A's and a B so I did five A levels you don't need five you only need three. Next question, did you have an income next to uni? So I did actually have an income next to uni for my first two and a half years of uni I worked as a tutor and that was really, really good. Like you can make money starting from 25 to 50 pounds an hour the cheaper price rates would be depending on how loyal your customer is and also how many hours they want you a week. I made really, really, really good money from that. Like honestly I think I was living quite a luxury lifestyle with the amount of money that I was making I could go out with my friends I could afford to like do a lot of stuff that students couldn't really afford to do because of how much I was earning and I think that again goes to show how incredible it is to have an education where you can share your knowledge and how powerful that knowledge is that it was earning me that much money and then I stopped doing that because medical got a bit more heavier for me and my parents were kind of like you don't have to do it if you don't want to like if you just want to focus on like uni like just go ahead and do that and then I also did YouTube videos and I did Instagram fashion blogging which also is a source of income which I really, really enjoy and I didn't actually start off being a source of income it just started off because I wanted to film videos so yeah I didn't start that because of that at all it just turned into that way so yeah someone says how did you take notes during lectures? So basically in lectures I would this was before Penocto arrived I don't know if you or you need to have Penocto but it's basically like the screen recording with the voice recording at the same time and the slides move as the person moves there, et cetera but when I first was in pre-eclinical years we only had PowerPoint slides and someone talking and then we'd get the recording separate it was a very, very old school but I actually preferred it that way because the PowerPoint presentations underneath it had a notes section and under each slide I would basically write down everything that the tutor said that's not on the slide so anything that I thought was important that they've said that's not on the slide or if it explains the slide a lot more easily I'd write that down then after the lecture I would go and print off that whole lecture, the PowerPoint and I would print it in the format of the three slides a page because it had notes next to it so once I'd printed it off the notes that I'd written on my laptop I would then transfer onto these PowerPoint printouts and that way that was me revising it by writing it out again and that was my notes and revisions so I found that really easy obviously like I said after that we didn't really have many lectures so that only worked for my first and second year okay I'm gonna answer the last question now there was a lot of questions I'm gonna try and answer some today on my Instagram sorry if you don't catch it but if there's a lot more questions that you guys have that I haven't answered then I will do a part two just let me know in the comments but the last question is when did you know you wanted to become a doctor and any advice for young aspiring doctors? so I knew I wanted to become a doctor about a day after I got my GCSE results so I got my GCSE results and I remember I'd got a lot better than I had been predicted my school actually predicted me like five or six A stars and like A's and B's and that was them kind of acting like they'd pushed the boat out by giving me really good predicted grades yeah so I kind of didn't realize kind of how smart I was even though growing up everyone would always like my whole family would always tell me you're so smart, you're so smart but I didn't realize how smart I was until I got my results and then when I did get my results I kind of sat down and thought hey like what do you want to do and at that point I really loved like history and English literature I literally got 100% in those exams in my GCSEs but I also loved science like science for me was like logic there's an answer to it like you know you're always obviously like there's a lot of theories but what I meant was like there was always an answer to it it wasn't like philosophy where you're thinking like there's loads of possible answers and you'll never know which one's right so that's why I was like I want a scientific degree and I really wanted to do something that I felt would help people like my nature and my character is just like I feel like if you meet me in real life I always try and help people where I can and like I really really care about people and like I'm quite nurturing and so that's why I thought the best thing that would suit me would be to become a doctor and that's how I decided it and I remember I told my parents we were in the car on the way to my auntie's house and I was like guys, guys like it was just me and my mom and dad and I was like guys and they were like yeah I was like I know what I want to do and they're like what do you want to do and I was like I want to be a doctor and they were like oh like that's amazing and it was really weird for them because they'd never ever suggested it to me my dad always told me he thought I'd go to Oxford and study history and my mom always thought I'd be a dentist but I didn't ever like dentistry at all I always used to tell her like I don't like dentistry my sister Sol's a dentist so maybe that's why she thought I'd be a dentist too but yeah I didn't like dentistry so I was like yeah I'm gonna be a doctor and they were like wow like that's so amazing and I was just really really supportive and it just, once I made that decision I stuck to it, I knew it was what I wanted I knew it was what suited me and I couldn't imagine myself doing anything else and I still to this day can't imagine myself doing anything else but that doesn't mean it's the only thing that I'm gonna do with myself in my life so like my main focus and my main career is obviously always gonna be being a doctor but that doesn't mean that I can't be on here on YouTube and being a YouTuber or being on Instagram and being an influencer and I even love fashion and one day I'd love to do some writing towards fashion and being like a fashion journalist there's a lot of things you can do with the amount of time you're given in a day so don't put yourself in a box and think just cause I'm a doctor I'm gonna, that's all I can do or just because I'm a research analyst that's it, like don't put yourself in a box don't limit yourself that's my advice to aspiring doctors is make sure you want it make sure it's your main focus and it's all you've ever wanted to achieve but don't let that stop you from living your whole life and living out all of your dreams, you know? There's not just one, you don't have to have just one dream no one's gonna tell you off wanting more for yourself and like it doesn't mean you're spreading yourself thin don't believe any of that that's what, I had a lot of people on YouTube comments telling me that and where are they now? I don't know, so yeah what I'm trying to say is do what you wanna do do what makes you happy and don't limit yourself you guys are, like I'm telling you you're capable of anything you want but you have to put the work in you can't just sit there and be like well I wanna be a doctor but I don't know if I'm bothered to revise for it like, yeah, no, like I wanna be a doctor I don't care if I don't get to sit down for like six hours a day and watch Netflix and instead I have to revise because I'm gonna get to where I want to get to or I wanna be a pilot, yeah? and I have to take these piloting classes, et cetera so do what it is you need to do girls and boys, you can do it I'm telling you it's very achievable anything you put your mind to is achievable so don't limit yourself don't question your talents don't question your worth, just push through it's, in this 21st century it's so easy to be lazy just sitting down, watching shows all day and like, you know, buying stuff and et cetera like just being a consumer and doing nothing it's very easy, the temptation is there but don't give in to temptation and try and make the most of yourself and fulfill all of your dreams and if you get tired and need a break that's not the same as giving up or not trying your best, don't confuse that okay, I'm trying too much this video is way, way, way too long but I hope that this was helpful for you guys and if it was then please give it a thumbs up and subscribe to me down below let me know if there was any advice that you still want me to give let me know if there was any advice that really stuck out to you just chat to me in the comments I always love talking to you guys thank you so, so much for watching don't forget to check out my Instagram it's also linked down below Persian Bunny, don't forget to subscribe give this video a thumbs up and I will see you in my next video bye