Heyhey! How is everyone?

My life's pretty boring atm. Although I am now a graduate (I have 'BSc' after my name! How weird!) I'm not in the big scary world of work yet cos I'm only half way through medicine. So I'm just enjoying my last long summer holiday. But the weather is not cooperating! I mean, mist! In the middle of summer!!?!??!

Anyways, weather rant over.

I'm trying to get back into drawing but my previous non-existent skills have disintegrated after not really being used for soooo long. So in the mean time you get all my rubbish photos I've taken on my various trips so far this summer

Sorry for filling up your messages with my comments! I'm trying to get through everything I've missed...got it down to less than 200 deviations now ^_^

My pet rat is amusing me for the time being. She's learnt how to open her cage door, but she doesn't escape. She either doesn't go out, or she climbs up to sit on top of the cage for a bit and then goes back in. We reckon she's agoraphobic. Especially cos when you try to take her out, she clings for dear life to the bars on the cage. Once she's out she's fine though! She's also taken to rearranging her 'furniture' in her cage at night. Every day I wake up the cage looks different!

So yup, boring life for now. I'm of to see a friend I haven't seen in about a year though so I'm very excited about that!!

Hope you're all well!
love love love

So...turns out that when your work actually counts towards your degree, uni takes up a LOT of time!

But, after a month of exams...I'M FINISHED!!! until September anyways...and ignoring the viva on my project in about a week...but other than that, assuming I managed to pass (a bit iffy at the moment...) I'm guna be a graduate! Wow I feel old saying that. I wasn't expecting to graduate until 2011 but here I am, almost with a degree. Scary...
Still only half way through uni though. Another 3 more years to go and I'll be a doctor ^_^ (that's even scarier than saying I have a degree!).

I'll be catching up on your amazing art slowly but surely over summer - can't wait to see it all! Sorry for the absence!!

Hope you're all doing well

Sorry I've been so rubbish at commenting at the moment!

I'm crazy busy with uni work. Hopefully it should ease off a bit by December.

But I'll try and get to your art and journals asap!

I hope you're all doing well!

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My course at uni is probably one of the most competitive courses around. Everyone is trying to be the best because then you'll get the best job when you finish at the best hospital in the best city. It's a hard environment to live in, especially as we were all at the tops of our classes at high school. One of my flatmates is finding it particularly hard. She wants to be top of the year, like she was at school. One day she got really upset because results for the midsessional exams came out, and she'd worked so hard over the Christmas holidays to try and get a really good mark. But (and I quote) she "only got 74%". She was really annoyed because she'd tried her hardest and she still (quote again) "did badly". Personally I think 74% is really good. In fact it's pretty amazing for medschool.

But it made me think because I'm sure a lot of people are always trying to be the best. But if that's what you're aiming for, you're going to be disappointed most, if not all, of the time. Instead of aiming to be the best out of everybody, why not just try and do the best *you* can. Work hard, not to be better than everyone else, but to fulfil your potential. And if your best is "only 74%" then that's fine. At least you know that you've worked as hard as you could. Measure your achievements by yourself, not by how other people are doing, because everyone is different.

So yeah, that's my advice. Hope it helps someone ^_^

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I bought a dress today. I feel so girly