“So, if you care to find me,
Look to the Western sky.
As someone told me lately,
‘Everyone deserves a chance to fly…’”
Sefkhet is a third year medical student at the University of Glasgow.
It took her three attempts to get into medical school, and she’s now what university administrators call a mature student — not nearly old enough to see the point of sitting in the front row of lectures with a dictaphone, but, yes, old enough to understand the value of occasionally eating something that isn’t beans on toast. She studied biomedical sciences as an undergraduate at Durham and left after three years with a good degree, better friends, and the kinds of stories that are best told in a dark corner of a quiet pub with an audience willing to suspend disbelief.
In an effort to prove that you can be a medical student and have a life, she is also a runner and a choral singer and an Anglican, she reads fiction and history and poetry and politics, she cross-stitches, she is an unabashed politican nerd and a liberal activist, and she’s a fan of obscure crime dramas, fictional presidents, and Gallifreyans and Time Agents and their assorted entourages.
“It’s time to trust my instincts, close my eyes, and leap…”
March 27, 2009 at 1:24 pm
Lovely blog. Just read the first couple of posts about your road to getting into Medschool – fascinating stuff, you certainly deserve to be there!
I may write a brief account of my own journey into Medicine, though I wish I could write as well as you.
I follow your blog keenly…
July 21, 2009 at 6:49 pm
Hi!
I really like your blog, its really motivational!
Im in a similar situation to what you were in (i messed up my finals so im going to do biomedical science) and the fact that you still went on to do Med afterwards is really super.
Keep up the great blogging!
August 23, 2009 at 5:59 pm
I love your blog, Sefkhet. Every post has a very clear message as opposed to simply documenting your experiences at medical school, a trap that the majority of other blogs fall into. The story of how you eventually got into medical school is very inspiring. I’m starting at Glasgow in September and would be lucky to have someone like you as my Fresher Mum!
Keep blogging