My Final Semester at Saint Andrews

Technically speaking I still have 2 semesters but the 2nd will be spent writing my dissertation with no classes as we know them now. Research and writing is what the 2nd semester will consist of. We were told last week to enjoy our final moments this semester as a class together and it was poignant for us all. A reminder of how far we have come. This is why I am looking at this semester as the last one and I am sad to be doing so.

When I started at Saint Andrews this current time seemed so far away, 3rd years seemed so superior to me and I thought they must know SO much stuff. Haha now I am 3rd year......and I say grudgingly that yes I think I have learned a heck of a lot.

In the beginning I thought 3 years would take so long to go by, driving up to the bubble every day and studying there and working hard. The truth of it is that it has gone by in a whirlwind, tornado like fashion and I really can't believe I am in the final year. My advice to anyone there starting out is enjoy EVERY moment because before you know it, it is time to go.

Studying medicine has fulfilled me and given me so much happiness and satisfaction on so many different levels. The journey began in Perth when a really nervous mother of 2 went to college with the attitude of "Even if I don't get in to University I might pass the HNC" which rapidly changed to "I am blooming well getting into University and I am going to do this" as my confidence in my abilities and intelligence grew. To think that was then and this is now, how time flies and life changes as it flies by.

I have many wonderful friends whom I have met in Saint Andrews and I am grateful to everyone who supports me and wishes me well in my goals. It is so weird, when I first went to SA I thought nothing could be better than my time at Perth, since I had loved being at college so much, how I was wrong, I have loved being at SA Uni too and I need to remember this as I approach going to Edinburgh, I can already feel myself thinking it will not be so good as SA.

So I am choked with the cold today, tired from a horrid week last week and could probably write all day long and still not have done enough work...........but it's the life I choose and I positively love being a medic and a student and would not be wanting to do anything else at all, even if I won the lottery. I promise!! ;-)