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[Ninja]

Glad to hear your staying safe and loving the photoshoot! :shock:

[Dinahlady]

Uhhhhhh - Thanks guys...

Update is that

1. I found out that I have a random food intolerance called FODMAP intolerance. Which is supposedly the reason I've been having some lower back pain as my stomach is inflamed etc and stopping my core from supporting my spine and causing tightness in my hips and basically stopping me from training properly. I've probably had this all my life but its been made worse from cutting out some amount of these foods when dieting and then going back onto them.

It includes some random crap that you never thought would be be bad for your stomach. like asparagus and broccoli and sweeteners etc. but it kinda explains why i felt as crap as i did when i was dieting from all the sweeteners and veggies that aren't allowed on it. And i think the main thing now on top of that is dairy and wheat so I'm trying to clean cut out all of those slowly and slowly getting back into training.

Its difficult because when dieting you are always thinking of lower calorie options etc but now I have to think about food types, whole foods and possibly higher sugar options to avoid the types of foods that upset me.

2. I'm going down to Dunedin next year to go to Otago uni. Gon be a Doctor hopefully (YAYs!) Going to be working at the Les Mills down there for some pocket money as well.

[tomsammce]

A doctor wow... Leave your broscience in Wellington then lol

All the best with that.

[southernsamurai]

I'm sure Tomsammce can sort your tight hip issues :pfft:

What made you want to become a doc?

[Phedder]

Hard luck with the food intolerance, just makes life that much harder doesn't it.

Good on you for wanting to do medicine. I just hope you realise how competitive it is to get in? Approximately 1,500 people do the Health Sciences First Year course, and I'd say 3/4 of them are aiming to get entry to Medicine. I think there's around 150 places available through the HSFY course. In my first year, pretty much everyone I knew who got accepted into medicine had 90%+ averages, the lowest I'd heard of was an 87%. Not trying to put you off, just be aware that you'll have to work bloody hard and probably won't be partying twice a week like half of the students. Are you going to be staying in a hall of residence or flatting?

[maccaz]

Good on you for wanting to do medicine. I just hope you realise how competitive it is to get in? Approximately 1,500 people do the Health Sciences First Year course, and I'd say 3/4 of them are aiming to get entry to Medicine. I think there's around 150 places available through the HSFY course. In my first year, pretty much everyone I knew who got accepted into medicine had 90%+ averages, the lowest I'd heard of was an 87%. Not trying to put you off, just be aware that you'll have to work bloody hard and probably won't be partying twice a week like half of the students. Are you going to be staying in a hall of residence or flatting?

this, from what i gather from the couple of people i know who made it throw bhsci into medicine, you need to be some sort of genius.

also the workload is apparently pretty brutal, like beyond full time for the first 4-5 years.

i considered it until i saw the acceptance rates. good luck

[tomsammce]

Inb4 Riccardo.

[Dinahlady]

Thanks guys!

Yeah no bro science any more! have to cut that shit out. Maybe it will go with time when I actually learn something decent and respected in the real health fields

Yeah, I don't party that often anyway. I got that out of my system when I was 18 so I guess thats one advantage. With my food intolerances alcohol kinda fucks me up anyway. And I'm very aware how much work I'll have to put in. I'll be going into halls which is good because of the tutorials there. It will be pretty challenging as I have dyslexia as well but that can be a blessing in disguise as it means I get lots of extra support and help.

I was hitting high 80%s and 90%s in College, some subjects more consistent 90s than others, and I had to pull 8 - 8 days or longer there to fit in all my study and extra learning as I find it hard to learn 9 - 5 classroom style and I was taking several extra subjects and competing to get into Oxford (even higher odds against you - maybe 1 in 60+ chance of interview - and I got to the final round but didn't get in in the end - in fact none got in in the course I applied for) So I know what hard work is!! And I'm definitely suited to more independent study anyway so I think uni will be good for me in that respect.

But anyway thats all the past and I'm older and wiser too

I'm aware that there are 1200 Health Sciences Students who start out probably all hoping they will make it into Med and only 266 Med places (180 from Health Sci). However as the year goes on I guess there will be more and more who realize there grades might not be up to scratch - I may be one of them but I'm open to looking into other options if this happens. I feel that when I get there and I experience the subjects I'll get to see which parts I like and possibly consider other avenues of study but I'm aiming for Gold at the moment. Other subjects I've been looking at are there neuroscience degrees or biomed - the system at Otago so good because they all begin with the Health Sci Year anyway.

I do see myself in some advantage in some aspects at the moment being slightly older than some students and possibly having more maturity to get the work done, having heaps of experience trying to get into harder placing courses, have had a lot of study skills knowledge and support in the past - and uni sounds even better on the support side (electronic course materials, notes taken for me by pro note takers in electronic form, one hour of one on one tutoring per paper from a post grad student whose passed the paper I'm taking, Extra times in exams and in labs tests - along side normal tutorials and lectures) So I figure all I'm fighting against are people who are naturally smarter than me, without dyslexia (although that's not necessarily a huge issue), or who have a naturally higher work ethic. so I'm just going to pull everything together so I can buckle down and work on those things as best I can.

I have always thought in the back of my mind that I would like to do Med, But in the UK system I would be blocked out because you have to basically want it since you are about 10 years old and have made all the right choices and done all the right subjects and got top top grades since GCSE (5th form) - which I didn't for various reasons a lot being that I didn't discover my dyslexia till late 5th form and by 4th and 5th form it was becoming a problem and some teachers had noticed the discrepancies between my grades and my class responses.

So when I found out I could attempt it here that definitely encouraged me a lot, alongside working as a PT for the last year in a place where it feels like experience is respected more than actual knowledge and potential - I definitely felt the need to crawl back into the academic world where I feel safe and valued haha. I definitely feel that I have the potential to get through Med school given the chance and that I could do great things in my career - hopefully I pull my finger out and can scrounge the grades together to get a shot

I dont know if I would go into work as many peoples traditional views of a doctor - I'd possibly look to eventually be in either managerial positions or research directive positions, decision making or innovation, possibly taking further study first such as PHd's Md's etc. I think that my personal skills and dyslexia lend to these types of situations and jobs better. But you never know - might discover I'm a talented surgeon, there are quite a few dyslexics who are. I'm quite excited to see what will happen as my learning support was still "in training" in 6th and 7th form as it was still all new to me. It will be good to see how different I find things now I'm much more aware of how my silly brain works and have a lot more useful support with my reading/learning and writing.

And with working as a PT I'll probably only be taking a few clients a week. I'll definitely be able to find time for my own workouts so I will be able to fit clients in around study. If it doesn't work out I can just leave, simples

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[AZIDE]

wow almost 1000 words...

if you go hard you should be sweet dinah, my bro got in easy. a lot of the people who try are deluded fuckwits with no hope of getting in or people who are there just coz their mates are who shouldnt even be at uni.

the first year is hard because its competitive, then after that, assuming you get in its pretty sweet, you can even resit exams you fail.

oh and Dinah

please..

stay safe.