this is the most unplanned episode i've ever done. no planning, no researching, just straight vibes. you're going to hear about EVERYTHING i think about my gap year, from making new friends to realistic travel to starting my social media... you'll hear it all in this episode. ☆ SOCIALS ☆my website: themediocredoctor.square.site instagram: @medicmornings @medbyfio tiktok: @stinkybluebells email: themediocredoctor@gmail.com youtube: @medbyfio transcript (auto-generated, will have inaccuracies)Hi everyone. Welcome back to another episode of medic mornings. I'm your host Fiona and today I'm going to be talking basically about Gap year advice. So I'm currently 7 8 months into my car. So I feel like I have a good grasp of what exactly you got, your consists of, you know what I've done? German got your dad's been productive, what I would have done a little bit to change it but overall I'm just going to be talking about my experience and Avery just conversational matter because I know the my podcast have been very structured recently. You know how questions I've had guests over but I haven't really had much time to sit and reflect on my God. And this my podcast and I do whatever the fuck I want. So we're going to be doing that today. Without further Ado, let's get started. Okay, so results say that was when I kind of started knowing OSHA it, like I'm going to have to start planning my God. Because I was there was so many different things I wanted to do. Like, I want to try skydiving, I want to go make some new friends. I want to find new hobbies and I genuinely thought that I could, there was a whole year of me doing this. So I was like, the sky's the limit, you know. I can do whatever the fuck I want but now it's kind of like my mentality has shifted into a bit more mature and a bit more understanding that even though there's lots of time, you kind of have to prioritize because I felt that's my Gap year. Even though it has been very productive, there just simply wasn't enough time for everything, but like having an empty year sounds like a lot. But honestly there Enough time. So, what I did was I currently work a part-time job with Med entry, some of you might know, but I have been an ambassador for them. Since the summer of 2022, I believe ya the summer and they approached me and there were like, you've done great on your, your cat. We'd love to have you as an ambassador. And honestly, I was more than excited cuz I love my country. I love what they stand for, their programs are amazing. All the packages that I used, you know, not blaming other companies, I use, but they were by far the best that I have experienced personally, you know, there you got packages are amazing. If you want this Concord, you can just go on my website just a sneaky frog there. But yeah, Medici has been great as a company as, you know, as my boss They've been amazing. So I work part-time at Med entry as for right now I've done that since that summer and yeah it's been great. I got to earn money as well as you know, tutor people in Ukiah. And honestly what I was going to ask for. You know I'm getting paid and then why love? Which is like medical education and staying in touch with the medical admissions stuff. So I get to work with you do interviews and interview preparation for other people. But as of right now I'm just doing some you got stuff to prepare for the next admission season like personal statements as well. So I remember I was kind of going through people's personal statements. I've gotten love trading, to your key things to look out for a key things to not do in your personal statement. It's quite rigorous, an objective process. So I personally was very invested in that part as well. Yeah. That was that's most of my work that I've been partaking in and where most of my you like small income comes from. And my God. I'm also doing my driver's license test right now. So a lot of you know that I've been fully invested in the whole doing what you might not be doing in uni thing, you know. So and you need I probably would be stressed the fuck out and not have enough time to start to learn to drive and I'm on my third lesson right now, I'm on 66 7 hours in and I'm learning automatic. Automatic drivers don't know how to fucking drive but that's not my fucking fault cuz I just want to know how to drive. Like, I don't really care about the stick shift, or the manual or the gear stick or you need to know the clutch and everything or it's just too much are too clumsy for me or I can't be bothered. So I'm going to have to drive automatic. So I'm going to have a category B license at the end. And I'm planning on taking my driver's test in July, I believe ya July, and that's quite exciting. I love my driving instructor. I use passenger right now, like so yeah, if it's something you're interested in my my experience has been wholly, great butts. It's a bit like franchise so I'm not too sure. Aside from driver's testing, I was want to talk about my social media Journey. So social media was something that I really, really, really wanted to do for a long time. I don't know specifically what it was. I think I started my Tik-Tok in your 12, so I remember one takes out that I posted it. Caught 10K views the first to tell that I ever posted like, for serious reasons, was, you know, those medical application videos that are like here is where I'm applying and then put all your stats down and the cute video of you. I remember the song. It was visors, a cat and it was like and we both look Asian cuz you know how, you know how it looks like when you're drunk, you, you're like squinting apparently and that's what and we both look Asian. And then my friends are just laughing at me because I did get the song. I was like we both look Asian but you're actually Asian but it's making fun of Asians. So those on me I thought that was funny but going back to the actual topic it blew up. I think she likes 15 K views at a time 15K. Which I was insanely like shocked but I was oh my God, guys on Tik Tok famous, it's you know 15K which 15K is great but at the time I was like holy shit like this is a lot and I was getting, you know, it like a few hundred followers but not too much. And then I started doing another video, I believe on like a 4-stop and it was kind of productivity-based and I was kind of like, I might double into the Cenote, Tik-Tok, it was very easy to blow up and I found I found it relatively good at first, so I really like that. There was a bit of me. That was kind of like this is a lot of attention, but the other side of me was like, oh, I could actually use it for good, you know. I could actually like become one of those people who I looked up to so much I was like oh my God, that's Faith. Christina eliyahu. I just recently collabed with oh my God, she is so amazing. But I looked up to her so much and a few other Med YouTubers and a few other, like met instagrammers. I was like, holy shit, like they can do all. They're just showing that you can travel. We can have fun. You can have friends, and you can do all the stuff in medical school. And I'm like, I want to be like that. You know what, I want to show my journey and I've always been someone who's, you know, taking pictures and videos of everything. So that was me trying to diversify my portfolio in got beer. So I just wanted to try everything, you know, try everything, make a podcast are so YouTube channel starts at 6, outside and Instagram. And try all and see which ones are feasible to take into Medical School United, which ones are worth my time. And for, right now, that's Instagram and tiktok and my podcast, obviously, I'm taking my podcast to medical school. I don't think I'm going to do too much to my YouTube channel, but honestly, the YouTube channel was just where it got your memories and I really enjoyed that while it lasted. So, yeah, my camera is just sitting in the corner right now, but hopefully I'll have some use for that during my got your trip, which I'll talk about it more later. But yeah, my social media that Journey has been great. I feel like slowly progressing and I've slowly kind of gotten a better gist of what my contents should be. I hate the word in Spencer, like, no one, no one come up to me and call me one because that's just it. Printed me out, even though yeah, it just has me up, but I think that's my growth has been very organic, it's been great. And I've gotten a better understanding of, you know, of my, my followers, My listeners who I kind of want to portray and put myself there. As I thought I was about to see myself as a medical student, but honestly, I don't really mind that because if I am in medical students and that's going to be, you know, a lot of my life and I genuinely do. You love medicine in that. There's so much Beauty in healing people and I could just talk about it all day, honestly. So yeah, that's where my origin came from and how I really started my Instagram journey journey or whatever you want to call it. Okay, moving on to traveling. So I used to think like that. If you didn't travel, you are such a loser and I've changed a lot since then. So I'm going to say, I used to be so, so, so like far-fetched. I always tell people, you know, going to Australia for a freaking year during their Gap year. You know, people, people going to Latin America for 3 months. Actually, I saw lots of liked am doing that. But honestly, I was like, I want to be one of those people, you know, spending so much time, like going to South Africa to volunteer with children and like, Wildlife and everything. I just wanted to do that, you know, that pierced the time to go travel for a year and go work and you can get free accommodation of you, if you do a certain quota of like working every day. But honestly, I don't think that's really happened that much. I'm definitely planning some trips at the moment. So I have done Iceland with my family. I went for around 10
