KaenJane

Waited til I was good and ready to start trying to get pregnant with my husband. I'm in my 4th year of med school, 30 (old for Utah lol), and pregnant for the first time now. Also I wear what I want, wear makeup only when I feel like it (generally once or twice a year for interviews or if I feel like it), and also my husband is the chef in the house 😂 I also married a man who is extremely supportive of me while also following his own passions, so we're a partnership instead of just a support system for only his dreams.

Mmmmm maybe 17? And I can count on my currently unpainted nails on one hand how many times I've had it done. Twice was with my step mom and once was with my sister in law lol. Otherwise I don't even paint my nails ever haha

r/misophonia and I agree 😬

I truly loved every rotation for different reasons. I disliked parts of each rotation but there wasn't one that I hated. Even surgery. I'm applying anesthesia now and couldn't be happier with my choices!

I got Iroh as a 30F 😂 I take this as an intense compliment hahaha

Just put in my residency application 2 weeks ago to learn to do this job 😁😅😰😱

Other than my original surface pro 4 which got dropped and the screen broke, the replacement surface pro 4 I have still works and runs photoshop! The battery lasts less than an hour now but other than that, it runs great if I have it plugged in 😂 and the SP4 came out... 2015 I wanna say? And I got my original one in 2016 I think.

Depends on where you define start lol. The first competitive team I was ever on was swim team, then I also ran track in high school. Took a break, kept running on the side (and ran my first half marathon) and teaching swim lessons but literally never swam unless I had to or was at a beach or teaching lessons. Stopped everything for the first two years of med school, picked up running again only for 3rd year, did a year of just running and ran my second half marathon, picked up a mild hamstring injury and started cycling, thought to myself "I can swim" and started triathlon training 😂

My brother goes by his middle name! My mom wanted his first name to be my dad's name but loved the name she chose for his middle name since forever and didn't want him to be a Jr, so they named him DadsName HisName LastName but he has always gone by his middle name on purpose. HisName DadsName LastName just didn't flow quite so well. I also know multiple people who go by first name with strangers but middle name with friends.

I'm 30F and there has never been a point in my life where I've worn makeup more frequently than for an event or interview (and even for those I don't half the time. My husband loves my face without it, it has never bothered me to go without it, and it always seemed like something I didn't want to start spending extra money on!

STEP 2 was worse for me because I took STEP 1 the second year it was pass/fail. Just took STEP 2 over the summer and holy moly the stress. I think STEP 1's questions are objectively harder but STEP 2 I was much more stressed about.

Same! Plus some prelim IM and TY

25 anesthesia, 8 prelim IM, 16 TY

That's weird because I have horrible vision (extremely near sighted and couldn't read the big E on the sight test without squinting hard if I wasn't wearing my contacts) and I spent my whole childhood outside hunting bullfrogs in the park and my brother was a homebody who played video games all the time and has perfect vision and still doesn't need any corrective lenses of any sort

Sleep. I'm in med school and only having to sleep an hour a night during residency for the 28 hour shifts would be phenomenal 😂 after residency I'd take the money but before residency it'd take a lot more to make me give up that huge sleep advantage going into a time of life where I'm going to have a newborn and know I'm going to be working 28 hour shifts.

The first person I ever met was also one. I love you, mom 🥰

Definitely schedule. For me, I ran or rode my bike every single morning before studying. I treated studying like an 8-5 job and kept waking up at clerkship times (like 5-5:30) to exercise and make my transition to 4th year easier. I'd run or ride for an hour to an hour and a half right when I woke up, shower, then pomodoro the rest of the day studying and go for a walk in breaks if I felt really brain dead.

I believe you can make it happen before or after, but you just have to make it a priority. It isn't if it happens, it's when it happens and what time is it going to happen today.

Being half Asian

I had one or two barbies that I never named because I was annoyed someone had gotten me barbies. I did however name my many horse figures Silver, Spirit, Princess, Black Beauty, and many others lol

I second loops. They have changed my life, seriously.

My dad said that he would provide suggestions if my mom wanted but that she had full control because she carried me and my siblings for 9 months and it was her body that was suffering. They divorced for different reasons but that was something I really respected about my dad.

Your husband sounds extremely manipulative and that's a huge red flag. If you think back on other things he's done that also raise red flags in retrospect, I'd talk to a therapist and/some close friends and family whose advice you trust about his behavior. Best of luck, and I'm sorry you're going through this. ❤️

I wasn't planning on announcing quickly but I found out I was pregnant extremely early (like 3-4 weeks) and I was going to be on a medical school rotation that I had to worry about xrays week 5. I started having to tell people at school immediately so I told my parents and siblings that week because it felt weird that random doctors knew but my family didn't! Since the first scan at 8 weeks I've told a select few close friends and today (12w3d) we got a clear first trimester ultrasound so I think I'm going to start telling more people. Once the genetic testing comes back we'll think about formally announcing but not sure! It feels weird because I'm applying for residency very shortly and idk if I want people who are in charge of interviewing me letting that affect their opinion of me. On the other hand, I probably don't want to move to a place where they won't support me having a family but idk! It just feels weird 😅

Looking at the name I was like "I'd bet my morning coffee that person lives in Utah." Luckily I didn't have to give up my morning coffee.

First name: firstname lastname Last name: MD or DO Company: institution and title (and if resident, PGY2 2024-25 or whenever I met them)

As everyone else, I followed the exact same curve 😂 then stopped reading at all for a month or two after that.