heyheyyy lil stink :)) as previewed in my letter from yesterday, i'm officially backkkkkkkk- you don't know how many times i wanted to write my silly little dumpy dump over the past few weeks but i was in the thick of dedicated for step 2 (my second round of boards exams in med school!!) so i had to suppress the urges and LOCK IN lol. i sat for the exam this past friday though so i'm now freeee and get to catch you up on my lil visual diary from both the week before i started studying and then the period of studying as well hehe
monday may 20th!!
i got mi nails done for the first time since december which was super cute n fun then i just sort of hung out at home all day and got some miscellaneous work done that i'd put off while i was on my sub-internship
tuesday may 21st!!
hung out w/ one of my high school besties since i was back in the burbs! we walked around our town's downtown for a bit and caught up then got sushi for dinner :p
wednesday may 22nd!!
went on a little walkie walk w my childhood friend in this prarie forest preserve in our suburb and it was literally so funny cus we veered off course and then got grossed out by all the cicadas we were seeing so we decided to walk back to the main tracks only to see a person crouched down except we mistook them for an animal for a second LOL but that was definitely foreshadowing cus a few minutes later a literal coyote walked RIGHT in front of us 😭 at another point while we were walking my friend nearly got taken out by someone biking when we got to an area where the paths intersected
thursday may 23rd!!
another chill day in the burbs- randomly was craving 순두부찌개 so i went out and got that
friday may 24th!!
had a bunch of tutoring sessions w my students then in the evening i drove into the city cus jessica and emma were visiting! we mostly hung out at their airbnb but then around 11pm we got intense cravings for ice cream so we headed over to this bubble waffle ice cream place for our midnight snacks
saturday may 25th!!
met back up w/ jess and emma at one of my fav coffee shops near where they were staying then we walked over to the lakefront and biked 6 miles down to the planetarium cus it has one of my fav views of the city! then we got lunch at this INSANE turkish restaurant, literally some of the best food i've ever had in my entire life. after relaxing for a bit back at their airbnb we headed near millennium park to catch young miko's suenos set. now mind you we absolutely didn't have tickets but there's an area across the street from the festival on the sidewalk near the beach where you can kind of see the stage so a bunch of people were gathered by there to listen for free lol after we went to the riverwalk and hung out for a little bit before it was time for eepies
sunday may 26th!!
had a little productive study day with jinhee at a coffeeshop near her apartment! after they closed we went to paris baguette and studied there LOL until it was time for me to meet back up w/ emma and jessica for dinner at kyuramen! the way this restaurant is set up is kinda like a honeycomb, so every group has their own individual hexagon that they dine in above the ground idk how to explain LOL but if you google 'kyuramen chicago' and go to images it's there
monday may 27th!!
first day of dedicated :') tutored in the morning then started off my study period by going ham learning emergency medicine content cus while the material is tested on step 2, we hadn't done it as a core rotation at my school as a part of our third year curriculum so i needed to speed run it haha
tuesday may 28th!!
naur pictures from this day cus i spent it taking a practice test for baseline LOL
wednesday may 29th!!
dedicated day 3 (these descriptions are about to get boring my friend... but don't worry the picture captions will still be going strong)
thursday may 30th!!
dedicated day 4: studied at one of my fav tea houses near my parent's house!
friday may 31st!!
dedicated day 5 + some tutoring
saturday june 1st!!
dedicated day 6: started the day w/ a lil walky walk w/ my friend from college who's from the same town and me and was back in town
sunday june 2nd!!
dedicated day 7- not much to say in fact don't even have photos of my phone from the day LOL
monday june 3rd!!
dedicated day 8- last day of studying in the suburbs! drove back into the city in the evening to do the rest of dedicated from there
tuesday june 4th!!
dedicated day 9- jinhee and i went to a coffeeshop to study and i took another practice exam to monitor my improvement! andie joined later when she got home from the hospital and since she already took step while i was on my sub-internship, she made me watch college bowling with her at the bartop while i studied LOL
wednesday june 5th!!
dedicated day 10- studied w/ my friends annika and amy at amy's apartment building's roof
thursday june 6th!!
dedicated day 11- jinhee and i studied at a coffeeshop near her that was very new to me but i quickly fell in love with! since we have to be on dedicated during summer, the least we can do is enjoy the outdoors ~while~ we study!!!
friday june 7th!!
dedicated day 12- another day of jinhee and i studying at a coffeeshop raise ur hand if you were surprised lol. andie and greg joined us later on in the day as well! i also had a couple of tutoring sessions today which i started realizing was a fun way to interrupt the studying and get some actual human interaction LOL
saturday june 8th!!
dedicated day 13- can't remember where i studied or who with but uhhhhh hai
sunday june 9th!!
dedicated day 14- started the day off driving to my parents house to watch the india vs. pakistan world cup match on their tv! they had actually flown to nyc where the game was being played to watch it at the stadium! they got super lucky and got tickets during the original sale and for context resale tickets later on were going for thousandssss of dollars. they went w/ my cousin who lives in virginia and his wife and son but my other cousin from atlanta was also at the game w/ one of his friends. i'm suuuuper jealous that i couldn't joint hem all bc of dedicated but it was a super good feeling seeing them so happy :') india ended up winning then after the game i went to the tea house to get in some studying for the rest of the day before driving back into the city
monday june 10th!!
dedicated day 15- studied at mi cafe favorito
tuesday june 11th!!
dedicated day 16 (halfway mark yippeeee)- studied at a coffeeshop w jinhee and hanna then hung out with emma and jess cus they were back in town for the charli xcx concert!! we grabbed dinner at this vegan restaurant then went on a little walk and got some ice cream before chilling in a park until it was once again time for eepies
wednesday june 12th!!
dedicated day 17- took another practice exam *_* and then tutored
thursday june 13th!!
dedicated day 18- jinhee and i went to a coffeeshop to study and for some context there was like a two week period of our dedicated period where the weather was 95 degrees every day and in this specific cafe even the AC indoors wasnt enough to cool us off so after a couple hours in the main sitting area we had to seek refuge in their little side seating area where the AC was blasting a lot harder which was a blessing for sureeee- stayed there reviewing yesterday's exam until it was time to do more tutoring.
friday june 14th!!
dedicated day 19- studied at my fav cafe again cus last time i was there earlier in the week they had this new blackberry foam matcha latte that was litch rally soooo yummy so i was craving it intensely. amy and i had been telepartying the new season of bridgerton and we finished this day. i could literally never get tired of eating up the aesthetics
saturday june 15th!!
dedicated day 20- andie and i studied at a coffeeshop then after i grabbed dinner w some friends cus our friend from undergrad who goes to med school at stanford was back in town along w/ our other friend who goes to a different med school in our state! after we ate we walked around then headed to a bar where we got to catch up for a few hours
sunday june 16th!!
dedicated day 21- jinhee and i studied at a coffeeshop then when they closed we continued our studies over a little picnic at the park until it looked like it was gonna start drizzling so we escaped to jinhee's apartment nearby until my parent's came into the city for a lil father's day italian dinner!!
monday june 17th!!
dedicated day 22- took another silly little practice exam
tuesday june 18th!!
dedicated day 23- reviewed yesterday's exam at a coffee shop then had my friend over for the night cus the AC in his apartment wasn't working and it was still 95 degrees lol- we got some yummy taro ice cream and enjoyed my apartment's functional AC
wednesday june 19th!!
dedicated day 24- studied at a coffeeshop near my apartment hehe
thursday june 20th!!
dedicated day 25- took another practice exam whew
friday june 21st!!
dedicated day 26- jinhee and i studied at a coffee shop and i spent it listening to all the new music that dropped (new kehlani album, new surfaces album, new weston estate single, new hasan raheem featuring on ritviz's single)
saturday june 22nd!!
dedicated day 27- studied at a coffeeshop w jinhee, was truly starting to get over all the studying at this point and feeling like i was just ready to take the exam already but i still had a few more days bleh
sunday june 23rd!!
dedicated day 28- andie and i went to the library and i took another practice exam while she got some work done, afterwards we did our groceries together w/ her gf before heading back to her apartment and studying more LMAO
monday june 24th!!
dedicated day 29- studied at my fav coffeeshop then had a meeting in the evening
tuesday june 25th!!
dedicated day 30- took my final practice exam of the study period yippeeeeeee
wednesday june 26th!!
dedicated day 31- reviewed my exam at my fav public hall w/ jinhee, i got some caccio e pepe for lunch with a yummy cold coffee and she got some poke and pepsi. we were there for a long time so we got some chips and guac and truffle fries later in the day as well for a brain boosting snackie
thursday june 27th!!
dedicated day 32- SO CLOSE TO FREEDOMMMMMMMMM, spent the day studying at a coffeeshop w hanna and sitara
friday june 28th!!
TOOK THAT 9 HOUR BEAST OF AN EXAM!!!!!! didnt even rest afterwards cus my lease was ending and i had to be moved out by noon on the 30th so i spent the evening taking apart parts of my room in prep
saturday june 29th!!
legit spent the entire day packing up my apartment.. took over 12 hours but towards the end my friend abby from out of town came over and we hung out for several hours cus she's visiting chicago with her family!!
sunday june 30th!!
spent the whole morning moving out- the end of an era! tutored for the first time in over a week- feels good to be backkkk. in the evening my parents and i watched this movie called the boys in the boat about the underdog jv rowing team from the university of washington who went on to compete for gold in the 1936 olympics
aaaand that's a wrap!! i hope the long wait was worth it and don't worry- you won't have to wait super long for the next edition cus weekly dumps are a go again 😉
love you loads friend
from: 4ever kebbie's wannabe bffie, tanmayi 🙂↕️
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