Finals study sesh - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #17

2017-12-16 · Vlog or day in the life · Ali · recording, 2:15 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Medicine and his doctor years (also: Relationships and personal life) · mode: Demonstration and walkthrough · tags: Family

Three weeks before his Cambridge medical finals Ali revises in the Hot Numbers coffee shop, finishes the Act 1 run-through of the hospital pantomime, buys his mum a kitchen blowtorch for her birthday at John Lewis with his brother, and drives home to St Albans to surprise her.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Revising for finals in Hot Numbers and the plan for the day

• ★★★ Ali's Cambridge medical finals are about three weeks away: a multiple-choice paper on the medicine and a short-answer paper of paragraph answers to clinical ethics and law scenarios. — 00:00:00 · University of Cambridge, Cambridge
• ★★ On a Sunday morning Ali and his fellow final-year students revise for their medical finals in Hot Numbers, a coffee shop in central Cambridge, sipping coffee and reading through their notes. — 00:00:00 · Cambridge
• ★★ It is Ali's mum's birthday, and after the panto run-through he plans to buy her a present and drive back home to surprise her for a little birthday celebration. — 00:00:43 · Ali Abdaal's mother, Addenbrooke's Hospital Pantomime

00:01:26 — The panto Act 1 run-through, then a birthday present for his mum at John Lewis

• ★★ Ali finishes the Addenbrooke's pantomime's run-through of Act 1 and finds it really fun; he says the script looks incredible and the actors are amazing. — 00:01:26 · Addenbrooke's Hospital Pantomime
• ★ At John Lewis in Cambridge Ali picks a reasonably priced kitchen blowtorch as his mum's birthday present, which he and his brother will pool together to buy. — 00:01:26 · John Lewis, Taimur Abdaal, Ali Abdaal's mother, Cambridge

00:01:59 — The drive home to St Albans and sign-off

• ★ At 6 p.m. Ali sets off on the one-hour drive to St Albans, where he lives, to see his mum, his brother and his grandma. — 00:01:59 · St Albans, Ali Abdaal's mother, Taimur Abdaal

Threads in this video

• milestone · Ali's final year at Cambridge medical school (2017) — Ali's Cambridge medical finals are about three weeks away: a multiple-choice paper on the medicine and a short-answer paper of paragraph answers to clinical ethics and law scenarios. (00:00:00)
• milestone · Ali auditions for the Addenbrooke's charity pantomime in his final year (2017) — Ali finishes the Addenbrooke's pantomime's run-through of Act 1 and finds it really fun; he says the script looks incredible and the actors are amazing. (00:01:26)

Where the stories that moved here went next

• Ali's final year at Cambridge medical school (2017) — completed; last: milestone, 2018-06-12
• Ali auditions for the Addenbrooke's charity pantomime in his final year (2017) — completed; last: milestone, 2018-03-03

Mentioned

Addenbrooke's Hospital Pantomime · Ali Abdaal's mother · Cambridge · Hot Numbers · John Lewis · St Albans · Taimur Abdaal

Only in the description or credits: University of Cambridge

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