Medical Student Life

Most med students figure this out quickly: medicine, as a science, is logical and even beautiful. The physiology follows rules, the neurons fire in patterns, drugs work because of pathways you can trace and predict. But the experience of learning all of that inside medical school feels like stepping into controlled chaos. It isn’t the […]

After 11 straight months of med school, an all-nighter, and 600mg of caffeine in my veins, I’m still here. Alive. Awake. Functioning in the most non-human way possible. And more convinced than ever that burnout isn’t a me problem. It’s a design flaw. The system didn’t glitch. It collapsed. And it’s taking all of us

Breaking the Study Aesthetic Myth Let’s cut through the noise right away. The internet has sold us this polished fantasy of what studying should look like—spotless desks by a window overlooking the sea, three perfectly aligned monitors, a fancy coffee mug, notes that look like artwork, and two scented candles burning in the background for

Welcome to the age of high-functioning breakdowns, FOMO-fueled dopamine loops, and glorified burnout. Let me set the scene. You wake up and your first instinct isn’t to stretch or breathe or even exist properly—it’s to check your phone. Before your brain fully boots up, your cortisol’s already awake, reading four notifications: Someone you barely know