Finishing finals - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #20

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Cambridge University medical student Ali Abdaal shares his final day of written papers, discussing post-exam experiences, and celebrating with friends, while also working on video editing for a medical ethics project.

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one of guys welcome back to the vlog today is an exciting day because it's the final day of our final written paper of Cambridge Medical School it's going to be a 125 question long multiple-choice paper that's going to take about two and a half hours and then after that we're gonna be free for the past two days very kindly some of the gerton medics have given me a lift so I'm on my way to their place at the moment the Immanuel medics in my year we're quite good friends with the go-to medics a vehicles were both awesome and secondly because quite a lot of us were like together in dissection in first year and when you get into clinical school because all the groups and stuff are randomized it no longer really matters what college you go to and you enter beam being friends with everyone I mean yesterday was hilarious all right exam exam done that was really quite hard we just spent some time engaging in post exam discussion as we do some people always look at us wait for doing that because like the exam is over but I think it's quite a good learning experience and it's always fun and in discussing the exam and realizing how many questions you go on okay so next stop is the local pub for lunch and then celebration time for the rest of the day alongside discussing leave out for Christmas all the happy smiles and the wishes and I wanted all from the lights to the mistletoe hello again so we are now back in the house having had lunch at the pub and then roamed around town for a bit plan now is to do some video editing for a few hours I've been neglecting that a little bit with the exams and stuff so yeah I'm gonna make myself a quick coffee and then get down to do some medical ethics video editing and I'll see you see you in a while all right these holiday Wonders will open your mind hey all your wishes tonight come true is Christmas all right so the rest of my college medics have been bowling for the last three hours while I've been editing this medical ethics video which still isn't done just gotta keep hustling as Gary Vee would say no I'm gonna meet up with all of them again we are going to this restaurant and buffet place so we're gonna come back here to play board games afterwards this has been a pretty great day so far examples hard exam was fun examples fun but really really hard and we just been kind of shedding ever since and doing a bit of video editing what could be better than that so yeah time to skateboard two nines buffet restaurant see you there the job it was a kind of smart alright last thing of the night the others are all still at the bowling alley while myself Catherine Paul have come back home and now we're going to be playing through the ages which is the new board game we discovered the other day and it's amazing would highly recommend so thank you very much for watching if you liked the video please give it a thumbs up if you haven't subscribed yet please consider doing sir have a lovely night I'll see you in the next video bye come

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📚 Pre-order my book to get an exclusive ticket to The Feel-Good Productivity Annual Planning Workshop! Website: https://www.feelgoodproductivity.com/?utm_campaign=bonus&utm_source=youtube_long&utm_medium=video_description&utm_content=bulkvidsbefore2021 Amazon: https://go.feelgoodproductivity.com/bulkvidsbefore2021 In this episode, we finish our final written exam of medical school. We celebrate by roaming around Cambridge without a care in the world, doing some video editing, eating at a buffet and playing a board game for 6 hours. Merry Christmas xx -------------------- Who am I: I'm Ali, a junior doctor working in Cambridge, UK. I make videos about medicine, technology, productivity and lifestyle design. I also have a weekly podcast with my brother (https://www.youtube.com/c/notoverthinking), and I write a weekly email newsletter that contains some quick thoughts + links to interesting things (https://aliabdaal.com/newsletter/). 💌 Sign up to my weekly email newsletter - https://aliabdaal.com/newsletter/ 🌍 My website / blog - https://www.aliabdaal.com 🎙My weekly podcast - https://www.youtube.com/c/notoverthinking 📸 Instagram - https://instagram.com/aliabdaal 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/aliabdaal 🎮 Twitch - https://twitch.tv/aliabdaal 🎬 My online course on video editing - https://skl.sh/32TpEvm 🎥 My YouTube Camera Gear - https://kit.co/AliAbdaal PS: I donate 10% of my income to charity every year. Would you like to join me? Learn more about the 10% Pledge: https://aliabdaal.com/giving-what-we-can/
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Ali Abdaal shares his experience of finishing his final written papers at Cambridge University, and how he spends his day celebrating with friends and working on a video editing project. He also promotes his book and invites viewers to subscribe to his channel.

Key Takeaways
  1. Finish final written papers
  2. Celebrate with friends
  3. Work on video editing project
  4. Promote book and channel
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