Ausanstudent

13/01/2025

Before you jump straight in to telling yourself how to be better this year…

Before you look in the mirror and tell yourself how to look better this year…

Before you write down all the things you plan to do better this year…

Maybe take a moment to sit with the person you are right now. The one who has gotten you this far.
The one who has helped you over however many hurdles and shared with you so many successes.

Maybe take a minute to recognise all of the ways you are already so much better than you realised.

Recognise your strength,
your courage,
your kindness,
your resolve.

And hold on to that.
Don’t discard the you that got you here.
Don’t shame her,
guilt her,
doubt her.

But love her instead.

And maybe you’ll realise
that - despite what you first thought -
there isn’t quite as much ‘bettering’ to be done
after all.

~ Becky Hemsley

21/08/2024

"Sometimes courage is as simple as opening your eyes in the morning. Sometimes courage is the way you fall in love with your sadness, how you let it rock you to sleep, how you feel it and face it and tell yourself every single night that you can overcome it, even if you feel like you can’t.

Sometimes changing the world means changing your world as gradually as you need to, as gently as you heal, because sometimes courage isn’t made up of war and bloodshed; sometimes courage isn’t made of combat. Sometimes courage is a quiet fight, a dim softness within you, that flickers even on your darkest days and reminds you that you are strong, that you are growing—that there is hope."

— Bianca Sparacino

— Illustration : sihyun

13/07/2023

wowwww😋🤤

10/07/2023

30/06/2023

my first 3 week hospital placement officially ended today.

learned lots, cried some, got hurt a bit but still going strong.

someone should really never say that your shift is kind of quiet. Never ever say it. that is totally tabooed. got a code blue in the last few hours of my shift and it was so devastating. won't say much details because I'm still wallowing over it.

will continue to check if that tab is still open in my head..

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23/06/2023

the view in the nurses lounge in the hospital where I am doing my placement.

my day just felt a bit brighter because I only have a week to go before I finished my hospital placement! yay!!

well, I still got 2 more placements to go this year but let's not get ahead of ourselves and add some stress to my overly stressed life already🤣

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03/05/2023

if you see me staring into nothing,
don't mind me
I just need to take a deep breath
and dream that I am already into
the future that I am currently working on

- this is me trying to take in the reality of the intensive and super condensed tutorial/laboratory fit into 3 weeks instead of the usual 12 weeks.

Oh, well, but of course, this is me being dramatic, and this is me, too, blabbering stuff when I'm stressed & utterly brainfried.

this too, shall pass...

28/04/2023

and just like that, it's term 2 already😅

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