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04/12/2025

I was having a conversation with someone some time last week, and I was telling her how hard things are... I remember telling her I was walking my way to the top and she said... I wasn't walking, but CRAWLING.

When she said it, I laughed. But later that night, it hit me differently.

Crawling?

After everything I’ve been pushing through? After reading with a tired brain, empty stomach, managing stress, battling responsibilities, and still trying to show up every single day?

But then I realized something…

Crawling is still movement.
Crawling is what people do when life hits them so hard they can’t stand, but they refuse to stay on the ground.
Crawling is what babies do before they walk… and before they run.

Nobody claps for the crawler.
Nobody celebrates the slow progress.
But guess what? Crawlers still reach the destination.

Maybe you’re not moving as fast as your mates.
Maybe your grades aren’t skyrocketing yet.
Maybe your journey feels embarrassingly slow.

But slow is not stagnant.
Slow is not failure.
Slow is not weakness.

Slow just means you’re still going.

And sometimes, crawling to the top builds a kind of strength that walking never can.

So if you’re like me... moving small-small, steady-steady, even if nobody notices… Relax.

You’re not behind.
You’re in process.

And one day, the same people who made mockery of your crawl will ask you how you climbed.

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04/12/2025

🍓 Stop Forming "I Know What I’m Doing" and Ask For Help

There’s a special kind of pride that medical and paramedical students have.

The “I’m fine.”
The “I’ll figure it out.”
The “No wahala, I sabi am.”

Meanwhile… You’re drowning in anatomy.
Biochem is beating you like generator wey nor get fuel.
And physiology is just looking at you like, “My friend, humble yourself.”

Let me tell you something painful but true:

Most students don’t fail because the course is hard. They fail because they refused to ask for help early.

In medical school, forming “I know what I’m doing” is a silent killer. You’ll be lost, confused, overwhelmed, but your ego will whisper, “Don’t ask. They’ll think you’re dull.”

Guess what?
Asking questions doesn’t make you dull. Suffering in silence does.

The smartest students are not the ones who know everything. They’re the ones who say,
“Please explain this again.”
“Can you show me how?”
“Abeg, what’s happening in this topic?”

Because clarity is power.

Medical school is a team sport.
Nobody survives by acting like the chief surgeon of the class group.
You need people.
We all do.

Ask your seniors.
Ask your classmates.
Ask Google.
Ask your lecturers (if they’re in a good mood 😩😂).
Just ask.

Stop struggling in darkness when help is literally one question away.
The earlier you admit you need support, the faster you rise.

So today, drop the pride.
Open your mouth.
Ask.
Learn.
Improve.

Because at the end of the day…

Confidence will take you far, but humility will save you.

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03/12/2025

Yesterday, I did something I haven’t done in seven whole years…

I PLAYED FOOTBALL

And honestly? It felt so good 😄

At first, my body was confused. My legs were like, “Bro, are you sure?”

My lungs were filing for petition.

But once I touched the ball… *Everything clicked again.*

The joy. The freedom. The childhood feeling. The part of me that wasn’t a medical student, wasn’t stressed, wasn’t overthinking, just living.

Life in medical school can make you forget you’re a human being with hobbies.

You’re always reading, rushing, surviving…
until one random day, you remember the things that used to make you happy.

And that’s what football reminded me of... There’s more to life than just studying.
There’s more to you than your next exam.

So yes, after 7 years, I played football again.
I wasn’t the best on the pitch.
I wasn’t the fastest.
But I was the happiest.

And that’s what really matters. 😄⚽️

03/12/2025

🍓 How to Study for MB Exams

Let me warn you now…
MB exams are not “normal exams.” They are the type of exams that humble even the loudest students and remind you why sleep is a privilege.

But the good news is, you can pass well if you study the right way.

Here’s the strategy high-performing MB students won’t tell you:

1. Start Early — Cramming Is a Trap

MB is not the type of exam you hug your textbook two weeks before and expect mercy. Start early so your brain has time to understand, forget, relearn, and master.

2. Use Textbooks for Understanding, Not Completion

Stop trying to “finish the whole textbook.” Even your lecturers haven’t finished it.

Instead:
✔️ Read to understand
✔️ Summarize
✔️ Note down high-yield points
✔️ Move on

Your goal is mastery.

3. STUDY Past Questions

I didn't say you should cram it, STUDY it.
Past questions show patterns, thinking style, and favorite topics.
Do them religiously.
If you see a topic appearing repeatedly, focus there like your life depends on it, because academically, it does.

4. Study Like an Examiner

Don’t just memorize facts; ask yourself:

“Why is this important?”

“How can they twist this in an exam?”

“Where do students usually miss it?”

Once you train your mind to think like an examiner, MB becomes predictable.

5. Divide and Conquer

MB is a giant, and giants are defeated in pieces. Break your syllabus into:

▪️Must-know core concepts

▪️Nice-to-know details

▪️Peripheral info

Master the first category.
That alone can save your grade.

6. Practice MCQs & Essays Daily

MB exams test both speed and accuracy. Doing MCQs daily sharpens your brain, trains your instincts, and improves retention.
Essays teach structure and clarity — two things examiners love.

7. Teach Someone Else

If you can explain it clearly to a classmate, roommate, or imaginary audience… you have understood it.

8. Pray + Prepare

Because in MB, both spiritual and academic help are important. But even divine intervention won’t solve a question you didn’t read.

🔴 FINAL TRUTH:

MB exam rewards who understands the deepest.
If you combine early preparation, smart revision, and consistent practice… MB will respect you.

Save this post.
Share it with someone writing MB soon.
Your future self will thank you.

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02/12/2025

🥣 My Favorite Soup in This Life?
Okra + Ogbono with Fish and Kpomo. Case Closed. 😄

If you ever want to understand true happiness, just give me a steaming bowl of okra and ogbono, properly mixed, nicely slippery, with soft kpomo and fish that tastes like it went to culinary school.

That combination is an instant mood stabilizer for me. Better than half the antidepressants we study in pharmacology. 😂

Some soups fill your stomach…
But okra + ogbono fills your soul.
It’s the kind of food that makes you forget your stress, your results, your incourse, your life problems, everything resets like a new laptop.

Serve it hot with fufu, eba, pounded yam, or semo … And watch me instantly forgive everyone who annoyed me today.

If you don’t like okra/ogbono, it’s not your fault. Your taste buds are still in 100 level.
Give them time to mature. 😌

What’s your own comfort soup?

02/12/2025

It's another morning in medical school...

Waiting for the consultant 😉

01/12/2025

🍓 People reading and sleeping in the name of TDB (Till Day Break) 😂

Let me be honest with you all…
Some of you are not doing TDB, you’re doing TDS: Till Dream Break.😴😄

You’ll carry textbook, open page 1… Next thing?
Your guardian angel will gently close your eyes and whisper: “Sleep, my child…”
And you’ll obey. Faithful servant. 😭

But the next morning you’ll be shouting:

“This school wants to kill somebody!”
Meanwhile it is your sleep ministry that is flourishing. 😄

TDB is not about ‘not sleeping’, it's about showing up intentionally.

Real academic excellence is built on:

▪️Daily CONSISTENCY (not emergency reading)

▪️Understanding, not cramming

▪️Taking breaks, not collapsing

▪️Discipline, not vibes

Medical school will stress you... We all know. But you must decide whether you’ll be stressed and progressing… Or stressed and sleeping on Chapter 1 since October.

Your mates are reading systems… You are reading “Table of Contents” every night.

My dear, WAKE UP.
Your dreams won’t study themselves.

TONIGHT, read like someone who wants to graduate… Not like someone rehearsing for a sleeping competition.

Your future self will thank me 😄 later for this advise I'm giving you.

Don't forget to share...

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01/12/2025

🍓 Medicine Isn’t for Everyone, and That’s Okay. (A hard truth every aspiring doctor needs to hear.)

Some people were pushed into medicine from the very first day they answered “What do you want to be in the future?”
And from that moment, parents, teachers, aunties, uncles, church members—everybody—began designing a destiny that wasn’t theirs.

In secondary school, many students were misled into believing that “Science Class = Guaranteed Doctor.”
Some wanted to be artists, writers, pilots, coders, fashion designers… but the pressure was louder than their own voice.

Then comes JAMB.
One attempt. Two attempts. Five attempts. 😭
Still pushing medicine, not because they love it, but because they’re afraid of disappointing someone else.

Let me tell you something as someone who has walked the halls of medical school:
Medicine will expose you.
It will test your discipline, your resilience, your patience, your passion, your mental strength.
This profession demands your life before it gives you the right to save another person’s.

If you’re in medical school today, remind yourself why you’re here.
Not because of comparison, pressure, or societal expectations.
But because you chose it and you want it.

And if medicine is not for you?
You’re not a failure.
You’re not less intelligent.
You’re not weak.
You simply belong somewhere else, a place where your gifts will shine naturally without breaking you.

There are thousands of brilliant people wasting their youth chasing a dream that was never theirs. DON'T BE ONE OF THEM.

To every medical student reading this:
Stand tall. You are here because you earned it.
And to every aspirant still writing JAMB over and over... Pause, breathe, evaluate.
Is medicine really your dream?

Your life is too precious to live in someone else’s shadow.

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30/11/2025

🍓 The problem is not that you can't finish the textbook… the problem is that you think you have to finish it.

Medical school will make you feel guilty for not finishing a 900-page textbook... But let me tell you a secret nobody told us early enough:

▪️You don’t need to finish the whole textbook to pass.
▪️You don’t need to finish the whole textbook to excel.
▪️You don’t need to finish the whole textbook to become a great doctor.

You only need to understand what matters.
You need clarity, and strategy.

Some students are failing not because they’re dull, but because they’re using brute force instead of smart direction.

🔹 They read everything, and remember nothing.
🔹 They copy seniors’ study methods, and lose themselves.
🔹 They chase the end of the textbook, and forget the goal is to learn, not to finish.

Listen…

Focus beats quantity.
Consistency beats motivation.
Mastery beats speed.

The moment you stop worshipping “finishing the textbook” and start prioritizing understanding, that’s the moment medical school becomes lighter, clearer, and even enjoyable.

Your destiny as a doctor is not hiding on page 784 of a textbook. It’s hiding in how well you use the knowledge you actually understand.

So today, ask yourself:
What do I need to master and not merely complete?

Because medical school is not a race of who finishes first. It’s a journey of who understands best.

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28/11/2025

I snapped a picture yesterday with my classmate, Apav Deborah... One of the most hardworking medical students I know.

You see some people in medical school and you just know, THIS ONE IS GOING FAR.

Deborah is that type.
Focused. Serious. Consistent.
The kind of person you’d bet on without thinking twice.

It felt good standing beside someone who reminds you that hard work still pays… even in this our unpredictable medical school 😄

Cheers to more pictures, more progress, and more success ahead.

We move! 🚀📸

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28/11/2025

🍓 Past Questions Are The Most Powerful Study Tool You’re Ignoring

Many students are not failing because they’re not smart... They’re failing because they’re studying blindly.

You’re reading entire chapters like you’re preparing for a United Nations summit… But the examiners are repeating the same patterns, the same angles, and sometimes the same questions your seniors already solved.

And yet…
Past questions are sitting on your phone like decoration.

📌 Past questions are not just questions, they are a MAP.

📌 They show you how examiners think.

📌 They reveal the important topics you must NEVER skip.

📌 They teach you how to answer, not just what to answer.

📌 And most importantly, they reduce your stress by giving your brain direction.

Every time you solve past questions, you’re doing 4 things at once: Revision, testing, active recall, and exam conditioning.

That’s why students who use PQs early don’t panic in the exam hall.
They’ve seen the patterns.
They’ve built confidence.
They’ve trained their brain for exactly what’s coming.

So if you truly want to level up this semester:

👉 Start solving past questions NOW, not one week to exams.

👉 Use them to guide your reading, not after reading.

👉 Track your mistakes so you never repeat them.

You will be shocked how your grades will rise…
Not because you started reading more, but because you started reading smart.

A simple rule for medical school:
“Don’t start from the textbook. Start from the questions.”

Thank me now or later, but save this video.

If this blessed you, share it. Someone on your timeline needs it.

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27/11/2025

🍓 The Weight I Feel, Being a Clinical Student.

Some days, it is not the stethoscope around my neck… It’s the responsibility on my shoulders.

The truth is, being a clinical student is heavy. Not because of the long ward rounds, or the calls, but because every single day… a human life trusts you.

You walk into the ward and suddenly you’re no longer “just a student.” You’re the one families look at with hope. You’re the one patients call “doctor” because to them, anyone wearing a lab coat carries light.

You’re learning… yet you’re expected to know.
You’re tired… yet you must show up.
You’re scared… yet you must not shake.
You’re overwhelmed… and still, you must breathe through it.

Nobody talks about the emotional part:
When a patient you bonded with deteriorates.
When you see pain you cannot fix.
When you leave the hospital but the hospital doesn’t leave you.
When you realize that medicine is not just a career, it’s a life you step into.

But here’s what keeps me going:

Every day, I may not know everything, but I show up.
Every day, I may feel the weight, but I carry it.
Every day, I may question myself, but I still rise.

Because one day, this weight will become strength. And all these moments will shape me into the doctor I dream of.

To every clinical student reading this: You’re not weak. You’re growing, and growth can be heavy.

Keep going.
Keep showing up.
Your future patients are counting on you.

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