Hiya!

Hi! My name's Jane and I'm a medical student at Oxford. I'm about to start the second year and I'm at Brasenose College. It's still the summer holidays for me so I'm not in Oxford now and I'm not doing anything medically-related at the moment. I'll tell you a bit about what I've been doing over the summer but probably more relevent to any prospective medical students reading this is to know that I've really enjoyed the first year and I'm looking forward to my second year. Everything we've learned about has been interesting and relevent and although everybody has had to work hard I don't know of any medical students who haven't had a good year.

If you went to Medsim or the Oxbridge Session this year then you might have seen me working there. Apart from that, I've not done anything during the holidays that's specific to being a medical student, andI haven't had much work at all to do for my course. I've helped at a Guide camp and at a camp for disabled girls. I really enjoy doing activities like these and I think a lot of my medic friends at Oxford do too. Other things I've done over the summer include going to Cornwall for a week with my family and going on a snorkelling trip to Swanage over the August bank holiday weekend with my snorkelling club. This week I have gone back to my first school to help in the Year 3 classroom. So far this has involved listening to the children read, helping with their maths, putting up wall displays, and generally helping with photocopying and things like that.

I'll continue to let you know what I am doing, although I expect it will be most useful once my term starts in October and you can find out what being a medical student at Oxford is really like.