The smartest guy at school

Write about your first crush. Oh this one is fun to write 🤭 He was the smartest person at school and we were classmates for years. I think at some point we even shared the desk. He was also funny. I think I have always been drawn to such people. We both liked Sherlock Holmes, …

Residency

Describe one of your favorite moments. This one is difficult because I have many. But I think the recent one was when I had dinner with my best friend, and he told me that he got into a residency program (to be a specialist 👨🏻‍⚕️). Words cannot describe how happy and proud and grateful I …

Promovering — my PhD graduation ceremony

a.k.a. one of the best days in my life On 12 May 2023, or approximately a year after my PhD thesis defence, I finally had my doctoral degree conferment ceremony, or promovering. This has been something that I so much looked forward to. It was a quite fancy event, you have to dress up in …

Turning around

After such a bleak year, things seem to start turning around 🥺 (alhamdulillah) This week, many important things occurred almost at the same time it feels like Christmas in July. Or an early Eid. Whichever suits you. That paper that was rejected 13 times by the journal? Published this week. 😭 It took me almost …

I’m a doctor… finally!

A week ago, I did my doctoral thesis defence. It was definitely one of the highlights and memorable days in my life, so I thought I would recap the process as best as I could here. 5-6 months before... Usually, the whole defence preparation process began with submitting your defence application to the Dissertation Committee. …

Το καλύτερο πάρτι της ζωής μου

For the past few years I’ve been trying to learn Greek. As I go into a higher level, I get more and more ‘essay’-type homework. I thought I would share some of my writing here for fun 🤭 Δεν πηγαίνω σε πολλά πάρτι στη ζωή μου. Αλλά ενα πάρτι που θυμάμαι μέχρι σήμερα είναι το …

2020: My own reflections

On the new year of 2020, my friends brought a Greek New Year’s cake (Βασιλόπιτα) for us to cut at midnight. By divine providence, I got the slice which contains the coin 🪙, and it is believed that those who got the coin will get lucky 🍀 So I entered the year, believing that 2020 …