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Maria Izmirlieva
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Heya, I'm Maria!
I'm a final year (!) Cambridge medical student, and on this channel I hope to:
📝 Help younger students with advice on how to get into uni/ med school (I've done it aaaaand I'm currently helping my younger sibling with this process!)
🏔 Keen on sharing my adventures (vlogs, med school, challenges, and travels - especially on a budget!)
🧠 Documenting about my mental health journey (+ working against this stigma)
☕️ Honest chats about Cambridge and uni and medical school...and whether I think it's all a good idea
🐢 Spread some zoology love/ anything animal related (did you know, I have a zoology degree??😂)
If this sounds like something you'd enjoy, come along for the ride!
I can't promise weekly videos (I'm sorry), but I'm doing my best!
I'm a final year (!) Cambridge medical student, and on this channel I hope to:
📝 Help younger students with advice on how to get into uni/ med school (I've done it aaaaand I'm currently helping my younger sibling with this process!)
🏔 Keen on sharing my adventures (vlogs, med school, challenges, and travels - especially on a budget!)
🧠 Documenting about my mental health journey (+ working against this stigma)
☕️ Honest chats about Cambridge and uni and medical school...and whether I think it's all a good idea
🐢 Spread some zoology love/ anything animal related (did you know, I have a zoology degree??😂)
If this sounds like something you'd enjoy, come along for the ride!
I can't promise weekly videos (I'm sorry), but I'm doing my best!
Peterborough Accommodation for Med Students | Tour, Review, Everything You Need To Know!
Hey, join me for placement at a new regional hospital - Peterborough! 🏠
I'll be giving a tour of my accommodation (room and communal areas), explaining what they provide you with while there (and what you'll need to bring), and giving a pretty honest review about the place!
This will mainly be relevant to Cambridge and Leicester med students who get placed here! Hope you enjoy watching the video! ☺️
I'll be giving a tour of my accommodation (room and communal areas), explaining what they provide you with while there (and what you'll need to bring), and giving a pretty honest review about the place!
This will mainly be relevant to Cambridge and Leicester med students who get placed here! Hope you enjoy watching the video! ☺️
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Catz MCR Visits Oxford | Exploring Worcester, Formal, Touring Colleges
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🏫 Come along with the Catz MCR as we take a day trip to our sister college - the beautiful Worcester College, Oxford! In this video, we explore the stunning grounds, have a tour of the rest of the city, and finish the day with a formal dinner in true Oxford style. From scenic walks to the elegance of dining in an ancient hall, it was a day of fun, tradition, and good company. If you're curious ...
Let's Make Boo Baskets | Autumn Fun and Inspo
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Hi! This is a bit of a different video 🎃 (and an extra to my normal schedule) but I am so excited to share this! 👻 The build up to Halloween has been very fun this year, and as part of this I decided to try making boo baskets! 🧚 These are basically autumn/ halloween themed gift baskets for friends or loved ones. 🧙♂️I spent a lot of time over the last few weeks making two, and I'm really excite...
Welcome to the Elective Series | Med School Elective
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Introduction to My Medical Elective Series | What to Expect Welcome to my medical elective series! In this video, I’ll be introducing the series and giving an overview of what’s to come. From sit-down videos diving into my experiences to vlogs capturing the day-to-day moments, I’ll be sharing the challenges, highlights, and everything in between. Whether you're a med student or just curious abo...
I'm back! Let's catch up | Honest Update
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Starting UA-cam Again After a Long Break - Honest Update I'm back! After taking a break from UA-cam, I'm excited (and a little/ very nervous) to get back into creating content. In this video, I share why I stepped away, the struggles I've faced, and what motivated me to return. Expect honest reflections on dealing with imposter syndrome, mental health, and balancing life in med school. Let’s ge...
CAMBRIDGE MAY WEEK | VLOG
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Just a bit of fun putting all of my videos from my first may week together :) In this video, I share a bit of insight into all that Cambridge May Week (yes.... for some reason in June) has to offer! I delve into post-exam celebrations, Homerton and Downing may ball, May Bumps, our HUGE college tour, working at may balls, the Zoology finalist party and more....! Hope you enjoy it! 🎵Music:🎵 Music...
How to get ALL 4 med/ vet school offers | 5 specific tips for success
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Hi guys! 👋 Today, I'll be going through my main tips on how to get all 4 of your med/ vet school offers! Rather than just going through the application process itself, and telling you to 'just be better' I'll give 5 specific tips on how to boost your application and maximise offers. 🌱 Specifically we'll talk about: 1) Aligning your application with the med/ vet school's preferences 2) Avoiding ...
How to win an Oxbridge essay competition | Part 3: Writing a prize-winning essay
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In this video, I'll go through how to write a prize-winning essay. This guide is also very relevant to writing 1st class essays at university. This is mainly aimed at sixth form students applying for university, but also applicable to undergrad students (especially those starting out in first year!) The process of writing and research between these is very similar! Structure of this video: Part...
How to win an Oxbridge essay competition | Part 2: Tips and strategies
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In this video, I'll go through my main strategies of how to win an Oxbridge essay competition. This video is aimed at Oxbridge essay competitions, but a lot of these points will be applicable to other essay competitions too! 😊 I'll take you through my strategies for winning. This includes: - Choosing an essay competition - Choosing an essay question - Making sure you meet eligibility criteria -...
How to win an Oxbridge essay competition | Part 1: My experiences
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Story time of the two essay competitions I won in Sixth form. One was in Peterhouse College, Cambridge, and the other was in Corpus Christi College, Oxford. I'll delve into what competitions I entered, (briefly) what I had to write to win them, how much time I spent, and what I ended up winning! Time stamps: 00:00 Series Intro 01:05 Story Time Intro 01:24 Oxford Law Prize 02:22 Prizes For Winni...
GP placement in English countryside | Cambridge med school VLOG #4
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Join me for a day of GP placement in Mendlesham, a beautiful village in East Anglia! We explored the local area on home visits with the district nurse, met some lovely patients, and even did a bit of self-studying (as we're now in the lead up to exams!) Enjoy! Music Music by JAETUNES - Morning Sun - [thmatc.co/?l=C7E45C31](thmatc.co/?l=C7E45C31) Music by Mr Tav - Life's a Journey - [thmatc.co/?...
Tour of St Catharine's College, Cambridge
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In this video, I’ll give you a full tour of St Catharine’s College (Catz), Cambridge. I hope to make this as useful as I can by showing you: - All the applicable bits if you’re a prospective undergraduate or graduate student - The college in both summer and winter - The new hall (which isn’t in any of the old videos!) - Some realistic 1st year undergraduate accommodation (actually where I used ...
My current study system in Cambridge clinical medical school to save time
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Today, I'm sharing everything I've learned about cutting down study time over the last few months. It's been a steep learning curve, and this is everything I wish I had known. A lot of this advice, I've learned from older years, friends and through a LOT of trial and error. I don't know about you, but this year I haven't been able to get as much work done in medical school. Adjusting to clinica...
How to make the most of your first surgery placement!! | My top tips
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Hi everyone! ☺️ I just wanted to share my top tips for how to make the most of your FIRST surgery rotation! 🔪🏥 There are SO many things I wish I knew starting out (especially point number 10....😢). From meeting surgeons to logging things.... there's a LOT to know! Hope you guys find this is helpful! If you have any other tips, feel free to add those in the comments below! 😇
My Hospital Accommodation as a Medical Student | Ipswich Hospital
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Hey guys! 👋 Welcome back to the channels! Just wanted to share a short video of what the accommodation is like for medical students at Pearson Road, Ipswich. This should be super useful if you're being placed there 😬 or if you're just having a nosey! Pros: - Was free for us! - SOOOO close to the hospital - Heating was included ☺️ - They provide all the kitchen equipment: cutlery, pots, pans, pl...
Tour of all 31 Cambridge colleges in ONE day challenge !!
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PREPARE for Oxbridge medicine interview in 1 week | main last minute reading and revision
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Week in the life of a Cambridge med student on placement
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ULTIMATE guide on how to choose a Cambridge college - everything they don’t tell you!!
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ULTIMATE guide on how to choose a Cambridge college - everything they don’t tell you!!
Cambridge medicine vlog: first placement in Ipswich (+tour) and Oxbridge medic boat race!
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Cambridge medicine vlog: first placement in Ipswich ( tour) and Oxbridge medic boat race!
First two weeks of Cambridge clinical medicine Vlog! + cheeky trip to Brighton
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First two weeks of Cambridge clinical medicine Vlog! cheeky trip to Brighton
Do I regret applying to my Cambridge college: an in-depth honest review of St Catharine’s
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How to write an OXBRIDGE - worthy MEDICAL personal statement
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VLOG: travel back to Cambridge with me in the most chaotic way
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The ULTIMATE guide to filling the Cambridge SAQ (My Cambridge): what it is + top tips
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How many A levels do I need for Cambridge - 3, 4 or more...?
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How many A levels do I need for Cambridge - 3, 4 or more...?
How I got into Cambridge to study Medicine
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How I got into Cambridge to study Medicine
pass the driving theory exam in ONE day
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pass the driving theory exam in ONE day
How to STRATEGICALLY use your UCAT score to get into med school | High and low score strategies
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How to STRATEGICALLY use your UCAT score to get into med school | High and low score strategies
Kindly tell me where to apply for it? How to apply? What are requirements of applying for this essay competition? What we get after winning it?
CPP’26 >> Cambridge 🇸🇦🇬🇧🇸🇦🇬🇧
I really can’t find the 5 white poisons of the western world anywhere
Hello, Yk BBC there are different sections which should I look at for news? BBC health BBC medicine BBC healthcare they’re all kind of different. When you say past 3 to 4 months it would be 100’s of articles right? THANKS this was really useful and help pls 😭😂😂
So I just went on BBC news now to have a look through. At least on my browser: news -> England -> more (top right corner) -> health (out of the 8 categories). Haha don’t worry about reading every single article, just have a skim to see what’s been going on. I’d have a more thorough look at the most topical things though - right now I guess this would be assisted dying.
I really enjoyed this video, thank you Maria! I had always supposed that each of the Oxford and Cambridge colleges that had a 'namesake college' in the other university (e.g. Catz, Jesus, Trinity, Pembroke, St Johns, etc...) would be 'sisters' with their similarly named college, so interesting to learn that that is not the case!
Pls how can I pass my theory next week 😢
You’ve got this!
Hello is it only for medical students? I have a placement next year but i dont study medicine
I don't think it's limited to med students - pretty sure there were junior/ resident doctors there too. I wouldn't be surprised if they give rooms to other health professions/ other students
@mariaizmirlieva Thank you for your reply!!
Wow, what an adventure! Looking forward to hearing more about this :)
Hello Maria! I wonder where can I contact you? I can't find your email or socials on here. Nice video anyway!
It's so lovely to hear from you again, Maria! It's always wonderful listening to what you have to say. Your future video ideas sound super-interesting - I am looking forward to watching them whenever the time is right for you. Take care.
Yaaayyyyyy she's back!! 💃🎉🎊
Please make a video on soft skills!
yes, for you I will!! :))
Lovely to see you back again, Maria! It's been a while :D
thank you Rory! So good to hear from you :))
This is insightful and i would love if you don’t mind to see a copy of your essay
Thank you! It's been a while since I wrote these essays but I can try and have a look for the copies of them when I'm back home :))
thanks
Hi, thank you for this video! How many characters was your personal statement?
At the limit 😅 (4000) which is tough to squeeze into!
Do you have any recommendation for news sites to keep up to date?
what colleges are good for english lit? im international so it's a bit more difficult for me to hear from students and find information on colleges
Homertonian here. Thanks for videoing the May ball! it looks good.
Glad you enjoyed it!
tips to pass in 4 days with no background knowledge ?
hello! i’m writing for the trinity gould competition, it doesn’t have any criteria upon referencing so do you reckon i can just pop them in the footnotes? thank you!!
Great video and thanks for not saying "Like" every other word!
Zoology is really the mother of all sciences (apart from, well, Mathematics). Well articulated!
How would you say homerton college is? I’m thinking of applying there. How is the accommodation and everything
Downing too ☺️
Hi! I have a few friends at Homerton who seem very happy with it as a college! It is a bit further out from town, so would recommend going to visit and making sure you're ok with it being slightly further from your department! In general though, it has lots of space (and even an orchard I think...?) and is super pretty! It's very convenient for the hospital and the education department too :))
Homerton alum here. Everyone's talking about how far it is...but it isn't that far, really. Get a bike and u'll be within 15 minutes of everywhere. I regularly walked to King's Parade from Homerton. It is also next door to the education faculty, so if u're studying education, it's the best college to be in.
That was amazing, thank you so much for uploading this
Very little said about St Edmunds, we're the college everyone forgets about. 😂 For those who are interested, St Edmunds was created once the interdict against Catholics was lifted, and were finally allowed to attend Cambridge. It was originally a hostel, then a dormitory for catholic students who matriculated at other colleges, and was eventually turned into a full college thanks to the hard work and funding of prominent catholic figures. It has the only Roman catholic chapel in both Oxford and Cambridge combined. Interesting fact: Georges Lemaître, the Astrophysicists Catholic priest , and grandfather of the big bang theory studied at St Edmunds.
Hey! I'll be submitting an essay for an international event. It's my first time so I'm really nervous. May I contact you via email or something to clarify a few things? It's really urgent for me and I'd appreciate it a lot. Thank you!
yep, though I'm quite busy preparing for exams at the moment. Probably easiest if you contact me via instagram (@Maria.izmirlieva)
Thank you!! I sent you a follow request from @makima.des_
Hi Maria! Thanks for this video! I’ll be starting work at Ipswich hospital soon and wanted to know who to contact regarding the accommodation? And if you have any other accommodation info/ tips for near Ipswich hospital that would be great. Thanks 😊
Hi! That’s really exciting! For our student accommodation, it was managed by the hospital’s Estates team and OCS staff in the Drs mess. They got in contact with us earlier and we picked up keys from the hospital. If possible, I’d recommend getting in contact with the Dr’s mess members - they’d likely have good recommendations about accommodation!
hello maria, your vedio is well detailed ,thanks,
can you provide me your personal networking site?
Hello Maria, i am from india, i have done master in zoology , i want to join phd in cambridge , what the procedure, which i should follow, please do make video on this topic that will be helpful for us(international student). A lot of love from india♥♥
You are an absolute gem for these vids! A real inspiration to me ToT💖
Nice video! Good luck with Easter term!
Thanks Gustavs 😇 This has made my day!
I love this, I'm from South Sudan 🇸🇸
Thank you - this means a lot! ☺️
Been there years and I haven’t even gone to more than 5
oh my gosh you're a godsend! Thankyou for the all the effort that you put into this!!
Hi, I’ve messaged you on instagram, asking you about what books you read for your personal statement. I’m really interested in history and medicine so I’m looking for a book that incorporates the two ?
have replied on ig :)
Thank you so much!
Thank you so much this was such a helpful video! Just wondering whether you are willing to share your essay plans? If not I completely understand but I'd love to know which questions you planned for as I'm also doing the Germany topic!
Thanks a lot
I'm sorry if this question is irrelevant, but are you russian?
Thanks a lot maria ❤
Wonderful tour - well done. Do women only colleges not breach equality rules?
The female colleges were set up because women could not attend the other colleges, but now that isn't the case. I think you are allowed gender segregation for education so it isn't legally discriminatory. Most likely in the next 20 years all the female-only colleges will transition to mixed, which Oxford has already done.
Thanks for Uploading such a Wonderful Video 🎉I like University of Cambridge ❤
Very helpful! Thanks for the video
21 is mature? Most students I knew 50 years ago didn't even start maturing until 25 (most females) to 30 (mostly males). There were exceptions, but the generalities stood.
mostly because 21 is the age you start postgraduate studies
thanks, enjoyed!
Interesting🤔🙄
do they ask you about your BMAT essay
I'd say that's unlikely, I'm not sure they even have access to your BMAT papers just the marks from it
I didn’t get asked about it!
thank you so much for this video!!!!
Thank You so much, #Dear 💚