Week Two's Up 📆
19 Oct 2020It’s been a bit stressful, and I feel like I’m falling behind before we’ve even started. I know it’s silly, but I’m pretty proud of myself for keeping my head above water this past week.
Despite the stress, I’ve done a lot to come out of my shell and get a lot more social this past week. I’ve got plans to meet up with people (safely and socially distant!) over this next week as well.
I’m also realising that independence doesn’t mean pushing people away, but instead means knowing how and when to reach out for help. I can often be a bit like camping (‘Cos I’m in tents. Get it?), so I feel like asking for help in the right way is just as important as asking in the first place.
Even though I’m two (well, technically three!) weeks in, I feel I’m making positive changes, branching out in terms of my interests, meeting new people and enjoying my independence. I’m learning to manage my time and handle my assignments, and I want to keep that up. I’m definitely happier.
Over the next week, I want to focus on
- Catching up with assignments, working on optional problem sheets and pushing to understand the material,
- Balancing my work and my studies,
- Learning to enjoy myself a little, by meeting up with more people, attending society events (ew, Teams) and saying hi!
I feel like sometimes, either because my life’s been boring or because I’ve had a ton of deadlines, I’m going to struggle to maintain this blog, but I’ll definitely try to write a post on Saturday or Sunday, along with my silly little rants during the week.
This week’s fun fact is that Greater Manchester has about 9.1 critical care beds per 100,000. That’s after reading this Guardian article confirming that a trust which needs to take care of 2,822,000 people has only 257 critical care beds.
The number of beds the Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust has is higher than the UK’s 6.6 beds per 100,000. However, that doesn’t account for the fact that the UK’s number of critical care beds is 43.1% less than France’s 11.6, despite the fact we have comparable population sizes.