And The 2025 Season Comes To An End.

   Hi guys,

2025 ends in 3 days, and I guess it’s another season to be grateful to God while reflecting on the events of the year. 

Well, the last time I wrote a blog post, I was in 400 level, but it pleases me to announce to you that I am now a 500-level medical student. YES, I passed my 3rd MB. 

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2025 was such a long year for me. There were happy moments, sad moments and scary moments. I doubted myself so much, learnt a lot, cried a lot. I passed a couple of tests and failed a couple of them, too. 

 It started with so much motivation, ‘I’m not the first to do it, I won’t be the last,’ but in the middle, I was begging God to help me because I couldn’t do Pathology and Pharmacology again. In the beginning, it was good, and test scores were not bad either, until we started Medicine and Surgery posting. The workload was too much, and after the end of every posting, we swung into the next posting the next week. We had weeks where we had both Medicine or Surgery End-of-posting exams and Pathology or Pharmacology tests together. I found myself crying a night to some of these tests, especially Pharmacology and Microbiology because I just couldn’t cover much, and it felt like everyone around me had done so much, knew so much, and in my head, I had already failed the tests. Well, in some cases, I did fail them, while in other cases, I passed.

  There was always a test or exam to prepare for, and I know it isn’t really going to change now.

A few weeks before the exam, I wasn’t scared until the exam finally came. It was for two weeks, the first week was for essays and MCQs, and the next was for practicals and oral exams. In those weeks, I was given so much food and wishes that I’m so grateful for, I revised with my roommates and extra extra roommates, which I’m also grateful for.

In the first week, all I can say is I didn’t submit empty sheets of papers so whether it made sense to me or not, I wrote. They say to make sure you pass practicals, because it boosts your marks. Well, the week of practicals was the week I cried, and no, they were not silent tears.

The first day was Histopathology and Microbiology practicals (yes, I panicked before these exams), but they were not bad. I was sure of a lot of the answers I wrote. The problem was Tuesday, which was Chemical Pathology and Haematology practicals. So, the Chemical Pathology practical was more of clinical cases than actual practical questions, and most of the things they hammered on during revision didn’t come out. Although I answered those questions, there were a number of them I wasn’t sure of, but I had to prepare for Haematology. While preparing, I said, “It can’t be as bad as Chemical Pathology”.  After Haematology, I cried because, for me, it was worse than Chemical Pathology. After the exam, I didn’t even want to greet anyone; I just went straight to my room with tears already pouring out of my eyes as I kept saying, “God, please, I don’t want to fail”. Thankfully, I was the only one in the room at that time, and I grabbed my phone and called my sister, still crying and repeating that I didn’t want to fail. She told me to trust in God and stop crying. I didn’t stop immediately, but not long after I stopped, my roommates came back to the room and started talking about the exam. I didn’t cry again, but I just wanted to forget about the exam and pray to God for a miracle. 

The rest of the papers were good. After the Pharmacology oral exam, I knew I had passed Pharmacology. 

The results were to come out the day after the Pathology oral exam, which was Friday, 19th December; the same day I was travelling to Lagos, and I kept thinking about how I would have to travel back to resit Pathology. The results came out while I was in the car with my sister, heading to her house from the airport. We checked it together, and we saw that I PASSED. I’m just so grateful to God because he really helped even when I doubted him during this time (I forgot how he had helped me in the past and panicked during this exam, even after praying about it).

This year, I also removed my right 3rd Molar tooth two weeks before my exam because it was impacted, and I still have to remove the left one soon. The pain started when the anaesthesia wore off, and I was on analgesics and antibiotics for a while. I’m definitely not anticipating the next appointment, but sadly, it might be soon.

I’m grateful for a lot of things. I’m grateful for my life, my health, my family, my friends, my study group, for the people who showed up for me, for the CMDA departments I’m in, for growth,  and for 2025 in general.

How was 2025 for you? What are you grateful for? Let me know in the comments section.

 This is my last blog post of the year. Thank you for reading, and see you in 2026.