I have to say one of the most important skills that can help anyone with budget planning is probably Excel. In fact, I would argue that it is an important life skill. For example, you can make a spreadsheet, so if you put in your weekly income and weekly expense, it works out how much money you save over a year. It appears that they don't teach Excel to undergraduate medics here at UEA. I suppose it makes sense - I cannot imagine a clinical doctor sit down and work on Excel. Last year someone who was intercalating to do a MClinEd asked me how to learn Excel. He needed it for his research skills module. I pointed him to some tutorials from Microsoft. He had done four years of medicine by then. I found it interesting that she didn't know how to use Excel. A few weeks, I helped a girl with her budget planning. Again, she's intercalating to do a MSci, after doing 4 years of medicine. She was doing her budget in a Word document, which I thought wasn't very effective. In this amazing spreadsheet I made for her, you input her income from bursary, her parents, how many hours she works, her hourly wage for the different kind of HCA shift she gets, how many train journeys she takes. It works out the end of year savings for her. She's super happy with it. (I am also helping her to replace her iPhone battery on Saturday, so good luck to me!!! 🤞) The biggest success I had with Excel was probably my Cambridge college choice. In Year 12, I ran linear regression on the admission rate for multiple colleges. I made my college choice based on that... In Year 13, I did Chi-square test on the college admission stats, it suggested that there was no statistical significance between the admission rate of different colleges. Now, I reckon there were a lot of statistical assumptions which I violated, and I don't remember much of the details now. But deep down in my heart, I want to believe that Excel helped me to get into Cambridge (which I later dropped out). Haha. But yes, everyone who goes to university should really learn how to do spreadsheet! I have seen 2 medics who has benefit greatly from Excel. I kind of feel if you are going to use it anyway, you might as well learn to use it while you are a fresher, when you have loads of free time. Haha.
Great video... love your hair... can’t tell from the front but do you have an ombré At 30 I’d definitely recommend an emergency fund you never know when your shoes might break your laptop you lose glasses or your phone even when you get sick and need £7 for Sudafed or end up in hospital and need a cab home. Always plan for the unexpected Happened to me many times Broke phone went a week with no phone as I had no money Broken kettle couldn’t replace for 3 days had to beg costa for a cup of hot water for a brew Broken fridge Asthma attack ended up 36 miles from home discharged at 8pm buses stopped on my route at 630 had to catch a taxi or walk 36miles and end up back in hospital - paid for the taxi and lived on toast alone for a week.... don’t make this mistake
Victoria T wow, that sounds so stressful. I’ve had similar experiences and it’s not fun at all! I had balayage a while ago and it’s grown out quite a lot. Getting it done completely blonde this week! Hope you’re doing well, I thought of you last night at work as I saw someone with similar issues as you’ve been going through health-wise. Hope you’re doing ok x
Dr Sarah Nicholls yeah it can be stressful. I love your hair in this video but prefer the blonde. It matches your skin tone well. ;) I’m ok thank you resting after my monoclonal injection which causes fatigue but I’m ok. Thank you for thinking of me a massive part of my social media is to raise awareness to patients families of sufferers and medics because people don’t see the nitty gritty side of this. I’m really sorry your patient was going through this bless them, I hope they are ok and they will get the help they need and will be ok. It’s a terrible illness but you have to be positive that things will improve. I’m glad they had a doctor like you taking care of them. Thank you so much :) Hope you’re well too :)
With trainsplit, did you have to go and get the tickets at each station/ was it a ticket on your phone or could you get the tickets from the person on the train?
@@SarahNicholls ah okay! I was looking at doing it but it was giving me like 1 minute to transfer at each station which would mean I would miss my train if I had to go get the tickets too but thank you! X
@@charliecashfrancis ah right, no I didn't explain very well! You get all the tickets at the start of the journey at the station you start at. And you don't have to change at each station shown on the ticket, you can just stay on until your destination (unless of course you would normally need to change anyway!) Hope that makes sense! X
I have to say one of the most important skills that can help anyone with budget planning is probably Excel. In fact, I would argue that it is an important life skill. For example, you can make a spreadsheet, so if you put in your weekly income and weekly expense, it works out how much money you save over a year.
It appears that they don't teach Excel to undergraduate medics here at UEA. I suppose it makes sense - I cannot imagine a clinical doctor sit down and work on Excel. Last year someone who was intercalating to do a MClinEd asked me how to learn Excel. He needed it for his research skills module. I pointed him to some tutorials from Microsoft. He had done four years of medicine by then. I found it interesting that she didn't know how to use Excel.
A few weeks, I helped a girl with her budget planning. Again, she's intercalating to do a MSci, after doing 4 years of medicine. She was doing her budget in a Word document, which I thought wasn't very effective. In this amazing spreadsheet I made for her, you input her income from bursary, her parents, how many hours she works, her hourly wage for the different kind of HCA shift she gets, how many train journeys she takes. It works out the end of year savings for her. She's super happy with it. (I am also helping her to replace her iPhone battery on Saturday, so good luck to me!!! 🤞)
The biggest success I had with Excel was probably my Cambridge college choice. In Year 12, I ran linear regression on the admission rate for multiple colleges. I made my college choice based on that... In Year 13, I did Chi-square test on the college admission stats, it suggested that there was no statistical significance between the admission rate of different colleges. Now, I reckon there were a lot of statistical assumptions which I violated, and I don't remember much of the details now. But deep down in my heart, I want to believe that Excel helped me to get into Cambridge (which I later dropped out). Haha.
But yes, everyone who goes to university should really learn how to do spreadsheet! I have seen 2 medics who has benefit greatly from Excel. I kind of feel if you are going to use it anyway, you might as well learn to use it while you are a fresher, when you have loads of free time. Haha.
Am feeling nice to see another video again and wow those hacks
blue diamonds thank you!
I need all the hacks I can get 😁
Thank you, Dr. Nicholls. I especially like all the information in the description. Keep up the great work. 🙂👍
S M tha k you so much 😊
Great video... love your hair... can’t tell from the front but do you have an ombré
At 30 I’d definitely recommend an emergency fund you never know when your shoes might break your laptop you lose glasses or your phone even when you get sick and need £7 for Sudafed or end up in hospital and need a cab home. Always plan for the unexpected
Happened to me many times
Broke phone went a week with no phone as I had no money
Broken kettle couldn’t replace for 3 days had to beg costa for a cup of hot water for a brew
Broken fridge
Asthma attack ended up 36 miles from home discharged at 8pm buses stopped on my route at 630 had to catch a taxi or walk 36miles and end up back in hospital - paid for the taxi and lived on toast alone for a week.... don’t make this mistake
Victoria T wow, that sounds so stressful. I’ve had similar experiences and it’s not fun at all!
I had balayage a while ago and it’s grown out quite a lot. Getting it done completely blonde this week!
Hope you’re doing well, I thought of you last night at work as I saw someone with similar issues as you’ve been going through health-wise. Hope you’re doing ok x
Dr Sarah Nicholls yeah it can be stressful. I love your hair in this video but prefer the blonde. It matches your skin tone well. ;)
I’m ok thank you resting after my monoclonal injection which causes fatigue but I’m ok. Thank you for thinking of me a massive part of my social media is to raise awareness to patients families of sufferers and medics because people don’t see the nitty gritty side of this. I’m really sorry your patient was going through this bless them, I hope they are ok and they will get the help they need and will be ok. It’s a terrible illness but you have to be positive that things will improve. I’m glad they had a doctor like you taking care of them. Thank you so much :)
Hope you’re well too :)
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With trainsplit, did you have to go and get the tickets at each station/ was it a ticket on your phone or could you get the tickets from the person on the train?
Hello! Sorry for slow reply, I've always done it where you collect the tickets from the station on the day of travel
@@SarahNicholls ah okay! I was looking at doing it but it was giving me like 1 minute to transfer at each station which would mean I would miss my train if I had to go get the tickets too but thank you! X
@@charliecashfrancis ah right, no I didn't explain very well! You get all the tickets at the start of the journey at the station you start at. And you don't have to change at each station shown on the ticket, you can just stay on until your destination (unless of course you would normally need to change anyway!)
Hope that makes sense! X
Ohh right!! That's really good then!!!