Yearly Archives: 2018


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Hey everyone, it’s Finance Fridays, and medical students in the NRMP match will all be finding out where they will be spending their next few years in residency… So let’s talk about “Residency and Retirement“. Residency and Retirement? Yea. I know, not usually something people think about in the same sentence. However, the picture of the watch above is to highlight a point. Time is of the essence. The best way I can describe this […]

Residency and Retirement #illumedati


Hi everyone, it’s Whatever Wednesdays. Today we’re going to talk about “What is Ripple (XRP)?” So What is Ripple (XRP)? For a quick intro into Ripple, my daughter made a short 5 minute video (with my help of course) highlighting what makes it special, but simple enough for a 4 year old to understand. I’d recommend giving it a watch to start out: Watch this video on YouTube This video is designed to be simple […]

What is Ripple (XRP)? #illumedati



How's the Match Going?
Hey everyone, it’s Medicine Mondays, it’s Match Day… and this post is late. Sorry about that. However, according to my stats most of you have already found the page that was going to link to anyways which is: Congratulations, you have matched! I guess the real question is… now what? Well, make sure you celebrate (safely) first. Then you can look ahead to: Post-Match Senioritis Post Match Checklist Then you can move on to… Preparing […]

Did you match? #illumedati #MatchDay #Match2018


Hey everyone, it’s Finance Fridays…  I talked about Disneyland/California Adventure in my previous post. I am going to continue on with my Return from California post to talk about Shows and Dining. Shows and Dining Well… back to “experiences” not “things” remember? Well I opted to do three different dining reservations: World of Color Dessert Party This is ridiculously expensive for what you get. I will be the first one to tell you that. However, I […]

Return from California Part 3 #illumedati



Hey everyone, it’s Whatever Wednesdays…  I talked about Legoland and Sea World in my previous post. Let’s talk about Disneyland/California Adventure now and continue on with my Return from California post. Return to California Part 2 Disneyland/California Adventure Ok… so remember how I said I had been saving up for this vacation for awhile….? Buy experiences, not things, right? Well, we decided to splurge and stay at the: Grand Californian The reason for this was because […]

Return from California Part 2 #illumedati


Hey everyone, it’s Medicine Mondays…  but I just got back from the California Family Vacation 2018. I’m going to do a quick review/recap of what we did along with some advice/tips I’d like to share with others. So let’s talk about the Return from California. First of all, let me remind everyone that I’m originally from Southern California so I kind of know what’s going on in terms of navigating Disneyland. However, California Adventure was […]

Return from California Part 1 #illumedati