I suspect the last few months will go fast, perhaps too fast.
DD is really enjoying clinical, particularly sugery. Real excitement when she is invited to scrub in. This was the girl who binged watched Grey's Anatomy through her teens. I assumed the reality of the NHS would mute her enthusiasm, but no. She has totally enjoyed her placements this term and is sad that she will be leaving the hospital in January. The next placement is in a smaller hospital but hopefully equally interesting, and her first chance to live outside a major city.
Application treadmill here as well. Her first choice for intercalation is in a University rather than medical school and the form is not tailored for medics. She wont hear if she has a place until after the deadline for telling her medical school she plans to take a year out. One of her tutors has kindly agreed to be her referee and another has offered to help her with the form and PS. It is too late for her to apply to her own med school for one of their intercalation options, plus none really appeal, so I guess she gives notice that she will take a year out, then applies for other courses to increase the chances of getting something. I don't know what happens if she gets nothing. I suspect she would not mind another gap year and ski season!
That said I think it will be fine.
We will go out to see her brother in the US at Christmas. He too has had a busy term. The first two years of his, six year, PhD are taught, plus his funding requires him to work for the University. This term he has been teaching (first year PhDs - he was often the youngest person in the room. His feedback included the inevitable 'cute accent') marking for the MBA program, plus he had a heavy load of courses. From Christmas he gets to drop teaching to be a research assistant and will have fewer courses, so the end is in sight. All he needs now is to write a thesis!