diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c3e2e8d671..665fcf3618 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -80,9 +80,9 @@ class LitClassifier(pl.LightningModule):
 # train!
 train_loader = DataLoader(MNIST(os.getcwd(), train=True, download=True, transform=transforms.ToTensor()), batch_size=32)
 
-mnist_model = LitClassifier()
+model = LitClassifier()
 trainer = pl.Trainer(gpus=8, precision=16)    
-trainer.fit(mnist_model, train_loader) 
+trainer.fit(model, train_loader) 
 ```
 
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