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Application Vacation

I’ve been spending summer working four days a week at the Harriet Lane Clinic, at the Children’s Center of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Through a program called Health Leads, where we work with pediatric and adolescent physicians to care for the social needs of patients by connecting them to community and government resources. It’s been […]

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A Chile Summer

Hello from the Southern Hemisphere! I’m in Valparaíso, Chile for a summer abroad program composed of an academic seminar and internship. Like other Hopkins Interactive students, I have struggled to articulate everything that I’ve experienced in the past two weeks in a couple of paragraphs. Since my arrival in mid-June, I’ve met some amazing people, ate delicious […]

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3,636 Miles, 10 Weeks, 2 Homes, and 1 Great City

As I venture through my last summer as a Hopkins student, I am beginning to realize that writing about my highly anticipated abroad adventures is much harder than I originally thought it would be. I’ve been waiting for this for a long time, and I’ve jealously read so many others, hoping to feel and portray the same magic […]

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The Social Policy Minor: A Closer Look

Throughout this past semester, I have had the amazing opportunity to be a part of the Social Policy Minor at Johns Hopkins. Through this program, students are given the chance to view policy in an interdisciplinary context, including economics, politics science, and sociology. To provide this interdisciplinary nature to the program, we are taught by professors […]

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The Reality of “Collaborative Environment”, “Hands-On Experience”, and Other Admissions Buzzwords

I am a big fan of words. As someone who loves writing, I’ve always paid a lot of attention to words – maybe too much attention. In the college application process, I focused even more heavily on word usage. After many tours and information sessions, I found my brain swirling with repetition. I would fall asleep with […]

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Ink and Paper

Growing up in a family of artists, I was considered the anomaly of the bunch. My father, an architect; my mother, an interior designer; my aunt, a fashion designer; my grandfather, a movie director; my brother, architecture graduate. And then, there was me, a lowly girl wanting to study brains. Whether my choice to pursue anything but art […]

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My Semester in Proteins

My only exposure to the various studies on proteins was during my sophomore fall in Biochemistry. Every year, nearly 400 students at Johns Hopkins will memorize their amino acids, along with chemical structures and properties, three-letter codes, and one-letter codes. Now, I don’t know about the rest of those students, but I do know that […]

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On the Most Glorious B- of My Life

It was 6 pm on the second day of my winter break internship at the National Institutes of Health. I was just getting ready to pack up and go home when it happened–my computer beeped and I got the notification to an email that said another grade got uploaded to my SIS account. My heart dropped. […]

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How I Failed My Calc Final

November 15, 2016 – damn. I just got a 57% on my second calc midterm. Well, technically, it’s a 56.6, but I’m taking any confidence boost I can get and giving myself the liberty of 0.4 percentage points. I didn’t expect much from this exam – I had just come back from a weekend-long Model U.N. […]

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Further Adventures as a Hopkins Pre-Med

Being pre-med at Hopkins comes with a lot of advantages. We have amazing faculty who support us through the horrors of organic chemistry and physics. Our pre-professional office assigns every student with his/her own personal advisor. We have the Johns Hopkins Hospital right down the road from us for any research, shadowing, or clinical position […]