Sophia Liu, COL ’26, Cincinnati, OH
Most people spend their summers at the beach, maybe with sand between their toes. I spent mine with flies crawling up the sides of test tubes. Not the houseflies buzzing around your picnic, but …
For recent graduates, today’s landscape presents a uniquely difficult challenge. A slow hiring environment, unpredictable recruitment cycles, and deeper structural shifts in jobs have combined to intensify competition for entry-level roles. Many grads find themselves wondering if there is a …
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Aksa Choudhry, COL ’26, Sicklerville, NJ
As a Health & Societies major with a concentration in Bioethics, I’ve always been drawn to the intersection of medicine, policy, and public health infrastructure. This summer, I had the opportunity to work as …
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Although some might perceive them as an additional hurdle to admission, Situational Judgment Tests (SJTs) are becoming an increasingly common part of the health professions school admissions process. Designed to assess qualities such as professionalism, ethical decision-making, empathy, communication, and …
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Szirina Ismail, COL ’26, Toronto, Canada
As an aspiring physician committed to global health, I was drawn to the Abdulmalik Lab for its focus on sickle cell disease: an illness that disproportionately impacts vulnerable communities in the Middle East, sub-Saharan …
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