This is a really Misc post, but I actually wrote this about a month before I took the MCAT and just wanted to share it:
So a lot of people make a playlist for the MCAT. There’s some research that shows that listening to certain music before your practice test can enhance your performance on the real thing apparently. But the MCAT is not just one emotion or song. Here are just a few of the different moods and songs I’ve accumulated throughout this process.
So a lot of people make a playlist for the MCAT. There’s some research that shows that listening to certain music before your practice test can enhance your performance on the real thing apparently. But the MCAT is not just one emotion or song. Here are just a few of the different moods and songs I’ve accumulated throughout this process.
1) Hello World, I’m ready! (happiness)
You know that scene in 500 days of summer when JGL walks out the door in the morning and its fucking fantastic, and theres dancers and fountains and the UCLA marching band in the background. Yeah. Thats the kind of vibe I need to get out of bed to study sometimes. Something light to make the day a bit more bright.
- You Make my Dreams- Daryl Hall and John Oates
- Mr. Brightside - Killers
- Beautiful Day- U2
- Love on Top- Beyonce
- The Tide is High- Atomic Kitten
- Quesadilla- Walk the Moon
- Someone New- Hozier
- Mircale Mile- Cold War Kids
- Feel Again- One Republic
- Let’s Go- Matt and Kim
- All Star- Smash Mouth
2) I’m Flawless (confidence)
Some days youre walking to the library to do a practice test and you just think “Damn lemme kill this rn”. So you throw on your headphones and call up yo girls Nicki and Bey. Female empowerment FTW.
- Run the World- Beyonce
- Flawless- Beyonce
- Hollaback Girl- Gwen Stefani
- Maneater- Nelly Furtado
- Bitch I’m Madonna- Madonna
- Feeling Myself- Nicki Minaj and Beyonce
- Work- Iggy
3) What Doesn’t Kill you Makes you Stronger (motivation)
Those everyday moments when you don’t think you can do it and you think you’ve spent 2 months studying for nothing. Maybe you just need someone to tell you that YOU CAN DO IT. That person is Kelly my friends.
- Fight Song- Rachel Platten
- Invincible- Kelly Clarkson
- Brave- Sara Bareilles
- So What- P!nk
- What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger- Kelly Clarkson
- I’ll Make a Man Out of You- Mulan
4) The Infinite Variations of Fuck You
So many expressions of frustration of anger. So many songs that we can listen to when we’re running out our frustrations, or lying on the floor in our living room perseverating about life. Sometimes it just feels good to emulate Kayne. Screw it all.
- Stronger- Kanye
- Fuck You- Lily Allen
- Fuck You- Cee Lo Green
- Started from the Bottom- Drake
- Remember the Name- Fort Minor
- Bitch Better Have My Money- Rihanna
- POWER- Kayne
- Lose Yourself- Eminem
- 0 to 100- Drake
- Literally anything by Tyler the Creator, or Kanye, or Drake or Eminem etc
5) Breatheee you got this (calming)
The best advice someone has given me so far is to not freak out. If you freak out and care about it so much you’re not going to do as well. In the long run it doesn’t matter. You can take it again. Maybe it’ll leave to better paths you might not have considered. In the end it’s just a test. Life will go on regardless. You will be a doctor someday. Benedict Cumberbatch says so.
- 1957-Milo Greene
- Pumpin Blood- NONONO
- Cecelia and the Satellite- Andrew McMahone
- What’s Up- 4 Non Blondes
- Always Life This- Bombay Bicycle Club
- Eat- Zion T
- Take It Easy- Eagles
- Quelqu'un m'a dit- Carla Bruni
- Like Real People Do- Hozier
- Anything by Chopin <3
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