What do you think about BME at Tech?

What do you think about BME at Tech?
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don't know about the severity of anal rapage you'll recieve but I'd say about 7/10. (1 being AZN cock, 10 being a horse). Worst part is, Tech doesnt use vaseline.

As for your time here, you'll hate it. Tech has a terrible campus life compared to UGA's (only other one I can really compare it to). If you join a frat it'll make it a little more fun but the people here are dull and fugly. My advice is to take a tour and set up a meeting with a counselor to see what you're getting into. Talk to people in the program (stop them outside class or the building) and get feedback from them. Ask them be completely honest. Also, find out if all your credits will transfer over. Tech shafted me during my transfer.

My roommate transferred from Tech to Emory... said Tech is FAR harder than Emory... and we're in the supposed #5 business school in the country

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Are you looking to be an undergrad bme? I am a first year grad student in the bme program...you can ask me questions if you want...

Btw, I take the 7unit neuroscience monster at emory...was discouraged to hear that the grad neuroscience students from emory asked the professor to move an exam because they had one the day before...and the professor actually moved it for them! wow...

My roommate transferred from Tech to Emory... said Tech is FAR harder than Emory... and we're in the supposed #5 business school in the country

Rankings mean nothing...

Tech kills Emory in difficulty.

I just don't want to screw my chances at Med School by f***ing up BME. :dunno Too bad I already sent in my application with a BME major.

Are you looking to be an undergrad bme? I am a first year grad student in the bme program...you can ask me questions if you want...

Btw, I take the 7unit neuroscience monster at emory...was discouraged to hear that the grad neuroscience students from emory asked the professor to move an exam because they had one the day before...and the professor actually moved it for them! wow...

That is how Emory rolls. I am not surprised. I have never seen a class ask a professor to move a test and he/she not do it. This summer my math class did not take a single test on time.

I have plenty of questions, but most importantly, will I kill myself? I plan on med school after, will it kill my chances? And yes undergrad. Did you do undergrad at Tech?

You know...I am not sure. I am a first year doctorate student from UC Berkeley (also bme) and it was pretty tough to get good grades there(dont know how it translates to tech) but I figure the engineering schools are somewhat the same.

It also depends on what you want to do in med school, do you like engineering? Being a bme doesnt really help your chances, but it could make them worse if you do bad. From experience, if you just want to do med school, maybe straight up bio is the way to go b/c then you dont have to compete with the engineers in specific classes such as math, physics, ee, etc.

I personally think bme at tech is one of the better departments in the nation, new facilities, great professors and lots of money. I had lots of friends from UCB that were in my bme class that went to med school. Those that had 3.8s and higher went to the top schools ie UCLA, UCSF etc...those that I knew that had around 3.2-3.3 still got into med school, but to some schools in the midwest I never heard of.

Just my 2 cents

ps...it wont "kill" your chances, and depends on what you mean by killing yourself. Are you willing to commit to really working hard for an A, we engineers always thought of premeds as crazy ppl that like to memorize the book, haha do you like to do that?

ps...it wont "kill" your chances, and depends on what you mean by killing yourself. Are you willing to commit to really working hard for an A, we engineers always thought of premeds as crazy ppl that like to memorize the book, haha do you like to do that?

Hell no. I stay as far away from busy work as I can. I would much rather be able to figure out something for myself then "know" the answer. That is the main thing I had about survey-like classes. They expect you to memorize things without the real foundation or the real explanation of why it is. It gets to me when I just have to memorize superficial crap. I think I would be so much better to teach the complicated stuff and lead into the things that it produces in the real world. Like math, you learn the hard way before the easy shit.

I had some friends that were BME when I was there.... seemed like one of those majors that prevented them from ever being able to leave their room because they were too busy studying.

I know how that feels...

Are you sure you want to be a med student then? Granted you do a lot of problem solving as a premed, there are going to be times when you hate ochem, or you hate biochem but you have to ingest it anyway to get an A

All I have to say about it is, if you really want it, you will get into med school. Just depends on how much of a masochist you are... haha j/k

What are you going to go into Med school for?

I've done my fair share of research as to what I was going to BS in before moving over to med... I am at tech getting my BS in Physics while taking the other needed courses for the MCATs, or at least that's what I plan to do. I've just started. From the few docts I've talked to (2 neuro-surgeons 3 oncology) say what I am doing is pretty good. Physics teaches you a lot of problem solving and not so much just memorization. I was also told that the undergraduate research tech offers is a good thing to get into and is beneficial when putting in for med school.

physics...nice, thats hardcore, I remember taking a quantum physics class back at UCB, man that was anal rapage.

A lot of med schools actually like it if you come from a different background ie I have seen history majors, nutri sci, engineering etc...go into med school. Grades help of course but if you are in a hard major med schools take that into consideration (as long as you whoop ass on MCATs).

Research wise I agree. Being at tech as a grad student, a lot of departments have a lot of money and we are all doing cutting edge research. If you like problem solving you will like working in lab...some examples of the stuff I get to do this year are wireless cochlear implants, flexible electrode arrays for in vivo spinal electrophysiology and silicon depth electrodes for brain recording. Tech gives a lot, if you are willing to utilize it and work for it you can do awesome things.